What's the difference between rimer and riser?

Rimer


Definition:

  • (n.) A rhymer; a versifier.
  • (n.) A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While some data suggest a similar increase in pain thresholds for pregnant women, Goolkasian and Rimer have found, using signal detection procedures, that women are increasingly likely to report stimuli as painful during the last 2 weeks of pregnancy.
  • (2) The decisions, made by Lord Neuberger, the master of the rolls, Lord Justice Moses and Lord Justice Rimer, were the latest in a long legal battle over deaths in Iraq .
  • (3) But Lord Justice Laws, Lord Justice Rimer and Lord Justice Sullivan unanimously rejected the appeal, which was only concerned with statutory construction.
  • (4) A new machine which appears to offer for greater facilities is the O2 concentrator of Rimer-Birlec (Cardiff, Wales).

Riser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rises; as, an early riser.
  • (n.) The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread.
  • (n.) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.
  • (n.) A shaft excavated from below upward.
  • (n.) A feed head. See under Feed, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Semiconductor maker CSR has dropped 2.5%, but its larger rival ARM is the biggest riser on the FTSE 100, up 1.8% Billions has already been wiped off tech stocks in recent days, on fears that prices have been driven too high in recent months.
  • (2) Precious metal miners were among the risers as investors bought gold and silver, while pharmaceutical stocks moved higher as the threat of Hillary Clinton’s price controls disappeared.
  • (3) Other issues include dry risers – the water outlets inside buildings for firefighters to use – being damaged, residents replacing their own front doors with non-standard ones, and a lack of fire notices or signs.
  • (4) In the latest sign that McDonald’s is trying to consolidate its control of the coveted breakfast market, the fast food chain has applied to trademark a new word that could appeal to late morning risers everywhere: “McBrunch.” The application, which the maker of the Egg McMuffin filed on 23 July, signals at the very least an interest in expanding what has been one of the company’s fastest-growing and most profitable day segments.
  • (5) In the gliding movement into maximum intercuspation, the difference of the canine riser showed no consistent change in the muscle activity.
  • (6) Steeper canine risers caused a reduction of the muscle activity when compared with the more flat guidance.
  • (7) Without artificial pumping, trapping of rainfall with flapgate risers aided in eliminating oviposition sites but still allowed mosquito production in some marsh locations.
  • (8) US said to allow drilling without needed permits 14 May BP plans to insert a 4in-tube into the ruptured 21in riser pipe that would take the oil to the surface.
  • (9) However the relative relationships between the individual muscles as well as the working-side muscle and nonworking-side muscle remained unchanged with all canine risers.
  • (10) Terms such as "stress-riser fracture" and "Young's modulus fracture" have been applied.
  • (11) The bank's shares – down a third this year and hit by fraud allegations brought by the New York attorney general in June – rose 4% to 228.4p and were the biggest risers in the FTSE 100.
  • (12) In the present experiment the perceived and attained absolute and relative (riser height divided by leg length) action boundaries were significantly affected by hip joint flexibility.
  • (13) Rolls-Royce and Imperial Tobacco, which were hit by the strength of the pound last year, were both among the top risers.
  • (14) Protesters criticise Drax over use of subsidies for coal and wood power Read more Drax’s planned investments were welcomed by the City, with shares closing up 12% at 311p – the biggest riser of the day on the FTSE 250.
  • (15) BP engineers today began the slow process of trying to fit a smaller tube inside the crumpled riser pipe on the ocean floor to try to siphon oil to the surface.
  • (16) Banks were among the biggest risers on the FTSE 100 this morning, with Lloyds Banking Group gaining 2.95% to 77.89p, Royal Bank of Scotland up 2.8% at 49.9p, Barclays rising 2.79% to 328p and HSBC 1.7% higher at 672.5p.
  • (17) Shares in the UK’s biggest retailer leapt nearly 7% to 155p on Tuesday, making it the biggest riser in the FTSE 100, as analysts said the industry market share data suggested sales at established Tesco stores were level, and might even have risen, over the festive period.
  • (18) On each subject the lateral gliding movements were carried out while maintaining the occlusal contact on the canine riser.
  • (19) We have reported the case of a nonunion of a clavicle fracture in which the Dacron had eroded the bone and acted as a stress riser contributing to the fracture.
  • (20) As explained at 7.44am, it's not clear how Pfizer can raise its offer again under City rules 8.25am BST Garry White (@GarryWhite) Not longer a Pfizer riser: #AstraZeneca shares fall 13.1% after management rejected "final" offer from US group May 19, 2014 8.17am BST This charts shows how AstraZeneca's shares have tumbled right back to their level in late April, after Pfizer made its first approach (but before it raised it).

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