What's the difference between glover and plover?

Glover


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
  • (2) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
  • (3) Like Glover and Stanning before them, they went out and did what they have done all season, ignoring another tricky wind which caused a brief delay earlier in the morning.
  • (4) We are in a hotel in Mobile, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast where he and Danny Glover are filming an action movie called Tokarev , in which Cage plays a reformed mobster reluctantly returning to his violent roots when his daughter is kidnapped.
  • (5) In his speech on Wednesday, Glover was set to note that Turnbull and the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, had both stressed the importance of innovation.
  • (6) Last month, a video surfaced showing John Steckley, a detainee in a Philadelphia correctional facility, being punched by Correctional Officer Tyrone Glover, though Steckley did not appear to present a physical threat to the guard.
  • (7) Crispin Glover , who played George, was really something.
  • (8) Season two saw Donald Glover cast as Hannah’s black, Republican boyfriend Sandy, but he barely makes it past the first episode.
  • (9) The second shocker also showcased the Globes’s more offbeat taste: two big wins (best comedy series, best actor for Donald Glover) for Atlanta, about the city’s rap scene.
  • (10) Last Wednesday in the Mail, columnist Stephen Glover devoted a whole page to attacking those who suggest the party is racist : "I accept, of course, that the party harbours a few racists ...
  • (11) I really hope there's a snowball effect from that," said Glover, who was signed up to the Sporting Giants programme trawling for talent in rowing, handball and volleyball in 2008.
  • (12) Ann Glover (chief scientific adviser to the European Commission) 20.
  • (13) asks Richard Glover A In 1990 England's U-21 squad won the eight-nation tournament in Toulon for the first time with the following squad: Crossley, Muggleton, Lee, Sharpe, Le Saux, Barrett, Tiler, Sherwood, James, Ebbrell (capt.
  • (14) He also declares himself a "chippy Stratfordian", offended by those who doubt a provincial glover's son could have written the plays.
  • (15) The experiment is unprecedented but builds on links forged through the Globe's last spectacular attempt to link nations through the words of the glover's son from Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • (16) And, as in the case of Anne Glover, the chief scientist who was eased out, the motivations for some of its decisions can be questionable.
  • (17) Several writers (Fenichel 1941, Glover 1955, Kris 1951, Ornstein and Ornstein 1975) have raised the possibility that what the patient receives and absorbs of the analyst's communications is not only a function of what is said but, on a more subtle level, how it is said.
  • (18) S phase can be inhibited in wild-type Drosophila embryos by injecting aphidicolin, in which case not only do centrosomes replicate, but chromosomes continue to condense and decondense, the nuclear envelope undergoes cycles of breakdown and reformation, and cycles of budding activity continue at the cortex of the embryo (Raff and Glover, 1988).
  • (19) That’s why for me it is important that they react to this,” Prof Glover said.
  • (20) Julian Glover (@julian_glover) When you hear IEA report opposing hs2 (again) remember they were against Crossrail too - said costs would double.

Plover


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds.
  • (n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eight days ago, to the jubilation of its critics and environmentalists, it emerged that the Scottish executive was "minded to refuse" the £500m scheme as it would seriously damage the moor's extremely fragile, internationally-protected habitats for rare birds such as dunlin, golden eagles, merlin, golden plover and red-throated divers.
  • (2) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
  • (3) By legally trapping and killing stoats and foxes to ensure plentiful supplies of grouse, he helped conserve endangered birds: woodcock, snipe, golden plover, lapwing, ring ouzel, and “buckets and buckets of curlew”.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sociable plover ( Vanellus gregarius ) is on the IUCN’s critically endangered list.
  • (5) There were golden plover and curlew and lapwing displaying and it was pretty impressive but if there had been a pile of 400 stoats by the road and however many foxes and weasels and a pile of illegally killed hedgehogs, badgers, peregrines, goshawks and short-eared owls then the lapwing and curlew don’t look quite so impressive.

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