What's the difference between kicker and standfirst?
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.
Standfirst
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The original article's standfirst said Mark Ravenhill was a Family Guy and Will & Grace writer.
(2) It mistakenly referred to National Rail instead of Network Rail in the standfirst.
(3) The standfirst (summary) incorrectly quoted Alex Jones talking about "1778 commencing again".
(4) • This article was changed on Tuesday 10 June 2014 to amend the standfirst.
(5) • The standfirst on this story was amended on 27 September 2013 to remove an incorrect reference to the UK information officer
(6) • The standfirst of this article was corrected on Sunday 15 December 2013 because it stated that Andy Murray was the first Briton to win Wimbledon since 1936.
(7) In the standfirst we mistakenly said the assault had taken place in New York when it was in fact Washington.
(8) The standfirst in the original said "over half of Britain's schools" where over half of England's was meant.
(9) • The standfirst of this article was changed on 7 March 2016 to better reflect the content of the story.
(10) An editing error in the standfirst suggested that the world population would grow to 9 million by 2050.
(11) The standfirst of this article was modified on 14 October 2015 to remove ambiguity.
(12) But 48 hours with Mrs Merkel and he’s already repeatedly committing to open door immigration again.” • The standfirst on this article was amended on 8 January 2015 to better reflect the story.
(13) It originally said there were 250 evictions every day in 2015 in the standfirst.
(14) • The standfirst on this article was corrected on 12 July 2013; F-16 jets, not F-14s, were supplied to Egypt.
(15) The standfirst (summary) of the original incorrectly stated that photographs could could fetch up to £50,000.
(16) • This article was originally published by the Birmingham Post , where Bill Drummond is writing a weekly column as part of his three-month residency at Eastside Projects, Digbeth • The standfirst of this article was amended on Friday 9 May 2014 to more accurately reflect the piece
(17) The standfirst of the original incorrectly stated that the shooting happened at a California health club, instead of an office Christmas party for employees of San Bernardino County health department.
(18) • This article was amended on 21 June 2012 to remove a misplaced apostrophe in the standfirst.
(19) Someone has to be in control of it because if not the strongest will take over.” This article was amended on 3 April to modify the headline and standfirst.
(20) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.