What's the difference between shipper and whipper?
Shipper
Definition:
(n.) One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is also the largest shipper of coal around the world.
(2) The possibility exists that antibiotics and anti-inflammatory agents will be used indiscriminately in attempts to reduce leukocyte or somatic cell counts in mammary secretions to conform with Interstate Milk Shippers quality standards for raw milk to be implemented July 1, 1986.
(3) Manual and computer-assisted semen analysis were performed by the participating laboratories on pooled cryopreserved human semen samples following shipment either on dry-ice pellets or in liquid nitrogen (dry shippers).
(4) He took a job with Safeway Cargo, FedEx’s shipper in Liberia, as the general manager’s personal chauffeur.
(5) Global oil prices began to collapse just a few months after shippers committed to using DAPL, and market forecasters do not expect prices to regain 2014 levels for at least a decade.
(6) Flint Hills is not among the six shippers that have already signed contracts to send their oil through the Keystone XL.
(7) As a result, production in the Bakken Shale oil field has fallen for nearly two consecutive years…” The profit in the pipeline was to come from shippers who were locked into 2014 prices if the project was completed by 1 January.
(8) Within walking distance of his building are circuit-board manufacturers, injection-moulding companies, packagers and shippers.
(9) Joe Cox, CEO of the Chamber of Shipping of America trade group, said shippers plan for more immediate problems and for events that have precedent, like labor stoppages in a particular port.
(10) For the last century, the Panama Canal has been a key factor in world trade, enabling shippers to move more than 300m tons of products per year between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
(11) In the form it submitted to the Energy Board, Flint Hills wrote that it "is among Canada's largest crude oil purchasers, shippers and exporters.
(12) In fact, lots of people gain – the retailer, the leatherworkers, the dyers, the shippers, the artisans, the toolmakers (even the odd creative consultant) – most of them probably in Britain.
(13) He also pointed out that the corporation has previously said in court that if it were not delivering oil by 1 January 2017, its shipper contracts would expire and the project would be in jeopardy.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reunited… Aaron and Robert in Emmerdale In more romantic news, Emmerdale ’s Robron, that couple beloved of soap ’shippers everywhere, got a happy ending after Aaron’s dad was banged up for abuse.
(15) Paget, the FirstEnergy Capital analyst, said "such a pricing differential will be too attractive to [oil sands] shippers.
(16) Shippers contacted by the Guardian either did not respond to inquiries or declined to comment on the terms of their contracts with Energy Transfer.
(17) If DAPL is not available as scheduled, we will continue to use our current transportation methods,” said John Roper, spokesman for Hess Corporation, one of the shippers.
(18) In asking a judge to speedily green-light the $3.8bn project, vice-president Joey Mahmoud claimed that the loss of shippers could “effectively result in project cancellation”, leading advocates and analysts to declare that a missed January deadline could be financially disastrous for ETP and a huge feat for Standing Rock.
(19) Break-even prices and fracking costs have long been broken and it now almost seems we will keep going lower until the members of the Opec cartel literally can no longer afford a slip in prices.” Shippers, airlines and motorists stand to gain from the fall.
(20) "Food for Peace is a point of pride for the 44,000 American farmers, shippers, processors, longshoremen, and merchant mariners whose jobs depend upon the programme … American mariners on commercial US-flag vessels delivered more than 90% of defence cargo to military posts in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Whipper
Definition:
(n.) One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.
(n.) One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.
(n.) A kind of simple willow.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The spirit of my puritan ancestors was mighty on me," he confessed, as well he might since a great-grand father Hathorne had been one of the judges in the Salem witch trials, and another had been a ferocious whipper of Quakers.