Important vs Macher - What's the difference?
important | macher |
Having relevant and crucial value.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
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, chapter=20 *1988, (Robert Ferro), Second Son :
*:For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
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, title= an important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig
*2005': An ordinary man doesn’t jump the Snake River Canyon / with nothing underneath his ass / but a two-wheeled, fin-stabilised X-1 Skycycle / and a seven-figure guarantee from some '''macher in LA. — August Kleinzahler , in 'A Valentine’s: Regarding the Impractibility of Our Love', ''London Review of Books , Vol. 27 No.20, 20 October 2005, page 6.
*2007': Finally, Mr. Wall Street '''macher , there's our own Abe Silverfish, a man who has editing awards from prestige film festivals in Tanganyika and Bali. — Woody Allen, in 'Calisthenics, Poison Ivy, Final Cut', ''Mere Anarchy
As a adjective important
is having relevant and crucial value.As a noun macher is
an important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig.important
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}