What's the difference between slender and spender?
Slender
Definition:
(superl.) Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
(superl.) Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
(superl.) Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
(superl.) Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
(superl.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
(superl.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
Example Sentences:
(1) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(2) On E7, a slender neuropil was present in the migrating cell clusters, but all the crest derived cells were uniform.
(3) We also observed slender tubules connecting Golgi stacks to neighbouring rough endoplasmic reticulum.
(4) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
(5) But, as Falconer admits, the chance of this bill passing all its stages in the Lords and the Commons before the election are slender as it requires the government to give it time.
(6) Accordingly, we probed lysates of long-slenders, short-stumpies and procyclics (insect midgut stage) with antibody to myc proteins and also hybridized myc gene family sequences to procyclic DNA.
(7) Histologically, they contained slender spindle cells and various amounts of collagen fibers.
(8) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
(9) Public schools report dipping into their own slender budgets, and sometimes principal’s own pockets to pay family electricity bills so that students can keep access to their computer and also get the occasional warm meal.
(10) They merely extended short slender cytoplasmic processes to HAP1250.
(11) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
(12) Normally, PC12 cells respond to NGF by morphologically differentiating into sympathetic neuron-like cells, exhibiting a marked hypertrophy, and extending slender neurites piloted by well defined growth cones.
(13) When explants of neurofibroma tissue were cultured, macrophage-like cells with pseudopodia migrated out first, and later took on a slender fusiform shape.
(14) Bone-age was advanced and bones were slender and osteoporotic with metaphyseal thickening.
(15) The surface cells had well developed apical junctions and slender cytoplasmic processes projecting into widened intercellular spaces appeared during the developmental period.
(16) At the level of the Z-line, a slender transverse tubule (T-tubule) runs transversely to the longitudinal axis of the myofibril.
(17) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
(18) These consisted of parallel configurations of slender sheet-like astrocytic processes frequently connected to one another by highly organized intercellular adhesive devices.
(19) Several types of NPY-containing neurons can be distinguished by their laminar location, by the size of their perikarya, and by the size, shape, and pattern of ramification of their processes: 1) layer I small local circuit neurons; 2) layer II granule cells; 3) aspiny stellate cells located in layers II-III and V-VI, with long, slender dendrites; 4) sparsely spiny stellate cells; 5) aspiny stellate cells with long, horizontally oriented dendrites, whose cell body is situated in layer VI; 6) Martinotti cells in areas 9, 7, and 24; and 7) multipolar neurons situated in the white matter subjacent to the cortical gray.
(20) These events were followed by a transformation of the long slender bloodstream form to a short stumpy form via an intermediate morphology.
Spender
Definition:
(n.) One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many shops are now catering to these high spenders.
(2) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol.
(3) If the rest of the world assumes that the US is once again going to become the world's spender of last resort it is seriously mistaken.
(4) As Stephen Spender wrote in a review, "Vidal's essays celebrate the triumphs of private values over the public ones of power.
(5) Hollande's proposals were also eagerly awaited by the Sarkozy camp, hoping to discredit the Socialists as big spenders at a time when public money is scarce.
(6) "From being driven, careless, impulsive, the new breed of shopper is a very careful spender.
(7) Some of the biggest spenders were not included in Friday's reports because, technically, they are not considered campaign operations.
(8) "Historically, the main photographic moment for the project was 1937 to 1938," says Roberts, "and it was Spender who emerged as the poet-photographer of the group, merging press photography and British documentary realism in a way that often nods to Brassaï and surrealism.
(9) Now Saudi Arabia is the mark; one of the most repressive tyrannies on the planet which already has one of the largest stocks of armaments (at $48bn, it was the seventh largest military spender in 2011).
(10) Britain remains the fourth-biggest military spender in the world, but the very scale of that spending – currently £34bn a year – makes it a tempting target for Whitehall economisers.
(11) All the debt ceiling ends up becoming is a political football used by the opposition party to suggest the government are profligate spenders.
(12) There, Bowles came into contact with Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood and Jean Ross, Isherwood's model for Sally Bowles in Goodbye to Berlin.
(13) By the age of 18, the charismatic, talented young man with a famous name had attracted friends such as Stephen Spender and the wealthy collector and patron Peter Watson.
(14) King said the government would have to put the public finances on a more sustainable footing and warned people that they would have to become savers rather than spenders in the years ahead.
(15) Paradoxically, though, Spender's photographs , which are now recognised as an important part of the Mass Observation archive, were never used at the time.
(16) In her seminal treatise Man Made Language , the feminist theorist Dale Spender makes the argument that language is a system that embodies sexual inequality.
(17) The Nature Conservancy, by far the biggest spender on lobbying among environment groups, spent $850,000.
(18) Apart from Sturgeon (whose record the others don’t know much about) he was the only incumbent defending his government (surprise, surprise, Clegg was bent on Tory-bashing) and kept saying all his rivals are high-tax-and-spenders.
(19) The average expenditure for the top 1 percent of spenders in 1987 was $47,331.
(20) Julie Gardner, the former head of drama for BBC Wales and Doctor Who executive, who is now working in the US, emerged as the second highest spender on hospitality overall, claiming £7,764.51 in 2008-09, just £276.22 less than the director general.