What's the difference between wafter and waster?

Wafter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, wafts.
  • (n.) A boat for passage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The resultant wafter, less than 0.2 mm thick, is examined by light microscopy for optimal areas of cytochemical reaction and desirable structural features.
  • (2) However, Malik said students surveyed wafter studying overseas reported “those [language barrier] concerns were not as substantial as they initially had thought”.

Waster


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
  • (v. t.) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.
  • (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cognitive studies of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) patients have revealed (1) the presence of an IQ advantage in patients, siblings and parents due to socioeconomic status, genetic, hormonal, or other factors; (2) an IQ disadvantage in salt wasters compared with simple virilizers, probably due to early brain damage secondary to salt-wasting crisis; (3) a possibly increased incidence of learning disabilities, particularly in female patients and particularly for calculation abilities, due to disease-related early androgen exposure; and (4) a possible post-pubertal spatial advantage in CAH women, also due to early androgen exposure.
  • (2) Simple virilizers are more likely to be learning disabled than salt-wasters (P = .04, one-tailed).
  • (3) A number of methods of fluoride supplementation are being discussed in this paper and compared to drinking waster fluoridation.
  • (4) "The boy was tweeting before the game that he's a super time-waster.
  • (5) The drug, therefore, has been used to facilitate renal waster excretion when severe hyponatremia occurs in the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion.
  • (6) His then-girlfriend, film critic and author Antonia Quirke, wrote a memoir, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers, in which he appears as a romantic waster, who will definitely not amount to anything, the enormity of this novel notwithstanding.
  • (7) Photograph: Noah Smith for the Guardian He operates alone but is part of a small, vocal community which uses social media to identify and excoriate alleged water wasters under the hashtags #droughtshaming and #droughtshame .
  • (8) All these wasters... was that last minute directed by Richard Linklater?
  • (9) Presumably, this is because some salt-waster patients suffer brain injury from episodes of hypotension and hyponatremia.
  • (10) How should time-wasters and persistent no-shows be treated – should they just be summarily excluded from accessing services?
  • (11) The jury at Bristol crown court was told he believed Ebrahimi was a time-waster and serial complainer and let his antipathy towards him affect the way he dealt with his case.
  • (12) Where are all the undeserving poor , the ones he gleefully holds up as proof that the welfare system is a soft touch for feckless wasters?
  • (13) The water wasters of Los Angeles are not easily intimidated, it seems.
  • (14) However, salt-waster patients have a lower IQ (104 vs 117) than simple virilizer patients (P = .005, one-tailed).
  • (15) Vampire series True Blood was another time-waster – I only gave up when the fairy ring codswallop started up (don’t ask).
  • (16) Because of this confounding effect on IQ in the salt-waster form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, the simple virilizer female versus unaffected female siblings reprsents the best test of the hypothesis.
  • (17) He was actually claiming to be best time waster in the world on Twitter yesterday!
  • (18) • Our jury prize went to the Russian director Andrei Zvagintsev for his terrific, and intriguingly Chabrol-ish drama Elena, about a woman with a grown-up, deadbeat waster of a son; she is a nurse who is now re-married to the wealthy man whom she nursed back to health.
  • (19) There have been other great characters, of course – Paul Calf, the Mancunian waster, Tommy Saxondale and Tony Ferrino among them, but few have rivalled Partridge, the gaffe-prone Norfolk chatshow and radio host with catchphrases galore.

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