What's the difference between worker and yorker?

Worker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
  • (n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
  • (3) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
  • (4) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (5) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (6) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (7) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
  • (8) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
  • (9) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
  • (10) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (11) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
  • (12) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
  • (13) The characteristics and responsibilities of community health workers in Saradidi were similar to those elsewhere.
  • (14) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
  • (15) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
  • (16) Only workers more than 34 years of age and in work at the time of the study were selected.
  • (17) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
  • (18) Dynamics in the changes was established among the workers from the production of "Synthetic rubber and latex", associated with the duration of occupational exposure to styrene and divinyl.
  • (19) Differences between mean durations of dust exposure of workers with radiographic signs of lung fibrosis and those without such signs were statistically insignificant.
  • (20) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.

Yorker


Definition:

  • (n.) A tice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (2) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (3) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
  • (4) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (5) But in a New Yorker profile of you three years ago , you said that it was one of your favourite words.
  • (6) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
  • (7) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
  • (8) It is 17 years since Klein, then aged 30, published her first book, No Logo – a seductive rage against the branding of public life by globalising corporations – and made herself, in the words of the New Yorker , “ the most visible and influential figure on the American left ” almost overnight.
  • (9) A household-based telephone survey of 1800 16- to 20-year-old New Yorkers was conducted during November 1982, approximately one month before New York's minimum legal purchase age for alcoholic beverages was raised from 18 to 19.
  • (10) In summer months, this could subject New Yorkers to power shortages and the risk of black-outs because of the extra need for air conditioning.
  • (11) David Denby in the New Yorker called it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
  • (12) But then again, as the New Yorker is one of two men charged with breathing life back into the world's second most popular social network, it isn't unexpected.
  • (13) Filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability (CLEAR) project of Main Street Legal Services at CUNY Law School, the suit accuses the NYPD of religious profiling and suspicion-less surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers.
  • (14) The late author of The Catcher in the Rye, notoriously protective of his privacy, published nothing after the release of his story Hapworth 16, 1924 in the New Yorker, in 1965.
  • (15) In the first image , his brother looks like a cool New Yorker in a leather jacket, cigarette dangling from his mouth.
  • (16) Single New Yorkers have long chafed at the bad maths that means they're sometimes paying twice the rent their coupled-up friends pay; couples can pool their resources and get a nicer place.
  • (17) The New Yorker pronounced it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
  • (18) Trump scored a powerful rhetorical point when he described watching the Twin Towers collapse – “We saw death and the smell of death was in the air for months,” he said – which left Cruz left awkwardly applauding Trump’s invocation of the terrorist attack and those who died as the New Yorker went on to describe Cruz’s comments as insulting.
  • (19) Other staff include Sasha Frere-Jones, a music critic at the New Yorker , who will oversee arts and culture.
  • (20) His Glass family argued their way through issues of religion and compromise in a succession of stories published in the New Yorker, including Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Franny; Zooey; and Seymour: An Introduction, while rumours of their author's experiments with Buddhism, Hinduism, Christian Science, acupunture and diet continued to spread.

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