What's the difference between lander and pander?

Lander


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lands, or makes a landing.
  • (n.) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The circulatory levels of T4, T3, rT3, TSH as well as TSH response to TRH, thyroid hormone binding proteins and T3 concentration of erythrocytes were studied in (i) healthy euthyroid sea level residents (SLR) at sea level, (ii) during three weeks of stay of SLR at an altitude of 3500 m (sojourners, SJ), (iii) SLR staying at high altitude (HA) for 3 months to 10 years (acclimatised low landers.
  • (2) Here, we show that these assertions are both incorrect: the Lander-Green algorithm is an EM algorithm, while the Morton-Collins algorithm is not.
  • (3) • 1999 Nasa's Mars Polar Lander crashes into the planet, probably after an engine malfunction failed to slow the spacecraft's descent.
  • (4) 7 Eric S Lander President and founding director of the Eli and Edythe L Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
  • (5) Unlike the Landers and Landers study, no model type by model skill interaction was found.
  • (6) It has been suggested (E. Lander) that one use the highest frequency for the most common allele as a baseline frequency estimate.
  • (7) Interaction of heparin fragments (Mr less than or equal to 6KD) with type I collagen was analyzed by affinity co-electrophoresis (Lee and Lander, 1991) and showed higher affinity heparin binding to native as compared with denatured collagen.
  • (8) "I'd really love to put a lander on the surface of Europa, the moon of Jupiter, that we feel is a place in the solar system most likely to have life.
  • (9) At each lander site, activity was strongly diminished.
  • (10) It was founded by the Little Landers, the cooperative agriculture movement of the early twentieth century that believed in the modest aspiration of “a little land and a living”.
  • (11) Landers that are searching for life must be exceptionally clean, and fall under category IVb, but those entering special regions are category IVc missions and must be cleaner still.
  • (12) Approximately 3 months of radio tracking data from the Viking landers have been analyzed to determine the lander locations, the orientation of the spin axis of Mars, and a first estimate from Viking data of the planet's spin rate.
  • (13) The Lib Dems are citing a letter to Cameron and Clegg, signed by the former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Blair and the former MI5 director Sir Stephen Lander, which called on Britain not to abandon its European partners.
  • (14) When we saw Armstrong descend from the lander's ladder and put the first human footprints on the lunar surface, it had already happened.
  • (15) The analytical scheme originally envisioned was severely compromised in the latter stages of the Lander instrument package design.
  • (16) State-run China Central Television showed a computer-generated image of the Chang'e 3 lander's path as it approached the surface of the moon yesterday, explaining that during its 12-minute landing period it would have no contact with Earth.
  • (17) These reactions were qualitatively similar to the chemical activity observed during the active cycles of the Viking lander Gas Exchange and Labeled Release Biology experiments.
  • (18) Llewellyn Landers, an ANC MP, said the bill would not have a public-interest defence clause because "it would do irrevocable harm to the state and the people of South Africa if a court should find that a whistleblower was found to have given information not out of public interest but out of maliciousness".
  • (19) The Landers-Foulks temporary keratoprosthesis was used to combine penetrating keratoplasty, pars plana vitrectomy, and scleral buckling in the management of 13 eyes with opaque cornea and posterior segment abnormalities.
  • (20) The lipids of C. eugametos cells contain PtdIns, PtdIns(4)P and PtdIns(4,5)P2 [Irvine, Letcher, Lander, Drøbak, Dawson & Musgrave (1989) Plant Physiol.

Pander


Definition:

  • (n.) A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
  • (n.) Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
  • (v. t.) To play the pander for.
  • (v. i.) To act the part of a pander.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "They are soul-less creatures pandering to the NRA ."
  • (2) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
  • (3) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
  • (4) It displayed his immense talent for impressions, had simple but hilarious observations and was able to appeal to a diverse audience without pandering or carpet N-bombing as a punchline.
  • (5) But Baptiste never seems like he’s polemicising, still less that he’s pandering to the expectations of a mostly white audience.
  • (6) The film thus panders to the tendency of Germans to see themselves as victims of Nazism and war rather than perpetrators.
  • (7) It’s amazing to see a new generation of activists, who understand that we can no longer compartmentalise issues or pander to governments or industry to create the change we need.
  • (8) The Institute of Directors, meanwhile, said it was “astonished by the home secretary’s irresponsible rhetoric” and accused her of pandering to anti-immigration sentiment and putting internal party politics ahead of the interests of the country.
  • (9) Such pandering was a mistake because they would never be satisfied until Britain left the EU, McFadden argued.
  • (10) In Bristol he is expected to attack politicians who "pander to prejudice or xenophobia".
  • (11) As the neck of the latebra approaches the blastoderm, it flares out to become the nucleus of Pander.
  • (12) The Canadian government, which had lobbied hard for the project, said it was disappointed, and the oil industry accused Obama of pandering to his base.
  • (13) He had absolute control of a very rowdy crowd without pandering to them at all, and was so delightfully silly that it actually turned them into a pleasant bunch of people.
  • (14) Itʼs quite a feat when you think about it, to cast oneself as a great feminist crusader while you perfect the art of self objectification and then go on to spend your entire career pandering to the male gaze.
  • (15) Instead, this is empty rhetoric from a weak prime minister who is pandering to the backbenchers that forced out Andrew Mitchell."
  • (16) Consequently, the candidates and their remarks are seen as pandering to black voters.
  • (17) So everyone – from Cochran to McDaniel to the "Democrat" Childers – panders to those voters.
  • (18) Keita has promised to continue along these lines, but his campaign hinged on national honour and dignity, pandering to public opinion in the south openly hostile to any understanding with the forces that plunged Mali into chaos.
  • (19) She will, for example, remind the others if they play fast and loose on the immigration debate, that conceding ground to half truths and lies ultimately panders to prejudice.
  • (20) Why media-bashing should be such a popular pastime among key Republicans is relatively easily explained by reference to opinion surveys which suggest that the politicians are merely pandering to the prejudices of rightwing voters.