What's the difference between thrasher and thresher?
Thrasher
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Thresher
Example Sentences:
(1) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
(2) To prove his point, Thrasher gave the Guardian a tour of a 20-mile stretch of border near his home.
(3) We are not going away.” Additional reporting by Mae Ryan, Jessica Glenza, Ana Terra Athayde and Steven Thrasher in New York
(4) Rachel Dolezal exposes our delusional constructions and perceptions of race | Steven W Thrasher Read more The biological parents of a prominent civil rights activist in Washington state have claimed that she has been misrepresenting herself as a black woman when her heritage is white.
(5) Reflecting on his betrayal, Thrasher said: “I like him, Ron, that’s the worst part of it.
(6) Thrasher Mitchell: I still def'nit'ly nevva sed vat wurd.
(7) To put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill would be an insult to her legacy | Steven W Thrasher Read more Others have argued that the knotted history of slavery and capitalism makes money an inappropriate way to honor an escaped slave.
(8) Rio Olympics 2016: USA's Virginia Thrasher wins first gold of Games – live!
(9) Laquan McDonald: senseless killing continues in video after video | Steven W Thrasher Read more “We had no idea they were going to sit there and delete files,” district manager Jay Darshane told NBC Chicago.
(10) America still hasn’t built racial justice in the years post-Selma | Steven W Thrasher Read more As we commemorate their achievement, we are well-served to remember that at the time of the marches, many in power condemned rather than praised them.
(11) Pathogenesis of myiasis due to the muscid fly Philornis deceptivus in nestling pearly-eyed thrashers (Margarops fuscatus) in the Luquillo Rain Forest, Puerto Rico was investigated.
(12) All we want is a congressman that can convince people about what is going on down here,” said Thrasher, summing up the local feeling.
(13) Conservatives should blame capitalism for the 'war on Christmas' | Steven W Thrasher Read more Instead, there will be an 8ft “happy humanist” next to a “reason tree” dedicated to science and “human intellectual achievement”.
(14) Barack Obama's $400,000 speaking fees reveal what few want to admit | Steven W Thrasher Read more Obama did not mention his successor, instead focusing on details about the center, including potential exhibits and traffic patterns.
(15) The new Conservative chief whip, Andrew Mitchell – dubbed "Thrasher" for being a tough prefect at his public school and a noted strong-armer of MPs in the Commons – seems alarmingly well-qualified on the first count.
(16) Thrasher, 70, is a cattle veterinarian, serving ranches along a 600-mile stretch from Sasabe, Arizona, to Presidio, Texas.
(17) I haven’t had one person call me a backstabber or anything else, except for Ron.” Taking time out of a book-reading event for children in downtown Tucson, Barber confessed to being baffled by Thrasher’s decision.
(18) Disaster capitalism is a permanent state of life for too many Americans | Steven W Thrasher Read more I’d grown up in a very spiritual family, and learned from an early age that it was frowned upon to be queer.
(19) He stayed there all night but the scavengers still got to it,” Thrasher said.
(20) Gary Thrasher has found migrants on his roof, in his truck, in the shower in his barn.
Thresher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
(n.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
(n.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.
(n.) Same as Thrasher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pelagic threshers grow to nearly four metres long, around two metres of which is tail.
(2) Marine biologists had long suspected that threshers used their tails to help capture their prey.
(3) Captured on handheld cameras in waters 10 to 25 metres deep, the film is thought to be the first to show thresher sharks using their tails to hunt in the wild.
(4) Understanding how thresher sharks feed will help with efforts to protect them, Oliver said.
(5) Threshers are not the only marine predators to use tail-slaps.
(6) Suggestions included a giant squid, whose eyes can be as large as soccer balls, a bigeye thresher shark, which can reach can reach 16ft, a marlin or a particularly large sailfish.
(7) Among both sexes, threshers had a significantly higher attack rate than did nonthreshers.
(8) The hunt is on to find a buyer for the troubled company behind the off-licence chain Threshers after the formal appointment of KPMG as administrators tonight.
(9) Simon Oliver, a marine biologist at the Thresher Shark Research and Conservation Project in the Philippines, said the sharks' "tail slaps" reached a speed of 24 metres per second, or more than 50mph.
(10) Measurements of ventricular volumes suggest that the ventricles of the great white, Atlantic shortfin mako and common thresher sharks are better adapted to respond to demands for increases in cardiac output via increased heartbeat frequency in comparison with ectothermic species of shark.
(11) The group, which trades as Threshers, Wine Rack, Haddows and The Local on the high street, has 1,300 shops.
(12) We keep the eyeball of a bigeye thresher in a jar in the laboratory here and people walking by it get spooked by this large, dead blue eye staring at them.
(13) A diver has captured rare footage of the unique hunting style of thresher sharks in tropical waters off the Philippines.
(14) The sharks in the footage are "pelagic" or "open water" threshers, one of three species of thresher shark.
(15) Ventricle weights of the warm-bodied great white shark, Atlantic shortfin mako, and the common thresher shark (the latter presumed to be warm-bodied) are similar to those of ectothermic blue sharks, sandbar sharks, dusky sharks, tiger sharks and scalloped hammerhead sharks.
(16) It shows how thresher sharks accelerate towards dense shoals of fish, then brake by throwing their pectoral fins forward, causing the back end of the fish to rise in the water.