What's the difference between vehicle and wrecker?

Vehicle


Definition:

  • (n.) That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.
  • (n.) That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy.
  • (n.) A substance in which medicine is taken.
  • (n.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
  • (2) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
  • (3) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
  • (4) A group of rats raised on D-P++ for 4 weeks were fed D-P- for 7 days after which they received 500 pmol of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3; SUPP] or an equal volume of the vehicle (ETH).
  • (5) Neonatal treatment with a low dose of the estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) had no significant effect on adult estrogen binding within the assayed vaginal compartments; however, this treatment caused a 2-fold increase in the level of cytosolic progestin binding in the vaginal FMW over that in vehicle-treated mice.
  • (6) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
  • (7) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
  • (8) Controls were injected in the same manner with vehicle and microspheres.
  • (9) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
  • (10) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
  • (11) Thus, the lymphoid population containing cell-mediated anti-idiotypic responsiveness served as a vehicle of resistance.
  • (12) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
  • (13) Future studies will need to carefully evaluate the vehicle used and the strength of topical CsA employed.
  • (14) The Calspan 3-D Computer Simulator of a Motor Vehicle Crash Victim was used to provide estimates of the head and neck response to be expected for the very specific deceleration profiles simulated.
  • (15) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (16) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
  • (17) Vehicle administration had no effect on pulmonary function.
  • (18) The best was the oral version of the Symbol Digit Modalities test, which by itself accounted for 70% of the variance of the full-sized-vehicle driving score.
  • (19) II with melatonin instead of 25.9% in the corresponding vehicle controls.
  • (20) Twenty-four h prior to the measurement of 45Ca2+ uptake, the cells were transferred to serum-free medium ([Ca2+], 1.0 mM) containing 1.0 nM 1,25(OH)2D3 or vehicle.

Wrecker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
  • (n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.
  • (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her transformation from marriage wrecker to part of the establishment has been “rapid and remarkable”.
  • (2) There were moments when lots of people had doubts whether our plans would work moments, as I was well aware, when people had doubts about me.” Osborne qualified his criticism of Corbyn’s Labour as the party of wreckers by warning the Tories that they must not become complacent.
  • (3) Tony Abbott has to decide whether he wants to return to Australia’s proud tradition of working constructively with partners like the US and China on tackling climate change or to continue to act as a wrecker of global cooperation,” shadow environment minister Mark Butler said.
  • (4) Shaoshan, the birthplace of the greatest wrecker of Chinese tradition, has become, in many ways, a repository of it.
  • (5) She has been economic with the truth about her home in South Africa and accused of being a "home–wrecker" because of an affair with a family friend.
  • (6) But with the Conservatives now matching their brazenly uncosted spending pledges with brazenly implausible claims that they will win a majority, it could be crucial in those Lib-Con marginals across the south-west and south-east where having wreckers or ideologues in government frightens the horses.
  • (7) Junior doctors' strike has become the mother of all deadlocks Read more Yet they must do all of that to avoid being seen as the unreasonable ones, the wreckers.
  • (8) The climate scientists came to regard him as a meddling, time-wasting and probably politically motivated wrecker, who rarely published his own papers and devoted his retirement to trashing theirs.
  • (9) But now it must make a tricky choice – to spurn the offer of an extension to Kyoto, which would paint it firmly as the villain, the wrecker of a deal and thus of the climate; or to move away from its entrenched opposition to a legally binding treaty, and start being treated more like a developed country.
  • (10) A lot of younger Corbynites, he went on, view these old-school operators as passionate idealists in the Jeremy mould rather than hard-left wreckers, which compounds other members’ increasing sense of desperation.
  • (11) Yet while the US media has been quick to trumpet any evidence of Facebook as the country's leading marriage-wrecker, the truth is "It's complicated," as the site's relationship status would have it.
  • (12) The nadir came in the 3,000m final when, just after half way, she collided with the American favourite, Mary Decker, who tumbled out of the race, leaving a wretched Budd to continue to a chorus of boos and finish seventh, forever branded Decker's wrecker.
  • (13) Circa 1985, in holding fast to the old maxim "no enemies on the left" and supporting the presence of Trotskyist wreckers in the Labour party, he rather did my head in – because I was fighting a gaggle of them who had moved into my constituency, hell-bent on taking over an essentially meaningless little branch of the Labour Party Young Socialists by being as unpleasant to other people as possible.
  • (14) Meanwhile, the anti-union Mail, Express and Sun have expressed their honeyed "understanding" for people they would normally castigate as wreckers and layabouts.
  • (15) Angela Merkel, Europe’s most powerful, values-oriented, refugee-welcoming and Putin-resisting leader, finally met Donald Trump , potential wrecker of the west and liberal democracy.
  • (16) The current crop of Labor members of parliament, they were wreckers in government and now they just want to wreck government.
  • (17) Both contenders abhorred the growing appeal of the mavericks, wreckers and so-called populists, but had little to say specifically in policy terms about how to combat anti-EU forces such Nigel Farage's Ukip, France's Front National, or the Freedom party of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
  • (18) "With renowned wreckers Mark van Bommel and Lucio on opposing sides, is this game not rife with battle fever?"
  • (19) Nancy teased Debo that invitations to writers and artists to stay had more to do with interiors than intellect: "They are terrible wreckers, worse than puppies and will give a mellow old look to the house in no time at all.
  • (20) While pictures of women branded as sluts, victims, home-wreckers (etc) stay accessible on the internet, job opportunities, new relationships, college entry and basic self-esteem are wrecked.