What's the difference between gauger and mauger?

Gauger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar patterns of mortality were seen, although there was a significant excess of thyroid cancer in those employed as pumper-gaugers.
  • (2) In 1839 he took a job as Gauger of Salt and Coal, a diurnal round so prosaic that it perhaps fed his increasing flirtation with the fantastic.

Mauger


Definition:

  • (prep.) Alt. of Maugre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Annie Mauger, chief executive of the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals says: “There are a lot of different groups within a community who would not go into a pub and you have to think about children and people of different faiths, who would find going into a place serving alcohol unacceptable.The kind of space a library occupies is accessible to everybody.
  • (2) Cases of reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome involving the hip (Lequesne and Mauger 1982) and the knee (Doury et al.
  • (3) "I am delighted," said chief executive Annie Mauger.
  • (4) This is on top of the £462m we have had to save so far.” Annie Mauger, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, expressed “deep concern”.
  • (5) In the low [Ca2+]i cells, both the apparent Km and the apparent Vmax of the Ca2+ influx are increased as compared to the controls, indicating that the properties of the channels activated by lowering [Ca2+]i are apparently identical to those initiated by the hormones (Mauger, J.-P., Poggioli, J., Guesdon, F., and Claret, M. (1984) Biochem.

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