What's the difference between sparer and sparker?

Sparer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who spares.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How could we simultaneously keep our promise to repeal and replace the [Affordable Care Act] without leading to millions of newly uninsured folks, without facing a political backlash because of those newly uninsured folks, and without spending a whole lot of money?” said Sparer, outlining what he felt was the GOP position.
  • (2) If The City and the City marked a new direction, with a sparer prose and a more sombre tone, Kraken , published shortly after, "felt like the end of something".
  • (3) That means Republicans are “between a rock and a hard place”, according to Professor Michael Sparer , chair of health policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
  • (4) The results indicate that a three-months' therapy with piretanide or with a thiazide-potassium sparer diuretic combination is safe without producing any disturbances in the serum levels of trace elements.
  • (5) Long-term treatment with diuretics can lead to hypomagnesaemia and hypokalaemia, and, if in combination with a potassium-sparer, to hyperkalaemia.
  • (6) Welsh is a sparer language, which presented the odd problem.

Sparker


Definition:

  • (n.) A spark arrester.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The inhibition of oxygen uptake was less than that of (14)CO(2) formation, presumably because fumarate was used as a sparker.

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