What's the difference between squinter and squirter?

Squinter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who squints.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Satisfying results were attained, following these criteria, shown by 19 (76%) of the operated convergent squinters with an instable angle.
  • (2) One screening test designed to identify both the "squinter" and the "straight-eyed amblyope" is required.
  • (3) We found a squint in 52 children (6.3%), and from these, 9 (17.3% of the squinters) showed microstrabismus.
  • (4) We found defective spatial localization in the amblyopic eyes of squinters with both procedures.
  • (5) Convergent squinters become amblyopic, but divergent ones seldom do.
  • (6) Brow ptosis was accentuated laterally in the squinters and medially in the frowners.
  • (7) In squinters the mean amplitude to stimulation of the squinting eyes and to binocular stimulation was significantly reduced.
  • (8) Among the squinters amblyopia was commoner--23 out of 52 cases (44.2%).
  • (9) Thus, there is no good baseline under these conditions for the results of the amblyopic eyes of squinters.
  • (10) No correlation was found between vernier acuities and Snellen acuities in the abnormal eyes of squinters.
  • (11) While unpublished control experiments verified their results on human albinos, no such defect has been found in the normally-pigmented human squinter.
  • (12) Such orientation selectivity was not found in the amblyopic eye of two out of five squinters.
  • (13) One squinter in five had never started ophthalmological treatment.
  • (14) Patients were divided into three categories according to the dominant behavioral pattern: brow lifters, frowners, and squinters.

Squirter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, squirts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of these "non 373" operations involve the use of unmanned drones to fire missiles to kill the target: one codenamed Beethoven, on 20 October 2008; one named Janan on 6 November 2008; and an unnamed Jpel target who was hit with a hellfire missile near Khan Neshin on 21 August 2009 while travelling in a car with other passengers (the log records "no squirters [bodies moving about] recorded").
  • (2) Foreign Policy magazine once described him as “the human equivalent of one of those flower-squirters that clowns wear on their lapels”.

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