What's the difference between kicker and picker?

Kicker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, kicks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But here's the kicker: the trailer actually has very little to do with the content of the game.
  • (2) Tucker remains one of the lowest paid kickers in the league with a $480,000 salary, which is good for 27th among kickers.
  • (3) It was still only just enough, New Orleans winning 26-24 after kicker Shayne Graham – who has been with the team less than a month – converted a 32-yard field goal as time expired.
  • (4) Freshman kicker Cade Foster missed the attempt which fell into the arms of Auburn's Chris Davis who returned it from 109 yards for the game winning touchdown.
  • (5) With leading goal kickers Travis Cloke and Jamie Elliott out injured, Collingwood needed to find new avenues to goal and Moore, switched from defence to attack, and Levi Greenwood stepped up with their first goals in black-and-white.
  • (6) Running back Frank Gore did the rest, powering through the middle to move the ball closer and set up what would normally have been a comfortable chance for Dawson, although the kicker had described the ball as feeling "like a brick" in the brutally cold conditions.
  • (7) The ball was flipped to place kicker Justin Tucker, who rolled away to the left in a mad dash towards the first-down marker.
  • (8) At $3.3 million, he's the fourth best paid kicker in the NFL.
  • (9) The German centre-back gave an interview in Kicker magazine last week in which he demanded a stronger Dortmund team for next season, otherwise he may consider his own future.
  • (10) 2.19am GMT Florida State 3-7 Auburn, 14:56, 2nd quarter Well the Auburn defense survives the roughing the kicker penalty, Winston's pass to Greene is stuffed on 3 and 8 by Chris Davis, and FSU does indeed punt finally.
  • (11) Fantatic tackle by the kicker who saved the day - Denver start on their own 37.
  • (12) Robshaw, devastated, explained after this match that he had spoken to the two kickers on the field, George Ford and Owen Farrell, and that they’d decided between the three of them that they wanted to go for the win.
  • (13) Signs are not permitted in corridors and - here's the kicker - it remains the prerogative of members to place things inside their suites and all members allowed to use suites for their own purposes but not for illegal purposes .
  • (14) Akers missed from 39 yards, but was granted a reprieve when Chykie Brown was penalised for running into the kicker.
  • (15) 2.13am GMT Florida State 3-7 Auburn, 1:15, 1st quarter Oh Auburn, after that great sequence they pick up a dumb, dumb, dumb roughing the kicker penalty on 4th and 9.
  • (16) For a calm executor of a gameplan and a formidably accurate goal-kicker, there is a point where Farrell and his senses part company, usually when defeat or a setback is looming and he cannot control his frustration.
  • (17) A score indicating frequency of using the knee kicker was the only statistically significant predictor of bursitis, whereas the score for kneeling was one of several predictors of knee aspiration and skin infections of the knee.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kicker Matt Prater is unable to tackle Seattle wide receiver Percy Harvin on his way to a touchdown.
  • (19) But at least one kicker is getting it right, Dan Bailey converting from 41 yards to make it Vikings 0-3 Cowboys .
  • (20) And stay for the kicker: Reports that congressmen have been drinking during these, ahem, "deliberations" have gotten a lot of criticism and a lot of attention.

Picker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.
  • (n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
  • (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
  • (n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
  • (3) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (4) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (5) Swach believes there is opportunity for its model to work elsewhere, but attributes its success to a strong pre-existing waste pickers union and sees a need for more unionisation in other cities.
  • (6) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used in 45 renal transplant investigations (38 patients) using a Picker 0.15 T resistive system and a localized surface coil.
  • (7) Over on Sky News the editor of Majesty magazine felt forced to opine that he was “ not a good picker of people ”.
  • (8) Altogether 110 patients with different pancreatic diseases were examined on the Picker magna-scanner 500 I (USA) with 75Se-methionine (9.2 MBq).
  • (9) Scintiscanning of skeleton was performed on a gamma-graph Picker 500 i, 99mTc pyrophosphate was used and scintiscanning was performed in the usual examination regimen.
  • (10) A rigid, easily demountable, and versatile device combines the function of three separate accessories for the Picker Series 8 cobalt-60 teletherapy machine.
  • (11) I am a great believer of moving with the times.” Moving times also means almost all the pickers are foreign – there are 18 different nationalities on Broadwater farm.
  • (12) At the height of the harvesting season, between October and July, an estimated 6,000 migrants are employed as strawberry pickers for wages that no Greek, despite record levels of unemployment, would ever accept.
  • (13) In Mumbai, Vinod Shetty, a lawyer and head of Acorn Foundation , which advocates for waste pickers, says that Pune has set an example for the country of a workers' rights-oriented model, but there are many barriers to replication.
  • (14) Back out on the shop floor, Davis edges past the 40-strong team of "pickers", who are all intently scanning the recycling as it flashes past them on the conveyor for any contamination missed by the machines.
  • (15) I will get the overall standings worked out today, and post them below the line as soon as I can; all six-pickers will be duly acknowledged at the top of next week’s blog.
  • (16) The boys, aged around 10, were found by an elderly rag picker on Friday morning, Beijing News reported.
  • (17) Their labour fills a valuable role in municipal responsibility but city officials across the country have nearly unanimously overlooked the waste pickers' contributions .
  • (18) "He is very much a stock picker looking for exceptional businesses around the world that will be around in 20 years' time, and are able to offer consistent growth," says Adrian Lowcock from Hargreaves Lansdown.
  • (19) or the perennial "greetings, pop pickers", was scarcely to all tastes, but once heard it was rarely forgotten.
  • (20) Based on a collaboration between a group of local designers, environmental charity WWF and the non-profit Plastic Soup Foundation , the project revolves around a low-cost plastic shredder and moulding machine that waste pickers can use to make recyclable products like plastic statues.