What's the difference between leer and leger?

Leer


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To learn.
  • (a.) Empty; destitute; wanting
  • (a.) Empty of contents.
  • (a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.
  • (a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.
  • (n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed.
  • (n.) The cheek.
  • (n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance.
  • (n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.
  • (v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
  • (v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our next priority is to ensure that patients in need of post-operative care and follow-up are flown to our larger MSF projects in Lankien, Nasir and Leer.
  • (2) They might have been even more shaken had they known that the men in casual clothes handing them these strange, badly set little pamphlets – with their funereal black borders and another death’s head leering at them inside next to the smirking wish “Good luck” – were members of New York’s police forces.
  • (3) He would think nothing of driving around in his van, leering at girls in school uniforms and shouting abuse after them, said one former partner.
  • (4) There it’s much less clear who is actually in charge.” NGOs that attempted to stay in Leer despite the fighting could do little for the population.
  • (5) "Make as much noise as yer like," he continues, leeringly, over the incessant crraaang of the mechanised looms.
  • (6) Zevon gives a ferocious leer, flashing two rows of evenly spaced, impossibly white teeth.
  • (7) [The war has] taken a different turn this year.” During April-September government offensives, “at least 1,000 civilians were killed, 1,300 women and girls were raped, and 1,600 women and children were abducted in Leer, Mayendit and Koch counties”, according to estimates in a recent circular to charities working on civilian protection.
  • (8) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
  • (9) As we see from the secret cameras, this isn't so much seduction as leering at intoxicated women until they finally relent and reel off a phone number, something that happens with depressing frequency.
  • (10) As ugly as its stupid sponsored name, this thing's going to leer over the Olympic Park and get in the way of the fine views from this side of the river.
  • (11) In the latest flare-up of fighting, government forces are pushing towards Machar’s hometown of Leer, in Unity state, which is held by his supporters.
  • (12) My portfolio was basically the trade-off we made for keeping Wilders quiet,” Leers said.
  • (13) As frontlines swept through Leer, NGO compounds were looted.
  • (14) Plenty of women watch sport, plenty of men want to watch women's sport and not just because they want to leer at women in bikinis.
  • (15) Fears of an attack on Leer led the UN and all the NGOs working in the area to withdraw their staff last week.
  • (16) At the height of Savilegate, the news became a sort of Imax ghost-train ride in which a bleached gargoyle repeatedly leered at you, a rolling news ticker scrolling under his chin like police incident tape stretched hastily into position.
  • (17) Much of the task of keeping Wilders onside fell to the experienced Christian Democrat Gerd Leers, a fellow Limburger, in the newly created post of minister for immigration.
  • (18) A scientific study of the success rate indicates that through IVT, reductions of the probability of relapse are achievable, which far exceed even the effectiveness of re-education carried out with fewer problematical cases (e. g. Leer model).
  • (19) (It features my floating disembodied head as a leering demon).
  • (20) I came here from the swamp when I heard they were giving out food,” said Leer resident Thomas Riek Makuei.

Leger


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
  • (n.) A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government.
  • (n.) A ledger.
  • (a.) Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador.
  • (a.) Light; slender; slim; trivial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philophthalmus gralli (Mathis and Leger, 1910) was introduced into the San Antonio, Texas area within the last 25-30 years from an unknown foreign source.
  • (2) The study quite specifically deals with histamine-legeration provoked by the direct pharmacodynamic action of drug substances, in particular those which are used in anaesthesiology.
  • (3) beauchampi Leger and Duboscq, 1917 was studied from the ventral digestive epithelium of the hepatic region of Glossobalanus minutus (Enteropneusta).
  • (4) Only an exclusive cadre of women can pull off a Herve Leger bandage dress on the red carpet without looking like a lumpy frosting tube, and it would seem that Lululemon ascribes to the same goal in the yoga studio.
  • (5) The St Leger at Doncaster, which is owned by ARC (formed recently by the merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing), the only obvious omission.
  • (6) There exists, in the anterior part of the intestine (pancreas, duodenum, stomach, ileum) a system of neuro-humoral cells derived embryologically from the neural crest (Weichert 1967, Gorin and Leger 1969).
  • (7) The primary hosts of its species, the best known of which are C. simplex Leger 1904 and C. bigenetica Wacha and Christiansen 1982, are carnivorous reptiles and birds of prey.
  • (8) Since the 2014 conference is being held this year in Ed Miliband’s backyard, on sun-soaked Doncaster racecourse, the development is doubly tragic: Ukip activists sober a few feet from where the world’s oldest classic horse race – the St Leger – was run just days ago.
  • (9) In conclusion, it must be recognized that, as Lucien Leger (39) wrote, "by creating a new physiopathology, portal decompression raises as many questions as it solves."
  • (10) This paper describes a new species of trypanosome, Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) heliosciuri, from Heliosciurus gambianus gambianus, and gives a detailed description of T. (Herpetosoma) xeri Leger and Baury 1922, from Euxerus erythropus erythropus, all from Senegal, West Africa.
  • (11) In order to validate the "Maximal Multistage 20 Meter Shuttle Run Test" by Leger and Lambert (1982) (20-MST) as an estimate of maximal aerobic power (VO2max) and to compare the results of this test with the results of a 6 min endurance run, 82 subjects (41 boys and 41 girls) aged 12-14 performed the 20-MST and the 6 min endurance run, and had their VO2max directly measured during maximal treadmill running.
  • (12) These problems are illustrated by replication and re-analysis, using new data, of the well known study by Cochrane, St Leger and Moore.
  • (13) An oblique pelvis is a certain, a reduced angle of Leger a probable influence of lumbosciatic pain.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duque-Gonzalez family will meet with Pope Francis in New York on 25 September 2015 Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Duque said his family is in the US now, and in Mexico he would only find unemployment and poverty.
  • (15) Douglas unleashed another off-color remark, telling the audience that when Steven Soderbergh first talked to him about playing Liberace during the filming of another movie, “I thought maybe I was mincing a little bit in the part that I was doing.” I can't tell if Twitter is really mad at him or not, but here's an unscientific roundup of the opinions I've seen floating around the ether: Stewart Legere (@StewartLegere) Mincing around my apartment thinking about Michael Douglas .
  • (16) Subspecific designations are given to distinctive populations parasitizing different host species: P. minasense minasense is recognized from the type host, Mabuya mabouya of Brasil; P. minasense carinii Leger and Mouzels, 1917 from Iguana iguana of coastal South America; P. minasense anolisi subsp.
  • (17) Sell in May and go away, don’t come back until St Leger Day.
  • (18) Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Finally, after a further round of screening, the family was accepted as refugees by the US – a country they knew little about.
  • (19) It looks a bigger gamble than a flutter on the St Leger.
  • (20) Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Abdishakur Mohamed Noor, a homeless 55-year-old from Mogadishu, said he had been sleeping at the mosque at the time the men were arrested.

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