What's the difference between piller and puller?

Piller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who pills or plunders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike the beta-GalNAc-transferase bound to human kidney microsomes (F. Piller et al.
  • (2) [F. Piller, J. P. Cartron, A. Maranduba, A. Veyrières, Y. Leroy & B. Fournet (1984) J. Biol.
  • (3) "Brazil, when they play like this, remind me of Germany under Löw," writes Gabriel Piller.
  • (4) The findings are consistent with the results obtained by endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase F treatment of h-lamp-1 and h-lamp-2 precursors, described in the preceding paper (Carlsson, S. R., Roth, J., Piller, F., and Fukuda, M. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (5) 9.03pm BST Gabriel Piller writes: "This is one of those classic end-of-season-situations," he says.

Puller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, pulls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sixty adult chronic hair pullers completed a semistructured interview that focused on their hair-pulling behavior and demographic characteristics and that incorporated screening questions for DSM-III-R axis I disorders.
  • (2) Sixty-four white-faced rams and wethers were dressed with the aid of a commercial pelt puller.
  • (3) A commercial belt-type pelt puller and a scale that recorded force required to remove the pelt from the thickest part of the legs was used as lambs hung suspended from their front legs.
  • (4) Subjects were drawn from an outpatient population of chronic hair pullers who had been referred to a trichotillomania clinic or had responded to a newspaper advertisement announcing a treatment study of adults who pull out their hair.
  • (5) LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE LATER Transfer-deadline-day-short-straw-puller Rob Bagchi is limbering up as we type, with – and we kid you not – a computer keyboard and computer mouse in front of him.
  • (6) The use of a response surface procedure which allows the experimenter to change more than one factor at a time and therefore determine the desired puller condition more efficiently is demonstrated.
  • (7) The modification is described specifically for an Industrial Science Associates, Inc. M-1 micropipette puller.
  • (8) Her husband's earnings as a rickshaw puller in their village in Kurigram in the distant north were insufficient to pay for schooling for their two boys so, following other relatives, they came to Savar.
  • (9) However, in principle it should be applicable to any horizontal two-stage puller using a solenoid to generate the pull force.
  • (10) It's true that Kapoor is a crowd-puller and his recent exhibition at the Royal Academy drew unprecedented numbers for a one-man show by a living artist.
  • (11) Channel 5's home improvement show, House Doctor, is one of its biggest ratings pullers.
  • (12) The instrument resembles a conventional horizontal two-stage, solenoid-powered electrode puller but the pull is now developed by a light moving-coil and a fixed permanent magnet, using the principle of the moving-coil loudspeaker.
  • (13) Spanning sport and politics, you’d think it would be a crowd-puller.
  • (14) Details are given of a graphite heating element that can be mounted on a standard microelectrode puller and used for making quartz micropipettes.
  • (15) Two muscle pullers were used to study the natural mechanical actions of autogenic reflexes, which arise from muscle receptors and feed back to the muscle of origin, and heterogenic reflexes, which feed back to muscles other than the muscle of origin.
  • (16) The length of a given segment could be controlled to within 0.2% of the segment's length by adjusting the over-all length of the fibre by means of an electromagnetic puller and servo system.
  • (17) This study was constructed to detail the demographic and phenomenological features of chronic hair pullers as well as to assess psychiatric comorbidity in a sizable study group.
  • (18) This article highlights the use of a post puller for safe and effective removal of an intraradicular post in conjunction with retreatment.
  • (19) The motor and the puller assembly are separate components so that the puller assembly can be autoclaved.
  • (20) This paper describes an improved electrode puller for the manufacture of glass microelectrodes or micropipettes.

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