What's the difference between thresher and threshing?
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.
Threshing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thresh
Example Sentences:
(1) In late July and early August 1990, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred among persons who had eaten a meal while attending an agricultural threshing show in North Dakota on July 28-29.
(2) In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks.
(3) I don’t think I can continue with something that is no longer moving forward.” If he does, it will spell the end for a collection that spans the 93 years since paper discs were introduced in 1921 and includes samples from fire engines, ambulances and threshing machines.
(4) Farmer's lung, caused by the inhalation of microspores--particularly of the genus, Thermoactinomyces--has been recognised for the past 30-40 years as a condition affecting adult farm workers, especially up to the mid-sixties when undried crops were still threshed indoors.
(5) 50 patients acquired the infection during common farming activities, such as making fresh hay with a hay-cutter, handling dry hay, threshing, etc.
(6) The following substances were found to play a causal role in the development of asthma in exposed persons: penicillin dust, dust inhaled during the threshing of grain, persulfate, formalin, inorganic cooling agents.
(7) At the onset of sweating, the tympanic threshold temperature (Tty,thresh) was higher in the L phase [37.18 (SEM 0.08) degrees C] than in the F phase [36.95 (SEM 0.07) degrees C; P less than 0.01].
(8) Women and children play behind the high mud walls of the old houses, the men thresh the wheat, teenagers pick walnuts and the water coming straight off the snowy mountains high above the village gurgles through the irrigation canals.
(9) Three neat rows of long grass in his garden are purple free-threshing spelt, grown from the "one handful of the seed in the world".
(10) A 5% level of significance was statistically recognized in the thresh old at 35 min after light adaptation between the stages IIIa and IIIb of retinopathy.
(11) Heydi had fallen in a rice-threshing machine as a baby and suffered permanent brain damage.
(12) The magnitude of the shift in Tty,thresh [0.23 (SEM 0.07) degrees C] was similar to the L-F difference in Tty observed at the end of the N exposure.
(13) The chef spent several hours studying Forbes's Heath Robinson set-up – including a threshing machine made out of BMX bike rims, scooter wheels, a Chinese sewing machine, and a rubber mat used for wiping shoes outside hospitals – and announced he would buy as much bread as Forbes was willing to sell.
(14) There are small businesses that provide a mobile threshing service, reducing post-harvest losses to less than 20%.