What's the difference between quieter and quitter?
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.
Quitter
Definition:
(n.) One who quits.
(n.) A deliverer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cross-sectionally, those who had never smoked, former smokers, quitters, and continuing smokers showed a gradient of decreasing FEV1, and all four smoking groups were significantly different from each other (P less than 0.05).
(2) Stepped-care antihypertensive therapy lowered diastolic blood pressure similarly for hypertensive quitters and nonquitters.
(3) Smokers requesting self-help materials for smoking cessation (N = 2,021) were randomized to receive (a) an experimental self-quitting guide emphasizing nicotine fading and other nonaversive behavioral strategies, (b) the same self-quitting guide with a support guide for the quitter's family and friends, (c) self-quitting and support guides along with four brief counselor calls, or (d) a control guide providing motivational and quit tips and referral to locally available guides and programs.
(4) At five years, mortality (adjusted by Cox analysis for baseline differences) was 22% for those who continued smoking and 15% for quitters.
(5) Variables identified with successful quitters and continuing smokers also were investigated.
(6) Regression analyses considering contextual-motivational factors for drinking showed that at Time 1 quitters were less likely than controls to have consumed alcohol during evenings out (p = .008), in family-home settings (p = .013), or for salutary reasons (p = .084); conversely, they were more likely to have consumed alcohol to reduce negative affect (p = .011).
(7) The Multiple Component Program had 61% who quit, the Relapse Prevention Program had 37%, and the American Cancer Society Quitter's Guide had 12%.
(8) Compared to 971 controls, quitters reported more drinking problems at Time 1; reducers reported higher consumption at Time 1, which was the only factor predictive of subsequent reduction (p less than .001).
(9) Three variables, moral attitudes, peer smoking and positive beliefs about smoking significantly discriminated continuing smokers from quitters at the three-month posttest.
(10) Self-quitters make up by far the largest proportion of ex-cigarette smokers, yet this population has not been extensively characterized to date.
(11) As the mortality rates of quitters begin to approach those for "neversmokers," contributions to the HI fund increase.
(12) Subjects who gained weight after cessation did not consume more calories but ate somewhat less protein and significantly more carbohydrate than quitters whose weights did not change.
(13) Compared to women who were smoking at the start of prenatal care, spontaneous quitters had been lighter smokers, were less likely to have another smoker in their household, indicated a stronger belief in the harmful effect of maternal smoking, had a history of fewer miscarriages, and entered prenatal care earlier.
(14) Although successful quitters tended to wait longer before attempting cessation, a comparison of the two groups was not statistically significant.
(15) Quitters are intermediate in cultural attitudes and stance.
(16) Also, pleasant emotional and physiological effects discriminated continuers from quitters.
(17) One month later, 79% of the quitters in the nicotine gum group still remained abstinent, compared with 54% in the control group (p less than 0.05).
(18) Thirty-six percent of the participants who were considered exsmokers of 6 months duration at the conclusion of the program in 1985 remained long-term quitters 5 years later.
(19) The salivary cotinine and expired-air carbon monoxide tests confirmed smoking cessation for 55% and 74%, respectively, of the proclaimed quitters.
(20) We do not want would-be quitters to be deterred from using e-cigarettes.