What's the difference between jailer and wailer?

Jailer


Definition:

  • (n.) The keeper of a jail or prison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2013, Egypt was among the most prolific jailers of journalists in the world, according to a recent survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
  • (2) He ordered the jailers to put our feet up to beat us.
  • (3) Our response to these challenging circumstances can of course be scrutinised but no one should lose sight [of the fact] that the responsibility for jailing journalists lies firmly with the jailers.” Adel Iskandar, a communications expert at Georgetown University, Washington DC, said AJE had clearly suffered because of the network’s Arabic channels.
  • (4) He reminded me of Fulton Mackay, who played the fierce jailer in Porridge, though without the actor's humorous twinkle.
  • (5) Those years feel now like a perverse captivity in which I was jailer as well as prisoner.
  • (6) The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which has branded Iran as one of the world's worst jailers of journalists, has asked Tehran to shed light on the situation of the detainees.
  • (7) According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Iran is currently the world's second-worst jailer of journalists, with 45 behind bars Iranian journalists working in exile have not been immune from the crackdown, nor foreign media inside the country.
  • (8) Rosewater focuses primarily on the relationship between Bahari (Gael García Bernal) and one particular jailer, played by Kim Bodnia (Martin in Scandinavian TV thriller The Bridge).
  • (9) Shaker Aamer , released after 14 years incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay where he was beaten by his American military jailers, has touched down on British soil at Biggin Hill airport in south-east London.
  • (10) One of the artists, Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, explains that the panopticon-shaped space, called Güiro, was inspired by the interior of a notorious Cuban jail – only here the jailer is a bartender and the prisoners are the drinkers.
  • (11) No reform of the draconian catch-all anti-terror legislation that, among other things, has been abused to make Turkey the world's biggest jailer of journalists.
  • (12) One day, when his jailers held a party, Mujica began to scream for it; the commandant, embarrassed in front of his guests, relented.
  • (13) Turkey has a chequered history on press freedom and was the world’s top jailer of journalists in 2012 and 2013.
  • (14) Even Marcos's defence minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, brutal jailer of the democracy campaigners, was placated by Aquino, eventually finishing up as a senator.
  • (15) On 14 May, a frantic Mobley called his sister to say his jailers were beating him with sticks: “ They’re trying to kill me here at the prison .” Reprieve’s Craig, in her letter to the State Department, reminded US diplomats of her request to share coordinate information on Mobley’s location with their Saudi allies in order to spare his life.
  • (16) Marzieh Rasouli reported to Evin prison in Tehran on Tuesday, where she became the latest of dozens of journalists imprisoned by the Islamic republic, which has been branded as one of the world's worst jailer of journalists by the New York Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
  • (17) Hari managed to bribe his jailers and escape back to the UK via Russia and is now filing a second claim for asylum.
  • (18) According to a report in Thursday's print edition of Haaretz, based on accounts from prison service officials, Prisoner X2 is held in a cell without windows, has no contact with other prisoners or jailers, and prison guards do not know his identity or any charges on which he has been convicted.
  • (19) While he was rotting in jail, Hague and Ashcroft were meeting his jailers.
  • (20) His jailers had to tip the cage on to its side to get him out.

Wailer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who wails or laments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An earlier US action was concluded by a settlement in which Island agreed to pay £264,000 and legal costs on the understanding that the Wailers would cease any further legal action.
  • (2) Peter Tosh Founded the Wailers with Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1962, but fell out and left embittered in 1974.
  • (3) THE FIRST TRACK I CAN REMEMBER No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley and the Wailers (1974) This is the first song I can remember hearing when I was young.
  • (4) Ziggy Marley Eldest of Rita and Bob's sons, and only one of Marley's 11 offspring to even come close to inheriting mantle of Wailers.
  • (5) He also dismissed attacks against the honesty of Rita Marley, and said she had done her best over the years for the Wailers.
  • (6) It would have been enough to give each of his 52 children a little more than £1m for their father's unacknowledged contribution to the immortal sound of Bob Marley and the Wailers.
  • (7) Born Neville Livingston in 1947, he attended school with Marley - only as band was wound up did he acquire surname "Wailer".
  • (8) "Aston Barrett and his brother literally created the sound of the Wailers, though not for a minute to detract from the extraordinary songwriting ability of Mr Marley," Stephen Bate, representing the musician, told the judge.
  • (9) "It was the Barretts' unique sound which brought the Wailers international success."
  • (10) My father, he didn’t watch television …” That pales in comparison with the former Wailers bass player Aston “Family Man” Barrett, however, who claims to have fathered at least 52 children .
  • (11) Carlton Barrett "Carly", brother of fellow reggae star Aston Barrett and originator of the one drop rhythm, joined Wailers in 1969, and stayed until Marley's death.
  • (12) The new group, Bob Marley and the Wailers, included the Barrett brothers and Al Anderson for the first time.
  • (13) Bunny Wailer Only founder member alive today, and reputedly Bob's best friend.
  • (14) Members of the Wailers claim they were coerced into signing the deal, a claim Mr Justice Lewison rejected.