What's the difference between kicker and wicker?

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.

Wicker


Definition:

  • (n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
  • (n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
  • (n.) Same as 1st Wike.
  • (a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wicker's (this issue) article on substantive theorizing outlines an approach to theory and research that helps communicate the structure and process of doing research on a complex area.
  • (2) Wicker, who chairs the NRSC, the organization tasked with keeping the Senate in Republicans’ control, has already committed to backing Trump.
  • (3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
  • (4) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
  • (5) Canvasses from the UNHCR and Unicef, the children's agency, are piled haphazardly on to structures made out of wood with wicker roofs, sacking and animal skin.
  • (6) Man can’t change climate.” The quick thinking from Inhofe now leaves Wicker, the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as the only Republican to still embrace the entire idea of climate change as a hoax.
  • (7) 32 Rose Street, +27 21 422 5883, larosecapetown.com The Blue House Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rooms in The Blue House look like they could be straight from the film set of Out Of Africa , with huge leather sofas, wicker armchairs and wooden tea chests.
  • (8) The NSA also intercepted the foreign communications of prominent journalists such as Tom Wicker of the New York Times and the popular satirical writer for the Washington Post, Art Buchwald.
  • (9) Wicker said they wanted to be a model for neighborhood kids, “who did not have the opportunity to see husband and wife and children, and people waking up every morning and going to work”.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tara Wicker stands in front of the home she grew up in and still lives in today.
  • (11) The wicker coffin, draped in the flags of Great Britain and Brazil and an Arsenal scarf, and accompanied by an escort of Hell's Angels and the London Dixieland jazz band playing Just a Closer Walk with Thee, arrived at Golders Green crematorium in the midst of rain and storm.
  • (12) 6.20pm BST Beyond the belly Lots of food tips coming in - for deep-dish pizza at Gino's Eas t, tacos on the patio at Big Star in Wicker Park, for Franks N Dawgs in Lincoln Park (shark bacon, eggs, and scallop sausages) and Devil Dawgs .
  • (13) A handful of Republican senators joined Trump’s meeting with the leadership: Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Rob Portman of Ohio and Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
  • (14) From there we'll aim for Wicker Park , Chicago's hippest hood.
  • (15) In this rejoinder, I: (1) underscore the thrust of the choices Wicker has clarified and the p references he has recommended; (2) suggest an alternative route for the ecologically-oriented research process, one in which the conceptual and substantive "paths" have coequal and interdependent importance in determining the nature and direction of the research process; and (3) discuss in greater depth the search for universal laws.
  • (16) "Suspicious" Mail • Intercepted letters to Mississippi senator Roger Wicker and President Obama both initially tested positive for ricin and have been taken to the Fort Detrick lab for further testing.
  • (17) "The issue with The Wicker Man is there's a need by some folks in the media to think that we're not in on the joke.
  • (18) The English "folk horror" of the 70s is everywhere at the moment, with another cut of The Wicker Man recently released and Ben Wheatley's A Field in England a direct homage to the unhinged films that era.
  • (19) There's also a Wicker Man -style subplot where she gets her promiscuous comeuppance.
  • (20) Wicker (1989) urges the ecologyically-oriented psychologist to be more cognizant of the decision points implicit in the scientific enterprise.