What's the difference between sinker and stinker?

Sinker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sinks.
  • (n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.
  • (n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simple suturing techniques are also described, including the practicability of using padded buttons plus lead fishing sinkers to adjust the tension and secure these sutures on the surface of the neck.
  • (2) The investigation consisted of four studies: (1) visual observation of the dissolution performance using 12 different sinkers; (2) the effect on drug release from nine classified sinkers on two different capsule formulations; (3) side-by-side comparison between the selected optimal longitudinal U clip and the wire helix lateral type sinkers; and (4) hydrodynamic effects caused by the use of the longitudinal U clip and the wire helix lateral type sinkers in the absence of capsule shells.
  • (3) The mean morbidity level of professional diseases in sinkers was 12.0 per 1000 (vibration disease--4.9, hypoacusis--6.4).
  • (4) Longitudinal sinkers contact the dosage forms on the long axis.
  • (5) An 11-year-old girl developed a corneal ulcer five days after sustaining a corneal abrasion from a fishline sinker.
  • (6) And if it’s a choice then it’s a lot easier to demonize it.” Recalling how believing that he was a sinner made him depressed, Nesbitt said he “was buying all that hook, line and sinker and of course it makes you feel like you’re a failure.
  • (7) Updated at 10.27pm BST 10.12pm BST First pitch Adam Wainwright faces Starling Marte, starts him off with a sinker, finishes him with a curveball - strike three.
  • (8) During 1963-1990 professional disease were registered in 336 sinkers (vibration disease--42.6%; hypoacusis--35.1%; silicosis and dust-induced bronchitis--11.3 and 7.4% respectively).
  • (9) Stone net sinkers, which is the evidence of the use of fish nets, were also found.
  • (10) He said the government’s threat to drop its own legislation was a negotiating tactic which the Greens “fell for hook, line and sinker”.
  • (11) His article is so far off the mark, and bears so little relation to the facts, that he appears to have swallowed Labour spin hook, line and sinker.
  • (12) Various new sinker designs were fabricated, tested, and classified.
  • (13) 4.09am BST Tigers 5 - Red Sox 1, bottom of 8th Middlebrooks pulls a sinker ball into the corner in left field and has himself a one-out double.
  • (14) In the swimming test (5 gr sinkers, 36 degrees C water) the median swimming time was reduced from greater 120 minutes in the controls to 16 minutes in the bilaterally depressed rats.
  • (15) Lateral sinkers either wrap around or contact capsule dosage forms in the middle, such as the line where the top and bottom halves of a capsule shell come together.
  • (16) Data are presented on the formation of neuropsychic disorders in mine shaft sinkers and drill operators at different stages of vibration disease.
  • (17) The objective of this investigation was to determine if other sinker shapes will influence the rate, extent, or variability of dissolution.
  • (18) Cardinals 3 - Dodgers 2, bottom of 4th Ellis lines a sinker for a single, right up the middle and Ethier scores to cut the Dodgers deficit to a single run!
  • (19) Four classes of sinker shapes were defined: longitudinal, lateral, screen enclosures, and internal weights.
  • (20) We concluded that capsules sunk with either of the two longitudinal sinkers, the U clip or the paper clip, have faster, more complete dissolution and less variable results than did lateral type sinkers.

Stinker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, stinks.
  • (n.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were immediately sure he despised the movie more than any of the other Hollywood McCarthy adaptations – and there had been a few stinkers.
  • (2) Instead, it was a stinker, at least for countries in the developed world.
  • (3) Remember, for example, that everyone was doing excitable discharges about 2006 after the first week, and it turned out to be a stinker.
  • (4) 9.12am BST Michael Cox gets forensic to explain why last night's match was such a stinker.
  • (5) Stones is another player whose performances have impressed Hodgson recently but the jittery young Everton defender picked the wrong time to have a stinker.
  • (6) It was this break with reality that sunk the genre in the nineties, causing big-name stars to turn in a series of stinkers, including Body of Evidence starring Madonna and the plain uncomfortable Bruce Willis vehicle Colour of Night.
  • (7) Every class has a stinker; mine doesn't believe in deodorant.
  • (8) Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading."
  • (9) As Jack Nicholson's con-man brother in The King Of Marvin Gardens , he embodies the self-delusion of the American dream of success and wealth, while his brutish Tom Buchanan in the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby is one of the few worthwhile things about that stinker.
  • (10) And he has lifted them up.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton: ‘half of Trump’s supporters go into the basket of deplorables’ And so the “basket of deplorables” has found its place alongside other debris in the gaffe sewer of recent elections, including this stinker from a fundraiser in San Francisco in 2008: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.
  • (11) Walsh has pointed to the financial crisis and downturn that hit Spain harder than many countries in Europe as one reason why BA's deal was starting to look a potential stinker.
  • (12) There have been some fantastic ones in the CoD lifeline – Crash, Terminal, Crossfire – but also some stinkers that somehow made it though; maps with horrible camping spots and site lines that strafe the whole arena.
  • (13) And with Giround having such a stinker, they only really threaten when a midfielder runs forward from deep, something that Ramsey is doing with curious infrequency.
  • (14) Only I had two genuine stinkers, Algeria v Slovenia and Paraguay v Japan, which is a pretty good return, all told.
  • (15) His chief pleasure, he noted, was "writing stinkers to people who attack me in the press".
  • (16) In case you missed it, The Sun called Cameron’s deal “a steaming pile of manure” , “a derisory offer” and “a stinker” that’s “an abject defeat on immigration”.
  • (17) Seriously, there were too many stinkers, but losing 3-1 against Philadelphia was particularly rough, because Chivas went ahead before a terrible refereeing decision torpedoed any hopes of getting a result.