What's the difference between longer and lounger?

Longer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who longs for anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (2) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (4) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
  • (5) However, time in greater than 21% oxygen was significantly longer in infants less than 1000 g (median 30 days, 8.5 days in patients greater than 1000 g, p less than 0.01).
  • (6) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
  • (7) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
  • (8) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
  • (9) The results show that in TMO-treated animals the time to the onset of convulsions, the time to the onset of NADH oxidation-reduction cycles, and the survival time were significantly longer than in the control group.
  • (10) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (11) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
  • (12) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
  • (13) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
  • (14) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
  • (15) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (16) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
  • (17) We need you, so keep us company for a while longer.
  • (18) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
  • (19) But the median survival time was 30.7 months in Arm A and 24.5 months in Arm B, and significantly longer in Arm A until 10 months.
  • (20) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.

Lounger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lounges; ar idler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty British tourists were among those killed in an attack in which many people were shot as they lay on sun loungers in swimsuits.
  • (2) The lower level rooms each have shady balconies and white-cushioned loungers on which to doze before a dip in the attractive pool.
  • (3) To his left, outside the Imperial Marhaba hotel, dead and dying tourists were lying amid bloody overturned sun loungers.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Empty sun loungers on the beach in Sousse.
  • (5) After 38 people were killed on their sun loungers , by the pool and in the hotel lobby, the Foreign Office changed its advice about the country to warn that more attacks are possible.
  • (6) Tony Blair is lying on a sun lounger soaked with the blood of hundreds of thousands of murdered Hutus.
  • (7) Indeed, despite the wider political drama, Germans continue to place their towels on Greek sun-loungers in droves.
  • (8) Forests of thatched parasols dotted near-deserted beaches, loungers remained stacked in orderly ranks.
  • (9) The restaurant-bar spills outside through glass doors to a wide terrace but best of all are the three top-floor family suites with huge decked terraces, sun-loungers and sweeping views.
  • (10) Even the designer sun-loungers around the pool’s edge, normally draped with prone “morning after” bodies, are half-empty.
  • (11) There's a lovely pool, plus spacious steam room, sauna and Jacuzzi, mosaic seating area with loungers, and poolside cafe.
  • (12) Eighty per cent of the people at that hotel are old.” Ben-Mohan ran to the scene, arriving to find the dead, wounded and terrified huddled amid upturned sun loungers.
  • (13) The sun-loungers are also being wheeled out across the UK, with Asda selling double the amount of suncare products it did last year, while sales of sun cream leapt 10% at Superdrug last weekend.
  • (14) Assuming Bayern return there, however, anyone who wants to look round might be faced with insurmountable security issues, particularly given the high-profile lapse in 1996, when a tabloid journalist managed to sneak into the swimming pool and place towels on all the sun loungers.
  • (15) Worried that the killer would return from his murderous spree to continue in the hotel, Dabbou placed a sun lounger over one wounded woman, hoping it would conceal her from the gunman.
  • (16) Once again, the concave, glazed form of the building was channelling the Nevada rays like a magnifying glass, to the extent they were melting the plastic poolside loungers and burning holes in guests' newspapers.
  • (17) What you may not know The “Walkie Scorchie” is not the first Viñoly building to raise temperatures – his Vdara hotel in Las Vegas, which also sports a concave glass facade, has melted sun loungers and singed newspapers.
  • (18) Decked terraces with stylish sun loungers look over the magnificent beach, named after its sand, so pale it's almost white.
  • (19) I went to Dubai and I remember sitting on a sun lounger and in the same hotel Sunderland were there, running up and down the beach doing fitness.
  • (20) Yet if we Britons spend our holidays hungrily gobbling up our annual quota of words and ideas from a sun lounger, doesn’t it show that, despite worrying literacy figures, we do still want to read, and learn, and explore fictional worlds?

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