What's the difference between packer and picker?

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.

Picker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.
  • (n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
  • (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
  • (n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
  • (3) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (4) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (5) Swach believes there is opportunity for its model to work elsewhere, but attributes its success to a strong pre-existing waste pickers union and sees a need for more unionisation in other cities.
  • (6) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used in 45 renal transplant investigations (38 patients) using a Picker 0.15 T resistive system and a localized surface coil.
  • (7) Over on Sky News the editor of Majesty magazine felt forced to opine that he was “ not a good picker of people ”.
  • (8) Altogether 110 patients with different pancreatic diseases were examined on the Picker magna-scanner 500 I (USA) with 75Se-methionine (9.2 MBq).
  • (9) Scintiscanning of skeleton was performed on a gamma-graph Picker 500 i, 99mTc pyrophosphate was used and scintiscanning was performed in the usual examination regimen.
  • (10) A rigid, easily demountable, and versatile device combines the function of three separate accessories for the Picker Series 8 cobalt-60 teletherapy machine.
  • (11) I am a great believer of moving with the times.” Moving times also means almost all the pickers are foreign – there are 18 different nationalities on Broadwater farm.
  • (12) At the height of the harvesting season, between October and July, an estimated 6,000 migrants are employed as strawberry pickers for wages that no Greek, despite record levels of unemployment, would ever accept.
  • (13) In Mumbai, Vinod Shetty, a lawyer and head of Acorn Foundation , which advocates for waste pickers, says that Pune has set an example for the country of a workers' rights-oriented model, but there are many barriers to replication.
  • (14) Back out on the shop floor, Davis edges past the 40-strong team of "pickers", who are all intently scanning the recycling as it flashes past them on the conveyor for any contamination missed by the machines.
  • (15) I will get the overall standings worked out today, and post them below the line as soon as I can; all six-pickers will be duly acknowledged at the top of next week’s blog.
  • (16) The boys, aged around 10, were found by an elderly rag picker on Friday morning, Beijing News reported.
  • (17) Their labour fills a valuable role in municipal responsibility but city officials across the country have nearly unanimously overlooked the waste pickers' contributions .
  • (18) "He is very much a stock picker looking for exceptional businesses around the world that will be around in 20 years' time, and are able to offer consistent growth," says Adrian Lowcock from Hargreaves Lansdown.
  • (19) or the perennial "greetings, pop pickers", was scarcely to all tastes, but once heard it was rarely forgotten.
  • (20) Based on a collaboration between a group of local designers, environmental charity WWF and the non-profit Plastic Soup Foundation , the project revolves around a low-cost plastic shredder and moulding machine that waste pickers can use to make recyclable products like plastic statues.