What's the difference between lacker and lacking?

Lacker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lacks or is in want.
  • (n. & v.) See Lacquer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lacker and George are among the Fed policymakers who most urge an active fight against future high inflation.
  • (2) It mainly depends of lacker cracks initial location if macular quite wrong, if intramacular, quite right.
  • (3) Lacker, who is not a voting member of the Fed’s policy-setting committee this year but participates in its discussions, said recent strong job growth suggested the US economy was still on a solid growth path.
  • (4) Ongoing strength in the US job market could give the Federal Reserve justification for multiple interest rate increases this year, Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker said on Wednesday.
  • (5) 5.57pm BST Europe's financial strains are likely to abate next year, according to US Federal Reserve member Jeffrey Lacker.
  • (6) This perspective would bolster the case for raising the federal funds rate target,” Lacker said.
  • (7) The statement was approved on a 9-1 vote, with Atlanta Fed president Jeffrey M Lacker dissenting for the second straight meeting.
  • (8) These lacker cracks happen early in the myopia degeneration evolution in young patients.
  • (9) Lacker said one reason to believe rates should rise is that estimates of the economy’s so-called natural real rate of interest, the rate when economists think there will be normal economic growth and stable inflation, are at or just above zero.
  • (10) Lacker has proposed a simple mathematical model of follicle development that can account for the regulation of ovulation number.
  • (11) Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker – who is not a voting member of the Fed’s policy-setting committee – said last month that recent job growth would justify multiple rate hikes this year.
  • (12) Federal Reserve meeting minutes show uncertainty about global economy Read more “I still think prospects for rate increases this year is the logical” view, Lacker said in a presentation to a business school in Baltimore, adding that economic data did not indicate that a recession was imminent in the United States.
  • (13) Lacker had pushed for the Fed to begin raising rates by moving the federal funds rate up by a quarter-point.
  • (14) A theory of follicle selection (Lacker, 1981) is tested in the primate by simulating the effects of estradiol administration at different times, strengths, and durations during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle (Clark et al., 1981; Zeleznik, 1981; Dierschke et al., 1985).
  • (15) Voting against the action was Jeffrey Lacker, who opposed additional asset purchases and preferred to omit the description of the time period over which exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate are likely to be warranted.
  • (16) The statement said Lacker doesn't "anticipate that economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate through late 2014".
  • (17) However, the vote was not unanimous – as it normally is – with Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Fed’s Atlanta regional bank, casting a vote for an increase.
  • (18) That is the same proportion as in September with Jeffrey Lacker, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, being the only member to push for a 25 basis points increase.
  • (19) Both fundic and pancreatic IRG9,000 were devoid of glycogenolytic activity and lacker adenylate cyclase stimulating activity and 125I-glucagon displacing activity when tested on partially purified rat liver membranes.
  • (20) Both Lacker and Fisher are considered Fed hawks and if they say something supportive of a December taper, it could trigger dollar buying in the afternoon session.

Lacking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lack

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
  • (2) tRNA from mutant IB13 lacks 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thio-uridine in vivo due to a permanently nonfunctional methyltransferase.
  • (3) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
  • (4) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (5) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (6) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (7) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
  • (8) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
  • (9) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (10) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (11) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
  • (12) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
  • (13) Core enzyme, lacking omega subunit, catalyzed this reaction at a rate less than 1% that of holoenzyme.
  • (14) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (15) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
  • (16) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
  • (17) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
  • (18) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (19) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
  • (20) These findings indicate an association between HLA-B7 and ankylosing spondylitis in American blacks and suggest that these patients who lack B27 but possess B7 represent a subgroup of patients with this disease.