What's the difference between beachy and gravel?

Beachy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While discussion of Croatia as a travel destination usually focuses on the beachy delights of the Dalmatian coast, the country is also home to some of the most spectacular – and, crucially, well-protected – natural environments in Europe, with seemingly limitless opportunities for hiking, camping, climbing, caving, animal-spotting, birdwatching and generally "doing nature" without doing it in.
  • (2) The tragic case of a couple taking their own lives by jumping off Beachy Head following the death of their young son prompted material from the anti-choice lobby claiming that the campaign for assisted dying was calling for more of the same.
  • (3) De, N. Hoffman, S. G. Rogers, R. T. Fraley, and R. N. Beachy, 1986, Science 232, 738-743] was able to package some of either mutant viral RNA into TMV-like particles in vivo and resulted in the long-range spread of infection.
  • (4) De, N. Hoffman, S. G. Rogers, R. T. Fraley, and R. N. Beachy, Science, 232, 738-743, 1986; R. S. Nelson, P. Powell Abel, and R. N. Beachy, Virology 158, 128-132, 1987).
  • (5) With Tim Hudson, Kris Medlen, Mike Minor, Paul Maholm and Julio Teheran in place the starting pitching is superb – the biggest problem they have is figuring out who goes to the ailing bullpen after Brandon Beachy returns from Tommy John surgery after the break.
  • (6) A grieving couple jumped from Beachy Head apparently carrying the body of their five-year-old son two days after his death from meningitis, it emerged today.
  • (7) Then the bulk of the population will soon be foaming with outrage and hatred, and the homeless can all be chased away, and sent off on long marches, perhaps to Beachy Head, where they can consider their options.
  • (8) • Maps: OS Landranger 198 (Brighton & Lewes) or OS Explorer 123 (Eastbourne & Beachy Head) Manningtree circular, Essex Photograph: Liz Valentine A beautiful walk through Constable country with several opportunities to enjoy good river swimming in the famous Stour.
  • (9) Starting pitcher Kris Medlen, who won 15 games while putting up a 3.11 ERA last year, is out after right elbow surgery , a huge blow, as is the news that Brandon Beachy , who who emerged in 2012 before also being done in by injury, won’t be back anytime soon.

Gravel


Definition:

  • (n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
  • (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
  • (v. t.) To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
  • (v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
  • (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • (v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
  • (2) Except for the blue guard towers it is drained of colour, a grey sameness coating gravel, fences and buildings.
  • (3) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
  • (4) I found myself skirting the wood’s perimeter, a no-go zone of the past for us, and came next to a gravel-pocked face mined by rabbits with one of the burrows crowned with the skull of an ancestor.
  • (5) Opening up these magnificent forests for logging is like mining the great pyramids of Egypt for road gravel," said McKim.
  • (6) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
  • (7) On the Sabbath the fleet of earthmovers that ordinarily grind the route to Lombrum – ferrying gravel to the detention centre building site where a crew of 300 labor to finish new staff accommodation – are resting in their compound.
  • (8) The reactivity of soils varies widely as geological and sedimentological conditions offer typical but different environments: gravels, chalk soil, clay, salt soils, sands, cave earths are examples of this wide variety, including atmospheric and biogenetic implications.
  • (9) The cellar level is on the average 5.4 times higher if the cellar has partially a gravel or earth floor than if the whole cellar surface is covered with a concrete floor.
  • (10) But it doesn't work that way: you may have "less gravel", but most writers agree that you can only have "fewer pebbles", not "less pebbles".
  • (11) This biomass was computed from that of the organisms and associated naphthalene oxidation activity washed from the gravel compared with the original suspension.
  • (12) We can talk about "many pebbles" but not "much pebbles", "much gravel" but not "many gravel".
  • (13) Ultrasound detected 59 of 60 foreign bodies, including all cubes of meat embedded with gravel, cactus spine, plastic, metal, and wood.
  • (14) Tulisa led, and did so with panache and some beautiful gravel.
  • (15) This means putting a layer of bark, grass cuttings, manure, even gravel on top of the soil to trap moisture in the earth, or at least slow down evaporation.
  • (16) Aged 102, Bi Kidude, the gravel-voiced singer known her raucous sense of humour and her love of cigarettes, suddenly vanished from her home.
  • (17) Trying to solve an actual problem of enhancing the spontaneous passage of fragments, "calculous trails" and gravel in the patients who underwent remote lithotripsy the authors used the technique of local vibrotherapy in 54 postoperative patients.
  • (18) We are on a gravel track and have been driving for a long time.
  • (19) One of its largest islands is gentle-paced Brønnøya, with its apple orchards, gravel roads and beaches.
  • (20) Photograph: Water Literacy Foundation In Masagi’s pit-based system, permanent structures of mud, sand, soil, gravel and boulders are built, eight per acre of farmland, and partially filled with a mix of gravel and sand.

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