What's the difference between keeler and keener?

Keeler


Definition:

  • (n.) One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.
  • (n.) A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
  • (2) Keeler was to constantly relive her ever-changing four months in 1962 with Profumo.
  • (3) The Sunday Mirror reprinted Profumo's 'Darling' letter, while the News of the World famously photographed Keeler sitting naked astride a fashionably modern chair, an image that would come to epitomise the Swinging Sixties.
  • (4) The chances of Keeler being installed in Downing Street were infinitesimal.
  • (5) The Keeler NCT nearly fulfills the needed criteria for the first group with pressure under 23 mm Hg except for a high standard deviation.
  • (6) Using the Konan-Keeler specular microscope, panoramic specular microscopy covering almost one quadrant of the anterior capsule was performed.
  • (7) We conducted comparative measurements with 100 healthy probands and patients suffering of glaucoma with both a Goldmann Applanation Tonometer (GAT) and the new Keeler Non Contact Tonometer (NCT).
  • (8) The Keeler Pulsair is a noncontact tonometer which can be used by those without specialist ophthalmic training.
  • (9) Intraocular pressure was evaluated in 414 eyes using Keeler Pulsair tonometry in comparison with values obtained by Goldmann tonometry.
  • (10) Increases in lens opacity measured by the Lens Opacity Meter 701, the Keeler Projectoscopy and clinical grading.
  • (11) Although MI5 had known about Profumo's dalliance with Keeler for many months, the first politician to learn about it was John Lewis, the former Labour MP for Bolton, who mistakenly thought Stephen Ward had seduced his wife.
  • (12) The Pulsair non-contact tonometer (Keeler Pulsair: Keeler UK) has been shown to be a versatile instrument particularly suitable for screening for raised intraocular pressure.
  • (13) The results shows that self-tonometry with the Pulsair-Keeler tonometer can be used in monitoring glaucomatous patients at home.
  • (14) The recently-introduced Pulsair non-contact tonometer (Keeler Instruments, Inc, Broomall, PA) was evaluated against the Goldmann applanation tonometer in cannulated post mortem human eyes, and in living subjects at three clinical centers.
  • (15) One of these is the Keeler Pulsair non-contact tonometer which uses pressurized air in measurement.
  • (16) And Keeler, a doe-eyed beauty just 21 when the scandal broke, was the perfect representative of a generation already associated with greater frankness, self-indulgence and sexual curiosity.
  • (17) "If Richard had appointed Christine Keeler, I might have intervened," Cook said later, "but Ian was the ideal choice."
  • (18) We used a camera and flash electrically coupled to an American Optical Non-Contact II tonometer (Cambridge Instruments Inc, Cambridge, Mass) or a Keeler Pulsair tonometer (Keeler Instruments Inc, Broomall, Pa) to photograph the corneal profile during tonometry.
  • (19) Andy had been passed a copy of a compromising letter from Profumo to Keeler by the Tory MP Henry Kirby.
  • (20) Using a contactless tonometer of Keeler Co. the authors assessed the intraocular pressure in enucleated eyeballs and compared the values with the intraocular pressure assessed in the eyeballs by means of a water manometer.

Keener


Definition:

  • (n.) A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I met him in 1988 he seemed far keener to discuss Core than Concrete Bulletproof Invisible, the short-lived band that he and Shaw had then started with the former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock.
  • (2) Son of a baronet It also plays to the most damaging caricature of Osborne, as the privileged son of a baronet, keener on protecting his wealthy friends than helping ordinary Britons: something he has fought hard to shrug off by introducing his “national living wage”, for example.
  • (3) He is keener on numeric grades that could see around 10% of pupils awarded the top grade 1.
  • (4) The striker has a £25m release clause in his contract and after scoring 28 goals in 38 appearances in all competitions this season, Arsenal are keener than a dog on heat to secure his services for next season.
  • (5) But for all their talk of patient safety the doctors too have sometimes appeared keener on their own interests than they have looked like professionals preoccupied with the wellbeing of their patients.
  • (6) There is a keener awareness of the difficulties and intricacies involved in the construction and evaluation of clinical trials and results.
  • (7) Ministers believe that major companies involved in developing offshore wind technology – such as Siemens, Vestas and General Electric – will now be keener to invest in Britain, knowing it is committed to a huge expansion in renewable energy.
  • (8) Japan has become keener on free-trade agreements but may baulk at dismantling its agricultural protectionism.
  • (9) They have become sharper judges – student satisfaction surveys already reflect that – and will become all the keener after next year.
  • (10) Regrettably, no doubt, for those who are keener on the purification of public discourse, online censors seem disinclined to regulate with any consistency.
  • (11) The idea that we would be keener to pay tax if we knew exactly how it was to be spent is one of the most persuasive in modern politics.
  • (12) Rather, it's the more insidious tropes that I'd be even keener to eat my porridge without.
  • (13) The idea is that people will be keener on moving from one bank to another if there is more transparency about charges and interest rates .
  • (14) The Daily Mail, which is keener on making MPs accountable than it is to making newspapers that routinely attack them equally accountable, is cross: "Worse than meaningless," it thunders, quoting in support leftish bodies such as Unlock Democracy and greenish Tory MP Zac Goldsmith , whom it usually disaparages.
  • (15) "We have a leadership that seems keener on impressing the Conservatives as to how much we can be relied upon to take 'tough' decisions, than on asserting how much the Conservatives need us in order to remain in government," Sanders wrote.
  • (16) As in 2005, people are also keener on small fixes such as changing lightbulbs than on things that would push up prices or force people to live differently.
  • (17) The boys run down to the water’s edge in their float vests and plunge in, keener than on the day we started.
  • (18) Nicolas Cage , Elizabeth Banks, Catherine Keener, Kevin Kline and Paul Reubens are also said to be in negotiations.
  • (19) In the last few years the international donors have been keener to fund more development-orientated support in Libya, and in situations like this one in Libya, there is less capacity for a rapid humanitarian response,” he said.
  • (20) One person keener than most to advertise those numbers is Sir Michael Wilshaw , since they reflect his four-year tenure as chief inspector of schools.

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