What's the difference between rattler and rattlesnake?

Rattler


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We cannot afford to let them treat us like properties of the state,” said Ollie, a 24-year-old water protector whose partner, Michael Markus, known as Rattler, was recently taken into custody by federal officers.
  • (2) He spent last season with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the Class A Midwest League, hitting .243 with four homers and 29 RBIs in 68 games.
  • (3) The media might portray Perry as a dumb sabre-rattler, but it takes more than luck to be the nation's longest-serving governor.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Markus, aka Rattler.
  • (5) Photograph: Liminal Films The charges against Rattler, Angry Bird and three others could carry up to 15 years in federal prison and stem from a standoff with police on 27 October 2016 during which law enforcement deployed armored vehicles and pepper spray and ultimately arrested 141 people.
  • (6) They do this purposely to break us down Ollie, 24-year-old water protector Ollie said: “They’re going after Rattler to make him a poster child and a scapegoat.
  • (7) Annabel Mullion was painted with her shaggy-haired dog Rattler and reappears seven years later with a pregnant belly in Expecting the Fourth 2005 (only 10x15cm), and in a larger etching, limbs still like a thoroughbred, as described by one of Freud's favourite authors, Baudelaire: "vainly have time and love sunk their teeth into her".
  • (8) There are no leaders.” Sandra Freeman, attorney with the Water Protector Legal Collective, who is representing Rattler, said he was being prosecuted under a law that is rarely used in federal court, passed in 1968 to control the Black Liberation Movement and Vietnam war protests.
  • (9) Some supporters have compared Rattler and Red Fawn Fallis , another demonstrator taken into custody last year, to famous indigenous protesters such as Leonard Peltier , whose activism has led to decades of federal incarceration.
  • (10) Rattler’s purpose of being at camp was to make a safe space for people.” Rattler, who is Lakota Oglala and a US Marine veteran, has also consistently been cooperative and compliant with law enforcement, according to Ollie, who noted that he had willingly turned himself in on a state warrant and that the two of them had recently paid a $10,000 cash bond so he could be released.

Rattlesnake


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (2) A history of dessicated rattlesnake ingestion as a "natural" remedy in either capsule or powder form was obtained in all but one of the 7 patients.
  • (3) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
  • (4) Explanations of these results have included accelerated evolution in the snake lineage, paralogy rather than orthology, and faulty determination of the sequence, and the rattlesnake is now often omitted from cytochrome c phylogenetic trees.
  • (5) The venom of the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus was originally reported to have a pathophysiological activity mainly involving hemolysis and neurotoxicity.
  • (6) The most interesting results of single gene phylogenies have been the anomalies, such as insulin in hystricomorphs or cytochrome c in the rattlesnake.
  • (7) Review of the literature disclosed three additional cases of extragastrointestinal S arizona infection linked to rattlesnake capsule ingestion, all associated with underlying medical illness.
  • (8) The most significant differences from PLA2 s from bovine pancreas and rattlesnake occur in the stretches 56-80 and 85-89.
  • (9) The sequence of two overlapping cDNA clones for the zinc metalloproteinase hemorrhagic toxin e (also known as atrolysin e, EC 3.4.24.44) from the venom gland of Crotalus atrox, the Western diamondback rattlesnake, is presented.
  • (10) Of 39 rattlesnake (Crotalus and Sistrurus) bites, 20 patients received antivenin (53%), but of 23 copperhead and water moccasin (Agkistrodon) bites, only three patients (12.5%) received antivenin (p = 0.0025).
  • (11) Three Hispanic patients at our institution developed extragastrointestinal Salmonella arizona infection associated with the ingestion of rattlesnake capsules.
  • (12) The venom of the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus was first reported to have mainly haemolytic and neurotoxic physiopathological activities.
  • (13) We report a simple method for the isolation of gyroxin, a protein from the venom of the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus.
  • (14) Nevertheless, the rattlesnakes continued to exhibit behavioral responses to thermal cues after anesthetization of the pits.
  • (15) Intracompartmental pressure measurements should be considered as an adjunct in the monitoring and decision-making processes for the treatment of patients bitten by rattlesnakes.
  • (16) The histology and development of three extensive glands in the porocephalid pentastomid Porocephalus crotali is described by light and electron microscopy, during growth of the parasite to an infective stage in the tissues of mouse; the infective stage in rattlesnake definitive hosts is also included.
  • (17) We describe an apparatus for immobilization of the rattlesnake head for brain experimentation.
  • (18) The effects of crotoxin, the neurotoxin of the venom of the South American rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus terrificus), was studied by using the myenteric plexus-longitudinal muscle preparation of the guinea pig ileum.
  • (19) Fast atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectrometry was used to identify a new small myotoxin from the venom of the prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis).
  • (20) Three hemorrhagic toxins with proteolytic activity were isolated from the venom of Crotalus ruber ruber (red rattlesnake).

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