What's the difference between adding and eking?

Adding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Add

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (3) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (4) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
  • (5) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (6) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
  • (7) dl-Methionine stimulated the synthesis of cephalosporins when added after the growth phase.
  • (8) A clinical and microbiologic response occurred when anticoagulation therapy with heparin was added to the treatment regimen.
  • (9) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (10) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
  • (11) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
  • (12) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
  • (13) 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.
  • (14) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
  • (15) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
  • (16) However, within 5 min potassium overcame the vanadate potentiation of ouabain binding regardless of the order in which it was added to the reaction mixture.
  • (17) With glucose and protein as intraduodenal stimulus (no pancreatin added), the plasma amino acids rose significantly less (by approximately 50% of the control experiment) and the increment in insulin (but not C-peptide) concentrations was significantly reduced by loxiglumide.
  • (18) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (19) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (20) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.

Eking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eke
  • (v. t.) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.
  • (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those who have escaped form a growing underclass of refugees on the Thai border, where they eke out a meagre living and face deportation at any time.
  • (2) Branko, a former television repairman who now ekes out a living by farming, leaves the house accompanied by two other men.
  • (3) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
  • (4) While Klimt was creating modern art there, Hitler was going to the opera to hear Wagner (conducted by the modernist Gustav Mahler), and soon eking a living painting drab topographic scenes.
  • (5) The trade-off begins to look like a real pain in the ass if one has been here for years and years and is barely eking out a living.
  • (6) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
  • (7) Even the stronger economies at the eurozone's core have seen growth hit hard by the crisis and the German government was forced to concede on Wednesday that it now expects to eke out GDP growth of only 1% in 2013, not the 1.6% it had forecast.
  • (8) Better news saw Spain eke out marginal growth of 0.1% while the Italian economy essentially stabilized following extended contraction, although concerns persist about the ability of both countries to develop and sustain genuine recove 10.35am GMT Greece's recession may be easing, but there's no end to its unemployment crisis.
  • (9) His inquisitors tried to eke out what Cain would have done had he been in the White House but to little avail.
  • (10) After Ramsey's fancy flick was diverted by Jose Fonte, Wilshere burst on to the ball and eked out a chip so delicate it sailed over Boruc as if in slow motion.
  • (11) Cech dealt with assurance with Newcastle’s best efforts, which gave Arsenal the platform to eke out a win.
  • (12) Johariah ekes out a living to support her family by selling salted fish.
  • (13) He left school at 13 and for the past five years has eked out a living selling pirated books, guides and out-of-date maps to the soldiers and civilians going in and out of Nato's headquarters there.
  • (14) Khirbet Susiya is home to between 250 and 350 villagers – depending on the season – who live in around 100 structures and eke out an existence largely from subsistence agriculture.
  • (15) The sight of Chelsea's crestfallen players proved as much, their inability to convert when chances had been eked out in the first period proved critical as the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero, once a Bayern Munich player, registered the only goal midway through the second period.
  • (16) The study, which covered 100 carers affected by the changes, found local authorities were drawing up tight rationing criteria to eke out local discretionary support funds.
  • (17) Without copra, outer islanders will be reduced to a subsistence survival, eked from the land, supplemented by fishing and likely made impossible by tidal inundations.
  • (18) The commission said, however, that it expected Germany, France, Italy and Spain to perform even less well than the UK next year, with the 17-nation eurozone eking out expansion of just 0.1% in 2013.
  • (19) In a dizzying finale before the recess, House Republicans eked out the votes to pass two bills – neither of which have a realistic chance of becoming law – that aim to address the crisis at the US’s southern border.
  • (20) Gurgaon could just as well have been called DLF , the name of the company that built the city on a site where 30 years ago peasants eked a living out of the rocky land.

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