What's the difference between oiler and tiler?

Oiler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who deals in oils.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, oils.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If they play Edmonton Oilers hockey they won't have a chance.
  • (2) Speaking to GQ magazine, the former Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon said: "One thing I read that was peculiar to me – [Seau] had never been diagnosed with a concussion.
  • (3) Victim to an era it almost single-handedly created, in which teams and fans leave behind old stadiums for flashy new ones, the Astrodome has been idle since 2008 – the Astros moved into a newer stadium downtown in 2000, and the Oilers American football team played there from 1968 before leaving Houston for a newer stadium in Tennessee in 1996.
  • (4) This game will mean a lot to Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, who held the same position with the Titans (or the Oilers, as they were known when he first arrived) for more than 16 years.
  • (5) He has made a huge, unthinkable amount of money, and made himself indispensable, too, as an orchestrator, an oiler of the wheels.
  • (6) Only once before had a team erased a bigger deficit to win a playoff game: the Buffalo Bills beat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in 1993.

Tiler


Definition:

  • (n.) A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
  • (n.) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) asks Richard Glover A In 1990 England's U-21 squad won the eight-nation tournament in Toulon for the first time with the following squad: Crossley, Muggleton, Lee, Sharpe, Le Saux, Barrett, Tiler, Sherwood, James, Ebbrell (capt.
  • (2) The roof tiler was then taken to Bowral police station where he later slumped to the ground and died.
  • (3) A former carpenter (Chapman) and roof tiler (Bustin) from Norwich, who became personal trainers and, in October 2011, decided to share their expertise on YouTube, pulling in a muscular 41,000 subscribers in the process.
  • (4) Instead he works as a tiler whenever he gets the chance.
  • (5) He also found there was little awareness about roofs being a "typically dangerous electrical place" among other professionals such as builders, tilers, painters and pest controllers and also among homeowners.
  • (6) Ed Miliband seems a bit of a schoolboy.” Steve, a 53-year-old tiler, is also considering voting Tory because they have “more of a backbone” than other parties.
  • (7) The accident, in which five people died, including his friend and employer, the Bournemouth managing director Brian Tiler, left him with no sense of smell and a pronounced facial tic.
  • (8) So what exactly makes a top tiler, premier plasterer or world-class window dresser?

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