What's the difference between slaver and slayer?

Slaver


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
  • (n.) A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.
  • (v. i.) To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
  • (v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.
  • (v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
  • (n.) Saliva driveling from the mouth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although diplomacy would probably preclude them from saying otherwise, after last night's events at Camp Nou, it's probably safe to say that both Real Madrid and Bayern Munich will be slavering at the prospect of facing suspension-ravaged Chelsea in the final of this year's Champions League .
  • (2) Twelve Years a Slave stars McQueen's fellow Briton Chiwetel Ejiofor as a real historical figure named Solomon Northup whose 1853 autobiography details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
  • (3) As if that weren't enough, Daenerys Targaryen, accompanied by her menacing trio of dragons and army of Unsullied, is poised to liberate Meereen, the largest city in Slaver's Bay, which could ultimately provide her with enough ships to sail to Westeros and reclaim the Iron Throne."
  • (4) Legalisation keeps pimps, brothel keepers, and sex-slavers in freedom and riches.
  • (5) days before the 2018 World Cup vote, the English bid is starting to feel like complicity in the supreme authority's slavering pursuit of the game's astronomical wealth, both over and underneath the counter.
  • (6) Then Mr Huhne actually turned on the Tories: "If you keep beating the anti-European drum, if you slaver over tax cuts for the rich, you will … wreck the nation's economy and common purpose!"
  • (7) We are supposed to slaver enviously at this ostentation; if we don’t, we condemn ourselves as losers.
  • (8) She first developed vesicles and ulcerations in oral and laryngeal mucous membranes, showing a hoarse voice and fits of coughing with excessive slavering.
  • (9) Was Ramsay Snow’s concubine running away from a pack of slavering dogs or Iwan’s album listening party?
  • (10) To contemporary readers, Crusoe's attitude to non‑whites is unpalatable; he sells a fellow shipwreck survivor to slavers, and his relationship with Friday seesaws queasily between friendship and servitude.
  • (11) Sly Bailey, as the chief executive of a company with voracious institutional shareholders slavering in the background, doesn't have that sort of clout.
  • (12) Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson), 12 Years a Slave is a true horror story that sees an affluent black American, born free in New York state, kidnapped by slavers in 1841; he wakes up in bondage before being transported to the south where he's passed from master to master.
  • (13) When milk, slaver, nasal secretion, mastitis secretion and blood were offered to flies as feeding substrates only the last three produced significant increases in feeding duration in comparison to controls offered distilled water.
  • (14) £28m radar deal 'stank' Tanzania, on Africa's east coast, is one of the poorest states in the world, formerly controlled in turn by Arab slavers, German colonists and the British.
  • (15) McQueen's screenplay is based on Northup's 1853 autobiography, which details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
  • (16) It is often a beautiful and uplifting film but does not flinch from showing the breathtaking cruelty of the slavers.
  • (17) Morocco This season Morocco has formed the backdrop to Dany's ransacking of Slaver's Bay, with scenes shot in Essaouira and Aït Benhaddou near Ouarzazate.
  • (18) "To complement this, Britain has also been a nation of emigration, sending 'settlers' to countries such as North America, Australasia and Southern Africa, usually displacing their original inhabitants; traders, investors and slavers all over the world; and conquerors and rulers to India, Africa and elsewhere.
  • (19) Where they slavered with voracious self-interest, the NHS symbolised courageous self-sacrifice for the good of all.
  • (20) Speaking to US television talk-show host and journalist Charlie Rose, Lucas quipped that he had sold his “kids … to the white slavers that take these things”.

Slayer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
  • (2) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
  • (3) Pauline has seen an actual human eat two Slayer burgers in a row.
  • (4) Beyond the strangers in internet chatrooms, where I discussed the subtextual relationship between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and evil slayer Faith, no one said I was allowed to feel like this.
  • (5) But I’m no longer obsessed.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instead, Hoult speaks knowledgeably about daytime TV – in particular Homes Under the Hammer , Wanted Down Under and Come Dine With Me – and with studenty enthusiasm about food: “When I fall asleep I’m thinking about breakfast and then after breakfast it’s lunch and then it’s dinnertime with snacks in between.” At 25, then, he remains appealingly suburban despite the glam location (beach cabana at the Hotel du Cap , Cannes’s most exclusive) and rising star status ( X-Men , Clash of the Titans , Jack the Giant Slayer , Jennifer Lawrence ’s ex).
  • (6) The King Slayer, having thrown a child, Bran, from a tower without the slightest show of emotion, amazingly managed to become the subject of our sympathy in the last season.
  • (7) Kerber arrived on No1 Court as the slayer of Maria Sharapova, but perhaps the exertion of that famous victory took its toll.
  • (8) Even the introduction of Shola Ameobi, dubbed the "Mackem Slayer" in these parts because of his potent scoring record against Sunderland, could not change the sway of this match.
  • (9) Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB) 1997-2003 Buffy's helper who discovered her witch powers and Sapphic nature in the course of the series.
  • (10) Photograph: Rex Features In recent years McShane has been busy with a run of time-consuming, XL-sized special-effects blockbusters: Jack The Giant Slayer is only the latest after Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides , Snow White And The Huntsman and The Golden Compass .
  • (11) He's also running us though the menu, recommending the "Slayer" : 10oz of beef, chili, caremalized onions, andouille (what's that?!
  • (12) But this year they’re playing the Free Fringe and Bob Slayer’s Heroes venues, at ticket prices of zero pence and £6, respectively.
  • (13) UC Sunnydale (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1997 to 2003) Facebook Twitter Pinterest History revision was the least of Buffy’s worries.
  • (14) Lately, though, she's been joined by other chart femme fatales keen to address death with all the gusto of a Slayer album.
  • (15) Zlatan, the slayer of the English, zips clear of Vermaelen down the inside-right channel and into the area - and wastes no time in hammering the ball into the top-right corner.
  • (16) When the Duke and Duchess visited Australia and New Zealand two years ago, the toddler Prince George was dubbed “the Republican Slayer”, and credited with an upswing in support for the monarchy.
  • (17) Four bands might come to mind: Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer and, of course, Metallica .
  • (18) Jack The Giant Slayer is an attempt by the director Bryan Singer to bring some Lord Of The Rings-style rustic grime to the world of fairytales.
  • (19) Slayer’s Angel of Death – a song about the Auschwitz torture-doctor Josef Mengele – is not a pro-Nazi song, but the dividing line between it and neo-Nazi rock is uncomfortably porous.
  • (20) Marcel is the oldest daughter of the film director Terry Marcel, best known for the 1981 fantasy romp Hawk the Slayer.

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