What's the difference between quieter and quilter?

Quieter


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other side of the Atlantic, a more modest, quieter challenger plans to take on the US electric car giant.
  • (2) It came ahead of the Brexit vote, which the CML said could lead to quieter months ahead.
  • (3) Updated at 12.09pm BST 11.44am BST andrew harding (@BBCAndrewH) We must take the emotions out of it, says Roux - perhaps as much to himself as the court - his voice becoming quieter.
  • (4) Now it organises weekly recreational group rides through quieter districts that have sometimes attracted hundreds of cyclists.
  • (5) Since 7 May, some of the public recriminations involving Ukip have included: Farage’s decision to resign, only to go back on his decision four days later, prompting one of the party’s biggest donors, Stuart Wheeler, to call for him to step back in favour of someone quieter.
  • (6) O’Leary said he expects “a Herculean growth” in traffic during the quieter winter, with slightly lower fares and high forward bookings leading the airline to predict 20% more passengers.
  • (7) I grab a few laps but it’s still a bit hectic so I decide to give up and come back when it’s quieter.
  • (8) The device is not only much cheaper, quieter, and more compact than a commercially built shaking-type bath, but is also gives superior mixing of heterogeneous enzyme incubation samples, particularly those containing tissue homogenates or subcellular particles.
  • (9) Monarch would be turning around its planes at Sharm at a quieter period of the day, later on Friday afternoon.
  • (10) €1 is worth $1.23 and £1 is almost worth $1.57 It is a quieter day today, as we wind down for the weekend, but we will be keeping a close eye on the following: Italy is issuing €8.5bn of six-month short-term bonds Germany's latest Consumer Price Index is published The US reveals its latest GDP figures, expected to be down slightly [UPDATE: European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is NOT holding further meetings with Greek PM Antonis Samaras, as we earlier said.
  • (11) The flame of ultra Serb nationalism appears to be guttering, although it could be replaced with a quieter long-lasting resentment.
  • (12) In quieter moments she tends her avocado garden, which she forced her mother to transport to the hospital.
  • (13) While August and September were, as expected, a bit quieter, we remain cautiously optimistic about the outlook.
  • (14) "If the US is quieter, and uses military channels to urge restraint, that is about the best it can do," added Cordesman.
  • (15) The 50-year-old star told the BBC in an interview broadcast earlier today that he would hope to move on to "quieter things" in the near future.
  • (16) Ironically, Greece could not be quieter, less strike-plagued or better value for money.
  • (17) Read more The Squee Mobile App, meanwhile, aims to link pedestrians and cyclists to travel together on quieter, non-motorised routes in Jakarta’s urban villages.
  • (18) After a tense first half, the second act, which includes the depiction of Klinghoffer’s murder, was quieter, with a sole exclamation of “this is shit!” by a woman in the stalls, who was hushed by the rest of the audience.
  • (19) Thirty miles from the centre of Bangladesh’s chaotic capital, Dhaka, the pace of life is quieter.
  • (20) Located just east of the more famous (and often overcrowded) Bryce Canyon, Kodachrome offers a quieter alternative.

Quilter


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) King's Theatre , to Wed LG End Of The Rainbow, Northampton End of the Rainbow Returning one last time to the venue where it first began, Peter Quilter's play about the acting and singing legend Judy Garland at the end of her life as she attempts to make one last comeback at London's Talk Of The Town in 1968, certainly deserves its encore.
  • (2) Outcomes contradictory to Surwillo and Quilter (1964) and Quilter, Giambra, and Benson (1983) are reconciled through additional statistical analyses.
  • (3) Swartz was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Robert Swartz, a software executive, and his wife Susan, a knitter, quilter and fibre artist.
  • (4) Quilter's play is nothing special but it is made extraordinary by the performance of Tracie Bennett, who consistently gets the audience on their feet as the doomed former MGM star whose Yellow Brick Road is about to finally run out.
  • (5) However, Peter Quilter's script has fared less well, with Time Out New York dubbing it "a mawkish British spin on Garland", and the Hollywood Reporter claiming that his script "hits every obvious note except the pathos".

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