What's the difference between harder and hoarder?

Harder


Definition:

  • (n.) A South African mullet, salted for food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But after 26.2 miles of pain it may be harder to keep that smile on his face.
  • (2) We were concerned that the publication of this contract and the precedent it may set for future agreements could make it harder to do this.
  • (3) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
  • (4) In a 2013 Politifact interview , the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.” The specific numbers might be hard to agree upon, and even harder to forecast if the Republican bill is passed.
  • (5) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
  • (6) Across conditions intrinsically motivated subjects worked harder than did extrinsically motivated subjects; all of them worked harder under conditions of regulation of reinforcement matched to their motivational orientation (i.e., intrinsically motivated subjects under self-regulation, extrinsically motivated subjects under externally imposed reinforcement) than under the contrary condition.
  • (7) If you get a foothold even slightly wrong, it makes the next move feel even harder."
  • (8) It’s so much harder to get there because the path is so much more difficult.
  • (9) Link to video The road is likely to get harder for the campaign against Isis.
  • (10) That is why the impact of the world crisis on the pound and the British economy today is likely to be more catastrophic than on any other major western economy - and full recovery may well be harder.
  • (11) And then her drug use got harder, and more desperate, and then it wasn't funny any more; and then, when she was trying to clean up, she was dead, gone to join "the stupid club", as Kurt Cobain's mother described all the rock stars who end up dead at 27.
  • (12) It was found that those invited by letter, rather than opportunistically during a routine consultation, thought their appointment time harder to keep.
  • (13) Surfaces of the specimens made with slurry water were significantly harder than those of specimens made with distilled water.
  • (14) He seems able to feel great emotion for humanity and animals in general, but finds it harder one-on-one.
  • (15) Playing, interfering with erroneous beliefs about sexual arousal, and avoiding helping the workhorse work harder are the trust of this paper.
  • (16) Their secrecy and diminished footprint make them harder than conventional wars to oppose and hold to account – though the backlash in countries bearing the brunt is bound to grow.
  • (17) The centre-right government of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy has taken a harder line regarding its claim on the territory.
  • (18) It’s going to be harder in Zurich, because there’s going to be a lot more eight-metre jumpers,” he says, citing the reigning champion, Christian Reif, who has jumped 8.49m this season, as his main opposition Rutherford won gold in Glasgow with a modest leap of 8.20m but, as he points out, the chilly conditions were hardly conducive to leaping far.
  • (19) There are aspects here that will always lie beyond: a coherent playing culture, a driving regional identity, the ability not just to make top-class players but to buy them and make them better, which is harder than it sounds.
  • (20) Those who were used to travelling abroad have already had to scale back as the rouble made the cost of visiting foreign cities prohibitive; and rising food prices have made it harder to balance the books for many families.

Hoarder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hoards.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (2) He blames smugglers, hoarders and street vendors for causing the problems rather than being a consequence of them.
  • (3) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
  • (4) To put it another way: were Hildebrand Gurlitt and his son unique, or is the find in Munich a clue to some larger network of Nazi art hoarders sitting on secret treasures all this time in postwar Europe , living off occasional covert sales of the Picassos that they keep among the canned foods in their anonymous flats?
  • (5) His attack on land hoarders last year had his critics comparing his words with Robert Mugabe’s seizures of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe.
  • (6) Even now, food hoarders are first to be frogmarched off to jail by panicky governments in poor, hunger-struck countries.
  • (7) His mother was a hoarder and his father moved out, leaving young David to seek solace in reading and obsessively following the LA Dodgers.
  • (8) The first episode of the second series of The Hoarder Next Door brought ratings cheer for Channel 4, with an average audience of 2.1 million between 9pm and 10pm.
  • (9) Though the costs of blocking one website are minor, the attractiveness of this remedy to rightholders means that this is likely to have significant cumulative effect, placing a large burden on businesses that already suffer the heat of overzealous copyright enforcers and surveillance hoarders.

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