What's the difference between plunge and plunger?

Plunge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war.
  • (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
  • (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
  • (v. i.) To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
  • (v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
  • (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
  • (n.) The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
  • (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
  • (n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
  • (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (2) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
  • (3) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
  • (4) For some people, free cash will persuade them to take the plunge.
  • (5) Those Labour MPs plunging their party into an unwanted crisis are betraying not only the party itself but also our national interest at one of the most critical moments any of us can recall.
  • (6) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
  • (7) Thus: wanting to cut public spending more slowly than the coalition plans isn't about protecting state activity or putting debt on future generations, it's about not plunging back into recession, Dublin-style.
  • (8) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
  • (9) The City regulator also used its Prudential Risk Outlook to reveal that the UK's biggest banks have been told they must have enough capital to withstand a plunge back into recession in the next four years.
  • (10) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
  • (11) The surprise return of Saleh last month, after recovering in Saudi Arabia from an assassination attempt, has plunged the country into deeper uncertainty and sharpened the differences between pro- and anti-government camps.
  • (12) We’re being transparent about what we are doing and what we’re not doing, so all the Iguala investigations will be checked, reviewed and assessed by an independent group of experts we’ve called in from the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights .” Asked whether Peña Nieto – whose approval rating recently plunged to 39% – had the support and strength needed to address the security crisis, Gómez Robledo said: “He has the intelligence, the conviction, the strength and the youth to face all of the challenges.
  • (13) Campa was speaking as the Ibex index of Madrid's most traded stocks plunged for a second day and the cost of protecting investors against a default of Spanish debt reached a record high.
  • (14) A sub-index measuring new orders plunged to 52, the lowest since June 2009, from 58.5 in July.
  • (15) Athens was unravelling into chaos, unable to form a government and forced into fresh elections , plunging the markets into freefall as Europe's leaders abandoned any pretence that a Greek exit from the euro might not be imminent.
  • (16) But an "intensified euro area crisis" would wipe out growth in Europe, plunging the economy into a deep recession.
  • (17) A three-week plunge has knocked about 30% off Chinese shares since mid-June.
  • (18) For every 1% increase in gas and electricity bills, it is estimated a further 40,000 households are plunged into fuel poverty.
  • (19) Share holdings were assumed to have plunged 20% in the two years of the test, leading to a cumulative rout of 36%.
  • (20) But the world's largest insurer has seen its shares plunge in recent weeks as it reels from the effects of the credit crunch.

Plunger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
  • (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
  • (n.) One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.
  • (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
  • (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parameters evaluated were rotation speed, plunger frequency, medium volume, medium type, medium sampling location, number of plunger ribs, and number of gum pieces.
  • (2) The second person exerts sufficient pressure on the plunger of the syringe to produce intermittent minimal flow of saline.
  • (3) Plunger loads were alternated so that each was used, initially, 50% of the time.
  • (4) When marked resistance to withdrawal of the plunger occurs and on release the plunger rebounds to its original position the oesophagus has been intubated.
  • (5) The ease of insertion without a plunger and gloves (inserter tube diameter 3 mm) and the ease of removal (force of traction approximately 1 N) mean safety also for the medical and paramedical fitter of the CU SAFE 300 IUD.
  • (6) A standard plastic luer hub allows the trephine to be used with a syringe, either a standard type or one with a spring-assisted plunger.
  • (7) The plunger is operated by hand to homogenize a sample in 2-20 microliter of buffer in a tube.
  • (8) Prostaglandins are not suited for menstrual regulation; use of the Karman catheter with pressure on the plunger instead of negative pressure has proven very successful.
  • (9) The toxic material originated from zinc compounds that were present in the rubber stopper and plunger of the container and that subsequently leached into the formulation.
  • (10) Two methods, the so-called "oil drop" and "Teflon plunger" methods, were designed to monitor lipase hydrolysis of natural long-chain triacylglycerols through the variation with time of the oil-water interfacial tension.
  • (11) 'Micropets' of different volumes are easily made from inexpensive, commercially available Drummond 100 microliter glass tubes (bores) fitted with teflon plungers.
  • (12) An unmanned spacecraft with a giant telescoping plunger would fly to the asteroid, suck it in, and secure it in a truly industrial-strength Hefty bag of sorts.
  • (13) This does not just apply to shale gas operations – conventional gas drilling also produces leaks, which can be stanched by a variety of technologies, including one known as "plunger lift".
  • (14) The suspension cultivation in test tube with cotton plunger could not support the schizogony of P. vivax, while other groups could at least complete two schizogony cycles.
  • (15) He recommends filter coffee, with "plungers, pour overs , siphons , Aeropress etc" using water two minutes off the boil, and 60g a litre for all filter coffees.
  • (16) We suggest that for optimal PO2 determinations syringes should not only allow minimal air contamination but also have plungers that reduce injection pressure to a minimum.
  • (17) The required thin layer of the fluid is created between the cellulose tube walls and its metal cap, that functions as a plunger.
  • (18) Adding ATP (1 mM) to myosin B suspension and mixing was carried out by hand, using a mixing plunger, and also using the automatic adder mixer.
  • (19) Intraocular pressure as a function of plunger weight and the reading of measurement is shown in mmHg.
  • (20) A simple method is described which highlights the leaching of 2-mercaptobenzothiazole and 2-(2-hydroxy-ethylthio)benzothiazole from the rubber plunger-seals of disposable syringes: contact of rubber with bidistilled water, extraction of this liquid with chloroform, chromatography on silica gel with the solvents previously studied and spraying with N-chloro-2,6-dichloro-p-benzoquinone monoimine.