What's the difference between slasher and smasher?
Slasher
Definition:
(n.) A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(2) Prior to working on Blade Runner 2, which may or may not be his next film, Scott will make his long-awaited return to science fiction with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as Alien, his cult 1979 slasher in space.
(3) Sure, they have watered-down, sexualized soaps such as Teen Wolf and the TV version of 90s slasher flick Scream, but Scream’s premiere garnered only a million viewers, compared to 10.1 million for AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead .
(4) It can also be revealed that a tape found in Bridger's video player when police raided his home was paused at the point of a rape and murder scene from the slasher film The Last House on the Left.
(5) Even as his foes caricature him as a slasher of the state, he seeks – unashamedly – to colonise the political centre-ground and to claim the support of working people.
(6) But I think we've made something more elevated than a straightforward slasher movie.
(7) On becoming chief executive of Aer Lingus his decision to axe 2,500 jobs at the loss-making airline earned him the nickname "slasher Walsh" – another label he professes to find mystifying.
(8) jumping from a height and hanging were compared with 19 wrist-slashers.
(9) The lineup included a strand of 80s frighteners with certified gay appeal , including The Lost Boys and A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2; an indepth talk on queer slasher history; a tongue-in-cheek feminist house-of-horrors installation called Killjoy's Kastle ; and Monster Mash , a short about gay gorehounds hooking up at a Halloween party.
(10) Many people hate slasher movies because they rely on the psychopathic male gaze.
(11) The reality is that Grayling is making the most of exploiting the legal profession's image problem as cover for his real priority – demonstrating to his own backbenchers his credentials as a budget-slasher.
(12) The 50 Shades adaptation seems to be conscious of this trait with its casting of Jamie Dornan, whose quiet portrayal of a bloodthirsty therapist in The Fall means there's hope for the story yet – provided he's allowed to bring notes, and avoid the genre's other pratfall, namely rigidity, as so ably demonstrated in Mark Wahlberg's 1993 school slasher The Substitute.
(13) But as with all slashers and burners, he hadn't the bottle to name what specific cuts he meant.
(14) After Slasher Walsh's battle with BA cabin crew, a similar showdown with Spanish staff was anticipated.
(15) Cable said the Tories were trying to present their economic team as "'Slasher' Osborne and the Hard Men".
(16) And then there's my own personal favourite: those Worcester-based jokers Analogue Domestos , who are about to release a single entitled I'm Mental, and do weekly slots at the voguish London club Byte Slasher.
(17) Sigourney Weaver is in talks to reunite with director Ridley Scott, architect of her breakout role in the 1979 slasher in space classic Alien, on his forthcoming biblical epic about the life of Moses .
(18) Male subjects viewed either two or five R-rated violent "slasher," X-rated nonviolent "pornographic," or R-rated nonviolent teenage-oriented ("teen sex") films.
(19) The farmer and his sidekick, both wearing blood-stained white smocks, like two mad dentists from a slasher movie, hoisted the deer in a kind of metal cradle and, in just a few seconds of mesmerising knife-work, removed its hide entirely.
(20) He is happy to be both a Tea Party-style slasher of taxes and public works projects, unilaterally killing a decades-in-the-making new tunnel under the Hudson River, as well as an ardent advocate of big government in the form of Hurricane Sandy relief.
Smasher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.
(n.) Anything very large or extraordinary.
(n.) One who passes counterfeit coin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite worrying he would become a "professional dream smasher", he soon learned not to fret about the rejections he was doling out.
(2) The Who's pioneering instrument-smasher could find he's met his match with one of the bespoke nylon-bodied guitars made by Olaf Diegel, professor of mechatronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand.
(3) In presentations given to a packed auditorium at the laboratory on Wednesday morning, and webcast around the world, the leaders of two research teams, who worked independently of each other, said they had spotted a new particle amid the microscopic flashes of primordial fire created inside the world's most powerful atom smasher.
(4) Comedy plays are not eligible for the award, but what about a show such as Humphrey Ker's excellent Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher , a character monologue so neatly scripted and performed, with appropriate lighting and sound cues, that it could easily be described as a one-man play?
(5) (1972), Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1973), and a book about SF art called Great Balls of Fire (1977).
(6) The world's most powerful atom smasher hunts for signs of new physics by slamming subatomic particles together at nearly the speed of light in an 18-mile round tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border.