What's the difference between sharer and sharper?

Sharer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "File-sharers in the UK were found to spend more on content than those who only consumed legal content, demonstrating the potential boost to legal digital content sales as a result of content sampling."
  • (2) Last month, Peter Mandelson set out the government's plans for a scheme which would see persistent online sharers of copyrighted material sent a series of warning letters before having their broadband connections slowed down or even suspended.
  • (3) It’s like bike sharers are given a cloak of visibility when they set out on a journey.
  • (4) Still, the zero-death record is especially startling given that bike sharing programs don’t generally provide helmets, and many bike sharers don’t carry them around and, therefore, don’t wear them.
  • (5) It is already aware of the risk that ex-offenders can pose to house sharers.
  • (6) In simulations of needlesharing, seven to ten times more blood was transferred from the index user to the first sharer when 2 ml syringes were used compared with 1 ml syringes.
  • (7) Is he a piratical martyr of internet freedom, latest scapegoat in the content providers' war against the information sharers?
  • (8) He notes Thomas Jefferson’s enthusiasm for participatory democracy based on town meetings – a system that Jefferson said made every man “a sharer … a participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year, but every day.” By contrast, Alexander Hamilton described the populace as “the Beast” and argued at one stage for a modified version of the British monarchy to keep them in check.
  • (9) As Napster gave rise to decentralised file-sharing, this will lead to even more de-centralised methods that are harder for authorities to track, and file-sharers will become more adept at hiding their activities.
  • (10) Between 2009 and 2014, the number of flatsharers aged between 35 and 44 rose by 186%, according to Spareroom, the UK’s biggest flatshare website, while the number of sharers aged 45 to 54 went up by 300%.
  • (11) In addition, discrimination can be an ESS if discriminators retaliate against unconditionally aggressive conspecifics of the same allotype, or if the payoff to two sharers of a resource is greater than the payoff to both when sharing does not occur.
  • (12) The assumption of privacy, of home life as castle, tacitly adopted by Bree, Susan, Lynette and Gaby, and their decisions to choose when and with whom to spill secrets, is being made to look antediluvian by the rising, currently victorious, generations of compulsive sharers.
  • (13) The Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner, Andrew Colvin, said access to the details known as metadata had application in a wide range of investigations, including pursuing illegal downloaders and file sharers.
  • (14) In the brain, HIV infection induces directly inflammatory infiltrates including the typical multinucleated giant cells described by Sharer.
  • (15) No demographic or personality variables discriminated needle-sharers from nonsharers.
  • (16) In the lung, interstitial inflammation prevails, which may be related to direct HIV infection and include rare multinucleated giant cells like the ones described by Sharer.
  • (17) As Clay Shirky's new book Cognitive Surplus argues, the internet, computer games and mobile devices are creating a new generation of active producers and sharers of content, rather than passive consumers.
  • (18) Nevertheless the persistence of risk behaviours in a consistent proportion of participants emphasizes the urgency of additional prevention strategies, such as syringe exchange or supply to the limited number of sharers and counselling to encourage safer sex.
  • (19) But changes to LHA rules mean payment levels will be reduced and the age from which someone qualifies to be a sole tenant, rather than a house-sharer, will rise from 25 to 35.
  • (20) In caregiving matches, satisfaction is also related to the intensive interpersonal relationship developed between sharers; stress is a particular problem for the caregiver.

Sharper


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
  • (2) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
  • (3) Parties seek a sharper definition and a clearer purpose: voters rightly demand a reason to rule beyond Cameron’s laconic “because I thought I’d be good at it”.
  • (4) Text is said to appear sharper, while a "control centre" on the phone allows users to adjust settings with just one swipe from the bottom of the screen.
  • (5) It's no coincidence that both novels are about how easily children can be warped or damaged, but of the two it is the shorter, sharper Great Expectations that has aged better.
  • (6) In 6-d and older myotubes, A bands became increasingly more aligned, their edges sharper, and the separation between them (I bands) wider.
  • (7) (iii) Shrunken gels give sharper photographic images and provide better interlane protein band comparisons.
  • (8) At low percentages of Hb-F, the sharper zone of the Tris method is more easily visible than that of the Bis-tris method, but the latter is a somewhat more rapid procedure.
  • (9) During the hyperglycemic clamp pubertal children showed enhanced insulin responses and in turn a sharper fall in amino acids (P less than 0.05 vs. prepubertals).
  • (10) The positivity may be related to the effort needed to inhibit associated movements in order to perform a sharper and more discrete response.
  • (11) Although the female preponderance of human thyroid cancer was not seen in dogs, females showed a much sharper increase in risk with advancing age than did males.
  • (12) SC and EGB subfractions showed a considerable decrease in the enzyme activity of dogs aged 3 months; this peculiarity persisted up to the 6-month age in the above formations, especially in the subfractions B, C, D and E. Dogs aged 1 year exhibited a sharper decrease in the general activity of the enzyme of formations C, D, E in EGB and SC.
  • (13) Six months after treatment the sample as a whole showed good maintenance of treatment effects, but the differences between groups had become somewhat sharper, with the special behavior therapy group faring best, the regular behavior therapy group intermediate, and the psychotherapy group worst.
  • (14) The clinical correlate is "sharper bronchoalveolar respiration".
  • (15) The visitors had started looking significantly sharper and took a surprise lead after 91 seconds through Tomas Malec, although Ahmed Elmohamady equalised with a header to send the teams in level at half-time.
  • (16) The potential role of nonlinearities in the magnetic field gradient in magnetic resonance imaging for producing sharper boundaries for the excited spin slice region is investigated.
  • (17) "The review of public procurement is examining whether the UK is making best use of the application of EU procurement rules, as well as the degree to which the government can set out requirements and evaluation criteria with a sharper focus on the UK's strategic interest and how the government can support businesses and ensure that when they compete for work they are doing it on an equal footing with their competitors."
  • (18) The contrast with the treatment of the 2014 crash of Malaysian airlines MH17 in eastern Ukraine could hardly be sharper.
  • (19) In the mouse PBL system, after administration by gavage, B[l]A was more cytotoxic and produced a sharper elevation in SCE frequency than B[a]P.
  • (20) Lippi's spectre came into sharper focus after the Fiorentina defeat, with whispers across the pages of the football press and furious blogging to and fro on Juve's website - echoing Ranieri's Chelsea days, actually, with most fans urging support for Il Mister and concentration on the matter in hand, whatever the long term.