What's the difference between stabber and stabler?

Stabber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.
  • (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two witnesses were granted immunity from prosecution in return for their testimony against Jacobs, after police and prosecutors adopted a strategy known as "kickers and stabbers" as they sought convictions.
  • (2) Arab leaders have criticised Israeli police for being too quick to shoot stabbers instead of arresting them.
  • (3) At the time of writing, we still don’t quite know the motivations of the NYC bomber or the Minnesota stabber.
  • (4) He attacked him with a knife, stabbed several times, and attempted to take his weapon.” “The stabber escaped and after 200 metres from the scene of the attack he first came into contact with police forces.” Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been high in recent weeks, following last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip and increasing friction over a contested Jerusalem holy site.

Stabler


Definition:

  • (n.) A stable keeper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results obtained here agree with the following scheme of fibrin assembly: monomers polymerize to protofibrils; long protofibrils associate laterally to fibers; occasionally a long protofibril associates with two different fibers to form an interfiber connection; fiber growth does not reverse to yield stabler, more compact, structures and terminates in formation of a network of fibers.
  • (2) After quantifying and establishing individual ligament contributions to valgus restraining function, knees were then braced with two different laterally applied preventive braces, the McDavid Knee Guard and the Omni Anderson Knee Stabler.
  • (3) The transition temperatures for the unfolding of rabbit, human, and hen lysozymes in 3 M guanidine hydrochloride at pH 5.5 were 51.2, 45.5, and 45.4 degrees C, respectively, indicating that rabbit lysozyme is stabler than the other two lysozymes.
  • (4) Compared to PZG, NH2PZG and its metabolite, 3-aminopyrazinoic acid, were much stabler in vitro in serum and water.
  • (5) The Lenox Hill Brace and the tape method used individually both restricted anterior-posterior translation and internal-external rotation better than the Stabler Brace alone.
  • (6) The circulatory condition of the patients with autologous transfusions was stabler than that of the patients with homologous transfusion or no transfusion.
  • (7) Regression is stabler and occurs more rapidly in patients with moderate deformity of the bronchial tree.
  • (8) We used five randomly selected cadaver specimens to evaluate the Anderson Knee Stabler and the Lenox Hill Knee Brace, individually and in combination with an anterior cruciate ligament protective tape method.
  • (9) Hemosorption was performed in 8 patients with a resistant status epilepticus and serial epileptic attacks; arrest of the attacks correlated with significantly faster and stabler normalization of the circulating levels of immune complexes and of the phagocytic activity of neutrophils as compared to the same parameters in patients receiving a course of conventional anticonvulsive and dehydration therapy without hemosorption.

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