What's the difference between hitter and litter?

Hitter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s not just about the many gems he pitched, including a no-hitter in 2008 .
  • (2) When it comes to Justin Verlander I sometimes put out a no-hitter alert before first pitch.
  • (3) Yadier Molina singled with one out in the bottom of the ninth, followed by pinch-hitter Craig who hit a double off Koji Uehara's first pitch down the left-field line that put runners on second and third.
  • (4) Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has gotten a lot of heat after that extra inning loss, both for not bringing his closer in earlier (not that it would have mattered considering how little the Dodgers did offensively in extra innings) and for pinch-running his clean-up hitter Adrian Gonzalez late in regulation and replacing his bat in the line-up with that of washed up veteran Michael Young.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.11pm BST Cardinals 2 - Pirates 0, top of the 8th Justin Wilson strikes out Matt Adams and now here's when things really starting to get interesting as Wacha is six outs away from a postseason no-hitter.
  • (6) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
  • (7) Many who instinctively preferred King came to see him as the only heavy hitter capable of deposing Johnson (even King herself admits that, as time passed, Livingstone grew stronger).
  • (8) No reputable scientists have managed to establish the link Wakefield hypothesised existed, and heavy hitters like the Medical Research Council and Health Protection Agency have consistently stated that no supporting evidence exists.
  • (9) News Corp itself seems to be most anxious about the FCPA side of the federal investigations, judging from the legal team it has assembled – some of the heaviest hitters in American legal affairs.
  • (10) Games 1, 2 and (if necessary) 6 and 7 will be played here, which means American League rules will be in affect, which means that Designated Hitters will be allowed to bat in place of pitchers.
  • (11) David Ortiz would have to return from an injury-ended lost season to once again be one of the most feared hitters on the planet.
  • (12) Target Field, a $545m limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
  • (13) 3.39am GMT Giants 2 - Tigers 0, postgame Ryan Vogelsong, Tim Lincecum and Sergio Romo - Detroit hitters have no answer to the trio despite boasting two of the most prolific hitters in all of baseball, and a capable lineup that was shut out just twice all season long.
  • (14) We have an opportunity to identify the new big hitters for the 21st century, and local government.
  • (15) DH: Always seemed unfair when the NL teams seldom have a useful hitter compared to the AL teams often best hitter.
  • (16) No hitters are supposed to be hard to get, that's the reason they're impressive.
  • (17) Updated at 1.32am BST 1.31am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of the 1st Max Scherzer gets Jacoby Ellsbury looking to start of the first, ah so already the Sox hitters are picking up where they left off against Scherzer in game two.
  • (18) The next year, after reading The Techniques of Modern Hitting , by Wade Boggs, he became the best hitter on his team.
  • (19) Cardinals 2 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 6th Michael Wacha walks Russell Martin and there's the first Pirates baserunner, so there's no perfect game but there's still a no-hitter in process.
  • (20) Still very much in recovery, the programme does not attract the heavy hitters it once did, nor the million-plus audiences it had when Davis was its economics editor a decade and a half ago.

Litter


Definition:

  • (n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
  • (n.) Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
  • (n.) Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
  • (n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
  • (n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
  • (v. t.) To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
  • (v. t.) To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
  • (v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
  • (v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
  • (v. i.) To produce a litter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
  • (2) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
  • (3) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
  • (4) The litter size of vaccinated gilts was larger than that of the control gilts.
  • (5) Gilts that had already reached sexual maturity at the time of insemination showed a higher rate of oestrus and better litter size than immature animals.
  • (6) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
  • (7) Piglets from litters with post-weaning diarrhoea had reduced weight gains after weaning and were 2.3 days older at 25 kg bodyweight than piglets from non-diarrhoeic litters.
  • (8) Serum somatomedin A was significantly reduced in the growth-retarded rats as compared to those whose growth was enhanced by rearing in small litters.
  • (9) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
  • (10) The number of embryos within the range of each SD unit was expressed as a percentage of each litter.
  • (11) Progressive paraparesis developed in four male English Springer Spaniel pups from a litter of five during the first 10 weeks of life.
  • (12) In comparison with untreated controls from the same litters, there was a 4-7-fold enhancement of lung-thorax compliance in all groups of surfactant-treated animals during a 3-h period of artificial ventilation.
  • (13) Chlamydia psittaci was believed responsible for an episode of high perinatal death loss in a swine herd in which 8.5 pigs per litter normally were weaned.
  • (14) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (15) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
  • (16) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
  • (17) A severe state of protein-energy malnutrition was induced by litter expansion which caused the mean total body weight of experimentally malnourished rats to diminish significantly as compared to control animals.
  • (18) Rat pups from 12 litters were handled daily, once every three days, or never touched between postnatal Days 5 and 20.
  • (19) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
  • (20) An experiment was conducted to test effects of prenatal and postnatal fraternity size (size of litter in which an individual develops prenatally or is reared postnatally) on ovarian development in mice.

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