What's the difference between loser and scrub?

Loser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who loses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A good chunk of the Trump base consists of people who consider themselves to be losers from four decades of political and economic orthodoxy.
  • (2) Instead he stood there as the only prime minister in the room – and the one great loser was the man who wasn’t there.
  • (3) These differences in hormonal responses to the fight are attributed to the more aggressive behavior displayed by the victorious opponents (winners) over their defeated competitors (losers).
  • (4) The victims of violence in 2007-08 are the losers."
  • (5) Our economic system has always required winners and losers.
  • (6) While the loser of an election is sometimes viewed as the leader of the out-of-power party, Clinton, at 69, is not positioned to make a third run for the White House and no longer sits atop a money-filled political organization.
  • (7) Longitudinal analyses including (a) comparisons of risk factor changes in subjects grouped as fitness "losers", "stable", "small gain", and "large gain", and (b) multiple regression analyses of relationships between fitness change and risk factor changes showed that fitness change was largely unrelated to risk factor changes.
  • (8) While this one will not go down as a comparable game-changer, it will at least change the growing perception of Romney as a loser, even if only temporarily.
  • (9) Toronto Cheapest for salmon Pricey for almost everything else Canada's biggest city came out the surprise loser in our survey, with our basket of goods costing 40% more in Toronto than in Berlin.
  • (10) The big symbolic loser is the Times, down 14.2% year on year: it has dropped back below 500,000, and is heading for the sort of sale it used to command before its long, expensive price war with the Telegraph.
  • (11) The biggest loser could be the state-owned oil company Rosneft, which bought Yukos assets in auctions when the latter's stock was almost worthless.
  • (12) Data indicated that the winners more nearly approximated their predicted weight than did the losers.
  • (13) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
  • (14) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
  • (15) Only last month the Financial Conduct Authority issued a report in which it said millions of older people were getting a poor deal from Britain's multibillion-pound annuity market, with the biggest losers those with the least money put aside for their retirement.
  • (16) We will take care of each individual customer who is affected.” VW scandal: the winners and losers, from carmakers to car owners Read more VW said overall sales were down 1.5% in Europe in October, but rose 6.8% in North America and were up 1.6% in China.
  • (17) One of the biggest losers are the estimated 12-20 million illegal immigrants living in the US, most of whom play an integral role in the economy, doing menial jobs that citizens do not want.
  • (18) The balance studies included not only urine and fecal loss but also skin, menstrual and hair losers.
  • (19) The most recent polling shows that backing the full replacement of Trident is not necessarily a vote winner, nor is opposing it necessarily a vote loser.
  • (20) The greatest loser is France, outcompeted by Germany within the eurozone, with poor growth prospects, large deficits, and its welfare system under strain.

Scrub


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
  • (v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
  • (n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
  • (n.) Something small and mean.
  • (n.) A worn-out brush.
  • (n.) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
  • (n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
  • (a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results indicated a very good comparability between the dot-blot assay and IF-tests, and this dot-blot method was ascertained as a simple and useful method for the scrub typhus serodiagnosis.
  • (2) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
  • (3) The first assistant is part of a medical team that consists of the surgeon, the first assistant, the scrub nurse or technician, and the circulating nurse.
  • (4) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
  • (5) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (6) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
  • (7) UK prison population is biggest in western Europe Read more The final version of the inspection report remains highly critical of conditions in Wormwood Scrubs, where outcomes for the 1,258 men held there are still “unacceptably poor”.
  • (8) Comparison of the two quantitative techniques showed that the contact plate is a reliable and convenient alternative to the scrub technique for the quantification of Staphylococcus aureus, micrococci and coagulase negative staphylococci.
  • (9) This is going to be the biggest nomination fight since Clarence Thomas – and that’s if the nominee comes through the door scrubbed and clean as possible,” he said “Given the bad blood between the parties, the protests, the growing resistance to Trump, we’re going to see more activism, more money spent around this nomination.
  • (10) How often do scrub nurses hand surgeons swabs, and how often is thought given to their shape, size and composition and their suitability for use inside our patients?
  • (11) Since human endothelial cells are known to retain their in vivo structural and functional qualities when cultured in vitro, it is likely that these effects are similar to those which occur during the infectious process in human scrub typhus.
  • (12) Burr said that language in the bill would require companies to “remove all personal information before that data is transferred to the federal government”, and that the Department of Homeland Security would scrub any data not cleaned by companies.
  • (13) Current management of hand injuries includes debridement by abrasive scrubbing with anti-bacterial detergents, surgical excision, or pressure irrigation.
  • (14) The duration of the scrub had no significant effect on the numbers of bacteria when povidone-iodine was used.
  • (15) For the evaluation of normal skin flora, Williamson and Kligman's scrub method is the most commonly used.
  • (16) Moisture pickup was adversely affected by air scrubbing; control carcasses had a moisture pickup of 5.8%, whereas, air-scrubbed carcasses had a moisture pickup of 13.9%.
  • (17) By this time I am off the track and perilously close to slipping over a cliff, which sounds dramatic but there is lots of scrub below to break my fall and bones before I would end up in the water.
  • (18) The reference preparation was 7.5% povidone-iodine (Betadine Surgical Scrub); the test agent was 4% chlorhexidine gluconate combined with 4% isopropyl alcohol (Hibiclens).
  • (19) The detergent scrub technique was used for harvesting corneocytes from three body regions (forehead, palm, and sole) of normal persons (n = 20) under casual conditions and after thorough defattening of the skin with 70% isopropyl alcohol or petrol.
  • (20) The advantages are: diminished risk of infections, local anesthesia instead of general anesthesia, applicability by the cardiologist in the catheterization-laboratory or under a simple fluoroscopy-unit, short stay of patients in the hospital without transfers to other departments, few personnel (1 scrubbed doctor, 1 non-scrubbed nurse), recognition of venous anomalies (singular left superior caval vein) without useless incisions for the patient.