What's the difference between onlooker and viewer?

Onlooker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
  • (2) I don’t think, at least in Iowa, her almost celebrity status over some of the others gets her any type of advantage.” Palin confused many onlookers with the directions taken in her remarks, which featured a freewheeling preamble of almost 10 minutes – half the time allotted to each speaker.
  • (3) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.
  • (4) Two witnesses said they thought the gorilla was trying to protect the boy at first, before getting spooked by the screams of onlookers.
  • (5) Onlookers quickly realised there were hundreds of thousands of servers – and Google was making them itself from spare parts.
  • (6) In the footage a number of police officers can be seen as a group of people, said to be his friends, attempt to obscure him from the view of onlookers filming the star on their mobile phones.
  • (7) Driving home after dining out with friends, he'd seen the burning car surrounded by onlookers, fire fighters and police, but could never have imagined what the scene signified.
  • (8) Madonna told onlookers: “Everybody knows why we’re here … we just want to sing a few songs about peace, just to spread love and joy, and to pay our honour and respect to the people who died almost four weeks ago.
  • (9) One worker leaving the office yelled out to the onlookers: "You're watching history, man."
  • (10) When they try to rise, they are kicked in the face and left unconscious before onlookers come to their aid.
  • (11) Onlookers reported seeing the plane flying low before smashing into a field and coming to a standstill with its nose in the River Stour near the village of Throop.
  • (12) Some of the games are based around recognisable sports (like football), others around ancient samurai conflicts – but whatever the theme, the nature of the action is absolutely impenetrable to the casual onlooker.
  • (13) "I have no doubt she was scared," the onlooker told the Sunday People.
  • (14) RSA’s excuses have convinced some onlookers, others remain sceptical.
  • (15) We shouldn’t be passive onlookers to Trump’s pantomime presidency any longer.
  • (16) He arrived in court wearing sunglasses, smiled and waved at onlookers, and seemed relaxed – perhaps hopeful that today's proceedings would secure his release.
  • (17) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
  • (18) Several onlookers believe a riot policeman caught her when she jumped, but Adrian insisted he caught her.
  • (19) Liverpool, with five points out of six games, left it too late and will be jealous onlookers when the Champions League resumes in February.
  • (20) I have such pale legs and they never burn!” I insouciantly declared to onlookers, a mere 12 hours before I began convulsing, shaking, sweating and finding myself unable to walk for three days.

Viewer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who views or examines.
  • (n.) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
  • (n.) The superintendent of a coal mine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
  • (2) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
  • (3) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
  • (4) Four million viewers tune in to the show every week and two million more watch online the next day.
  • (5) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
  • (6) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
  • (7) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
  • (8) They invite the viewer to get off on the same things the killer is getting off on.
  • (9) On BBC4, Danny Baker's Rockin' Decades launched with 258,000 viewers and a 1.1% share from 9pm.
  • (10) "I think it is right that we should be stepping up the pace in the interests of viewers and the whole of the television industry," he said.
  • (11) Call the Midwife – again the most watched show of the day – averaged 9.2 million viewers and a 31.3% audience share from 8pm.
  • (12) But Ofcom said the quizzes, aired on October 29 2006 and November 25 2006 respectively, were too difficult, featuring alterations to the signs and flags which could not reasonably have been detected by viewers.
  • (13) 2009 – Big Mac and Si(s) Joe McElderry's win averaged 15.5 million viewers, a 53% share , with a 15-minute peak of 17.1 million (and a five-minute peak of 19.1 million).
  • (14) I think less is more and the right way was to rely on the imagination of viewers to reconstruct something that cannot be reconstructed.
  • (15) Because it's individual, because it's personal, it communicates, it connects with the viewer.
  • (16) When Question Time was moved to an earlier 9pm slot in May during the MPs' expenses scandal, a panel including Martin Bell, Ben Bradshaw and William Hague had 3.7 million viewers and a 17% share.
  • (17) The first episode of the gothic drama pulled in 6.1 million viewers on Easter Monday but that number dropped to only 4.5 million for the second episode, prompting fears that the audience numbers could decline even further for Wednesday's finale.
  • (18) But the controversy generated by Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey, documenting the Hollywood actor's investigation into child trafficking was not quite matched by its ratings, with 224,000 viewers on Thursday, 1 April.
  • (19) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
  • (20) Figures show that since Chiles and Bleakley relaunched the network's breakfast programme in early September it has averaged around 100,000 viewers fewer than the show it replaced, GMTV.