What's the difference between sawyer and sayer?

Sawyer


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
  • (n.) A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.
  • (n.) The bowfin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous experiments had demonstrated that the receptors for the lectins soybean agglutinin (SBA), wheat germ agglutinin, concanavalin A and Lens culinaris agglutinin all were relatively uniformly distributed on both myoblasts and myotubes, and that SBA receptors were capable of rapid redistribution on myotubes but not myoblasts at 4 degrees C (Sawyer & Akeson, 1983).
  • (2) Meanwhile, unlike kick-off's Simon McMahon, Phil Sawyer is not off to France on Thursday.
  • (3) Sawyer, William D. (U.S. Army Medical Unit, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.
  • (4) Photograph: Reuters Sawyer is believed to have contacted the virus from his sister, who died of Ebola earlier this month.
  • (5) Lutz points out that he's talked to Natalie Sawyer, so I think he's stepping forward.
  • (6) We previously demonstrated that a heterotypic complex of the two rat asialoglycoprotein receptor subunits was assembled during cell-free translation (Sawyer, J. T., and D. Doyle.
  • (7) The team also includes Julie Sawyer, Indyk’s senior aide, economics expert Hady Amyr, and Michael Yaffe, who oversees liaison with world powers with an interest in the region.
  • (8) "I think handshakes should be introduced into all forms of work," announces Phil Sawyer.
  • (9) "No," he says in response to Sawyer's question about whether the US should "brace" for retaliation from Assad, whose military capabilities are "insignificant" compared to those of America.
  • (10) Even though that involved hunting through crowded buildings in streets without door numbers, Nigerian teams managed to trace everybody who had been in contact with Sawyer and everybody who had contact with those who later developed the disease.
  • (11) Yvonne Roberts’s baby boomer view: ‘The perils of a moneyless old age have been brought forward’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer Miranda Sawyer says she hasn’t written a self-help manual, but it’s an often wise and reflective book that drops more famous names than currants in a fruitcake.
  • (12) In 2016, in the Sawyer version, she is wobbling, “carrying several large suitcases from the past, plus a few significant others who are clinging to you”.
  • (13) For the love of God will you be quiet, Sawyer, you'll be giving people ideas.
  • (14) Thanks for reminding me of Arachnophobia," writes Phil Sawyer.
  • (15) Eighty-three patients (47 male, 36 female) meeting the inclusion criteria of Sawyers et al.
  • (16) Written and directed by 31-year-old Richard Tanne, Southside with You stars Parker Sawyers as Barack and Tika Sumpter as Michelle; the executive producer is the musician and Obama fan John Legend.
  • (17) I am a woman, Bruce Jenner tells Diane Sawyer in ABC interview Read more Bruce Jenner’s public announcement that she identifies as a woman is likely to elicit a “mixed bag” of reactions in track and field and society as a whole, Bert Bonanno, Jenner’s coach at the 1976 Olympics, said on Saturday.
  • (18) But Sawyer highlights the difficulties for over-50s of finding employment after the economic crisis.
  • (19) The German samples were not analyzed by the Sawyer method.
  • (20) Authorities said they were considering applying for an experimental drug used on two Americans to treat the doctor who headed Sawyer's team and is now battling the virus herself.

Sayer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who says; an utterer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What chance do historians have to address histories honestly when even today the questions remain over whose stories shall be told?” In an interview before his departure, Sayers reflects that this politically charged atmosphere had dissipated by the time he began his directorship in 2010.
  • (2) The shot and javelin are the clear weak points in my heptathlon so when Barrie thought of it [teaming up with Sayers] and brought it to me, it felt a stroke of genius for sure,” says Johnson-Thompson, who will compete in the British indoor championships in Sheffield this weekend and then the Birmingham indoor grand prix.
  • (3) If the news is confirmed, it would lead to Goldie Sayers, the British javelin record holder , and the British men’s 4x400m relay team, who both finished fourth in Beijing, belatedly being awarded bronze medals .
  • (4) Sayer is referring to the Watership Alan episode of I'm Alan Partridge when irate farmers drop a dead cow from a bridge on the hapless DJ while he's trying to film a crummy commercial for Hamilton's Water Breaks.
  • (5) My cold call was the most painful experience of my life,” confesses Sayers.
  • (6) The nay-sayers argue that it will waste billions of pounds when a straightforward upgrade of the west coast line would do just as good a job without tearing up idyllic parts of Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.
  • (7) Alexander Sayer Gard-Murray Oxford • Never was a word so misused as the application of the term “radicalisation” to the mental abduction of young people by doctrinaire and violent adherents of Islam.
  • (8) Many of these are people with posh names, liberal-baiting sayers of the unsayable – the “unsayable” generally just being routine racism, sexism and idiocy.
  • (9) smiles Jude Sayer, our guide to Norwich, as we stand by the river Wensum watching the motor boats puttering towards Wroxham.
  • (10) It had always been her ambition – "in fact, my intention" – to write, and the decision to try her hand at detective fiction, following in the footsteps of her heroes Margery Allingham and Dorothy L Sayers, was straightforward.
  • (11) The nay-sayers insist loudly that they're "climate sceptics", but this is a calculated misnomer – scientific scepticism is the method of investigating whether a particular hypothesis is supported by the evidence.
  • (12) Both analogues showed remarkable steroidogenic activity as measured by Sayers test.
  • (13) Their first session, just before Christmas, was judged a success by Sayers, Johnson-Thompson and her coach, Mike Holmes.
  • (14) The ACTH-releasing activity of hypothalamic extract and rat plasma was examined with the dispersed rat pituitary cell technique of Swallow and Sayer (8).
  • (15) For one senior lawyer, the former Law Society chief Robert Sayer, his public designation of one rival as "a dog turd" plainly has no bearing on his current work at Sayer Moore & Co solicitors.
  • (16) QUEEN'S VOLUNTEER RESERVES MEDAL QVRM Sqn Ldr Stuart John Sayer Talton.
  • (17) When it came to choosing a detective, however, she turned her face against the tradition for the talented amateur, from Sherlock Holmes to Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey, and plumped for a professional instead.
  • (18) The results of Study 1 suggested the existence of six MHLC clusters: pure internal; double external; pure chance; yea sayer; nay sayer, and believer in control.
  • (19) She is also receiving specialist coaching in her weakest event from Goldie Sayers, the leading British javelin thrower .
  • (20) recalls Larry Sayer, a retired engineer, "and it was obvious: Dorridge residents against Sainsbury's."

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