What's the difference between peeler and peeper?

Peeler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who peels or strips.
  • (n.) A pillager.
  • (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The physics staff had succeeded in sealing off a vacuum tube for the betatron, and further developments involved field flattening, exposure measurements, collimation, stray electron control, phantom tests, and development of a beam peeler.
  • (2) In the course of investigation of the relationship between hypersensitivity pneumonitis and the wood industry 45 popple peelers were studied.
  • (3) Dress makers were mostly affected by nickel, while orange sellers and peelers were positive to orange peel, fragrance mix, balsam of Peru and formaldehyde in varying combinations.
  • (4) Even now, two years after the expenses scandal first engulfed Parliament, it is this single item that seems to resonate most in the public consciousness as the embodiment of the sense of entitlement that led politicians to make claims for everything from massage chairs to garlic peelers.
  • (5) The advantages of the potato peeler technic include better immobility of the lesion being curetted, more effective control of bleeding, and greater stability and increased flexibility and movement of the hand holding the curet.
  • (6) July 6, 2015 Senate Republican leader Harvey Peeler said that he would oppose the bill to remove the flag, saying that his ancestors owned slaves and that taking down the flag cannot change that history.
  • (7) It is a revealing exercise: two large strawberries, six radishes, one easy peeler (despite the packaging specifying two) each make a portion.
  • (8) Using a peeler, thinly slice the cucumber until you get down to the seeds, turn the cucumber and repeat the process until all the flesh has been removed.
  • (9) She keeps a vegetable peeler "like a pencil sharpener" on her desk, along with a bag of carrots, tomatoes and radishes.
  • (10) The procedure for curettage is discussed and the mechanics of two technics, the pencil technic and the potato peeler technic, are described.
  • (11) Evidence was previously presented to support the thesis that chronic pain is activated by neuronal elements that make up the multisynaptic short axon core of the reticular system (Andy and Peeler 1985).
  • (12) Those Smash robots, which used to fall about laughing at potato peelers, must be rusting with chagrin.
  • (13) Cake forks, coffee spoons, a peeler and a £16.99 clothes airer were among the miscellaneous items Gove reclaimed expenditure on.

Peeper


Definition:

  • (n.) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.
  • (n.) One who peeps; a prying person; a spy.
  • (n.) The eye; as, to close the peepers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seb Rochford, Pete Wareham, Mark Lockheart, Tom Herbert and Leafcutter John are the British two-sax group, who waited four years to release the follow-up to their fourth album, Peepers .
  • (2) But peel your peepers away from Skyscanner and keep that credit card in the wallet for just a tad longer.
  • (3) You can also buy reasonably cheap "creature peepers" ( trywildforms.co.uk ).
  • (4) Those glassy peepers stare at you fiercely, and it is hard to resist associations with The Exorcist.
  • (5) I meet Murphy and his peepers in a cafe in Queen's Park, London.
  • (6) Those peepers grow and flash with irritation when I mention how much of the coverage of her music has seen her boxed alongside "alt-R&B" stars such as Banks, Kelela and SZA.
  • (7) In spring peepers, the sexual difference in the auditory system clearly results in a significantly larger active space in females.
  • (8) Click here to watch the video Beautiful eyes staring into the distance Mesmerising peepers – as deep, blue and mysterious as a lake – will often be captured on the point of tears, before being clenched tightly shut to indicate intense feeling.
  • (9) We derived audiograms from recordings of multiunit activity in the torus semicircularis of 10 males and 6 females of the spring peeper from central Missouri, USA.
  • (10) There are, of course, many more deals to keep your peepers on throughout the day but the main entertainment will, as ever, be found at Tottenham, where Daniel Levy will haggle and haggle and haggle over a much-needed new striker before Spurs sign Andy Booth on loan at 11.03pm and Andre Villas-Boas sits in a corner and weeps.
  • (11) The album: In Each and Every One Previous releases to date: Dim Lit – 2004 Held on the Tips of Fingers – 2005 Polar Bear – 2008 Peepers – 2010 What we said : “ Electronics plays a bigger role, with the introductory Open See a sonic vapour of airy whistles and glowing, pulsing effects.

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