What's the difference between tanker and trooper?

Tanker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.
  • (2) The territories are drying up; there are many communities that have no water, and that are getting water from tanker trucks."
  • (3) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
  • (4) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
  • (5) The exposure of drivers of gasoline delivery tankers ranged from 0.08 to 2.37 ppm for personal TWA exposure over the whole workshift.
  • (6) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
  • (7) Tankers are a common sight, carrying Libya's oil exports around the world.
  • (8) About 30 buildings were destroyed after tanker cars laden with oil caught fire in the picturesque lakeside town.
  • (9) But Maude will claim that his strategy of intensifying pressure on the Unite union, which is threatening to hold a fuel tanker strike by 23 April, will have paid off if industrial action is averted.
  • (10) In Iraq and Syria, air strikes are taking out ISIL leaders, heavy weapons, oil tankers, infrastructure.
  • (11) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (12) The Iraqi who drove past the refinery on Thursday said the militants also manned checkpoints around the Beiji facility some 155 miles north of Baghdad, and that a huge fire in one of its tankers was raging.
  • (13) A strong relationship between disability pension due to neuropsychiatric diagnoses and work on tankers was found, especially when restricted to work as a mate on the tankers.
  • (14) Some variation will be caused by the time the garage last bought a tanker of petrol and set its prices: the longer ago it made the purchase, the cheaper the fuel is likely to be.
  • (15) Traffic congestion, dust kicked up by oil tankers and road fatalities are constant features of life here.
  • (16) The bomb this Wednesday morning, hidden inside a sewage tanker, hit at all of these aspects.
  • (17) Whoever used run-of-the-mill bulk carriers or tankers drifted to the lowest-cost country.
  • (18) The government is buying 16 large hard-hulled lifeboats, similar to those found on oil tankers and cruise ships, to be used to send asylum seekers back towards Indonesia if their own vessel is unseaworthy, according to Fairfax Media reports published on Wednesday .
  • (19) A spokesman for Pritchard-Gordon Tankers said two men had been hit by the wave while working on deck and a third was injured trying to help them.
  • (20) Speculators, including banks and oil companies, fill these tankers with oil and let them drift around the oceans until the price rises.

Trooper


Definition:

  • (n.) A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
  • (2) Over the weekend, Nehemiah Fischer, a 35-year-old pastor, was shot dead by an Oklahoma state trooper after getting into a fight when told to evacuate his truck in rising flood waters south of Tulsa.
  • (3) Tonight they’re dancing the Paso Doble to Sarah Brightman's 'I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper'.
  • (4) The oldest, 87-year-old Louis Becker, was killed during a collision with a New York state trooper patrol car in upstate New York.
  • (5) Outside a town centre cafe, I talk to two people who have scars from the long and ultimately unsuccessful campaign against Tesco: Eroica Mildmay, a model-turned-novelist who swears like a trooper, and Margarette Norman, a local freelance journalist.
  • (6) They knew they had to go west, because the storm-troopers would be coming from the east; they got as far as Ross-on-Wye, where their passports and cameras were taken away.
  • (7) For more than 30 minutes senators milled around the floor and protesters shouted from the gallery, before troopers moved in, arresting at least one protester.
  • (8) State troopers were posted along the route to Islamberg, but the ride passed without event.
  • (9) In the early hours of 2 May 1973, Assata Shakur was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper named James Harper, allegedly for driving with a faulty rearlight.
  • (10) As the proceedings became more and more tumultuous, state troopers threaded through the crowd, making some arrests and trying to clear the gallery.
  • (11) We were the storm-troopers of diversity, decades before that term was even invented.
  • (12) The courtroom was packed with relatives of the prisoners' victims, who included a police officer killed by Augustine in 2001, and a highway patrol trooper and sheriff's deputy killed by Golphin in 1997.
  • (13) Minutes after they pulled over, both Zayd Malik Shakur and Trooper Foerster were dead, and Assata and Trooper Harper were shot and wounded.
  • (14) In fact, men in uniform from the sheriff’s department and state troopers were already being used to turn people back on Highway 1806, which goes south from the Bismarck area to the reservation.
  • (15) In 2010 a former Alabama state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, pleaded guilty to the 1965 shooting of civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson and received a six-month prison sentence.
  • (16) So I set out to keep my word to the trooper, the first law enforcement official to show genuine kindness and compassion.
  • (17) Valley Stream troopers pulled over a black Hyundai for driving 79mph in a 55mph zone.
  • (18) The water was rising and running across the roadway rapidly and the troopers were concerned for these individuals’ safety.
  • (19) A dozen state troopers were stationed outside the building, alongside scores of protesters in orange shirts, carrying coat hangers and signs that read: "Shame", according to Dallas News .
  • (20) "Based on preliminary information … the agent along with two Massachusetts state police troopers and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a violent confrontation was initiated by the individual," Couvertier said in a statement.