Ninja vs Killer - What's the difference?
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(martial arts, historical) A person trained primarily in stealth, espionage, assassination and the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu.
A Mongolian amateurish private miner (mainly for gold); after the shape of the plastic bowls used to wash metal ore with mercury, roughly resembling one of the .
* 2007 October 10, Jonathan Watts, "Prospectors and 'ninja' miners flood to east's El Dorado" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/10/international.mainsection1], The Guardian ,
(slang) Juggalo version of the epithet "nigga".
To act in the manner of a , especially in the areas of speed and power.
(gaming, slang) To claim an item in a game by abusing game mechanics, often despite having no real need for the item or ability to use it.
(Internet, slang) To post a response on a message board immediately before someone else unknowingly posts a response saying the same thing.
That which kills.
(figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
(figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
(sports) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
A diacritic mark used in Indic scripts to suppress an inherent vowel (e.g., the Hindi viram, the Bengali or Oriya hasanta) or render the entire syllable silent (e.g., the Burmese virama, the Khmer toandakhiat).
(slang) Excellent, very good.
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Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.
As a noun killer is
an ink eradicator or killer can be a paid killer, a contract killer.ninja
English
(wikipedia ninja)Noun
(en-noun)- Many were former nomads, but as the gold rush gathered pace, students, vets and taxi drivers from Ulan Bator joined the ninjas , not just in Ogoomor but in other gold towns across the country.
- What up, my ninja !
Coordinate terms
* kunoichi * shinobiDerived terms
* ninjitsu * ninjetteVerb
- That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!
- When I answered the OP's question, I saw that Porthos had ninja'd me by posting the same answer just before I did.
Anagrams
* English refractory feminine rhymes ----killer
English
Noun
(en noun)- There’s a killer on the loose.
- ''My cat is a habitual bird killer .
- Carbon monoxide is a silent killer .
- ''That test was a killer .
- The final hill in the race course was a killer .
- Various means had were used to steer aircraft in the early years but ailerons were the killer .
- So, for example, an invisible ?thaq “killer ” (virama) (U+1039) is not inserted between initial and medial consonants. — http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/wadict/burmese/SOASMyanmar_keyboard_and_font_user_manual.pdf
- We have previously shown that there is no “virama” sign as a general “killer ” in Khmer script, unlike, for example, in Devanagari script. — http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2458.pdf
- The virama U+1039 MYANMAR SIGN VIRAMA also participates in some common constructions where it appears as a visible sign, commonly termed killer . — http://www.myanmarnlp.net.mm/doc/20010714_implementation_draungmaw1.PPT
- In the course of its adaptation to non-Indo-Aryan languages, the Burmese script has acquired some features that distinguish it from other Indic scripts. The killer''', or virama, participates in some common constructions that would be clumsy to handle the way they would be in the other Indic scripts, so the control function of the virama is separated from the diacritic function of the '''killer'''. The virama, 0F4D is used to form conjunct consonants, while the '''killer''', 0F52, is a simple diacritic and has no effect on character shaping. The '''killer is also combined with the VOWEL SIGN O (0F4B) to form the low level tone vowel “o.” When used this way, this symbol is known as hyei hto, or “thrust forward.” — http://unicode.org/reports/tr1.html
- For example, although the ‘vowel killer ’ diacritic may be called a ‘pulli’ in Tamil, it is still referred to by the Unicode character names as a ‘virama’. — http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/09-ri-indic/indic-paper.html
- Thai words that have been borrowed from Sanskrit, Pali and English usually try to retain as much of the original spelling as possible; as this will often produce pronunciations that are impossible or misleading, a ‘killer ’ symbol is placed above the redundant consonant to indicate that it may be ignored'' — ''Thai: An Essential Grammar By David Smyth
- Sometimes the ‘killer'''’ sign, called '''kaaran in Thai, cancels out not only the consonant above which it appears, but also the one immediately preceding it.'' — ''Thai: An Essential Grammar By David Smyth