What's the difference between racer and raker?

Racer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.
  • (n.) The common American black snake.
  • (n.) One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) White Carneau (WC) pigeons are susceptible to the development of aortic atherosclerosis, whereas Show Racer (SR) pigeons are resistant, even though there are no differences in the known risk factors, including plasma cholesterol levels, lipoproteins, blood pressure, etc.
  • (2) A ski racer landing in a bent position on flat ground after a jump documented on video tape felt a sharp pain and immediate instability, though he did not fall.
  • (3) Biosynthesis of PGE2 from [1-14C]arachidonic acid was investigated in the aorta of spontaneously atherosclerosis-susceptible White Carneau pigeons and was compared with that of the atherosclerosis-resistant Show Racer breed.
  • (4) I wish the rest of the racers good luck – if you are rowing this week you better know how to swim.” Meanwhile, the Irish sculler Sanita Puspure, who finished one place ahead of Negm in second, described the conditions as “horrific”.
  • (5) The purpose of this study was to determine peak aerobic power and associated physiological responses in highly competitive spinal cord injured (SCI) paraplegic road racers.
  • (6) Photograph: EPA Rael – once known as Claude Vorilhon, a French-born amateur sports racer and journalist – changed his name in 1973 after what he says was an encounter with extraterrestrials who declared that he had been chosen as their emissary to deliver a message of joy to humankind.
  • (7) Attitudes about helmet policy and actual use by racers were inconsistent; large percentages of those opposing mandatory helmet use in racing (51%) and in training (76%) used helmets themselves.
  • (8) The wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft was one of those who won memorable gold medals in the stadium and will be back for the Anniversary Games next weekend which, as Bolt and Mo Farah fly in to compete, will provide an early stern test of the public appetite for athletics at the stadium.
  • (9) While the V1 skate technique is not the most economical roller skiing technique on flat ground, the lower associated perceived effort and respiratory exchange ratios may at least partially account for the general preference of cross-country ski racers to use the V1 skating technique rather than the double pole technique on flat terrain.
  • (10) Detailed knowledge of the morphologic sequence of events in lesion localization makes the celiac bifurcation in White Carneau and Show Racer pigeons a useful model for genetic comparisons of arterial wall metabolism and for investigating metabolic alterations occurring with atherogenesis.
  • (11) "This government has already scrapped the M4 bus lane, cut central government funding for money-making speed cameras and announced new measures to crack down on boy racers and reckless drivers while standing up for the decent majority," he said.
  • (12) Neither in the drag racer's bus nor wherever it went after that did anyone even bother to look at The Scream.
  • (13) Analysis of levels of total hydroxyproline and isodesmosine in the thoracic aorta and celiac bifurcation of prelesion, six-week-old White Carneau and Show Racer pigeons, revealed an increased accumulation of total collagen and cross-linked elastin in the White Carneau arterial tissue.
  • (14) A study of anthropometric and functional characteristics was conducted in a sample of 29 athletes, flatwater racers 18 kayakers and 11 canoeists.
  • (15) I remember building a Chopper-style bike out of a smaller racer with a tiny wheel on the front.
  • (16) The lipid composition of yolks of developing embryonic atherosclerosis-susceptible White Carneau (WC) and -resistant Show Racer (SR) pigeons was analyzed to determine whether embryonic nutrition might be a factor in the difference in susceptibility to aortic atherosclerosis.
  • (17) Even the Wachowski brothers, who made their fortunes with the Matrix trilogy, could not steer Speed Racer (2008) to success.
  • (18) The presence of specific receptors for the metabolism of acetylated low density lipoprotein (AcLDL) and beta-migrating very low density lipoprotein (beta-VLDL) was demonstrated in thioglycolate-elicited peritoneal macrophages from both atherosclerosis-susceptible White Carneau (WC) and resistant Show Racer (SR) pigeons.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bike racers at the Hope Street event.
  • (20) The authors probed the vascular endothelial cell cytoskeleton in strains of pigeons that are atherosclerosis-susceptible and disease-resistant, namely, the White Carneau and Show Racer pigeons.

Raker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rakes
  • (n.) A person who uses a rake.
  • (n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
  • (n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
  • (n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The gill bars (bearing gill rakers that interlock with rakers of adjacent arches) clearly function as a resistance within the oral cavity and restrict posterior water influx during mouth opening, creating a unidirectional flow during feeding.
  • (2) The threshold of both filament-related and gill raker mechanoreceptors was relatively high.
  • (3) The basal lamina exhibits a smooth contour over most of the gill surface with the exception of the short gill rakers where it formed cones within the taste bud cores, and on the respiratory lamellae where it closely mimicked the underlying capillary network.
  • (4) Two rows of gill filaments (about 42 filaments per row) extended posterolaterally, and two rows of gill rakers (about 10 rakers per row) extended anteromedially from each arch.
  • (5) Anatomical examinations showed that fluid channels in the buccal chamber and gill raker sieve are complex and can be expected to vary spatially and temporally throughout the respiratory cycle.
  • (6) Physiological properties of gill filament and gill raker mechanoreceptors in the gills of spontaneously breathing carp, Cyprinus carpio L., were analysed.
  • (7) 2 generally prefers relatively flat surfaces in the gill chamber but is more versatile in its choice of attachment sites on its host, the blacktip cod, Epinephelus fasciatus; two specimens were attached to the gill arch, one to a gill raker and one to the dorsal pharyngeal tooth pad.
  • (8) The department sent undercover officers, codenamed "rakers", into Muslim neighbourhoods, and ran a network of informants known as "mosque crawlers" to monitor sermons – even when there had been no evidence of criminality.
  • (9) Gill rakers are large in size in Notopterus notopterus while they are small in Colisa fasciatus.
  • (10) Taste buds were especially prominent on the rakers and the pharyngeal surfaces of the first and second gill arches, but were often replaced by horny spines on the third and fourth gill arches.
  • (11) In an effort to uncover terrorist plots, so-called "rakers" or "mosque crawlers" – typically paid NYPD informants – were sent to Muslim student association meetings, businesses, universities, restaurants, whitewater rafting trips and more than 250 mosques in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
  • (12) Deflection of gill rakers also elicited a brief response in epibranchial ganglion neurons.
  • (13) The map of the oropharyngeal epithelium is distorted so that the gill arches are rotated through an angle of 90 degrees along the transverse plane, and the dorsally mapped region of the gill rakers is tilted posteriorly in the sagittal plane of the vagal lobe.
  • (14) Gill head region consists of bony arch, gill rakers and interbranchial septum.