What's the difference between lifter and sifter?

Lifter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, lifts.
  • (n.) A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Next it reviews major issues and controversies such as age restrictions for lifters, physiological effects, drug use, potential strength gains and hypertrophy.
  • (2) To assess physiological and psychological states accompanying anabolic-androgenic steroid use, male weight lifters 1) were interviewed regarding their physical training and the patterns and effects of any drug use; 2) completed a written physical and medical history questionnaire, a Profile of Mood States questionnaire, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory; and 3) were physically examined, including a blood sample and urinalysis.
  • (3) For one experiment, three groups of subjects (untrained, cyclists, and weight lifters) performed maximal one- or two-limb isometric tasks for which the two-limb combinations were either both legs or the left arm and the right leg.
  • (4) There was no significant difference between the weight lifters and control subjects in rapid filling index, early to late integral ratio or ejection fraction.
  • (5) Clinical implications include more effective strength training of lifting muscle groups other than spinal extensors and the teaching of lifting strategies employed by weight lifters in low-back rehabilitation and work-hardening programs.
  • (6) In weight-lifters, there was only a slight, compensated posttraining acidosis, which tended to decrease 10 min after the training.
  • (7) Because platelets play a pathogenic role in these disorders, the authors hypothesized that androgenic steroid abuse among weight lifters was associated with increased platelet aggregation as measured in vitro.
  • (8) The weight lifter's desire to achieve higher limits of performance coupled with the rotator cuff's unfavorable position during lifting often leads to shoulder injury.
  • (9) We report a preliminary study of the process of therapy in two out-patient psychotherapy groups for female 'non-sensical' shop-lifters.
  • (10) We’re a nation of lifters, not leaners or learners, after all.
  • (11) Athletes were equally classified into two groups: 11 swimmers who had a pattern of myocardial hypertrophy with normal wall thickness to dimension ratio and 11 power lifters whose wall thickness to dimension ratio was increased.
  • (12) It appears, though, that bodybuilders, relying on a high repetition training system, in contrast to Olympic weight- and power lifters, display a small increase in number of capillaries per fiber.
  • (13) A group of 103 female weight lifters (WL) and 92 control (C) women answered a survey concerning eating behavior and attitudes (including the Eating Disorder Inventory) and menstrual function.
  • (14) The incidence of spondylolysis is unusually high in ballet dancers and certain athletic groups, such as gymnasts, javelin throwers, and weight-lifters.
  • (15) The results from the three-months study, from the weight lifters taking ND for 3 years, as well as from 26 of the 57 athletes who had been taking ND showed no evidence of a deleterious effect of ND (based on 26 biochemical measurements).
  • (16) Six weight lifters in the experimental group who had been taking ND for at least 3 years were also studied to determine whether there were any deleterious effects on their health.
  • (17) The cause of the fracture and the underlying mechanism are discussed and it is concluded that it appears appropriate to warn body-builders and weight-lifters against arm wrestling.
  • (18) A case of bilateral pseudohydronephrosis and hydroureter produced by markedly hypertrophied psoas muscles in a weight lifter is presented.
  • (19) Most of the subjects (three lifters and two runners) carried on their normal exercise activities, while two lifters stopped training during the 2 weeks.
  • (20) There is evidence for a true relative hypertrophy in weight lifters as indicated by similar absolute cardiac dimensions and similar biometric variables.

Sifter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sifts.
  • (n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using Spiekma's technic, this dust was obtained through successive sifts gathered in a case under the inferior sifter.
  • (2) The study attempted to assess each subject's preferences for the six tasks: collating, stuffing, sorting, pulley assembly, flour-sifter assembly, and circuit-board stuffing.
  • (3) Alison Chapman had come from Hythe with her sons extremely well-prepared – shovels, rake and plastic sifters, but then she did know about gold, being a dealer on ITV's show Dickinson's Real Deal.

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