What's the difference between kleptomaniac and pincher?

Kleptomaniac


Definition:

  • (n.) A person affected with kleptomania.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Still, it’s hard to point fingers at a kleptomaniac when you have sticky fingers too.
  • (2) To be impolite, it is theft," he said , branding search engines such as Google and Yahoo as "content kleptomaniacs" .
  • (3) In the link economy, value is made not only by those who create content but also by those who create a public for it: the aggregators and curators, such as Google itself, whom Rupert Murdoch and his team label as "parasites," "content kleptomaniacs", and "tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet".
  • (4) I don’t understand why, for example, fetishists, kleptomaniacs or transsexuals should be banned from driving a car… I think this is a violation of the rights of Russian citizens.” The move was also criticised by international rights activists, who said it could create a climate of fear.
  • (5) The old kleptomaniac, who stashed away about $5bn while his country went to ruin, was driven from power by the first Rwandan invasion.
  • (6) Subsequently, we suggest distinguishing between two groups of kleptomaniac patients who can be differentiated with regard to their symptoms and psychodynamics.
  • (7) Huffington said she was disappointed by the insults used by the old media: "Sites that aggregate the news have become, in the words of Rupert Murdoch and his team, 'parasites', 'content kleptomaniacs', 'vampires', 'tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internets, and, of course, thieves who 'steal all our copyright'.
  • (8) We give a list of the descriptive-empirical papers which prove that one cannot speak of an independent clinical picture, but rather that the kleptomaniac actions may be a symptom of multiple causes.
  • (9) The vicious kleptomaniac was eventually overthrown after losing his cold war sponsors in the west.
  • (10) Some kleptomaniacs seem to be "fixed" on special objects when stealing.
  • (11) But the one thing we know about the murderous kleptomaniac regime in Russia is that it walks all over the weak.
  • (12) Suddenly she looked like a middle-class kleptomaniac caught leaving Harrods."
  • (13) Their presence, and the support of Zaire's former kleptomaniac leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, for his old Hutu allies, sowed the seeds of much of the subsequent upheaval in Congo.

Pincher


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The instrument is designed based on electromagnetic theory and principle of equilibrium in mechanics and composed of a timer, a current regulator and meter, control circuits and two-arm pinchers.
  • (2) The spicules of the male had a highly sculptured surface with a pincher-like terminal end.
  • (3) The most striking features in the production of the "pincher mechanism" of the duodenum were found to be a short aortomesenteric distance together with sagittal parallelism between aorta and superior mesenteric artery.
  • (4) Similar 'selectivity' could be demonstrated for both mu- and kappa-ligands when the weaker and stronger responses were of the same modality, being applied by the same pincher device but with alternating applied force.
  • (5) Complications included 2 hematomas of the tubal wall, caused by the pinchers but controlled with the ring and 1 later case of cellulitis at the incision.
  • (6) Penny-pincher-in-chief Francis Maude would have the whole of Whitehall working this way.
  • (7) PMQs verdict: Jeremy Corbyn's leaked texts give him the upper hand Read more Over recent years I have admired David Hodge’s fearless crescendo of complaint against his own government, with caustic comments on his Surrey MPs, a gallery of gleeful penny-pinchers.
  • (8) They have also funded several UK MPs on all expenses paid trips to Azerbaijan including Mark Field, Gerry Sutcliffe, Stephen Hammond and the speaker at next week's jazz reception – Christopher Pincher.
  • (9) December 5, 2013 Christopher Pincher (@ChrisPincher) Very heavy winds in Tamworth, Shenstone & other local villages this pm.
  • (10) A kind of noval digital and electromagnetically controlled pinchers is developed from its original type for more quantitatively pinching the spinal cord.

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