What's the difference between blacksmith and stake?

Blacksmith


Definition:

  • (n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
  • (n.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The son of long-time Republican senator John Chafee, Lincoln Chafee worked as a blacksmith at harness-racing tracks and served as mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, before he was appointed to the US Senate in 1999, after his father’s death.
  • (2) Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies trace the meteoric rise of Cromwell from the lowly son of a blacksmith to a ruthless political leader.
  • (3) Appearance: Mountains, forests, fast-flowing rivers, picturesque castles, sleepy villages, horse carts, elderly peasants ploughing land with age-old implements, blacksmiths sloshed on the deadly local brew palinka plying their time-honoured trade.
  • (4) The investigation of sanitary working conditions of stampers and blacksmiths revealed that intense impulse noise of complex time and stochatic structure was a major health adverse factor.
  • (5) It is the religious aspects of enigmatic Persia that helped put an 80-year-old exiled ascetic at the head of state 30 years ago, then the charismatic cleric Khatami in office 12 years ago, the honest son of a blacksmith – Ahmedinejad – four years ago, and the same yesterday.
  • (6) Analysis of hearing of 140 blacksmiths from three workships (280 ears) revealed considerable differences in the development of occupational perception deafness between different individuals and also as regard the affection of the right and left ear.
  • (7) The quaint village of Bevans now stands as the Peters Valley School of Craft , where blacksmithing, woodworking and weaving are taught and practised.
  • (8) A total of 328 blacksmiths was examined so as to obtain and analyse the physical parameters of noise exposure for its hygienic evaluation and norm setting.
  • (9) Further along I met a group of people hammering red hot metal in a blacksmithing workshop.
  • (10) For the broadest level of classification, no excess risk was observed among craftmen and related manufacturing workers, but within this group significant excess risks were observed for specific occupations of textile weavers and knitters; metal smelting, converting, and refining furnacemen; boiler firemen; blacksmiths, hammersmiths, and forging-press operators; bakers, pastry cooks, and confectionery makers; welders and flame-cutters; and metal grinders, polishers, tool sharpeners, and machine-tool operators.
  • (11) When the blacksmith's daughter tearfully pleads with Pulgasari to "go on a diet", he seems to find his conscience, and puzzlingly shatters into a million slow-motion rocks.
  • (12) Comparative study of hearing loss in the blacksmiths according to a standard 1999 revealed a hyperaggressiveness of impulsive noise in close connection with both noise level and length of service.
  • (13) But the same things happened when the automobile replaced the horse, and all the blacksmiths had to adapt, spending their time making garden gates rather than horseshoes.
  • (14) The risk for metal workers is specially high in the case of turners, metal fitters, blacksmiths, stokers and workers exposed to hot metal.
  • (15) This year’s Venice work draws from his exhibition called All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (the title derives from a passage in the Communist Manifesto) that toured the north of England in 2013-14, and featured family trees of musicians that found the ancestors of Bryan Ferry, Noddy Holder and Shaun Ryder included a blacksmith, a button filer and a clogger’s apprentice.
  • (16) Since then his only medical problem has been mild graft-versus-host disease; he is well and is working full time as a blacksmith.
  • (17) found out that the workers of high risk were butchers, blacksmiths, masons, drivers, electricians and railwaymen.
  • (18) Its blacksmiths are the scientific community, and while they may be able to make that key in the future, it is not available yet.
  • (19) And for a few months more it will be at its best - filled with bird lovers, blacksmiths and children with henna-stained fingers playing in the alleys.
  • (20) Physical working capacity in blacksmiths was found interrelated with the direct and indirect trace element exchanges: hemoglobin in the blood, blood serum iron levels, peroxidase activity and copper content in blood cells.

Stake


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
  • (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.
  • (v. t.) A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
  • (v. t.) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.
  • (v. t.) A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.
  • (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
  • (v. t.) To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
  • (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.
  • (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a stake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is not clear whether Sports Direct, which has a history of taking strategic stakes in related companies including Debenhams and JD Sports, will now make a bid.
  • (2) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
  • (3) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
  • (4) Shares in the bank have fallen more than 30% since Britain voted to leave the EU and the share closed on Monday at 167p, well below the 502p average price at which taxpayers bought their stake in the bank.
  • (5) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
  • (6) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
  • (7) But Mr Bolloré, with a 29% stake in Aegis, vowed to keep calling shareholder meetings until he gets his way.
  • (8) Xenophon’s letter says if State Grid is also allowed to own a huge stake in Ausgrid it raises serious questions about market dominance.
  • (9) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
  • (10) They also point to her involvement, between 1999 and 2005, with Computer Associates-Jinchen, a joint venture between an American tech company and a Chinese firm in which China’s ministry of public security reportedly held a 20% stake.
  • (11) That stake in eight Indonesian coal mines represents 1GT of future carbon dioxide emissions, more than Germany’s annual output.
  • (12) Buffett’s fortune was briefly boosted by another $5.7bn purely on his personal stake in Kraft Heinz, whose shares rose 10%, while Unilever shares rose 13.4% to a record high.
  • (13) Despite its 25% stake, BP said it would be wrong to assume that it would obtain a quarter of the expected $100bn worth of revenues.
  • (14) Most of the money, says WDM, was used to buy shares in Bumi , the troubled London-listed firm co-founded by financier Nat Rothschild that owns large stakes in some of the biggest mining projects in East Kalimantan.
  • (15) They will not be able to vote out the non-execs because Ashley has that vast stake, but there are occasions when principles are important and this September's AGM will be one of them.
  • (16) Shell has pulled out of renewables: it retains a small stake in biofuels development, but the company's offshore wind business is no more.
  • (17) Rupert Murdoch has a battle on his hands to win over leading shareholders in BSkyB, who scent the opportunity for a high-stakes game of brinkmanship and are pushing for a premium price of well over £10bn for full control of the pay-television company.
  • (18) The future of our children, grandchildren and beyond is at stake.
  • (19) To maintain its 30% stake the Co-op would need to stump up another £120m, increasing its already high debt levels.
  • (20) Two years later, the privately held Lovefilm acquired Amazon's UK and German movie rental business, with the online retail giant taking a stake in the business as part of the deal.