What's the difference between pincher and thief?

Pincher


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The instrument is designed based on electromagnetic theory and principle of equilibrium in mechanics and composed of a timer, a current regulator and meter, control circuits and two-arm pinchers.
  • (2) The spicules of the male had a highly sculptured surface with a pincher-like terminal end.
  • (3) The most striking features in the production of the "pincher mechanism" of the duodenum were found to be a short aortomesenteric distance together with sagittal parallelism between aorta and superior mesenteric artery.
  • (4) Similar 'selectivity' could be demonstrated for both mu- and kappa-ligands when the weaker and stronger responses were of the same modality, being applied by the same pincher device but with alternating applied force.
  • (5) Complications included 2 hematomas of the tubal wall, caused by the pinchers but controlled with the ring and 1 later case of cellulitis at the incision.
  • (6) Penny-pincher-in-chief Francis Maude would have the whole of Whitehall working this way.
  • (7) PMQs verdict: Jeremy Corbyn's leaked texts give him the upper hand Read more Over recent years I have admired David Hodge’s fearless crescendo of complaint against his own government, with caustic comments on his Surrey MPs, a gallery of gleeful penny-pinchers.
  • (8) They have also funded several UK MPs on all expenses paid trips to Azerbaijan including Mark Field, Gerry Sutcliffe, Stephen Hammond and the speaker at next week's jazz reception – Christopher Pincher.
  • (9) December 5, 2013 Christopher Pincher (@ChrisPincher) Very heavy winds in Tamworth, Shenstone & other local villages this pm.
  • (10) A kind of noval digital and electromagnetically controlled pinchers is developed from its original type for more quantitatively pinching the spinal cord.

Thief


Definition:

  • (n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
  • (n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
  • (2) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
  • (3) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
  • (4) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
  • (5) A suspected jewel thief was killed and another seriously injured during a police chase after an attempted ram raid at one of the London branches of the jewellers Tiffany and Co yesterday.
  • (6) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
  • (7) In my part of the world, we have a saying that the man who carries a pot of palm oil from the ceiling is not the only thief.
  • (8) Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, suggested Greenwald was a “thief” after he worked with news organizations who paid for stories based on the documents.
  • (9) Gina Rinehart's son, John Hancock, called his youngest sister "an oxygen thief", a Sydney court heard during the latest battle over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust.
  • (10) The criminals For many years after the second world war, George “Taters” Chatham was Britain’s busiest jewel thief.
  • (11) Procrastination is the thief of time.” Last week, the chancellor echoed the exact same sentiments – “the sooner you start the smoother the ride” – as he announced a raft of Whitehall spending cuts as a down payment on the £25bn he’s planning to spend over the next three years.
  • (12) Ibori, a petty thief who rose to be one of Nigeria’s richest men, received a 13-year jail sentence in London in 2012 after admitting fraud of nearly £50m.
  • (13) Holder was fatally shot in the city’s East Harlem neighborhood while pursuing a bicycle thief.
  • (14) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
  • (15) A few synaptic contacts between two adjacent chief cells are seen, and so are direct contacts between thief cells and preganglionic efferent nerve fibers terminating on ganglion cells.
  • (16) Incidentally, these sad long-term cases will do more than twice the maximum any court can sentence a thief to on Community Payback.
  • (17) You can wait until a cop gets here,” Bike Batman said he told the thief.
  • (18) The thief left the building unnoticed, then returned the artwork the next day by throwing it over the wall of the sculpture garden.
  • (19) But presumably the Sun also believes that you shouldn’t point out there’s a fire down the road if your own house isn’t burning down, and you should never chase after a thief who robbed the woman next to you if your own wallet is still safely secured in your pocket.
  • (20) He also called the incumbent president a “genocidaire”, a thief and a pyromaniac in a Facebook post that led to Bongo opening proceedings against him.

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