What's the difference between flasher and flesher?

Flasher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, flashes.
  • (n.) A man of more appearance of wit than reality.
  • (n.) A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).
  • (n.) The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was a TV movie in 1981, followed by a TV series, which ran from 1982 to 1988; the characters would race around New York City , running up stairs, down stairs, arresting perps, rolling their eyes at flashers, wielding guns when absolutely necessary.
  • (2) "Flashers" and "heavy breathers" were so much a part of the fabric of the culture that they were a running joke, part of "the dirty mac brigade" who were really to be pitied.
  • (3) It wouldn't apply to posting a picture of a flasher on a website to warn others.
  • (4) The vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority recently gained the right to a red light "with flasher" though the eight "members" of the authority will have to make do with lights "without flasher".
  • (5) Detailed instructions for the packing of the adsorption tube and the operation of the thermal concentrator (flasher) are given.
  • (6) 32:1404-1411, 1988; N. Düzgüneş, D. A. Ashtekar, D. L. Flasher, N. Ghori, R. J. Debs, D. S. Friend, and P. R. J. Gangadharam, J. Infect.
  • (7) He’s an unswerving non-driver: “When I was growing up in the Wairarapa we couldn’t afford a car and then I got to Wellington and didn’t need a car.” We are talking at Deluxe, the boho cafe where his fellow Conchord Bret McKenzie used to work – between the dilapidated artists’ joint the duo once shared and the “flasher” home where Clement now lives with his wife, Miranda, and son, Sophocles Iraia.
  • (8) The act takes a much tougher line on "flashers" and "peeping toms".
  • (9) The adsorbent was packed in stainless steel column of a suitable size, and the adsorbed vapours were released by heating in the flasher then analysed by gas chromatography.
  • (10) Observations were made of 57 drivers who approached a rural rail grade crossing in the presence of activated warning flashers signalling an approaching train.

Flesher


Definition:

  • (n.) A butcher.
  • (n.) A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is crucial for the movement to last and gain increasing visibility and support, not just among the wider public, but among the mainstream political parties.” Another researcher, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, a sociologist at the University of Aberdeen, and author of Social Movements and Globalisation: How Protests, Occupations and Uprisings are Changing the World , said what happens after a march is often more important than the march itself.

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