What's the difference between grafter and rafter?

Grafter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
  • (n.) An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
  • (n.) The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
  • (2) They are grafters who are proud of doing the "right thing".
  • (3) The existence of immune privilege in the brain and the newly acquired understanding of immunologic privilege in the eye may offer strategies by which neural grafters can achieve significantly greater graft acceptance.
  • (4) For years she was the disciplined grafter who failed four times to win a constituency seat in Westminster and Holyrood before finally triumphing in 2007 (she was elected to Holyrood in 1999 and 2003 on the regional list).
  • (5) Soon enough, however, it became clear this new deal of high pay and low welfare was not all it seemed: millions of the low-paid grafters he claimed to champion were going to lose out.
  • (6) According to reports, the chancellor’s autumn statement next week will include promises specifically targeting this notional group of modest grafters so beloved by politicians - now being referred to in Whitehall as “jams”.
  • (7) He records the extraordinary lives of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who came to America, to work as retailers, as small time entrepreneurs, as grafters in the garment industry.
  • (8) And why should folk who don't toil be funded to live in homes that lowly grafters could never afford?
  • (9) Some captains want career-minded grafters, others want a more relaxed vibe.
  • (10) That is not to suggest Beckham deserves quite the same billing as that magical pair – he was always more grafter than genius – though he does deserve a lot more credit than he generally receives.
  • (11) Davidson told her party's annual conference in Edinburgh that the Tories wanted to appeal again to aspirational working-class voters – "the everyday grafters of Scotland" – so her party would use new financial powers at Holyrood to cut income taxes.
  • (12) He promised a tough fight to recast a new capitalism built around British values that reward the hard-working grafters and producers in business, and not the asset-stripping "predators".
  • (13) I have met plenty of English Brexit supporters who have expressed worries about immigration while paying warm tribute to Poles, Czechs and people from the Baltic states as admirable “grafters”, and assets to the places where they have settled.
  • (14) Sadiq is a grafter, he is someone who gets on with people, he is someone who is pragmatic when he needs to be and he certainly has a vision for this city.” What Labour can learn from my victory: we can’t ignore the things most voters want | Sadiq Khan Read more The Khan victory, trouncing the Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith, who had tried to paint his opponent as a dangerous “radical” and to divide Londoners of different faiths and races , has been hailed as evidence of a multicultural capital that has the self-confidence to be inclusive and tolerant.
  • (15) My generation is the result of a generation of grafters.
  • (16) Accusing David Cameron of being the last gasp of an old system, he said the country was crying out for a society in which the hard-working grafters are rewarded and the closed circles at the top of society are broken up.
  • (17) Yet back in the real world, or rather the place that does not have to bear very much reality at all, the past few days have yielded the usual spread of self-effacing hard grafters.

Rafter


Definition:

  • (n.) A raftsman.
  • (n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
  • (v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.
  • (v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the News Corp report , Rafter said the rift with Tomic remained deep and possibly irreconcilable after his dumping from Australia’s Davis Cup team over his Wimbledon post-match outburst.
  • (2) One identified a blonde woman, smiling as she sold peanuts in paper cones to the rafters, as her sister – alive and well in Cuba, she said.
  • (3) Especially against Nick Kyrgios Read more Nick Kyrgios has come out in defence of Bernard Tomic , accusing Pat Rafter of being negative after the Tennis Australia performance director had responded to Tomic’s spray following his third-round Wimbledon exit.
  • (4) Back to the big leather punchbag hanging from the rafters, and Inna admits that the training sessions will not be entirely pacifist.
  • (5) Christian Radnedge , a Spurs-supporting journalist who was in the Smoking Dog, told the BBC that it had been "full to the rafters" when there was "a huge cacophony of noise and the sound of glass being smashed".
  • (6) Depending on the water level, which varies with rainfall and snowmelt, the Green is popular with rafters and kayakers when high and with canoeists and tubers when low.
  • (7) Like the majority of his employees – most of whom have now begun trickling back to work – Romualdez was almost washed away by the super storm and only survived by clutching onto roof rafters as the waters rose around him.
  • (8) Two others, photographed in a truck, helped the rafters but didn’t join them.
  • (9) It is proposed that continuous low-dose exposure to aerosolized, biologically active rafter dust could contribute to the respiratory insult of grain workers.
  • (10) But those crows also gather on the blackened rafters of British-era bungalows, while tanks and artillery pieces on which the wealth of a poor nation was squandered for decades sit rusting on hilltops.
  • (11) "Africans who refused to take the Mau Mau oath have had ropes tied around their necks and been strung up from rafters until unconscious.
  • (12) Nick Kyrgios bounces racket into crowd during tantrum at Wimbledon Read more The 22-year-old demanded an investigation into TA’s conduct after Rafter used Tomic’s father and coach John’s “intolerable” behaviour as the chief reason for no longer funding the family.
  • (13) Maní is more rustic and informal than DOM – simple furniture, whitewashed walls and a ceiling of dried branches laid over rafters – but the food is no less adventurous.
  • (14) On Friday, the red benches of the House of Lords , which sometimes serve as a quiet spot for a post-prandial nap, will be a hive of activity, packed to the gilded rafters with lords and ladies.
  • (15) Long-chain diglycerides (LCDGs) found in the human colon are mitogens selective for colon tumor cells, inducing mitogenesis in premalignant cells from each of 13 adenomas and in malignant cells from two of four carcinomas, but having no mitogenic effects on normal colonocytes (E. Friedman, P. Isaksson, J. Rafter, B. Marian, S. Winawer, and H. Newmark, Cancer Res., 49:544-548, 1989).
  • (16) Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.
  • (17) Hitting back in sensational fashion after Pat Rafter vowed to stop the governing body’s funding to the Tomic family, including his younger sister Sara, Tomic described Australia’s director of performance as a “mask” for TA boss Craig Tiley.
  • (18) The painting, which measures 144cm x 175cm (56in x 69in) was found in April 2014, in the rafters of a house on the outskirts of Toulouse.
  • (19) Fungi did not grow in inside feed hoppers or in dust on rafters in the broiler houses.
  • (20) The lonely building on this remote Pacific island now contains only a punchbag that someone has strung from the classroom rafters, and a note scrawled on the chalkboard in Niuean: “Keep this place clean so it stays beautiful.” While much of the world worries about how it will accommodate rapidly growing populations, some islands in the Pacific face the opposite dilemma: how to stop everybody from leaving.

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