What's the difference between yonder and yonker?

Yonder


Definition:

  • (adv.) At a distance, but within view.
  • (a.) Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Free, free as the sunshine trickling down the morning into these high windows of mine, free as yonder fresh young voices welling up to me from the caverns of brick and mortar below – swelling with song, instinct with life, tremulous treble and darkening bass.” A signature sentence “If it is true that there are an appreciable number of Negro youth in the land capable by character and talent to receive that higher training, the end of which is culture, and if the two-and-a-half thousand who have had something of this training in the past have in the main proved themselves useful to their race and generation, the question then comes, What place in the future development of the South ought the Negro college and college-bred man to occupy?” Three to compare Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1952) James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (1963) Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father (1995) • The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois is published by Yale University Press (£7.99).
  • (2) Debt will rise as austerity stretches further into the yonder with ever more cuts.
  • (3) If universal credit collapses or is delayed to beyond the blue yonder, it will be a shame that a project every government considers, but shies away from in its enormity, is wrecked by incompetence, arrogance and a political imperative to rush.
  • (4) We now have a system that would not allow the Liberal Democrats to be bounced into a position that came out of the pale blue yonder.
  • (5) But he insisted that much UK money vanished “into the wide blue yonder.
  • (6) We start by marching on the spot, which gradually turns into a sort of gliding on the spot, rather than trying to head off too fast into the wild yonder of the rink.
  • (7) One of the mainest ways is by singing … No matter who makes it up, no matter who sings it and who don't, if it talks the lingo of the people it's a cinch to catch on, and will be sung here and yonder for a long time after you've cashed in your chips."
  • (8) A false step yonder means death,” evil Stapleton warns in the book.

Yonker


Definition:

  • (n.) A young fellow; a younker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This model, the Outreach Health Care Unit, is run by nurse practitioners in collaboration with family physicians and is centered at the site of social service activities for homeless families and single men in Yonkers, N.Y.
  • (2) Jean Halloran Director, Food Policy Initiatives Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports 101 Truman Ave Yonkers, NY 10703 Friends of the Earth also wrote a letter to the editor taking issue with some of my points.
  • (3) A public school for pre-kindergarten through second grade (ages 4 to 8 years) in Yonkers, New York, was studied; all of 422 students were included and finished the study.
  • (4) Endoscopic examinations were performed on 965 Standardbred racehorses competing at Yonkers Raceway between June 16 and Aug 3, 1988, to demonstrate an association between exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and poor racing performance.
  • (5) He was born in Yonkers, New York, to an Irish Catholic and Democratic family, but turned his back on that inheritance and chose to study at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
  • (6) The 51-year-old former call center manager had moved three years before from Yonkers, outside New York City, to live with her children in North Carolina, take advantage of a first-floor apartment and enjoy the relative peace and quiet.
  • (7) I grew up in a project [housing estate] in Yonkers, New York.
  • (8) In an attempt to clarify the role of geriatrics in family practice, the program at St. Joseph's Hospital and Nursing Home of Yonkers is outlined.
  • (9) Best, Michael Michael Hansen, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Consumers Union 101 Truman Ave. Yonkers, NY 10703 I will not respond to Hansen here except to say that the Seralini study has been widely discredited, even after its recent republication.

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