What's the difference between reacher and spinnaker?
Reacher
Definition:
(n.) One who reaches.
(n.) An exaggeration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now Deadline reports that Christopher McQuarrie , the screenwriter-turned-director who worked with the world's most famous scientologist on his recent film Jack Reacher , is likely to step in for part five.
(2) Deadline also reports that a sequel to this year's Jack Reacher, the big-screen adaptation of Lee Child's popular series of books that controversially starred Cruise in the title role, is in the works.
(3) • Mission: Impossible 5 chooses to accept Christmas 2015 release • Stuart Heritage: No Jack Reacher sequel?
(4) The five-day £4.96m debut compares with £2.79m for GI Joe: Retaliation from a couple of weeks ago, and a previews-inflated £3.58m opening for star Tom Cruise's previous effort Jack Reacher in late December.
(5) The first Jack Reacher film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starred Cruise as the eponymous ex-US army-policeman, opposite Rosamund Pike as a lawyer trying to save an army sniper from the death penalty.
(6) Jack Reacher opens with a scene in which an expert sniper shoots dead five people in Pittsburgh, where its premiere was due to be held.
(7) The sequel is reportedly to be based on the eighteenth and most recent Reacher novel, Never Go Back, in which Reacher's attempt to meet up with the commander of his old unit is thwarted when she is arrested.
(8) David's is called Skydance, and is arguably the more commercial, with recent offerings including World War Z , Star Trek Into Darkness and Jack Reacher .
(9) As well as All You Need Is Kill, he is due to star in sci-fi tale Oblivion in 2013 and will shortly be seen as former military policemen Jack Reacher in a film of the same name, based on Lee Child's successful series of novels.
(10) Reports suggest that a scene in which Cruise's character fires a semi-automatic weapon has been removed from promotional spots for Jack Reacher ahead of its Christmas Day release in the US.
(11) Meanwhile, footage of a scene in the new Tom Cruise action movie, Jack Reacher , has reportedly been excised from all publicity for the Christopher McQuarrie film.
(12) As a property, it benefited from significantly less pre-existing brand awareness than Jack Reacher, which is based on the popular crime fiction of Lee Child.
(13) Maximum C4 levels (2 to 8% of normal were reachered by day 73 and restored total C to 40% of normal.
(14) The kind of crime fiction consumed is disparate, as shown by the top two titles: 10th Anniversary (1) is part of the Women's Murder Club series – think Sex and the City , but with homicide not hanky-panky as the girls' shared interest – while Worth Dying For (2) is a macho novel featuring Lee Child's nomadic vigilante Jack Reacher.
(15) Studios Paramount and 20th Century Fox announced the cancellation of Saturday's US premieres for Jack Reacher and comedy Parental Guidance , starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler, on Friday.
(16) Cruise would be taking on a third action franchise, with Mission: Impossible certain to get a fifth outing in the wake of Brad Bird-directed Ghost Protocol's $694m (£459m) box-office haul last year and his recent Jack Reacher film (a hearty $215m worldwide on a $60m budget) also set for a follow up.
(17) Cruise, 50, is due to return as master spy Ethan Hunt in M:I5, which is to be directed by Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie, who previously directed Cruise in the military-cop thriller Jack Reacher .
(18) Tom Cruise action thriller Jack Reacher is to get a long-mulled over sequel, according to Deadline .
(19) But if you know the name, it's likely from the credits of American films – Jack Reacher and Lincoln , Lee Daniels' The Paperboy and Daniels' new one, The Butler , which just topped an Oscar tipsters' chart of the key films of the 2013-14 awards season.
(20) The finer analysis revealed no differences in the reaching behaviour to objects and pictures of objects, even among the most active reachers.
Spinnaker
Definition:
(n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) At surgery a redundant flap of septum secundum was found that was adjacent to the inferior vena cava orifice, intercepting its blood return like a spinnaker and shunting it into the left atrium.
(2) As Professor Steve Furber, who heads SpiNNaker, explains: "The solution we came up with was basically when a neuron goes 'ping' this is represented as a very small packet in an electronic communication network.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doris Long after her successful descent of the Spinnaker tower.
(4) One such project is SpiNNaker , short for spiking neural architecture.
(5) Stimulated by our experience with two patients seen at operation, one with an obstructive spinnaker-like formation and the other with a partitioned right atrium in the setting of pulmonary atresia, we reviewed the specimens in the heart museum of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh that had prominence of the eustachian and thebesian valves.
(6) Her feat of extreme rappelling, descending 94m down the Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth on Sunday, reminded me that the spirit of adventure, of discovery and the need to defy death are innate in all of us regardless of our age.
(7) Wind and rain did not deter Doris Long, who has been honoured with an MBE for her charity fundraising, as she abseiled down the spinnaker tower in Portsmouth , Hampshire.
(8) Anterior rectal wall pressure on rectal examination shows a definite occult rectocele (spinnaker deformity) coupled with a deficient scarred perineum.
(9) Also of the Eiffel Tower, the Seattle Space Needle, the Rotterdam Euromast, the Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower, the Oriental Pearl TV tower in Shanghai and the Unisphere of the 1964 New York World's Fair.