What's the difference between reacher and treacher?
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.
Treacher
Definition:
(n.) A traitor; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison was also made with cephalometric roentgenograms of a patient with Treacher Collins syndrome and of a patient with progeria.
(2) The clinical study of the major cranio-facial malformations such as Apert syndrome, Treacher-Collins syndrome, Blepharophimosis and Bilateral Cleft Palate patients, lead us to note a similarity of the orbito-palpebral region.
(3) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(4) They say an increasing number of “protracted refugees” living in centres in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq will attempt the treacherous journey to Europe because they cannot offer their families a life or a future in the camps.
(5) The thinktank added: “It will be interesting to watch next week how Mr Osborne navigates these treacherous waters and avoids the obstacles he constructed for himself.
(6) The power and versatility of these computer-imaging techniques are demonstrated by examining living subjects with major craniofacial dysmorphology (Treacher-Collins syndrome and unilateral coronal synostosis); an anthropoid osteological specimen (Gorilla); and a fossil mammal skull.
(7) Although the ferocity of the wind has eased, engineers have been struggling to restore electricity in conditions described as treacherous and worsening.
(8) May linked the situation in Calais directly to the refugee crisis in north Africa and the migrant boats risking the journey across the Mediterranean: “The government is clear that we must break the link between people making the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean and achieving settlement in Europe ,” she said.
(9) There was desperate resistance, as when Sol Campbell had to deal with a treacherous low ball from the substitute Dmitry Torbinsky.
(10) Viewed from the outside, Pakistan looms as the Fukushima of fundamentalism: a volatile, treacherous place filled with frothing Islamists and double-dealing generals, leaking plutonium-grade terrorist trouble.
(11) The investment banking division, which causes much of the controversy over bonuses at the end of the year, has had a torrid time but remained profitable and Hester said it had been operating in an "incredibly treacherous environment".
(12) In the low-risk setting, TB can be treacherous because misdiagnosis is likely.
(13) The Obama administration on Monday approved Shell’s plan to resume drilling for oil and gas in the treacherous and fragile waters off the coast of Alaska , three years after the Anglo-Dutch oil giant was forced to suspend operations following a series of potentially dangerous blunders.
(14) Linkage analysis between the D4S18, D4S23, and QDPR loci and Treacher Collins syndrome in eight families excluded the Treacher Collins syndrome locus from the region of the deletion.
(15) On the contrary, the rotation of the midfacial segment combined with mandibular lengthening for the correction of Treacher Collins has a strong tendency to relapse because of the backward pull of the soft tissues.
(16) Treacher Collins syndrome is a rare but well studied autosomal dominant craniofacial malformation syndrome.
(17) UAE halted Isis air attacks after pilot capture Read more But it was also a crude and menacing message to Jordanians, whose government was described as “treacherous and Zionist”, to stop fighting Isis.
(18) Heathrow airport cancelled half of its flights as the snow and cold weather continued to cause problems across the UK, stranding motorists and leaving roads icy and treacherous.
(19) The area above the last camp at South Col is nicknamed the "death zone" because of the steep icy slope, treacherous conditions and low oxygen level.
(20) The haemorrhagic accident preceding the onset of craniofacial microsomia is discussed as is the distinctly different phenomenon of disturbance to the migration or differentiation of neural crest cells in the pathogenesis of Treacher Collins syndrome.