What's the difference between granger and ranger?

Granger


Definition:

  • (n.) A farm steward.
  • (n.) A member of a grange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To this end, we run a Granger causality test (named after Clive Granger, the 2003 Nobel prizewinner in economics) which suggests that Brexit predicts movements in the five-year yield (at the conventional 10% level of statistical significance).
  • (2) In the Eastern Conference, the Bulls played without Derrick Rose, the Celtics didn't have Rajon Rondo and the Pacers were without Danny Granger.
  • (3) Drawing on the "#hellomynameis" blogging-run campaign of Kate Granger, a doctor who is terminally ill, Hunt will say that the move is in part inspired by the "vital courtesy of introducing yourself when meeting a patient for the first time".
  • (4) All these characters are fictionalised, but they are based on real people: Frank Stokes is modelled on George Stout ; Campbell on Robert K. Posey ; Garfield on Walker Hancock ; Granger on James Rorimer .
  • (5) The officials facing the committee were Edward Troup, tax assurance commissioner, Jim Harra, director general of business tax, and Jennie Granger, director general of enforcement and compliance.
  • (6) The simplest membrane model compatible with these properties is the two-pore model (Grotte 1956), for which there now is massive documentation (Taylor & Granger 1984).
  • (7) But riding high above them all, although no longer on a broomstick, is that accomplished paragon of virtue Emma Watson, the 24-year-old English actress still known to millions of fans of the Harry Potter films as Hermione Granger and the winner this spring of the “Most Flawless Woman of the Decade” accolade from the internet news service Buzzfeed.
  • (8) You can imagine therefore how thrilled I was when Katherine Kelly – the former Becky Granger in Corrie, who spent six years wailing mournfully then angrily then mournfully again on the cobbles – turns up here as the stony-faced DI Shackleton.
  • (9) The demonstration of the oxygen free-radical-mediated postischemic reperfusion injury by Granger, Rutili, and McCord in ischemic cat intestine suggested that this mechanism might also be operative following renal ischemia.
  • (10) Jennie Granger, HMRC's director for enforcement and compliance, said: "If you have assets offshore you need to get in touch with us urgently, because we will catch up with you.
  • (11) Jennie Granger, director general of enforcement and compliance at HMRC, called on anyone who knew of tax evasion to "tell HMRC via the tax evasion hotline by phone, on 0800 788 887, email or post".
  • (12) It's hard to remember now, but Gerald Green was actually in the starting lineup at the start of the season, replacing the injured Danny Granger.
  • (13) Jennie Granger, the director general for customer compliance at HMRC, which supervises payment of the national living wage, said: “Employers must pay their workers what they’re entitled to and follow the rules.
  • (14) Jenny Granger, HMRC's director general for enforcement and compliance, cautioned that not all the individuals using offshore accounts were seeking to evade tax.
  • (15) The purpose of this study was to use the optical Doppler velocimeter of Borders and Granger [(1984), Microvasc.
  • (16) MPs will also want to know why more cannot be done to extract financial penalties from big accountancy firms shown to have marketed tax schemes Granger is expected to maintain that HMRC's efforts to tackle marketed tax avoidance schemes continue to bear fruit, pointing to a win rate of eight out of 10 tax avoidance cases in 2012-13, producing more than £1bn in tax receipts.
  • (17) 2.01pm BST Today on the network, Kate Granger, a doctor who was diagnosed with incurable cancer three years ago, writes about the #hellomynameis social media campaign she set up that encourages healthcare staff to take a few seconds to humanise the experience of being in hospital.
  • (18) Analysis of the eight major national and international inquiries into geoengineering over the past three years shows that Keith and Caldeira, Rasch and Prof Granger Morgan the head of department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University where Keith works, have sat on seven panels, including one set up by the UN.
  • (19) Vilma is a "granger" – a term I coined to describe the "grey anger" of those who won't willingly enter the people farms, who don't want to spend their retirement twiddling thumbs and perennially tapping little white balls into a hole in a patch of cultivated grass.
  • (20) The resounding result was that Geraldine Granger , the Vicar of Dibley, would be most stridently pro-EU, with The Royle Family’s Jim Royle the most enthusiastic Brexiter.

Ranger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.
  • (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.
  • (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
  • (n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
  • (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It cannot be established whether or not seasickness contributed to the cause of death in the case of the Ocean Ranger victims, but it did occur in 75% or more of TEMPSC occupants in the other four rig disasters.
  • (2) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
  • (3) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
  • (4) 3.56am BST Rays 4 - Rangers 2, bottom of 8th Martin tries to lay down a bunt but he gets hit on the knuckle, which is not a hit by pitch because Martin was offering.
  • (5) Early dry season savannah burning across northern Australia is the most popular form of carbon farming practised by traditional owners and Aboriginal ranger groups today, and it’s something that comes naturally to most of them.
  • (6) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
  • (7) VIP-stimulated cyclic AMP production and VIP effect on the production of reactive oxygen compounds in human monocytes activated by serum opsonized zymosan (respiratory burst) were studied during a ranger training course lasting for five days with almost continuous physical activity, and deficiency of sleep and energy.
  • (8) Will the Rangers send this thing back to New York for a Game 6?
  • (9) 4.34am BST Rangers 2-2 Kings, 7:09, first overtime Richards throws it in, St Louis a shot and a save by Quick!
  • (10) The journalist was raced to the nearby hospital in a police ranger van within minutes of the shooting, but died of his injuries soon after.
  • (11) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
  • (12) He has charisma, he’s self-made and that’s why the Pakistani establishment hates him.” The MQM has come into ever greater conflict with the rangers in the last two years as both the central government in Islamabad and the powerful army have sought to impose order on the unruly port city of 20 million people.
  • (13) The alarmingly ineffective Aleksandar Mitrovic and Florian Thauvin (joint cost £27m) would certainly not have been on the shopping list of a coach who hoped to address the team’s enduring goal-scoring problems by importing Charlie Austin from Queens Park Rangers last summer.
  • (14) Amy Lawrence Liverpool Ins Marko Grujic (Red Star Belgrade, £5,1m); Steven Caulker (Queens Park Rangers, loan), Kevin Stewart (Swindon, recalled from loan), Tiago Ilori (Aston Villa, recalled from loan) Outs Marko Grujic (Red Star Belgrade, loan); Ryan Fulton (Portsmouth, loan); Allan Rodrigues de Souza (Sint Truidense, loan) Jürgen Klopp’s first transfer window as Liverpool manager was frustrated by Shakhtar Donetsk’s €70m valuation of Alex Teixeira and their insistence the Brazilian forward will not be sold until the summer.
  • (15) When Gould almost dies one night, and the next morning is instead given three or four days to live, she experiences a strange joy at the extra time granted, more precious hours to talk with him about their twin passions, Queens Park Rangers and the Labour party, more time to help him get his book finished.
  • (16) The $10m announced on Monday would provide training for police and park rangers in Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya and other countries, the officials on Obama's plane said.
  • (17) And that means Marian Gaborik, the former Ranger, is about to hear it from a hostile crowd...
  • (18) Swansea, however, have now dropped 13 points from winning positions and will need to play better against Queen’s Park Rangers on Tuesday night if they are to stay on track for a top-10 finish.
  • (19) And way back when in February 1968, they both played at home in the Scottish Cup, United kicking off against Hearts at 2pm, Dundee playing Rangers at 3pm.
  • (20) Heller called Bundy’s militia supporters, many of whom had trained semi-automatic rifles on government rangers during the stand-off, “patriots”; now his spokesman is saying that the senator “completely disagrees with Mr Bundy’s appalling and racist statements”.

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