What's the difference between player and worker?

Player


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
  • (n.) One who plays any game.
  • (n.) A dramatic actor.
  • (n.) One who plays on an instrument of music.
  • (n.) A gamester; a gambler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (2) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (4) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (5) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
  • (6) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (7) Of course they should play if the players still want to.
  • (8) The others were two Britons, Mark Cox and John Barrett (now both BBC commentators) and the US player Jim McManus.
  • (9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (10) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
  • (11) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
  • (12) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
  • (13) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
  • (14) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
  • (15) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
  • (16) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (17) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
  • (18) "I have to say that I have been a Chelsea player since 2004 and I have never had six minutes in my favour when I was losing.
  • (19) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
  • (20) It’s not just that Lester was one of the first signs that the Red Sox’s commitment to players from their own system was starting to pay off.

Worker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
  • (n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
  • (3) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
  • (4) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (5) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (6) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (7) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
  • (8) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
  • (9) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
  • (10) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (11) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
  • (12) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
  • (13) The characteristics and responsibilities of community health workers in Saradidi were similar to those elsewhere.
  • (14) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
  • (15) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
  • (16) Only workers more than 34 years of age and in work at the time of the study were selected.
  • (17) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
  • (18) Dynamics in the changes was established among the workers from the production of "Synthetic rubber and latex", associated with the duration of occupational exposure to styrene and divinyl.
  • (19) Differences between mean durations of dust exposure of workers with radiographic signs of lung fibrosis and those without such signs were statistically insignificant.
  • (20) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.