What's the difference between porter and potter?

Porter


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.
  • (n.) A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.
  • (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.
  • (n.) A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
  • (2) The hospital said it is seeking information from other porters who worked at Leeds general hospital when Savile was a volunteer.
  • (3) My dream is that one day, young kids in Nepal won’t have to risk working on the mountain as porters or guides, they will be able to get an education and build better lives for themselves,” Sherpa told AFP.
  • (4) Dr Mark Porter, the British Medical Association’s chair of council, said: “This leaked document makes clear that more seven-day services will require not only thousands of extra doctors, nurses and support staff but an additional investment in both the NHS and community care.
  • (5) Bountiful by Todd Porter and Diane Cu (Stewart, Tabori and Chang)
  • (6) Will Francis, director, Vandal London Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will has worked with a variety of global brands including Net-a-Porter, Samsung, Spotify, Microsoft, Warner Music and Nike Foundation to innovate in social media, something he’s been doing since his days as editor of MySpace in the mid-late noughties.
  • (7) Referring to “back of house” (BOH) staff and kitchen porters (KP) it read: “Morning, “Due to recent EHO contact and receiving two 1 star ratings along with an increase in food safety audit fails.
  • (8) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
  • (9) These findings suggest several new hypotheses relating to the molecular mechanism of transport through uncoupling protein and suggest explanations for observed functional differences among porters belonging to the same gene family.
  • (10) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
  • (11) I would work as a porter without payment Two of the smugglers were themselves Rohingya, including a religious leader, she said.
  • (12) Along the way he also reached the final of the US Open Cup, and in the MLS Cup dispatched the holders LA Galaxy in the conference semi-finals, before beating Porter’s Timbers in both the home and road legs of the Western final (his team had beaten Portland in the US Open Cup semis too).
  • (13) The key finding was that LDL receptors clustered in coated pits, structures that had been described by Roth and Porter 10 years earlier.
  • (14) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
  • (15) The design and properties of a rigid, box-like device to be placed on the knife stage of a Porter-Blum MT-2 ultramicrotome are described.
  • (16) Valeri's was one of two places MLS's head honcho gets in the 23-man squad, with the game's coach filling the 10 spots not otherwise claimed by fan voting, so when Porter's choices were announced on Saturday, fans began an American tradition as old as All-Star games themselves: disagreeing with the choices.
  • (17) Luckily we have great collections, a great programme so we do our best … we are on a hamster wheel.” Blavatnik will join philanthropic names at the V&A such as Weston (the Weston Cast Court), Sackler (the Sackler Centre for Arts Education) and Porter (the Porter Gallery, which houses temporary displays).
  • (18) We studied 202 pregnant women who were porter of pregnancy intrahepatic cholestasis (CIE).
  • (19) Having failed to get into Rada, Wesker embarked on a series of menial jobs: bookseller's assistant, plumber's mate and, at the Bell hotel in Norwich, kitchen porter.
  • (20) A caravan comprising 300 yaks, 50 mules and 100 porters wound through the Himalayan valleys, carrying 900 boxes of food, all because 13 white men wanted to reach the summit.

Potter


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.
  • (n.) One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
  • (n.) One who pots meats or other eatables.
  • (n.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.
  • (v. i.) To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.
  • (v. i.) To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.
  • (v. t.) To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tim Potter, managing director of support charity the Fragile X Society , adds that the challenges Tom faces in the film will give "hope and encouragement to many other families".
  • (2) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
  • (3) I can't pull an invisibility cloak over my house – nor would I wish to," she said, a little wistfully, as if she really wished she had Harry Potter's magic powers.
  • (4) The original Wednesday Play, succeeded by the long-running Play for Today, is fondly remembered by many of today's best-known writers and directors as the experimental breeding ground for the likes of Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, Mike Leigh and Alan Bleasdale.
  • (5) The youngsters who identified with her when they saw her in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001 can feel that she has yet to let them down, nearly 16 years later.
  • (6) The main differential diagnostic problems occurred in two fields: in differentiating (1) functional hydronephrosis from obstructive uropathy, and (2) multicystic renal dysplasia of Potter's type IV from severe hydronephrosis.
  • (7) Josiah Wedgwood, known as "the father of English potters", founded the company in 1759 .
  • (8) These days large theatres such as the Met in New York still use the recitative, but most productions tend to opt for the original dialogue, while a few, including Sally Potter's production for ENO in 2007, attempt to make do without either.
  • (9) He didn't go to university, but says he discovered the joy of learning for learning's sake when he was tutored on the Harry Potter sets.
  • (10) Renal dysplasia according to Potter classification was difficult to be assessed being a borderline case between grade II and IV.
  • (11) In the 6 cases in which fetal breathing movements were detected the babies were liveborn and there was no evidence of pulmonary hypoplasia or the other non-renal features of Potter's syndrome.
  • (12) Appearing in her capacity as a goodwill ambassador for UN Women, the Harry Potter star outlined her new year-long “ IMPACT 10X10X10 ” plan to address deficiencies in women’s empowerment and gender equality .
  • (13) In a community of potters in Barbados where lead glazes traditionally have been used, a survey of 12 potters, 19 of their family members, and 24 controls revealed elevated blood lead levels in the potters, their family members, and the neighbours who used pottery for culinary purposes.
  • (14) Even if the people aren't remotely interested in you, it's in your head, and if you start dancing, you think everyone's going to say, look at Harry Potter, dancing like a twat."
  • (15) They are making a big play for more content and Time Warner has some of the best global franchises you could hope to have – look at Harry Potter, Batman and HBO.” Time Warner’s lucrative cable channel business includes TNT, TBS and HBO, home to shows including Game of Thrones.
  • (16) With ultrasound, Potter's sequence can be demonstrated about the 16th week of pregnancy so that termination of pregnancy may be considered.
  • (17) If jet lag has you awake before the market is open for breakfast, you can potter up Fairfax to Canter's, a 24-hour deli that's been a Los Angeles Landmark since 1931.
  • (18) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.
  • (19) I'm sure a lot of people will be really excited," said Radcliffe, who starred in eight Harry Potter films between 2001 and 2011.
  • (20) The effectiveness of the nonmetabolizable second messenger analogue DL-myo-inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphorothioate (IPS3) described by Cooke, A. M., R. Gigg, and B. V. L. Potter, (1987b.