What's the difference between smasher and whopper?
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.
Whopper
Definition:
(n.) Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.
(n.) One who, or that which, whops.
(n.) Same as Whapper.
Example Sentences:
(1) She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest “ pants on fire ” rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.
(2) For more debunkings of Rose's article you can look at Hot Whopper , Carbon Brief and Media Matters among others.
(3) Nobody’s going to pick him over the Whopper or the Big Mac, but still a perfectly legitimate choice nevertheless.
(4) Few of these misleading liberal memes come close however to the avalanche of inaccurate claims made by Trump over the course of the election: from trivial boasts about the size of his crowds through to whoppers like claiming Mexico will pay to build his wall.
(5) The September issue of US Vogue is the most important magazine of the fashion calendar, a whopper that often comes in a over 900 pages long, and had its own documentary in 2009.
(6) The scientists who went in search of whoppers netted only a host of minnows.
(7) When Lynch denied the claims Ellison published the slides from a presentation it claimed Lynch had given at Oracle's head office and issued a press release titled: "Another whopper from Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch."
(8) I've seen some whoppers in my time, but Dion's is something else" - his verdict on Dion Dublin's lunchbox, according to the then Coventry chairman Bryan Richardson, in 1994.
(9) magazine and adult television programmes such as Wobbling Whoppers 2 is looking at ending current news provider Sky News's £9m a year contract early and creating a populist, new-look bulletin.
(10) The whoppers that this guy has told – it’s been so outrageous, that the straight-talk thing, honestly – he has his own version of the facts.
(11) There’s a whopper that, in order to get our certificates, we must catch with an upturned pot and a piece of card, lift off the table, and place down again.
(12) "Now me pa was a Kilfenora man tru and tru," he says, launching into a series of unsolicited anecdotes about his forebear, each more incredible than the last, culminating in a real whopper: "In world war two pa's brother got captured by the feckin' Germans and locked up in Colditz.
(13) EU referendum: Sturgeon accuses Johnson of telling £350m 'whopper' Read more In France, the Front National of Marine Le Pen, who is poised to reach the second round of the 2017 presidential poll, has long said it would seek to renegotiate France’s EU membership if it took power, and hold an EU referendum.
(14) Conversely, whoppers as large as the one Tesco has been caught telling won’t suddenly have popped out of the mouths of a mere handful of managers.
(15) Obama responded by describing the "apology tour" as "probably the biggest whopper that's been told during the course of this campaign".
(16) When arch-rival Burger King finally entered the market last year it was greeted with similar excitable scenes – almost 5,000 people descended on its launch branch in Cape Town , some even sleeping on the street to ensure they got their hands on a Whopper.
(17) Fisher is the more physical and aggressive player out of the two, but really they were choosing between a Big Mac and a Whopper.
(18) The shed is no longer off limits, and the other day I happily coexisted in the house with a whopper (we’re talking a 12cm leg span).
(19) Nicola Sturgeon has led a concerted onslaught from senior remain campaigners aimed at discrediting Boris Johnson, in a heated television debate that saw him attacked for telling “whoppers”.
(20) Sturgeon accused Johnson – who repeatedly defended the number during the debate – as “driving around the country in a bus with a giant whopper painted on the side”.