What's the difference between brogue and perforation?

Brogue


Definition:

  • (n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.
  • (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
  • (2) Photograph: Thomas Karlsson Writer Will Coldwell put on his best hipster brogues, turned up his jeans, and sought out a different side of Europe’s major cities in covering these innovative walking tours that revel in art, history, food, drink – and even financial mismanagement.
  • (3) He looks like a disgusted George Clooney, or a man arguing about brogues in a hotel foyer in a Tom Ford film.
  • (4) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
  • (5) But last Friday his gravelly brogue was inescapable, at least for anyone tuned to BBC radio news bulletins.
  • (6) She leans back, arms crossed, blue-rimmed glasses nestling in thick blonde waves on top of her head, every now and then interjecting with a quip and a delighted kick of her blue, brogued feet.
  • (7) You don't see enough people running around in brogues and bowler hat these days.
  • (8) Then there are the accents, as bad a representation of the Brummie brogue as you’re ever likely to hear on TV.
  • (9) That it's also one of the best things to have appeared on the BBC in years is almost by the by: this, it booms in its enormous, barrel-lunged Irish brogue, is how to make a relentlessly original, consistently gripping, vast-brained five-part psychological thriller with a gimmick (in essence: let's devote equal attention to the hunter and the hunted) that never feels like a gimmick, but rather the perfect means of exploring the banality of evil, the nature of obsession, and the niggly-squirmy minutiae of everyday, common-or-garden murder.
  • (10) Photograph: Barbie After a survey on the fashion desk, we have decided that we particularly like the vibe of Everyday Chic Curvy Barbie, who has boldly teamed distressed cropped jeans with lace-up black brogues.
  • (11) Just in case we hadn't got the message while sitting (and getting a bit hot and bored) for about an hour for the show to start, Danny himself appeared and spoke unto us in his matey, charismatic Lancashire brogue.
  • (12) shouts out one of the troops, who range from a retired chap of military bearing, wearing a tweed jacket and brown brogue shoes, to a dishevelled fan of Viz comics.
  • (13) The tepid sunshine wobbles in, polishes his shabby brogues, moves shyly across the surface of the dressing table.
  • (14) They dressed accordingly, in blazers and brogues appropriate to a Cape Cod country club, and Koenig sang about Ivy League campuses populated by characters with names like Blake and Bryn.
  • (15) A 65-year-old women developed an Irish brogue immediately after a deep left hemisphere stroke.
  • (16) Crucially, the three banks who placed higher valuations on the Royal Mail and were all ignored by the government didn't take the opportunity to put the leather brogues in.
  • (17) I think she is very good in it, though connoisseurs of the lilting London brogue may disagree.
  • (18) "Yes," you think, as you watch his brogues clacking along another forlorn cobbled boulevard to the strains of a throttled theramin.
  • (19) As well as Céline, a pair of splattered trousers in the J Crew collection already have a buzz about them and Martin Margiela has a pair of very smart brogues covered in paint.
  • (20) The hair is neatly combed and he wears a grey pinstriped suit with a blue shirt and tie, black socks, black brogues and distinct air of civility.

Perforation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.
  • (n.) A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (2) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
  • (3) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
  • (4) The perforant pathway and fimbria fornix were transected to label afferent fibers to NPY-positive cells.
  • (5) As to complications they recorded in one case mucosal bleeding after gastrofiberoptic polypectomy and in one case a covered perforation of the sigmoid at the site of colonoscopic polypectomy.
  • (6) By way of major complications, merely one perforation occurred.
  • (7) Autopsy data of all patients who received EVS and who died (32 patients, 100%) during this period were available to confirm the diagnosis of perforation.
  • (8) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
  • (9) No perforations, stenoses or thermic lesions after wound healing were observed.
  • (10) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
  • (11) Major reported complications include hemorrhage, perforation, biliary and pancreatic obstruction, and inflammation with intestinal obstruction.
  • (12) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).
  • (13) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  • (14) The energy required for perforation from the external surface to the anterior chamber was the same as the energy required for ab interno perforation.
  • (15) Cholecystokinin (CCK) as the sulfated (CCK-8S) and unsulfated (CCK-8U) octapeptide sequences, and CR 1409 were administered intraventricularly while the action potential (EAP) in the granular cell layer of the hippocampal dentate gyrus evoked by perforant path stimulation was recorded.
  • (16) At first the prognosis of perforating keratoplasty improved because of better surgical techniques, so that the number of indications increased.
  • (17) a) To determine the frequency of perforations in latex surgical gloves before, during, and after surgical and dental procedures; b) to evaluate the topographical distribution of perforations in latex surgical gloves after surgical and dental procedures; and c) to validate methods of testing for latex surgical glove patency.
  • (18) Perforations of the left atrial or ventricular wall and extravasations of contrast medium during transseptal left heart catheterisation or angiocardiography can be eliminated by replacing the normally used transseptal catheters by Pigtail-catheters.
  • (19) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
  • (20) Dairy pipeline cleaners were the single most common causative substance, injuring ten toddlers (mean age 1.6 years), perforating the esophagus in two.

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