What's the difference between hugger and lurk?

Hugger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hugs or embraces.
  • (v. t. & i.) To conceal; to lurk ambush.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alan Yentob, the BBC creative director along with director of future media and technology Erik Huggers, director of news Helen Boaden, and director of marketing, communications and audiences Sharon Baylay, were next highest with pay of between £310,000 and £340,000.
  • (2) The Bair Hugger set on "medium" decreased heat loss more than each radiant warming device and as much as the circulating-water blanket.
  • (3) Then there are the "ethylene absorbing" discs you can place in a bowl to keep your fruit fresh for longer; the polyurethane foam cushions designed to prevent fruit and veg from becoming bruised; and the silicone "food huggers" into which you pop your leftover half a lemon or tomato.
  • (4) Huggers said that the "interlinking" service with rival broadcasters would apply to "premium, long-form video" and represented "just the start" of partnerships.
  • (5) The number of people consuming TV over the internet has soared since the advent of the BBC's iPlayer , a product of Huggers's future media and technology department at the BBC.
  • (6) Huggers also lent his support to Google TV, the service that will allow viewers to search the web and eventually download VoD content while watching their TV set , arguing that he does not see it as a competitor.
  • (7) "It feels like a gold rush is going on, everyone is seeing a big opportunity and jumping in," said Huggers .
  • (8) Before Linwood, the project was led by Erik Huggers, the ex-director of BBC future, media and technology, ultimately reporting to Caroline Thomson, the corporation's former chief operating officer.
  • (9) "This proposal is founded upon partnership, and comes at a time when commercial public service broadcasters are facing unprecedented challenges," said the BBC director of future media and technology, Erik Huggers.
  • (10) When Jonathon Porritt – official government green adviser – this week left his Whitehall office after nine years trying to crash the gears of the machine of state, his staff of 60 in the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) didn't just say cheerio; they hired an old ship on the Thames, formed a blues band and sang him out to a Muddy Waters tune: For nine long years this green guru reigned Watching over Whitehall, his eye keenly trained Tree-hugger-in-chief or simply JP However you know him you should start to see He's a true ninja of sustainability Porritt stood to one side of the crooning SDC backing singers, delighted but emotional at his send off.
  • (11) Erik Huggers , the BBC digital chief, has promised its closure of 200 websites is not simply an exercise in cutting dead wood and will help rivals.
  • (12) Set on "high," the Bair Hugger increased skin-surface temperature more than the circulating-water blanket.
  • (13) The other arrivals on the executive board were new BBC Vision director George Entwistle (pay: £285,000), replacing Jana Bennett (£517,000), and director of digital media Ralph Rivera (£308,000), who took over from former future media and technology director Erik Huggers (£407,000).
  • (14) The Food Hugger Food hugger These are a range of stretchable silicone covers that prolong the life of cut produce by forming a seal around the cut end of a fruit or vegetable.
  • (15) Caught out by the speed at which its juice runs out, or anxious to clock a charger socket just in case, they're depicted as wall huggers obliged to crouch on stained carpets while watching Samsung owners freely sharing video clips with one another.
  • (16) Most chillingly, Walsh's 2000 play, Bedbound, depicted a young woman who has polio living hugger-mugger with her flamboyant father, in a space little bigger than a double bed.
  • (17) Huggers came in for criticism last year when it was revealed he had claimed £638.73 for a taxi fare while on corporation business in California.
  • (18) Another area of Huggers' activity, online , is being cut back .
  • (19) Huggers also said that a long-delayed international version of the iPlayer, which would be operated by the corporation's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, was still in the works.
  • (20) The £16,678.34 hotel bill also includes a claim from Erik Huggers, director of future media and technology, who also stayed at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Lurk


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To lie hid; to lie in wait.
  • (v. i.) To keep out of sight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither in nor out of the house, visible but not seen, you could lurk here for an hour undisturbed, you could loiter for a day.
  • (2) The team is trying to identify a number of fair-haired men, possibly Dutch or German nationals, who were seen lurking around the apartment where the little girl was last seen in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
  • (3) Bundled up in the complex debt parcels lurked the venom which has poisoned the banks.
  • (4) If she has a cold, or a hangover, she can feel her anxiety lurking.
  • (5) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
  • (6) They push forward again, Alonso making ground down the left, then whipping an excitable cross to the far post, where no yellow shirts lurk.
  • (7) Everton's opening goal was very nearly one for Arsenal as John Stones played a loose pass across his own area with Giroud lurking.
  • (8) A year ago, the prospects for successful climate change regulation were bright: a new US president promised positive re-engagement with the international community on the issue , civil society everywhere was enthusiastically mobilising to demand that world leaders "seal the deal" at Copenhagen, and the climate denial crowd had been reduced to an embarrassing rump lurking in the darker corners of the internet.
  • (9) Dangerous levels of private debt in China, bad debts lurking in Europe’s banking system, nervous consumers everywhere: it’s a nuclear device that needs careful handling.
  • (10) Lurking on the line, the Northern Ireland captain seemed to use his left arm to turn the ball past the post.
  • (11) Lurking in a petri dish in a laboratory in the Netherlands is an unlikely contender for the future of food.
  • (12) Here there are two problems – one glaringly apparent, the other lurking in the shadows.
  • (13) However, recent collaborative studies between psychiatrists and GPs have identified that within this dilute pool of minor disorders, lurks a significant but poorly served population of patients suffering from depressive disorders which are by no means minor in degree.
  • (14) That's the underlying risk that has been lurking, and could lurk in other bridges.
  • (15) Zoran Tosic, once of Manchester United, also found Musa, who turned the ball in to a lurking Georgi Milanov but the midfielder was unable to collect.
  • (16) At a lavish reception at the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Rauch lurked in the shadows ("an artist's workshop should always be installed on the fringe"), while Lybke clambered onto the seat of a velvet chair and did a comic turn.
  • (17) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
  • (18) That is the question that lurks, pulsing, beneath the slogans, the personalities, the big fight between Dave and Boris.
  • (19) Away from a largely house-price fuelled upturn in London and the south-east, another nation lurks behind the veneer of prosperity portrayed by senior ministers talking up recovery.
  • (20) Moreover, within the question of what provision goes where, lurk trapdoors.