What's the difference between besieger and muscule?

Besieger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In practice they are so elastic that they have been used to deny pasta to besieged Gazans.
  • (2) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
  • (3) Around 800,000 people died of starvation in one of the most horrific chapters of the war as the city was besieged by the Nazis for two and a half years.
  • (4) Commanders in the besieged Libyan rebel enclave of Misrata have complained that Nato has ignored requests for air support during a week of heavy attacks by pro-Gaddafi forces.
  • (5) Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death Read more The Syrian regime and Hezbollah have put Madaya under siege for more than six months now as a response to the siege of the northern towns of Fua and Kefraya by anti-regime forces.
  • (6) At home, he’s besieged by leadership speculation of sufficient intensity to see his conservative allies resort to public verbal knife-fights.
  • (7) By creating an environment of intolerance – one could even say outright hostility – towards an already besieged community, the laws have fostered a surge of anti-gay violence across the country.
  • (8) Speaking after a day of high-level intelligence briefings with British officials in London, Abbott described the unfolding atrocity in northern Iraq as a "humanitarian catastrophe" and said Australia would provide humanitarian aid to Yazidi refugees besieged by Islamic State (Isis) forces on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq.
  • (9) The UN waits too long to get access to one besieged area even though international law clearly permits it,” argues a Syrian involved in below-the-radar humanitarian work – the sort that comes, unlike government assistance, with no strings attached.
  • (10) They have kept the city open and have reopened it when it was besieged.
  • (11) The tank fired round after round, trying to help the besieged soldiers, but it didn't move forward, fearing the IEDs planted by Khalil and his men.
  • (12) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
  • (13) Hefazat-e-Islam officials say they will "besiege" Dhaka next month if the government does not agree to their demands.
  • (14) When Egypt's security forces stormed the besieged al-Fath mosque in central Cairo almost two weeks ago among those arrested were four siblings with joint Irish-Egyptian nationality – three women aged 21 to 28, and their brother, 17.
  • (15) We haven’t heard the leader of the Labour party speak out enough to demand UK airdrops to besieged civilians who are dying in their thousands.” A Labour spokesman said: “Jeremy has repeatedly condemned the Russian military intervention and bombing campaign in Syria and called for an independent investigation of evidence of war crimes.
  • (16) Kenneth Feinberg, the US treasury department official who is scrutinising pay packages at bailed-out banks, said that Lewis – besieged by regulatory investigations and lambasted by shareholders – should get no salary or bonus for the year.
  • (17) Matthew Pennycook is MP for Greenwich and Woolwich Louise Haigh: ‘Bringing down Corbyn would be an act of betrayal’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Louise Haigh New Labour was a response to a Tory party in tatters, besieged by scandal, its fiscal credibility in ruins, tired and out of ideas.
  • (18) But within months, as the bodies piled up in Syria, that support would start draining away, leaving Akhras besieged by criticism and questions about the regime's judgment that he has struggled to answer.
  • (19) Are we fighting for a better understanding of what is going on in our sport or are we trying to get power?’” Saddique Shaban (@SaddiqueShaban) No let up in Kenyan athletes siege at Roadha House as besieged officials watch in awe.
  • (20) Iraq's prime minister has urged people in the besieged city of Falluja to drive out al-Qaida-linked insurgents to pre-empt a military offensive that officials said could be launched within days.

Muscule


Definition:

  • (n.) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Musculation of the thighs can improve their appearance.
  • (2) Here a new theory of osteoporosis is introduced, explaining osteoporosis not to be primarily a disfunction of calcium- or bone metabolism, but as a part-symptom of disfunction of the whole sustentaculum -bones, marrow, nucleus pulposus and musculation.
  • (3) With a low approach, the procedure consists in using a filler tissue, namely a skin flap removed from a greater lip, for which the vasculature is maintained by the preservation of a thick musculous and fatty pedicle, cut from the fibers of the bulbocavernosus muscle.
  • (4) Adrenalectomy is accompanied by a decreased content of free amino acids in muscules and blood plasma by an increased content of certain amino acids in the liver.
  • (5) It has been shown that insulin accelerates the incorporation of I-C14-glycine into proteins of the liver, kidneys, pancreas, spleen, sceletal muscules, thyroid gland, thymus and adrenal glands but does not influence this process in the cardiac muscle and diaphragm.
  • (6) Insulin lack was effective in potentiating epinephrine-induced increase in liver and muscule cyclic AMP even after the treatment of rats with theophylline; the potentiation could not be solely accounted for by the inhibition of cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase.
  • (7) Presence of 2-5-15 mM-K in the recovery solution hyperpolarized the 'Na-rich' muscul fibres at the beginning of recovery.
  • (8) A soft and brown mass was found intra- and extradurally and it invaded into paravertebral muscules.
  • (9) Workers of the African weaver ant Oecophylla longinoda recruit nestmates to previously unoccupied space by means of odor trails laid from the rectal gland, a hitherto unrecognized musculated organ located at the rear of the rectal sac.
  • (10) Only comparisons within study groups, either national (such as the PETAL group), or international (such as the Muscule Skelatal Tumor Society), can provide positive answers in a field where question marks are more frequent than certainties.

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