What's the difference between winder and winker?

Winder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.
  • (n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.
  • (n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer.
  • (v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
  • (n.) A blow taking away the breath.
  • (v. i.) To wither; to fail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The author and journalist Robert Winder detailed in his book Bloody Foreigners how Charles Dickens, in creating the character of Fagin for Oliver Twist , refashioned a real social problem.
  • (2) Darren Winder, an economist at Cazenove, is gloomy.
  • (3) Students scrambled “like ants, people screaming, ‘Get out!’” Winder said.
  • (4) It’s about making sure there are more books available that people will feel they are entitled to pick up and browse,” said Simon Winder, publishing director of Penguin Classics.
  • (5) | Robert Winder Read more Which brings us to housing.
  • (6) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Newcastle University Runner-up : University of Reading Runner-up : University of Bradford Social and community impact Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dr Belinda Winder and Lynn Saunders from Nottingham Trent University with Paul Sinha and their social and community impact award for The Safer Living Foundation.
  • (7) Next door, students heard a loud thud and then a volley of gunfire, Brady Winder, 23, told the newspaper.
  • (8) These data, coupled with the inhibition of actomyosin ATPase by calponin (Winder, S. J., and Walsh, M. P. (1990) J. Biol.
  • (9) We have tested the hypothesis of Winder and Walsh [(1990) J. Biol.
  • (10) Winder also posted on Facebook: Hey everybody, I am safe.
  • (11) Corresponding preventive measures were proposed to lower the labour intensity of female electric coil winders.
  • (12) Simon Winder, publishing director at Penguin, called him an "utterly remarkable man".
  • (13) 279, 65-68] that calponin phosphorylation is not involved in smooth muscle regulation in vivo, as has been suggested from in vitro studies [Winder, S. J.
  • (14) A camera equipped with 50 mm macro-objective lens, with automatic flash and winder is attached to a motor-operated rotatable stand.
  • (15) Darren Winder at Cazenove said the key driver of the improvement was likely to have been a rebuilding in inventories, which fell to exceptionally low levels in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of this year as manufacturing firms cut production levels.
  • (16) "Do you think that I planned and plotted, or lost a wink of sleep, scheming to spend a considerable part of my life trying to identify hog-slappers, cheese-winders' clerks, or theatre fireman's night companions?"
  • (17) Histological study of lungs from horses with mild, moderate and severe chronic small airway disease consistently revealed a greater density of lesions in the diaphragmatic lobes (Winder and von Fellenberg, 1988).
  • (18) So there’s some Chinese and Japanese and Arabic writing in there, as well as different religious texts,” said Winder.
  • (19) It’s about the incredible importance of having books lying around, and getting away from the curriculum.” Winder said it had been a “crushing responsibility” to select the 100 titles Penguin is offering.
  • (20) The article contains a hygienic assessment of the working conditions of female coil winders engaged in high-powered electric engines' assembling.

Winker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who winks.
  • (n.) A horse's blinder; a blinker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If I can't indicate that my praise of a colleague's new shirt is sarcastic, not literal, without a gurning yellow winker, its presence stands more as indicative of my linguistic incompetence than his sartorial faux pas.

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