What's the difference between hunter and punter?

Hunter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
  • (n.) A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.
  • (n.) A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
  • (n.) One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.
  • (n.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
  • (n.) A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
  • (2) In rat brain membranes, binding of BHSCYII and of the relatively unselective radioligand [125I]-Bolton-Hunter eledoisin (BHELE) was saturable, reversible and to an NK3 site.
  • (3) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
  • (4) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
  • (5) Thus, in pregnancies with Hunter-affected fetuses, enzyme levels did not change in the serum of heterozygous mothers until abortion was performed, while in nonaffected fetuses, ISS increased usually very early in pregnancy--as early as the 6th-12th week.
  • (6) They are standout talents of their generation and will provide a remarkable conclusion to what we all hope will be an incredible evening, with all profits benefiting Scotland’s children’s charities.” Hunter also plans to set aside some seats at the event for local young people.
  • (7) Subsequent prenatal analyses suggested heterozygosity for the X-linked Hunter syndrome, and this was confirmed by clonal analysis of fibroblasts of the child after birth.
  • (8) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
  • (9) We have developed a strategy to select clones isolating the other derivative avoiding fastidious and time consuming technics, mainly based on immunofluorescent screening using MIC 2 and MIC 5 antigenic markers and we have succeeded in isolating in a rodent context the two X;5 translocated derivative chromosomes of a female patient with Hunter syndrome.
  • (10) In homogenates of guinea pig lung, binding of 125I-Bolton-Hunter-labeled substance P (BHSP), Bolton-Hunter-labeled eledoisin (BHELE), and [125I]iodohistidyl neurokinin A (INKA) was investigated.
  • (11) Maryann Hunter, a deputy director with responsibility for regulation of foreign banking organisations, declined to tell a Senate judiciary committee hearing if, or when, the Fed received the data leak.
  • (12) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
  • (13) Blackburn Hunter said that the cumulative impact of those policies meant that Scottish students doing a typical four year Scottish university course would end up owing more than £20,000, while the poorest faced the heaviest debts.
  • (14) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
  • (15) Hunter's perforator is a vein which joins the great saphenous vein with the femoral vein by passing through the aponeurosis of the adductor (Hunter's) canal, more or less at the junction of the lower and middle thirds of the thigh.
  • (16) One method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards shot by hunters (n = 2,859) and the other method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards caught in duck traps (n = 865).
  • (17) This 'bacterial beta 2M', radiolabeled with Bolton-Hunter reagent, was able to exchange into papain-solubilized HLA-B7, as determined by Sephadex G-75 chromatography and immune precipitation, indicating that bacterial beta 2M could complex with the heavy chain of HLA-B7.
  • (18) A modified method is described for the preparation of stable, high specific activity radioiodinated cholecystokinin (CCK) by its conjugation to 125I-Bolton Hunter reagent (125I-BH).
  • (19) Alex Salmond describes his own renewable energy vision as "the greatest leap forward since the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculture 10,000 years ago".
  • (20) Nathan Tinkler’s Hunter Sports Group has confirmed it will sell the Newcastle Jets and its A-League licence.

Punter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.
  • (n.) One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the punters came up to me after and said that I seemed confident, but he’d spent the whole time wondering when I was going to tell a joke.
  • (2) Hodgson left Ferdinand out of his Euro 2012 squad for "football reasons" and then appeared to confirm the end of his international career to a punter on the Tube, before recalling him in March.
  • (3) The eye-catching deal was that punters would have their stakes returned if the winning pope was black – or something like that.
  • (4) 1.56am GMT 49ers 17-13 Seahawks, 2:47, 3rd quarter Andy Lee is hit as he kicks and it's a five yard penalty rather than the personal foul you would get for crushing the punter.
  • (5) Teela Sanders , another academic who believes that regulation of prostitution is neither desirable nor possible, says of moves to criminalise punters: "Putting limits on private morality with regard to the legitimate purchase and provision of consensual commercial sex is evidence of a state seeking to control sexuality rather than to preserve diversity, difference and freedom."
  • (6) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
  • (7) It would mean that if the regulator found bookmakers' staff failing to intervene when punters lost too much money or not questioning why machines were played without a break, the shop could be closed down.
  • (8) There are some players still owed money by a team after they were released such as former Buffalo Bills punter Brian Moorman .
  • (9) At the Meadow Inn hotel, these statistics are embodied in a depressing tableau of punters slouched on stools, jabbing at flashing buttons.
  • (10) The code, introduced in February by the Association of British Bookmakers, was meant to tighten betting controls and defuse criticism of FOBTs, on which punters can bet up to £300 a minute.
  • (11) After the first-leg games, an unnamed punter wagered £5 on a four-fold bet, predicting the scores of four of the second legs .
  • (12) Tracksuit Dave, professional punter, owner and racecourse 'face' He's the greatest there's ever been.
  • (13) There is mention too of a punter's "right to have a bet", though strangely this basic freedom does not seem to appear in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • (14) The overall betting trend has shown one-way traffic for Obama and punters seem to have called it 100% correct.
  • (15) One NFL coach, speaking anonymously to Sports Illustrated after Sam came out, said: “I don’t think football is ready for [an openly gay player] just yet.” On Twitter, Chris Kluwe, a former Minnesota Vikings punter who has become an outspoken critic of attitudes to homosexuality within the NFL, said: “At least one team finally showed some balls.
  • (16) Some observers say the ban on smoking in clubs played its role: with a sly, discreet spliff no longer an option, punters switched to pills and energy levels accordingly rose.
  • (17) The Ukip leader, tongue firmly lodged in cheek, has recorded a “party political broadcast” on behalf of Paddy Power , exhorting punters to get behind Team Europe in this weekend’s Ryder Cup golf contest against the US.
  • (18) But is this "Bank of Joe Bloggs" a little bit too out there for mainstream punters?
  • (19) Indeed, while Jagger and co headlined to a packed Pyramid Stage, plenty of punters were elsewhere, watching a range of acts that included dance duo Chase & Status on the Other Stage and – cleverly – the Bootleg Beatles at the Acoustic Stage.
  • (20) Sav Rocca, punter Rocca played for North Melbourne and Collingwood during a 14-year AFL career, and is 13 th in the league’s all-time goalscoring list.