What's the difference between picker and wicker?

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.

Wicker


Definition:

  • (n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
  • (n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
  • (n.) Same as 1st Wike.
  • (a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wicker's (this issue) article on substantive theorizing outlines an approach to theory and research that helps communicate the structure and process of doing research on a complex area.
  • (2) Wicker, who chairs the NRSC, the organization tasked with keeping the Senate in Republicans’ control, has already committed to backing Trump.
  • (3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
  • (4) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
  • (5) Canvasses from the UNHCR and Unicef, the children's agency, are piled haphazardly on to structures made out of wood with wicker roofs, sacking and animal skin.
  • (6) Man can’t change climate.” The quick thinking from Inhofe now leaves Wicker, the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as the only Republican to still embrace the entire idea of climate change as a hoax.
  • (7) 32 Rose Street, +27 21 422 5883, larosecapetown.com The Blue House Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rooms in The Blue House look like they could be straight from the film set of Out Of Africa , with huge leather sofas, wicker armchairs and wooden tea chests.
  • (8) The NSA also intercepted the foreign communications of prominent journalists such as Tom Wicker of the New York Times and the popular satirical writer for the Washington Post, Art Buchwald.
  • (9) Wicker said they wanted to be a model for neighborhood kids, “who did not have the opportunity to see husband and wife and children, and people waking up every morning and going to work”.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tara Wicker stands in front of the home she grew up in and still lives in today.
  • (11) The wicker coffin, draped in the flags of Great Britain and Brazil and an Arsenal scarf, and accompanied by an escort of Hell's Angels and the London Dixieland jazz band playing Just a Closer Walk with Thee, arrived at Golders Green crematorium in the midst of rain and storm.
  • (12) 6.20pm BST Beyond the belly Lots of food tips coming in - for deep-dish pizza at Gino's Eas t, tacos on the patio at Big Star in Wicker Park, for Franks N Dawgs in Lincoln Park (shark bacon, eggs, and scallop sausages) and Devil Dawgs .
  • (13) A handful of Republican senators joined Trump’s meeting with the leadership: Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Rob Portman of Ohio and Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
  • (14) From there we'll aim for Wicker Park , Chicago's hippest hood.
  • (15) In this rejoinder, I: (1) underscore the thrust of the choices Wicker has clarified and the p references he has recommended; (2) suggest an alternative route for the ecologically-oriented research process, one in which the conceptual and substantive "paths" have coequal and interdependent importance in determining the nature and direction of the research process; and (3) discuss in greater depth the search for universal laws.
  • (16) "Suspicious" Mail • Intercepted letters to Mississippi senator Roger Wicker and President Obama both initially tested positive for ricin and have been taken to the Fort Detrick lab for further testing.
  • (17) "The issue with The Wicker Man is there's a need by some folks in the media to think that we're not in on the joke.
  • (18) The English "folk horror" of the 70s is everywhere at the moment, with another cut of The Wicker Man recently released and Ben Wheatley's A Field in England a direct homage to the unhinged films that era.
  • (19) There's also a Wicker Man -style subplot where she gets her promiscuous comeuppance.
  • (20) Wicker (1989) urges the ecologyically-oriented psychologist to be more cognizant of the decision points implicit in the scientific enterprise.