What's the difference between printer and sprinter?

Printer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (2) A computer program, computer-readable model-file and computer-based 3D printer can (in theory) encapsulate the expertise of a skilled machinist and deploy it on demand wherever a 3D printer is to be found.
  • (3) Final hard copy was produced by a laser printer and bound with both conventional and rapid new binding techniques.
  • (4) I know ***** ****** [name removed for legal reasons] is worried about a 3D printer falling into the wrong hands.
  • (5) Samsung's ML2160 monochrome laser printer, for example, costs about £50.
  • (6) We took all the feedback from users and put pencil to paper to create our consumer 3D printer built for speed and ease of use,” said Pettis.
  • (7) Though 3D printers might change the regulatory picture for firearms in years or decades, the regulatability of guns remains intact for now.
  • (8) Response The DfE ripped up the first draft, replacing it with technology-based programme that includes 3-D printers in secondary classrooms, while primary school pupils will design and test structures and circuits.
  • (9) Eighteen of the rotogravure printers and one of the referents were heavy drinkers of alcohol.
  • (10) According to the predetermined classification the values were computerized and printed out by a mosaic printer or by a coordinate-recorder as a profile graph or a perspective image.
  • (11) Waveforms stored by the computer may be output to a dot matrix printer to complement conventional strip-chart recorder output.
  • (12) Cue the day’s first SPR (silent printer rage): another four minutes eaten up by a printer refusing to be fooled by the off-on tactic.
  • (13) After apprenticing as a printer, he worked briefly as a journalist before training as a steamboat pilot, a career interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1861.
  • (14) Printers have come a long way since 1984 when Hewlett Packard introduced the ThinkJet , the firm's first personal inkjet printer grinding at a snail's pace of two pages a minute and priced at a whopping $495.
  • (15) The lowest ratings were received for some aspect of the printer or print-out, and portability.
  • (16) The team used a 3D printer to create polymer replicas of each vertebra, which were then put together to recreate the shape of Richard's spine during his life.
  • (17) Chocolate and other foods 3D-printed food is regularly in the news, with one of the hits of this year's CES show being the ChefJet 3D printer , which uses sugar and cocoa butter rather than plastics to create various sweet treats.
  • (18) Previously MakerBot offered a cloud-based design sharing service called Thingiverse, which allowed users to upload their designs and share them with a community and access them from anywhere with a MakerBot 3D printer.
  • (19) The Ekocycle Cube printer is being made by 3D Systems, the US-based manufacturer that announced Will.i.am as its chief creative officer in January this year.
  • (20) The information may be viewed on the computer terminal or recorded on the printer.

Sprinter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2008 the brand ran a campaign timed to coincide with the Olympic handover from Beijing to London featuring 2012 hopefuls including basketballer Luol Deng, middle-distance runner Emily Pidgeon and sprinter Ashlee Nelson.
  • (2) Contingent negative variation (CNV) and reaction time were examined in four groups of eight young adult men: controls, witnesses, students in physical and athletic education, and sprinters.
  • (3) Distance runners had a lower heart rate than either sprinters or untrained subjects.
  • (4) These days it is hard for sprinters in Kenya because of the lack of coaching and facilities, but someone like Bett comes from a part of Kenya that is known down through the years for producing hurdlers, so it is not a big surprise in that sense.
  • (5) The peak torque values of the flexor and extensor muscle groups of the hip, knee, and ankle joints of the lower extremities were tested in a group of elite male and female sprinters.
  • (6) No significant differences were observed between sprinters and volley-ball players.
  • (7) The left atrial diameter was apparently greater in the endurance runners than in the sprinters or control subjects (P less than 0.001), whereas that of the sprinters did not differ from normal.
  • (8) Control specimens from sprinters who did not perform the acute exercise routine also displayed structural deviations, although to a lesser degree.
  • (9) In the past few days the sprinter has been almost routinely compared with Muhammad Ali.
  • (10) The sprinters had been expected to provide fireworks at the Tour, but the match never happened, because of Cavendish’s finish-straight crash in Harrogate on day one.
  • (11) The neural activation (iEMG) and selected stride characteristics of six male sprinters were studied for 100-, 200-, 300- and 400-m experimental sprints, which were run according to the velocity in the 400 m. Blood lactate (BLa) was analysed and drop jumps were performed with EMG registration at rest and after each sprint.
  • (12) When you realise that the total distance covered each day can be up to 100km, and bear in mind that pedalling speed is vital for a sprinter such as Cavendish, the benefits of riding the Sixes seem obvious, particularly with the 2015 season so close; Cavendish will kick off on 19 January in Argentina.
  • (13) British Cycling’s technical director, Shane Sutton, has categorically denied that the sprinter Jess Varnish was dropped from the squad because of her public criticism of the coaches in early March following the women’s team sprint duo’s failure to qualify for the Rio Olympics, and reiterated that Varnish had been dropped on performance grounds.
  • (14) The Patriots gave up a seventh-round pick plus the rights to Jeff Demps, the Olympic sprinter who claimed a silver medal in the 4x100m relay at London 2012 , in order to obtain Blount from the Buccaneers in April of last year.
  • (15) A cinematographic recording of the movements of the lower limbs together with simultaneous emg tracings from nine lower limb muscles were obtained from two male track sprinters during three phases of a 100 m sprint run.
  • (16) Inside, there were articles entitled “Confused on currency?” and a centre spread giving readers “10 reasons why staying in the UK gives Scots the best of both world.” The back page was devoted to ‘sport’ with articles quoting both Sir Alex Ferguson and sprinter Brian Whittle voicing support for Scotland remaining part of the UK.
  • (17) The relationship between muscle fibre composition and fibre conduction velocity was investigated in 19 male track athletes, 12 sprinters and 7 distance runners, aged 20-24 years, using needle biopsy samples from vastus lateralis.
  • (18) "I will never be able to be back to being the sprinter that I used to be," says the former schoolboy athlete ruefully, "but I want to be fitter.
  • (19) These findings indicate that the sprinters and rowers possess elevated buffering capabilities and carnosine levels compared with marathon runners and untrained subjects.
  • (20) Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt says he may switch to other disciplines such as the long jump after the 2012 Olympic Games.

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