What's the difference between lander and slander?

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.

Slander


Definition:

  • (n.) A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another.
  • (n.) Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium.
  • (n.) Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
  • (v. t.) To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.
  • (v. t.) To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I will confine myself to correcting Kaiman's slanders against the most open and generous immigration system in the developed world.
  • (2) It is socially very divisive, it is stigmatising, it is subtly slanderous and it is immoral.
  • (3) It’s unfortunate that companies should have to continue to correct the government’s slander,” the union said.
  • (4) "I will, no doubt, be interrrupted, shouted down, slandered, put on the spot, and subject to a scrutiny that would be a thousand times more intense than anything directed at other panellists."
  • (5) "They slandered us, slung mud at us and shut us out of all the news media – the TV channels of the corrupt elite – and we beat them," the 55-year-old leader said as the votes came in.
  • (6) Sarah Champion, John Healey and Kevin Barron are suing Collins – who represents Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in the European parliament – for libel and slander for accusations she made in her speech at last year’s Ukip party conference.
  • (7) They are slanderous and therefore libellous," she told the Sunday Times.
  • (8) There have been rumours, however, denied as slander by those still there, of rising alcoholism and petty thuggery.
  • (9) In spite of this manifest acknowledgment of John Hunter's greatness there are nevertheless numerous aspects of his character, his health, and his opinions which have been the subject of criticism, misunderstanding, lack of appreciation, and even slander.
  • (10) Consideration is given to potential liability due to malpractice, negligent interference with a workers' contractual relationship with his or her employer, libel and slander, and unauthorized release of information.
  • (11) China has condemned Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, for "maliciously slandering" its self-proclaimed air defence zone, ratcheting up the war of words between the neighbours over Beijing's annexation of the skies over a group of disputed islands.
  • (12) During his 45-minute talk delivered from Jamaica, Faisal was heard saying: “Instead of embracing the Islamic State, supporting the Islamic State and doing everything humanly possible for the success of the state … all they do is slander the mujahideen,” he said.
  • (13) Trump insisted that the press as a whole was “false and slanderous in every respect” and said “the depths of their immorality is absolutely unlimited”.
  • (14) Qatar’s FA said the remark by Zwanziger showed collective disrespect and was slanderous and he should not be allowed to repeat it, according to the court statement.
  • (15) While Vatican spokesmen continue to maintain that Seromba is a victim of malicious slander, the Florence diocese announced this week that it had an open mind as to his culpability.
  • (16) KCNA quoted the foreign ministry as saying: “As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident.
  • (17) But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.
  • (18) As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.
  • (19) Police staying back #OccupyGezi #Turkey June 11, 2013 9.08am BST AKP plans curb on Twitter The ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) has vowed to begin censoring Twitter in an effort to curb "dangerous" slander, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reports .
  • (20) The drama about the slandered Bristol schoolteacher also won the mini-series prize, one of a number of double winners at the ceremony at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, on Sunday night.