What's the difference between lager and porter?

Lager


Definition:

  • (n.) Lager beer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) YEp plasmid stability in the presence of either Saccharomyces cerevisiae laboratory strain 2-microns DNA, or lager brewing yeast 2-microns DNA in the same genetic background, was compared under non-selective culture conditions.
  • (2) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (3) It was a sunny Friday night by the seaside, and the atmosphere was spicy with sweat, lager and marijuana smoke.
  • (4) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
  • (5) Munn has by this time long finished his chicken salad and declines my offer of another half of lager.
  • (6) Buttoned-down and feather-cut, this band of teenage micro-Wellers drain lagers by the crateful and pogo like a Quadrophenia wrap party.
  • (7) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
  • (8) The solution is for Hathaway to spend a year in sarky Manchester, where her attempts to go jogging will be thwarted by 324 days of rain, and if she so much as thinks about telling a Mancunian barmaid that she has poured those lagers fantastically well, she will swiftly learn an aloofness not taught in any American drama school.
  • (9) The levels of migration of mineral hydrocarbons from polystyrene cups and glasses have been measured into aqueous food simulants as well as lager, beer, cola, sparkling apple juice, lemon barley water, coffee, hot chocolate, tea, lemon tea and chicken soup.
  • (10) The application of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of soluble proteins, DNA-DNA hybridizations and API 20 E systems has shown that Rahnella aquatilis might also be encountered as a contaminant in lager beer breweries.
  • (11) Lager louts now have nine months' notice in which to lay in supplies.
  • (12) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
  • (13) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
  • (14) Eight cask pumps showcase Leeds beers (try the pale or the dark mild, Midnight Bell) and four guests, with keg lines, such as a craft lager from York micro Hop Studio, adding interest.
  • (15) She has moved on with her life.” Carry On Doctors will be written by Tim Dawson and Susan Nickson, best known as the writers of the BBC sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps .
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brewdog Camden staff react by taking Camden Hells lager off their craft beer menu Peroni and Grolsch owner SAB Miller snapped up Camden’s rival Meantime earlier this year, while Diageo used its Guinness brand as a launchpad for a series of ales and porters.
  • (17) The new minimum price of 50p a unit will push the price of the cheapest bottles of wine to £4.69, while four cans of basic lager will cost at least £3.52.
  • (18) We concluded that patients with longer MIP displayed lager thyro-adrenergic and myocardial injury.
  • (19) The value of very low carbohydrate lager is assessed.
  • (20) I wrote about the wide-eyed optimism that rookie comedians come north with; the joy of spending time necking lager in the same drinking holes as your heroes; the elation of hearing the first laugh of the summer; the sadness of leaving your venue for the last time; the friends you make; the haunts you start to call your own; the feeling of finding your place in this mystical world; and the certainty that this is where you must be in August – that you must not go on a nice holiday or find paid work or attend a wedding or do up your chaotic flat instead.

Porter


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.
  • (n.) A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.
  • (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.
  • (n.) A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
  • (2) The hospital said it is seeking information from other porters who worked at Leeds general hospital when Savile was a volunteer.
  • (3) My dream is that one day, young kids in Nepal won’t have to risk working on the mountain as porters or guides, they will be able to get an education and build better lives for themselves,” Sherpa told AFP.
  • (4) Dr Mark Porter, the British Medical Association’s chair of council, said: “This leaked document makes clear that more seven-day services will require not only thousands of extra doctors, nurses and support staff but an additional investment in both the NHS and community care.
  • (5) Bountiful by Todd Porter and Diane Cu (Stewart, Tabori and Chang)
  • (6) Will Francis, director, Vandal London Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will has worked with a variety of global brands including Net-a-Porter, Samsung, Spotify, Microsoft, Warner Music and Nike Foundation to innovate in social media, something he’s been doing since his days as editor of MySpace in the mid-late noughties.
  • (7) Referring to “back of house” (BOH) staff and kitchen porters (KP) it read: “Morning, “Due to recent EHO contact and receiving two 1 star ratings along with an increase in food safety audit fails.
  • (8) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
  • (9) These findings suggest several new hypotheses relating to the molecular mechanism of transport through uncoupling protein and suggest explanations for observed functional differences among porters belonging to the same gene family.
  • (10) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
  • (11) I would work as a porter without payment Two of the smugglers were themselves Rohingya, including a religious leader, she said.
  • (12) Along the way he also reached the final of the US Open Cup, and in the MLS Cup dispatched the holders LA Galaxy in the conference semi-finals, before beating Porter’s Timbers in both the home and road legs of the Western final (his team had beaten Portland in the US Open Cup semis too).
  • (13) The key finding was that LDL receptors clustered in coated pits, structures that had been described by Roth and Porter 10 years earlier.
  • (14) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
  • (15) The design and properties of a rigid, box-like device to be placed on the knife stage of a Porter-Blum MT-2 ultramicrotome are described.
  • (16) Valeri's was one of two places MLS's head honcho gets in the 23-man squad, with the game's coach filling the 10 spots not otherwise claimed by fan voting, so when Porter's choices were announced on Saturday, fans began an American tradition as old as All-Star games themselves: disagreeing with the choices.
  • (17) Luckily we have great collections, a great programme so we do our best … we are on a hamster wheel.” Blavatnik will join philanthropic names at the V&A such as Weston (the Weston Cast Court), Sackler (the Sackler Centre for Arts Education) and Porter (the Porter Gallery, which houses temporary displays).
  • (18) We studied 202 pregnant women who were porter of pregnancy intrahepatic cholestasis (CIE).
  • (19) Having failed to get into Rada, Wesker embarked on a series of menial jobs: bookseller's assistant, plumber's mate and, at the Bell hotel in Norwich, kitchen porter.
  • (20) A caravan comprising 300 yaks, 50 mules and 100 porters wound through the Himalayan valleys, carrying 900 boxes of food, all because 13 white men wanted to reach the summit.