What's the difference between hitter and sitter?

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.

Sitter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
  • (n.) A bird that sits or incubates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, the Janssen portrait had, it was shown during conservation work in 1988, been painted over to make the sitter look balder, and more "Shakespearean".
  • (2) The authors report on a 2-year-old girl with congenital hydrocephaly who was found unresponsive by the baby-sitter and died shortly thereafter.
  • (3) This variation on the chat-show format sees Perry discuss the history of the captured face – from framed portrait to selfie – while making his own image of sitters, including former minister Chris Huhne, who is said to have gone to the artist’s studio almost directly from prison.
  • (4) Not only did he miss a sitter in a defeat that meant an early exit for Spain, he was also booed throughout by Brazilian fans who cannot forgive his “treachery”.
  • (5) Once, when Spurs' big, but elegant, centre-forward Martin Chivers had scored goals in an important game, Nicholson said: "I told him afterwards that was a sitter that you missed.
  • (6) Freud is notable not only for his prodigious output - at any one time he will be at work on five or six paintings and, perhaps, an etching - but for the intense way in which he scrutinises his subjects (he is adamant that they 'affect the air around them', so his sitters must be present even when only the background is being painted).
  • (7) United were so relaxed they brought on Paul Pogba for the last 15 minutes and the substitute came as close as anyone else to scoring from open play – at least until Berbatov missed a stoppage-time sitter – only to see his shot blocked by Walters.
  • (8) Families reported a variety of uses, including the purchase of clothing, toys, sitters, diapers, special foods, adaptive equipment, and professional services.
  • (9) Number of patients and sitter incidents were too small for analysis.
  • (10) A group of 6 'sitters' and 'hardly walking' patients had poor to moderate results, a group of 13 'walkers' had moderate, good and excellent results.
  • (11) Activists said contractors for the TransCanada pipeline company had sent in a professional line-sitter who promptly claimed his spot in line – and then telephoned for reinforcements.
  • (12) Sculptor Fabian Bransing aimed to satirise this aspect of modern urban life, creating the " pay bench " which retracts its metal spikes when the prospective sitter feeds it a coin – but only for a limited time.
  • (13) Analysis of spelling errors for reliance on phonological processing in a subsample (N = 28) revealed that right sitters made more phonetically inaccurate misspellings, whereas, on the left, females, but not males, committed more phonetically accurate misspellings.
  • (14) Changes in Mb and LDH in the Pigeon Guillemot correlate with the animal's maturation from a sedentary nest sitter to an active diver and flyer.
  • (15) One hundred seven patients in an acute care setting who had lay sitters to provide the constant observation judged necessary to meet their safety needs were studied to determine the effect of psychiatric liaison nurse specialist (PLNS) consultation on nursing care and the use of sitters.
  • (16) In addition, health professionals can help siblings by insuring that an adequate explanation is given to siblings and by encouraging parents to maintain siblings at home, either with a sitter or family members.
  • (17) There was evidence of some disturbance in parent-child relationships in the preterm group, consisting of delays in maternal attachment to the child, negative maternal perception of the child compared with expectation of an 'average' baby, and persistent parental anxiety about leaving the child with a baby-sitter.
  • (18) But there was an early set-back for preseason favourite and pole sitter Lewis Hamilton who left the race after completing just two laps after a loss of power.
  • (19) The results show that sitter and lethal sitter alleles of for do not affect larval behavior through a mutation which affects larval muscle usage.
  • (20) To the extent that the diffusion of medical systems depends on a mass market, these fence-sitters must receive help and guidance.

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