What's the difference between tasker and taster?

Tasker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who imposes a task.
  • (n.) One who performs a task, as a day-laborer.
  • (n.) A laborer who receives his wages in kind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Steve Tasker is on the field, but Jim Nantz and Phil Simms have been muted from the booth, meaning it is in the part of the stadium that does not have power.
  • (2) Smith died in 2010, but another retired officer, Jack Tasker, told Sky News the investigation into his alleged child abuse at Cambridge House care home was stalled because “other people were rather worried that if Cyril Smith went before a court, he would open his mouth”.
  • (3) During my trips round car boot sales I have spotted numerous bubble gum albums full of nothing but ‘Pat Crerands’, and usually accompanied by graffiti where the original collector had vented his frustration” – Ian Tasker.
  • (4) Today’s winner of our prizeless letter o’the day is: Ian Tasker.
  • (5) The schoolgirl, who attends Tasker Milward VC school in Haverfordwest, was reportedly praised for her fundraising efforts.
  • (6) Tasker told Sky News that senior officers repeatedly prevented him from properly investigating the case, and that – if Smith had been prosecuted – the case could have led to the fall of the minority Labour government at the time.
  • (7) For the “taskers” the benefits are less clear cut.
  • (8) The past five years have seen a proliferation of online platforms that match employers (known in cloud-speak as “requesters”) with freelancers (often referred to as “taskers”), inviting them to bid for each task.
  • (9) The Guardian understands that £3m was shared between four directors of Retail Acquisitions Limited – Dominic Chappell , the man who led the buyout of BHS, Eddie Parladorio, Mark Tasker and Stephen Bourne, who has since resigned.
  • (10) That isn't necessarily perfect as Buffalo Bills great Steve Tasker was listed as a wide receiver , though he made his greatest impact as a gunner on special teams .

Taster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
  • (n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
  • (n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For instance, it is hard to get colleagues to contribute to “survey courses” – taster programmes that briefly cover the main topics of a discipline.
  • (2) The harsh labour market experience of the young over recent years is a mere taster of what's in store.
  • (3) I decided to develop a 50-minute debut Fringe show and performed previews in London to test the show out and began promoting it.” By giving herself a taster of the Edinburgh experience before jumping in with both feet, Collins prepared herself for what was ahead.
  • (4) Among the tasters will be the Chicago-based author of Taste of Tomorrow, Josh Schonwald, and an Austrian food trends researcher, Hanni Rützler of the Future Food Studio.
  • (5) At one point, dissatisfied with their taste – she is an enthusiastic rather than a merely dutiful taster – she tipped seven plated servings of scallops back in a basin and began seasoning them all over again.
  • (6) Tasters selected milk earlier than did nontasters, suggesting that they like it more.
  • (7) Sensitive non-tasters demonstrated a distribution of reaction times that was similar to that observed with tasters.
  • (8) These results are regarded as a probable confirmation of the Indian origin of the Gipsies, as the percentage of non-tasters in the majority of the different Indian tribes is higher than that of the European populations.
  • (9) Now it provides a poignant taster of a major new British Museum touring exhibition that opens in Bristol on 21 September.
  • (10) The diminished intensity perception for sweet and bitter taste was much more prominent in non-tasters than tasters hypothyroids.
  • (11) Significantly more subjects who reported a mother debilitated by depression were PTC tasters (p less than .05).
  • (12) But they were tasters of what the no campaign thought the electorate deserved, ie not much.
  • (13) The impact of a rare “ice tsunami” in 2013 on the Canadian municipality of Ochre Beach was just a taster: a wall of melting iceberg on Dauphin Lake was blown by winds on to the shore, splintering every house in its path.
  • (14) In all the groups the frequency of 'tasters' exceeded that of 'nontasters.'
  • (15) Sixty percent of subjects of hyperthyroid and 40% of hypothyroid subjects were tasters.
  • (16) Between overall quality and the contents of total pigments, total anthocyanins, coloured anthocyanins and the tasters' mean colour scores; b. Flavour and the contents of total pigments and total anthocyanins.
  • (17) The present study examined differences in gustatory processing for tasters and non-tasters of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) by assessing intensity judgment reaction times in these two groups.
  • (18) The SWR and CFW mice are both derived from Swiss mice, and the results were consistent with the possibility that the Taster animals share an allele which is identical by descent.
  • (19) We’ll give you some symbolic tasters – cutting winter fuel payments to wealthy pensioners, for example – but no hideous-sounding, cute-puppy-strangling, gruesome sacrifices that would really frighten people.
  • (20) Here's a taster: "Soccer" has weathered a long, dusty path for mainstream acceptance but the class of 2006 garnered idol status for Cahill, Kewell and co.

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