Oinker vs Linker - What's the difference?
oinker | linker |
(slang, countable) A pig: an animal of the genus Sus .
A pig: a fat person.
* 2002 , , Doubleday, ISBN 0385496958, page 302,
*:"What an oinker ," someone whispered off screen. Then something Caffery couldn't understand, which ended clearly with the word "flabby."
A pig: a dirty or slovenly person.
An MCP; male chauvinist pig.
* 2006 , , Hundred-Dollar Baby , Putnam, ISBN 0399153764, page 150,
A pig: a glutton.
* 2005 , Jacqueline Meadows, Something Wanton , Ellora's Cave Publishing, ISBN 1419951017, page 95,
*:"I know I'm being an oinker but I didn't get lunch today." My ravenous gaze fell to his half-eaten hotdog. "You going to finish that?"
A pig: a police officer.
* 1998 , Jessica Speart, Tortoise Soup , HarperCollins, ISBN 0380792893, page 40,
*:"Hi. I'm Rachel Porter, with Fish and Wildlife," I said.
*:"So you're the new oinker , huh?" he commented, squinting up at me.
Someone or something that oinks
That which links.
(computer science) a computer program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program.
(genetics) A short oligonucleotide containing a recognition sequence for a restriction enzyme, used to blunt the ends of sticky DNA segments.
(grammar) A word that serves to link other elements.
(finance, informal) A linked bond, one for which the principal is indexed to inflation.
(genetics) To ligate a DNA segment using a .
* 1994 , Ray Shillito et al., "Zea mays plants regenerated from protoplasts or protoplast-derived cells", US Patent 5770450, page 52:
As nouns the difference between oinker and linker
is that oinker is a pig: an animal of the genus Sus while linker is that which links.As a verb linker is
to ligate a DNA segment using a linker.oinker
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- The slug they dug out of him was a .22. A woman's gun? Or was I being a sexist oinker ?
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* (all senses) pigAnagrams
*linker
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(wikipedia linker) (en noun)Synonyms
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* linker DNAVerb
(en verb)- 38. The plasmid pRK252 Km is cut with ecoRI, blunt-ended using Klenow, and linkered with BgIII linkers (New England Biolabs).