What's the difference between stalker and talker?

Stalker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who stalks.
  • (n.) A kind of fishing net.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (2) David Stalker, CEO of UK Active , regards anything that gets women lifting as beneficial: "Some operators have opted to offer women-only sessions, others have moved their resistance equipment to less exposed areas.
  • (3) * * * Stalker, meanwhile, having made his decision, pursued Tape 042 with the utmost vigour.
  • (4) The review of rape investigations by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service follows high-profile cases such as the "Night Stalker", Delroy Grant, who raped and assaulted elderly victims over a 17-year period in London, Kent and Surrey.
  • (5) There is no independent proof that Kammerer was a predatory stalker; there is only Carr's word for the pursuit from St Louis to New York; there is persuasive evidence that Kammerer was not gay.
  • (6) Mighty Deer Stalker Tough 10km off-road (and very muddy) run in Peeblesshire, Scotland, which starts at dusk.
  • (7) The anti-pornography organisation described the film's central figure, Jamie Dornan's Christian Grey as a "stalker and batterer".
  • (8) In another she spoke about visiting then-husband actor Sean Penn in jail, whose jail mates at the time included serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the Night Stalker.
  • (9) The number of Stalker copies per genome and chromosomal localization vary among D. melanogaster strains.
  • (10) Rates of reoffending are high, perhaps unsurprising given that most stalkers suffer from psychiatric problems, but it is uncommon for them to receive specialist treatment as part of their sentence.
  • (11) Not because hackers had released Social Security numbers , home addresses, computer passwords, bank account details, performance reviews, phone numbers, the aliases used when high-profile actors check into hotels (a safety measure to keep stalkers away), and even the medical records of employees and their children .
  • (12) Today I want to go even further and offer protection at the first signs of stalking, stopping offenders in their tracks.” Garry Shewan, Greater Manchester police’s assistant chief constable and the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for stalking and harassment, said: “We want to stop stalkers in their tracks.
  • (13) Between hearings he chatted with McCauley’s solicitor, Pat Finucane , much to the anger of watching RUC officers, who told Stalker that they regarded Finucane, who had represented many people accused of being republican terrorists, as being “worse than an IRA man”.
  • (14) "I know I'm really glad that that person's not following me around like a stalker!"
  • (15) Stalker began to think that special branch, supported by MI5, might be using informants to lure terrorism suspects into pre-planned ambushes, mounted by police officers who were indeed shooting to kill.
  • (16) Not that this only happens to women of course – I have had male friends who have ended up on antidepressants because of vile female stalkers.
  • (17) Most novel substrains are internally heterogenous which is indicative of the continuing Stalker transposition.
  • (18) This must be made a reality in prosecutors' day-to-day practice to ensure stalkers are put before the courts and that [there are] appropriate sentences and treatment."
  • (19) The transposons causing the mutations are: P element (5 alleles), gypsy (3 alleles), 17.6, HMS Beagle, springer, Delta 88, prygun, Stalker, and a new mobile element which was named roamer (2 alleles).
  • (20) The allegations that republican terrorist suspects were deliberately killed rather than being arrested led to an investigation by John Stalker, then deputy chief constable of Manchester, in the mid 1980s.

Talker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
  • (n.) A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Equivalent 50-item CID W-22 word lists were recorded in English by three (Turkish, East Indian, and American) talkers and presented to 27 normal-hearing listeners representing each of these language groups.
  • (2) Finally, among the elderly hearing-impaired listeners, speech-recognition performance was correlated negatively with hearing sensitivity, but scores were correlated positively among the different talker conditions.
  • (3) He is what Jerry Seinfeld would have called a low talker.
  • (4) These results would suggest that speech intelligibility is reduced by whitening and peak clipping when more than one talker is present.
  • (5) There was trash talking though – motherflippers and Bad Words must fly about on court all the time ... Now and again you'd get trash talkers.
  • (6) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
  • (7) When talkativeness is not resisted by the group it is tentative evidence that the talker is perceived as an appropriate, qualified, and legitimate leader.
  • (8) The results indicated that the esophageal talkers produced the highest intensity increase in the noise condition followed by the normal talkers and the artificial larynx talkers.
  • (9) He added: "South Africa has to stop feeling sorry for itself and be doers instead of talkers.
  • (10) ALDS deliver speech from the lips of the talkers to the ears of the listeners.
  • (11) Speaking pitch level self-perception was explored in a group of 11 young adult males who served both as talkers and listeners.
  • (12) Electromyographic (EMG) recordings were obtained from the levator palatini, superior pharyngeal constrictor, middle pharyngeal constrictor, palatoglossus, and palatopharyngeus muscles of three talkers of American English.
  • (13) Four highly proficient TE talkers produced the stimuli for the study.
  • (14) On the whole, talkers maintained their relative intelligibility across the four environments, although there was one exception which suggested that some voices may be particularly susceptible to degradation due to reverberation.
  • (15) The results showed that the processing of a talker's voice and the perception of voicing are asymmetrically dependent.
  • (16) The results suggest that the talkers used more effort in producing speech in the anesthetic condition and are untenable with the idea that intraoral air pressure constitutes an important feedback parameter in controlling articulation.
  • (17) Mean percentages of correct identification for the five talkers were 90% and 57% for the word-identification test and phonetic transcription, respectively.
  • (18) The purpose of this study was to investigate the Lombard effect on the speech of esophageal talkers, artificial larynx users, and normal speakers.
  • (19) Although Samar and Metz (1988) have addressed significant issues regarding the assessment of the intelligibility of hearing-impaired talkers, we cannot agree with their interpretation of their findings.
  • (20) Speech of deaf talkers has often been characterized as staccato, leading to the perception of improper grouping of syllables.