What's the difference between lightweight and whippersnapper?
Lightweight
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(2) The system called PRONG (Parallel Recording Of Neural Groups) includes a microelectrode, a lightweight reusable connector, a 24-channel FET-hybrid preamplifier, a 3-band 24-channel amplifier, a 24-channel spike monitor, high-speed digital and analog interfaces and a computer.
(3) To investigate the potential application of radionuclide computed tomography (RCT) to nuclear medicine imaging using 99mTc, a tomographic system using a lightweight scintillation camera for brain imaging was constructed, and lesion contrast with RCT and conventional scintigraphy were compared.
(4) As the houses are lightweight and timber-framed, they don’t need foundations.
(5) The lightweight group consisted of twelve 7- to 9-month-old heifers with a mean initial weight of 201.1 kg.
(6) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
(7) Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay) So, Drogba and his broken right arm will start on the bench, but surely come on at some point in the second half lightweight cast and all.
(8) Six years before the opening of the Forth Railway Bridge, Gustave Eiffel had completed the lightweight Garabit Viaduct.
(9) He also said it was up to politicians to dismiss the 'lightweight sloganeering of PR men', an apparent reference to the way in which cabinet ministers are asked to chime in with the government over its implementation of a long-term economic plan.
(10) A lightweight fiberglass spica has proven to be useful after repair of the deltoid origin, repair of complete rupture of the rotator cuff, and shoulder arthrodesis.
(11) The use of lightweight darts and a blowgun was found to be useful as a supplement to longer range dart projector systems since many animals could be approached at short range.
(12) It is lightweight, less bulky, easily fabricated, and inexpensive.
(13) Osborne lacked gravitas and was seen as a political lightweight because of his "high-pitched vocal delivery" according to private Conservative polling before the election.
(14) One such device is a frame assembled from components in a lightweight compact set with dimensions of 75 x 20 x 5 cm, weighing approximately 0.5 kg.
(15) They have several others, including the Rokot for placing lightweight military satellites in orbit, and the Dnepr and Strela rockets for small commercial launches.
(16) Combined with the 8 mm tape format, the chip has created a lightweight, single unit camera, monitor, and recorder.
(17) We evaluated eight blood glucose monitors (BGMs), from six manufacturers, that are lightweight, portable, battery-powered, relatively inexpensive handheld reflectance photometers that use test strips for self-monitoring of blood glucose levels.
(18) Arsenal also have familiar opposition in Dortmund, whom they defeated 1-0 in Germany thanks to Aaron Ramsey’s goal last season but suffered a 2-1 defeat against at the Emirates, and no obvious lightweight with Galatasaray awaiting in Istanbul and Anderlecht the fourth name drawn.
(19) A lightweight and completely self-contained traction device is described.
(20) A portable lightweight stimulator for small animals is described.
Whippersnapper
Definition:
(n.) A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lowry didn't have his first London exhibition until the beginning of his sixth decade, which puts whippersnappers such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin in their place.
(2) "You know, if I'm on a programme with some know-it-all whippersnapper, I become rather Lady Bracknell and say: 'My dear boy, if you'd been around the block as often as I have, then you'd be rather embarrassed by what you're saying...' It's revenge for all the times I've been patronised.
(3) Jowell went in 2007 and was replaced by the ambitious young whippersnapper James Purnell.
(4) Pocketing Murdoch's old media shilling and organising Vice's output into more formalised channels – it announced plans to launch a "food vertical for global youth" last month, and five more channels are coming this year – might prompt suggestions that the perennial enfants terribles are becoming old-fashioned, just as BuzzFeed and other innovative whippersnappers are threatening to eat their lunch.
(5) It is a little shabby round the edges now that whippersnappers like Padstow get all the limelight, but a lick of paint, a drop of new blood, and it'd come up beautiful once more.
(6) The lesson has been well and quickly learned, particularly by the Red franchise, in which almost every actor qualifies for an OAP bus pass, and chief among whose pleasures is the opportunity to watch Dame Helen Mirren behind the sights of some mega machine gun, or knocking sense into a dozen whippersnappers with a few well-placed elbow-jabs, head-butts and groin-stompings.
(7) I was but a whippersnapper when I started to work for Gawker in 2007.
(8) As a young whippersnapper of a duke, do you really want the sartorial point of comparison to be with the prime minster?
(9) Liverpool are interested in this whippersnapper and a lot of people are expecting him to make a big name for himself at this World Cup.