What's the difference between lapper and sapper?

Lapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The beta anomers have phosphorus coupled to C(3) with coupling constants of 10.8--11.7 Hz, approximately 2 Hz greater than the maximum reported for trans coupling (Lapper, R. D., & Smith, I. C. P. (1973) J.

Sapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The police sapper was not injured but was taken to a hospital to be evaluated.
  • (2) After five years as a laboratory assistant and a spell of national service in the engineer corps (following Soviet practice, sons of the politically unreliable classes were often trained as sappers, readily expendable in mine-sweeping), he nevertheless made his way into the theatre and the world of literary politics, and wrote clever, politically risky plays in the absurdist manner that won him an international reputation.
  • (3) Instead he became an improbable sapper in 560 Field Company, which he later described as "a very working-class unit trying to build some patently inadequate defences against invasion on the coasts of East Anglia".
  • (4) Army sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar were shot dead as they waited to collect pizzas at the gates of the base.
  • (5) Osborne, having been cheerleader for his party's view that the minimum wage is a destroyer of jobs and sapper of enterprise, now says he wants the low pay commission to raise the hourly rate from its current level of £6.31 to £7 an hour by next year.
  • (6) Interior ministry troops, backed by army trucks, arrest vans and bomb sappers, flooded central Moscow.
  • (7) It was the poorest possible way for Hull to concede a first home goal in 652 minutes, and for the captain to be the culprit was a further morale sapper.