What's the difference between rother and rudder?

Rother


Definition:

  • (a.) Bovine.
  • (n.) A bovine beast.
  • (n.) A rudder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Panellist Kevin Barron, MP for Rother Valley, who was the chair of the health select committee in 2005-10, said that to save money we sometimes need to look beyond the NHS for smoking-cessation solutions.
  • (2) In Rotherham, Rother Valley, Dudley North, Plymouth Moor View and Penistone and Stocksbridge, the speed of Ukip's advance, coupled with evidence of a broader decline in blue-collar support for Labour, led the Fabians to talk of a " considerable vulnerability to Ukip ".
  • (3) This outbreak raises the concern of Rother outbreaks of cholera occuring on remote and poorly equipped Pacific islands where the environmental circumstances are conducive to cholera spread.
  • (4) Wolverhampton (19 days), north Norfolk and Sheffield (both 20 days) and Hastings and Rother in Kent (21) were the next fastest for giving patients the procedure.
  • (5) C3 nephritic factor (NEF), an IgG autoantibody to the alternative pathway C3 convertase, is usually measured by crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CI) but recently a reliable haemolytic assay (HA) was described by Rother (1982).
  • (6) But while the rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent are at low or very low levels for the time of year, the Environment Agency said public water supplies were unlikely to be affected in the region.
  • (7) The high court in London ordered Jane Collins to pay £54,000 each to Sarah Champion, Kevin Barron and John Healey, the MPs for Rotherham, Rother Valley, and Wentworth and Dearne respectively.
  • (8) At the table Dave Brindle (Chair) Public services editor, the Guardian Kevin Barron MP for Rother Valley and former chair of the health select committee (2005-10) Steve Bedser Cabinet member, health and wellbeing, Birmingham city council Shirley Cramer Chief executive, Royal Society of Public Health Paula Chadwick Chief executive, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation Eugene Milne Director, adult health and wellbeing, Public Health England Credits Seminar report commissioned and controlled by the Guardian.
  • (9) Young men have their hair specially heseltined for their first speech at a Tory conference … One young man who had obviously had his hair heseltined for the day was a 16-year-old from the Rother valley called William Hague.
  • (10) Speaking to Sky News in January last year, Caven Vines, the former leader of Ukip on Rotherham council, claimed that the MP for Wentworth and Dearne, John Healey, and the MP for Rother Valley, Sir Kevin Barron, “knew what was going on”.
  • (11) It seems likely a scene-stealing turn as a vowel-mangling western star in the Coen rothers’ new period romp Hail, Caesar!

Rudder


Definition:

  • (n.) A riddle or sieve.
  • (n.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.
  • (n.) Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But that is informed consent – which users can’t see, but I’m putting in quotes.” Asked by the host, Alex Goldman, if OKCupid had ever considered bringing in an ethicist to vet the experiments, Rudder said: “To wring his hands all day for a $100,000 a year?”.
  • (2) Christian Rudder accepted blame for stoking the fires around the topic, admitting that his initial blogpost was “sensationally written”, but stood by the argument that experimenting on users was “just part of the scientific method”.
  • (3) Lee was nervous about attempting to land using "stick and rudder" flying skills.
  • (4) Speaking to On The Media’s TLDR podcast , Rudder said that there was no consideration given to letting users opt-in to experimentation, because “once people know that they’re being studied along a particular axis, inevitably they’re gonna act differently.
  • (5) OkCupid doesn’t really know what it’s doing,” writes Rudder in the most recent blogpost .
  • (6) The final experiment Rudder describes has proved more controversial, however.
  • (7) "If they had wanted to stop us they could have attacked our rudder and propeller, instead they preferred to send masked commando soldiers to attack us.
  • (8) It uses pallets dropped by parachute and guided by GPS navigation and a rudder.
  • (9) Perlmutter thanks Bernanke for his steady hand on the economic rudder.
  • (10) Experiments are how you sort all this out.” Rudder refers specifically to Facebook’s troubles over its experimentation, when the firm tweaked the content of users’ news feeds in an effort to discover what their reaction was to a higher proportion of positive or negative posts.
  • (11) That’s how websites work.” The first experiment Rudder describes occurred in January 2013.
  • (12) "Maybe this time they'll attack the rudder and the propeller, we'll see."
  • (13) However, abdominal ruddering did not contribute to yaw turns.
  • (14) And we all know what Silicon Valley feels about ethicists : they know what’s ethical and what’s not already, so why hire one “to wring his hands for $100,000 a year”, as OKCupid’s Christian Rudder put it.
  • (15) With failing engines, ruptured fuel tanks and a damaged rudder, Air Force One finally lunges into the Caspian Sea and breaks apart; just in time, Ford is safely yanked on to a hovering Hercules turboprop, which, as its pilot beamingly announces while the theme appropriated by Trump blares out one last time, at once becomes Air Force One.
  • (16) 21st CENTURY AIRSHIPS The Zeppelin flies again How it works: Rigid or semi-rigid compartment lifted and held aloft by lighter-than-air gas (hydrogen, helium, hot air), driven usually by gas-burning engine, steered by rudder State of play: Technology with a (mixed) history, once considered defunct, now enjoying major R&D revival, various prototypes in development, first actual passenger-carrying flights underway Latest action: Modern small airships developed by a German company (Zeppelin NT, no less) and others offer sightseeing tours for small groups in London, San Francisco, Switzerland and Tokyo – weather permitting Downsides: Image overshadowed by the Hindenburg fire and other 1930s disasters; relatively slow speed, especially into headwind; stability issues, unusable in bad weather; still burns fuel Likeliest prospects: Advertising and tourism (already demonstrated), observation, heavy lifting, eg for military equipment, short-haul travel competing with ferries Long-term vision?
  • (17) The rating typically proves accurate, but, Rudder writes, “in the back of our minds, there’s always been the possibility: maybe it works just because we tell people it does.
  • (18) And that’s the kind of, again the kind of conversation that I think Facebook on accident, and OkCupid on purpose, is trying to kickstart.” Rudder had weighed into the conversation with a blogpost in late July detailing the ways in which OKCupid performed experiments to assess the value of its service.
  • (19) For now though, policy makers are holding the rudder steady, hoping for the storm to blow over.
  • (20) The crews of Sea Shepherd ships also drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders, launch flares with hooks, and point high-powered lasers at the whalers to annoy crew members.

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