What's the difference between bruise and cruise?

Bruise


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
  • (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
  • (v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
  • (n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most injuries due to accidents have been bruises, wounds and bone fractures of upper and lower limbs.
  • (2) Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.
  • (3) Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by thin skin, prominent venous vascular markings, markedly increased bruising, and an increased likelihood of large bowel and large artery rupture.
  • (4) Television images of his body showed heavy bruising to his face.
  • (5) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
  • (6) The acquired platelet function defects, especially those resulting from drugs, are very common and should promptly be suspected in patients developing easy and spontaneous bruising, mild to moderate mucosal membrane hemorrhage, or unexplained bleeding associated with trauma or surgery.
  • (7) When she returned she had a large bruise on her forehead.
  • (8) Lowest content of ascorbic acid occurred in bruised beans cooked in copper-fortified water.
  • (9) The decision by Moody's deals a bruising blow to the embattled chancellor, George Osborne, who has repeatedly nailed his credibility to the AAA rating.
  • (10) Iran’s supreme leader has accused Saudi Arabia of committing genocide in Yemen and said air strikes against Houthi rebels are doomed to fail, in a sharp escalation of tensions between the two rivals over the outcome of yet another bruising conflict in the Middle East.
  • (11) When we were treating him, he was not screaming or crying, just in shock.” There was so much there in his face, the blood and the dust mixed, at that age Mustafa al-Sarout Hours after he and his family were rescued, Omran was discharged from hospital, having suffered a head injury and bruises in the attack, but nothing too serious.
  • (12) Sir David Nicholson's bruising tenure as chief executive of the NHS saw him take a further battering from MPs as the public accounts committee criticised him over big pay rises for consultants and a range of other issues, including his penchant for first class rail travel.
  • (13) Bruising was the most frequent injury and was most prevalent among boys under 3 years of age.
  • (14) 4) In case of the death caused by the bruise sustained on the occipital region, casualties on gyrus frontale were recognized by 97%, while the bruise located on other than the occipital region, injuries were recognized by 51% on the opposite region, and the remaining 49% of it showed injuries on the same region of the sustained.
  • (15) He required hospital treatment for a potentially life-changing eye injury, a fractured cheekbone and substantial bruising to his body.
  • (16) Jen Dunstan, of Sheffield Disabled People Against the Cuts, told the Star: “Dozens of elderly and disabled people have been left with bruising.
  • (17) After months of bruising negotiation and a threatened legal challenge from the EC, a compromise was negotiated in 2005 under which the Premier League promised to sell the rights to at least two broadcasters.
  • (18) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
  • (19) It's a harsh tale of contemporary Russia, as beautiful as a bruise.
  • (20) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.

Cruise


Definition:

  • (n.) See Cruse, a small bottle.
  • (v. i.) To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.
  • (v. i.) To wander hither and thither on land.
  • (n.) A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
  • (2) Russia may be on the point of walking out of a major cold war era arms-control treaty, Russian analysts have said, after President Obama accused Moscow of violating the accord by testing a cruise missile .
  • (3) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
  • (4) For voluntary services to the Elderly and People with Disabilities through the Seagull Trust Cruises in Ratho, Midlothian.
  • (5) But as we’ve gathered data, we’ve realised that there are more and more reports that people are using cruise ships in order to get to launch pads, if you will, sort of closer to the conflict zones of Syria and Iraq.” Cruise ships, which often make repeated stops, offer an added benefit by allowing would-be jihadis to hop off undetected at any number of ports making efforts to track them more difficult.
  • (6) Isner wrapped up the first set in 49 minutes and then cruised through the second two untroubled in the hot conditions in front of almost 7,000 fans.
  • (7) On Thursday, a consignment of Russian Yankhont anti-ship cruise missiles arrived in Syria .
  • (8) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
  • (9) Cruise, who appeared with Nicholson in 1992's A Few Good Men , told his former co-star he would not do the film without him.
  • (10) Maybe Tom Cruise can do it,” he said with the afternoon’s first hint of a smile.
  • (11) A previously quiet stadium erupted and the home side looked like they would cruise into half-time.
  • (12) If you lose an engine in a cruise it doesn’t fall out of the sky,” he said.
  • (13) Some county officials believe the port area, a global hotspot for cruises and already inhabited by the Miami Heat basketball team, can’t handle any more traffic and has no room for the expected 5,000 cars descending upon every game.
  • (14) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
  • (15) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
  • (16) We can’t escape each other and get on our iPhones.” Malta, one of the European Union’s most southerly points, was an ideal starting place for a three-week cruise to Tunisia and along the coast of Sicily, not far from Calabria, the southern toe of Italy .
  • (17) Retrospective review of medical logs from two cruise ships' hospitals.
  • (18) Five Tunisia terror victims were passengers on Costa cruise ship Read more Facing the prospect of a collapse in tourism, a pillar of Tunisia’s troubled economy, President Beji Caid Essebsi ordered troops onto the streets for the first time since the 2011 Arab spring revolution.
  • (19) When Cruise announced last October that he was suing Bauer, his lawyer, Bert Fields, described the claim that the actor had deserted his daughter as a “vicious lie”.
  • (20) Ian Cruise, an independent councillor in Birmingham who resigned as a prison officer at the West Midlands jail in July, said it was an “absolute madhouse” and should be taken back from G4s control.