What's the difference between maker and taker?

Maker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.
  • (n.) The person who makes a promissory note.
  • (n.) One who writes verses; a poet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
  • (2) By paying attention to the variables that compose the best-interests approach, decision makers can arrive at decisions not to sustain life that are more easily justifiable than with any other approach.
  • (3) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
  • (4) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
  • (5) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
  • (6) Amid such confused thinking, it is hardly surprising that the Home Office was indicating yesterday that there would be no dramatic shift in government policy in the light of today's meeting between Theresa May, the home secretary, and representatives from Twitter, Facebook and Research in Motion, the BlackBerry maker.
  • (7) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
  • (8) The team "is designed... to get all the options on the table for the decision-makers."
  • (9) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
  • (10) That dramatically shifts the focus back to us, the programme makers, to come up with more, new, startling ideas, absolutely unmissable storylines and settings, the sharpest writing.
  • (11) BlackBerry will burn through most of its cash in the next 18 months, a senior independent analyst has warned, leaving the smartphone maker with "material liquidity problems".
  • (12) Having lost its position as the world's biggest phone maker to Samsung earlier this year, Nokia is burning through cash.
  • (13) A limitation of the method is that utility values and probabilities are often estimated on the basis of the decision makers' biases.
  • (14) Cadbury became the world's largest confectionery company in 2003 after buying up a number of gum brands, including Trident and Stride, but ceded the number one spot to Mars when it took over gum maker Wrigley last year.
  • (15) In the UK, the manufacturing PMI also slipped to 49, its lowest level in more than two years, pointing to a second successive month of contraction in the sector the area that Osborne hoped could lead the UK economy back to sustainable growth with a "march of the makers".
  • (16) It explicitly guides the decision maker in determining the crucial variables in a clinical decision, and permits both objective data and personal preferences to play a part in decision making.
  • (17) Fred Goodwin was the dominant decision maker at RBS at the time.
  • (18) His rise in the 1990s coincided with the emergence of a new wave of American film-makers, and his versatile, volatile talent became integral to some of the most original US cinema of the past 20 years.
  • (19) Years later, when Atkins' "Countrypolitan" touch was no longer fashionable, he was often asked by journalists and documentary-makers whether he and his fellow Svengalis had gone too far.
  • (20) "I was into jazz in the 80s," says Akomfrah, "and there was a sense in my mind that the artists and film-makers I was working with kind of discovered that tradition, and here was Stuart, you know 20 or 30 years earlier, already making those connections."

Taker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
  • (2) Only 2% of the subjects refused to take any pills, and, among pill takers, over 95% were reported to be taking most of their pills at the end of the study.
  • (3) 3.51pm GMT 116 min: John Motson says that Bobby Robson told him this afternoon that the five penalty takers, if needed, would be Lineker, Beardsley, Gascoigne, Pearce and Platt.
  • (4) Matthew d’Ancona : She’s a risk-taker, and a potentially transformative leader Theresa May may be a compassionate Conservative, but her arrival in Downing Street has been anything but a velvet revolution.
  • (5) For the rebellious risk taker, a newspaper article with a state agency source caused higher levels of concern and information seeking about the risk than a newspaper article with the Surgeon General as the source.
  • (6) Use of these findings in the clinical management of patients and in health education of mothers and other care-takers is suggested.
  • (7) Subjects were assigned to a no-accountability condition (they learned that all of their responses would be anonymous), a preexposure-accountability condition (they learned of the need to justify their responses before seeing the test-takers' PRF responses), and a postexposure-accountability condition (they learned of the need to justify their responses after seeing the test-takers' PRF responses).
  • (8) Today's demands are more mundane: hostage-takers range from single mothers to the nearly retired - they want jobs, proper pay and no brutal layoffs.
  • (9) Four experiments were carried out to investigate the effect on the static pressure seal of earmolds made from currently used impression and earmold materials; the occasional practice of making more than one earmold from an impression; the earmoldmaker buildup of impressions; and the multistage buildup of impressions by the impression taker.
  • (10) Detailed examination revealed that these were mainly due to confounding from several sources, for example, from the underlying cause of the dyspepsia which resulted in cimetidine use, from the higher level of physician contact in cimetidine takers, and smoking.
  • (11) She did not flinch when hostage-takers took over the Iranian embassy; most were killed by the SAS.
  • (12) Reports said the hostage-takers freed those who were able to quote passages from the Qur’an.
  • (13) For the 600 hostages snacking on biscuits and chocolate, there is no sleep, no beds, no hot food, no hot drinks, no toilet paper, no washing facilities, a meagre supply of medicines - and, apparently, a deepening bond between the hostage takers and their victims.
  • (14) Intestinal perforation and hemorrhage are more frequent in anti-inflammatory drug takers than in control groups.
  • (15) Experimental suggestions that non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) cause gastritis and erosions have been overshadowed by evidence that takers of NSAIDs tend to develop serious complications with acute bleeding and perforations of duodenal and gastric ulcers.
  • (16) The proposals, expected to be published early next week, would mark the first time a remuneration level had been published to define who are the "material risk takers" who will be subject to the bonus cap.
  • (17) Test setters retain influence over what counts, and there is no adjusting for test-takers' inclination to apply themselves – or not.
  • (18) Mata has replaced Rooney as United’s designated penalty-taker, steering this one to the left of Diego Benaglio, then tucking the ball under his arm and sprinting back to the centre-circle like a man who meant business.
  • (19) The incidence of hypokalaemic paralysis in gossypol takers showed distinct regional differences, being much higher in Nanjing, where the dietary potassium level of the inhabitants was low, than in Taian, where the dietary potassium level was high.
  • (20) After excluding six, whose tablet-taking was unreliable, it was found that two patients had serum digoxin levels above the usually accepted upper limit and a total of 23 patients (38 per cent of the digoxin takers) had some alteration made to their dose, including eight whose digoxin was stopped.

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