What's the difference between blacksmith and swage?
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.
Swage
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) See Assuage.
(n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge.
(v. t.) To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The best processing schedule is casting small ingots while avoiding oxidation, followed by swaging, drawing, and homogenization.
(2) The swaged metal matrix provides a method for rapidly making a metal substructure for ceramic crowns.
(3) Those differences between swaged and cast specimens were seemed to depend on the casting porosities.
(4) 4 wt.% Si were chosen for this study because they have Curie temperatures in the desired range of 45-60 degrees C. The thermoseeds were prepared by using either a special casting technique or casting and swaging followed by homogenization.
(5) 1) The tensile strength and elongation of swaged specimen showed highest value at 30 wt% Au but in case of casted specimen, tensile strength was highest as 20 wt% and elongation was minimum at 30 wt% Au.
(6) A new double-armed microsuture using 70-mu micro-edge taper-point (M.E.T., Sharpoint, Reading, PA) needles swaged onto 10-0 (22 mu) monofilament nylon has been developed by us primarily to allow precision intraluminal suture placement.
(7) The purpose of this study is to evaluate the biomechanical performance of laser-drilled and channel needle swages.
(8) In this experiment, an uniform-moment bending load method was employed to simulate the occlusal situation, and the distribution of strain in epoxy resin, stainless swaged and Co-Cr alloy cast dentures were measured and analyzed.
(9) Malleting or swaging a beveled margin is a more sucessful technique of adapting cast gold to the cavosurface angles.
(10) This study determined the vertical and horizontal marginal fidelity of swaged metal substrate crowns made with four methods.
(11) The anastomoses were performed with an operating microscope with monofilament nylon 10-0 (Ethilon) and polyglactin 910 (Vicryl) 10-0 (0.2 m) swaged to a BV-6 taper-point needle.
(12) These benefits of laser-drilled swages indicate that they should replace all channel needles.
(13) Parham bands and swage-lock titanium cables were found to exhibit the greatest fixation potential and highest ultimate strengths.
(14) The laser-drilled swages have a more uniform circumference that encounters lower drag forces than the channel needle swages.
(15) Microsurgical ureteroureterostomy was performed in 100 rats with Nylon and Vicryl 10-0 and 11-0 swaged on a BV-6 and BV-8 needle.
(16) Swaged PVC foil used for packing pharmaceuticals, also known here as strip packing or press-through packing for pills and dragees was employed as plates for the cultures.