What's the difference between peddler and tranter?
Peddler
Definition:
(n.) One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(2) Anyone could imitate the twice-baked potatoes at the Peddler , or turn out a veal parmesan like the Villa Capri's, but there was no way a non-Chinese person could make moo shu pork , regardless of his or her training.
(3) Though a cultured man, who himself wrote poetry, Barnett Rosenberg took up work as a peddler, selling household goods such as shoelaces and buttons door to door in the West Country.
(4) "In the 15 years after he left the speakership, the speaker has been working as an influence peddler in Washington."
(5) Ukip is a party of con artists, myth peddlers, charlatans and professional shysters.
(6) Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Since Stephen King published The Shining in 1977, his literary reputation has risen from peddler of schlock-horror to master of smalltown America's fears and dreams, both real and supernatural.
(7) The public is an easy mark for the "health peddler" who lacks credentials but possesses effective motivational skills and speaks with conviction about unfounded promises and exaggerated outcomes.
(8) Christian convert from Hinduism; peddler of Muslim “no-go zone” nonsense.
(9) Peddler calls are a common sound, too, as they sell vegetables and household products door-to-door.
(10) A survey conducted by discount vouchers peddlers VoucherCodesPro has revealed that one in five people admit to stealing items at supermarket self-service checkouts , adding up to £1.6bn worth of items every year, so frustrated are they with the ineptitude of their surrogate machine slaves.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The peddlers of fear are playing a dangerous game’.
(12) Chris Turner A buzzy run on the Edinburgh Fringe was followed by a US recording deal for this young pun-peddler, comedy rapper and erstwhile BBC New Comedy award finalist.
(13) National bath-bomb peddlers Lush (to jog your memory: those handmade soap shops that give off such a pungent whiff that their exterior is usually blighted by at least one hyperventilating shopper using the outside wall as physical support) is in the news today because it has heroically stood up to Amazon as part of a legal battle over the latter's use of the word "lush" to market rival lines of cosmetics.
(14) Major Abarca, who is among those alleged to be responsible for the crisis, was a former peddler of hats turned jeweller who owned a commercial mall (built in a estate donated by the Mexican army).
(15) Mitt Romney attempted to revive his flagging presidential campaign with a frontal assault on Newt Gingrich's ethics at the Republican debate in Tampa, accusing him "working as an influence peddler" and repeatedly reminding voters he was sacked as party leader in Congress for unethical behaviour.
(16) But when these sleaze-peddlers try to make money with disgusting lies about his relationship with his child, you bet he's going to sue."
(17) Those powerbrokers often value loyalty over quality in the selecting of parliamentary candidates, their backroom influence disenfranchises most party members who – not surprisingly – leave, and this structure opens the real risk of corruption, because influence peddlers thrive best when power is concentrated in the hands of a few.
(18) Though the peddlers of memoirs and mid-market newspapers have scavenged every last tidbit from this affair, sensible historians admit knowing little about it.
(19) But I don't believe that they anticipated coming off quite that badly against a man they dismiss as a peddler of "dangerous fantasies".
(20) Sale of modern medicines by untrained peddlers, general merchants, and other drug sellers is common throughout the developing world.
Tranter
Definition:
(n.) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tranter also talked about the difference between a "BBC hour" without ads and a "network hour" on commercial channels such as ITV or Channel 4, or the US broadcasters that are the corporation's co-production partners, which is typically closer to 45 minutes.
(2) The BBC has confirmed that its controller of fiction, Jane Tranter , is to leave her post for a new job in the US.
(3) The BBC's head of drama, Jane Tranter, said it was "early days" for the project, which will not hit the screen until next year and is part of a wider single-drama rethink across all BBC channels.
(4) Tranter could also set up some form of drama production joint venture with BBC Worldwide herself.
(5) Sources within the BBC and externally have said that US broadcaster HBO has also been in talks with Tranter.
(6) Tranter will take joint responsibility for BBC Worldwide's North American production business in LA and New York with Paul Telegdy, the executive vice-president of content and production USA.
(7) Tranter said criticism of her department had tended to focus on the process of making drama rather than the end results.
(8) He joined the BBC as BBC Vision's head of development, independent drama, in 2005 going on to become head of drama commissioning in spring 2007, where he worked closely with Tranter.
(9) The change in thinking at the BBC follows the appointment of Stephenson to replace the long-serving Jane Tranter at the end of last year, when she moved to Los Angeles.
(10) At the time of Tranter's departure, the BBC said it would replace her with a new fiction controller - but today it conceeded that this was not going to happen.
(11) Particular attention is given to a mechanism recently proposed by Mason and Tranter whereby the weak neutral current interaction in chiral molecules leads to the differential absorption of unpolarized light by D vs. L enantiomers.
(12) Her exit, with the BBC under pressure to cut executive costs, may coincide with the dismantling of the Vision empire, echoing the demise of another shortlived corporation invention, the all-powerful "head of fiction" role, which came to an end when its former incumbent Jane Tranter left for the US at the end of 2008.
(13) One of the options said to be on offer to Tranter is to oversee the BBC Worldwide production operation in Los Angeles.
(14) After extending the usual theory of optical activity to include weak neutral currents, it is found that for spin-allowed transitions in typical organic molecules the weak photoabsorption asymmetry is much smaller than the value obtained using the reasoning of Mason and Tranter.
(15) Former BBC head of fiction, Jane Tranter, who is now executive vice president of programming and production at BBC Worldwide, based in Los Angeles, received the Bafta special award.
(16) Garvie said: "Jane Tranter is one of the most gifted television executives of her generation.
(17) Tranter will join the BBC's commercial arm BBC Worldwide as executive vice-president of programming and production, overseeing its US scripted and reality business from Los Angeles.
(18) The BBC has confirmed that it will not appoint a new controller of its fiction output - encompassing drama, film, comedy and acquisitions - following the departure of Jane Tranter at the end of last year.
(19) Stephenson, still only 33, succeeded Jane Tranter as BBC drama chief two years ago, without inheriting the wide-ranging powers she had in her now-dismantled "head of fiction" role .
(20) However, following the resurgence of BBC popular returning drama series such as Doctor Who, Spooks and Life on Mars under Tranter in the UK, BBC Worldwide is believed to be considering setting up a US drama production outfit.