What's the difference between packer and packet?

Packer


Definition:

  • (n.) A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Every Indigenous person has felt it Read more But on Friday he received the high-profile support of billionaire James Packer who said the booing had made him “ashamed to be Australian”.
  • (2) The cardiac risk of cocaine body packing was studied by means of continuous ECG monitoring in 13 cocaine body-packers during spontaneous elimination.
  • (3) Recent winners such as the Ravens, Giants, Packers and Steelers typically stayed away from free agents, and fans are catching on.
  • (4) And one way or another, he had led his team to victory over the Packers for a third time in the past calendar year.
  • (5) To determine the etiologic role of strenuous manual tasks in relation to epicondylitis, three clinical cross-sectional examinations were performed on meatcutters (N = 102), sausage makers (N = 125), packers (N = 150), and workers in nonstrenuous tasks (N = 332).
  • (6) There will be plenty of time for Packers and 49ers, I promise.
  • (7) Updated at 2.52am GMT 12.25am GMT 49ers 20-17 Packers, 7:58 4th quarter Big 3rd down and it's Kuhn, again, making a play.
  • (8) 11.54pm GMT 49ers 13-10 Packers, 2:56 3rd quarter The 49ers are held again.
  • (9) Increasing reports of GABHS skin infections in meat packers suggest that this occupational risk may be more common than is realized.
  • (10) 4.13am GMT 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 4:13 4th quarter On 4th & 1 on the GB 18, Kaepernick dupes the Packer line into jumping offsides...and they do!
  • (11) Switching to the use of electronic cash registers has been shown to have only limited efficacy due to increased operation speed, and high-speed complex finger and hand movements of packer operators have also proven to be as hazardous as key-board operations.
  • (12) This is a tough loss for the Packers franchise without a doubt.
  • (13) The Bishop of Ripon, John Packer, said: "It cannot be right for the cap to be the same for a childless couple as for a couple with children.
  • (14) By then, Packer had secured for three years the television rights he wanted, and then a 10-year deal to market the game in Australia: he had no further need of World Series Cricket.
  • (15) The project's driving force, Toby Young, shared a stage with the mayor of London, Boris Johnson , and the headteacher, Thomas Packer.
  • (16) He recalled an incident at a Packers game a few years ago, when he stood up and vocally scolded a fan behind him who had called a Chicago Bears player a faggot.
  • (17) Updated at 2.01pm GMT 3.16am GMT Quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers is having his way with the Green Bay Packers defense and out playing Aaron Rodgers.
  • (18) 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 14:57 4th quarter Gore plows though, and now Green Bay are in some serious trouble.
  • (19) By the time he reached the Super Bowl, Kaepernick proved that he was the right guy to start for his team in the postseason by first defeating Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers in a high scoring affair and then beating Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons in a game where he pulled off the second half comeback drive that he just missed this time around.
  • (20) The Packers declined to comment, but NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told the Journal-Sentinel: "We respect that reasonable people may have differing views.

Packet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
  • (n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.
  • (v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle.
  • (v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
  • (v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
  • (2) Patients may have difficulty in the transition from one packet of pills to the next, and missed pills that extend the hormone-free interval may contribute to the failure rate.
  • (3) Results indicate that xeroradiographic cassettes are significantly more difficult to use for complete-mouth radiographs than comparable conventional film packets.
  • (4) They opened it with a flourish to reveal a packet of Trill bird seed.
  • (5) The pay packet on offer presumably had something to do with it as well.
  • (6) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
  • (7) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
  • (8) The consequences of manipulations such as varying the spacing of secondary synaptic folds or that between the release of multiple quantal packets of acetylcholine, are also presented.
  • (9) At the same time, for many on low pay the last several years have seen the cost of living soar as their wage packet has shrunk.
  • (10) On Monday, Touraine presided over a meeting of health officials from 10 countries, including Britain, in favour of plain-packet legislation.
  • (11) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
  • (12) The paper adds that the earplugs, marketed as the 'Vuvu-Stop', have a label on the back of the packet which reads: 'Highly effective noise reduction.
  • (13) Samples made with 2 g of antibiotic per surgical packet of bone cement containing the antibiotics gentamicin, keflin, and a combination of the two were tested.
  • (14) The packets were removed on the 100th day of gestation, and the females were allowed to give birth in their outdoor corral.
  • (15) It was only after a combination of heavy taxation (price), heavy legislation (banning smoking in public places), and heavy propaganda (warnings on packets; an effective, sustained anti-smoking advertising campaign; and most crucially, education in schools) was brought to bear on a resistant tobacco industry that smoking became a pariah activity for a new generation of potential consumers, and real, lasting change took place.
  • (16) One mode is "autonomous shedding" whereby rods shed disc packets directly into the subretinal space.
  • (17) A packet of quinoa insists: “Mix with chicken stir-fry.
  • (18) Immunofluorescence and cryothin-section immunoelectron microscopy localized Pf HRP II to several cell compartments including the parasite cytoplasm, as concentrated "packets" in the host erythrocyte cytoplasm and at the IRBC membrane.
  • (19) It has to be medium-sliced, and in the waxed packet, not the plastic bag.
  • (20) A part-time mum working in Centrelink or Medicare faces the loss of rights that allow her to juggle work with her family life; her job security is under threat and all for a cut in her pay packet.