What's the difference between sayer and stayer?

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."

Stayer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These motives were satisfactorily realised, according to the 'stayers'; and 'leavers' scored less favourably, but still at a high level.
  • (2) Sometimes, loading for endurance in skater-stayers produces rather essential disturbances in structure of muscle fibers up to their necrosis.
  • (3) The distributions of haemoglobin, erythrocyte count and haematocrit were significantly higher in colt stayers compared to the other three groups.
  • (4) Eighty-two per cent of them declared that they were, in general, (very) satisfied with their work; these included 94 per cent of the 'stayers' and 63 per cent of the 'leavers'.
  • (5) Students who had abandoned their original preference for family medicine (defectors) were compared with students who had maintained an interest in family medicine (stayers).
  • (6) Few who use home- and community-based long-term care would otherwise have been long-stayers in nursing homes.
  • (7) In fillies these values were also significantly higher in stayers compared to sprinters.
  • (8) This study also identified a subgroup of "potential defector" students (within the stayer cohort) who maintained an interest in family practice but evidenced concerns similar to the defector students.
  • (9) At baseline drop-outs were more likely to have lower educational qualifications than those who participated in both the baseline and follow-up studies (stayers) and included significantly more smokers than non-smokers.
  • (10) The same picture was also seen in the other features studied; the 'stayers' were very satisfied with their working conditions and the future possibilities of the group practice, while the 'leavers' reacted less positively, but, on average, not negatively.
  • (11) Coronary risk factors of newcomers were not different from that of the stayers at follow-up except for slightly, but not significantly, higher smoking rates in newcomers.
  • (12) The relationship between employee turnover and performance was measured for 144 leavers and 144 stayers across 32 positions in a large institution for mentally retarded people.
  • (13) Racing Victoria later confirmed the English-trained stayer had undergone a successful operation to stabilise a fractured fetlock.
  • (14) Eosinophil counts were significantly higher in the stayer groups compared to the sprinters.
  • (15) The permanent stayers differed from the two other nursing home sub-groups, and from community residents, in that they tended to be older and more functionally and mentally impaired.
  • (16) Results of blood counts have been analysed in three-year-old racehorses in training comprising 77 colt stayers, 27 colt sprinters, 61 filly stayers and 35 filly sprinters.
  • (17) These tests assessed (1) differences between dropouts and stayers in terms of pretest indices of primary outcome variables (substance use), (2) differences in change scores for dropouts and stayers, (3) differences in rates of attrition among experimental conditions, and (4) differences in pretest indices for dropouts among conditions.
  • (18) The discrete-time mover-stayer model (Blumen, Kogan, and McCarthy, 1955, The Industrial Mobility of Labor as a Probability Process, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press) is a useful model for studying changes over time in heterogeneous populations.
  • (19) Seven variables were found to be significantly overrepresented among the long stayers, including treatment with electroconvulsive therapy, medical consultations, underemployment, dementia, disposition to a place other than home, absence of alcohol or drug abuse, and presence of psychosis without affective symptoms.
  • (20) The short term stayers and those who died following admission to a nursing home differed from respondents who did not enter nursing homes--primarily in terms of prior living arrangements and levels of social support.

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