What's the difference between buck and buckle?

Buck


Definition:

  • (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
  • (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
  • (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
  • (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  • (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
  • (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
  • (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
  • (n.) A male Indian or negro.
  • (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  • (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
  • (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
  • (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
  • (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  • (n.) The beech tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A few days later he tweeted : "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.
  • (2) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
  • (3) Social prescribing schemes, by their nature, vary considerably but generally provide a way for GPs and other primary care professionals to offer or signpost to non-clinical referral options instead of, or alongside, clinical ones,” says the report’s author, David Buck.
  • (4) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
  • (5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
  • (6) However, our airports are unable to serve the young bucks that are set to drive the world forward.
  • (7) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
  • (8) He said to me that he would not grow old, both in discussions of his paper on senescence ("I feel bucked when anyone refers to that paper") and discussions touching on personal safety.
  • (9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
  • (10) The subsequent post-rut profiles of treated bucks were characterized by lower basal plasma LH concentrations, and reduced frequency and amplitude of plasma testosterone surges.
  • (11) Sexual behavior of the buck, onset of puberty, techniques for semen collection and evaluation, the production of teaser animals, and methods of castration are also discussed.
  • (12) People moved in who wanted to make a buck out of it all, especially the drugs.
  • (13) As Buck is not challenging his guilt, the most he could hope for is life without parole, said Radelet.
  • (14) There’s just inertia and a lack of looking into ourselves to find the solutions.” Recently, Buck had told her brother about fuel money for ambulances being diverted.
  • (15) The Harris County district court is now considering whether or not to grant Buck a new sentencing hearing.
  • (16) As Fox caller Joe Buck just said to new viewers "we know where you've been"."
  • (17) Pratchett left school one year into his A-levels, after he was offered a job on the local paper, the Bucks Free Press , aged 17.
  • (18) But the buck does not stop with the commission, and it is not an invention of the US trade deal.
  • (19) It is concluded that Buck screw fixation is a safe and reliable method of treatment for painful Grade I spondylolisthesis due to isthmic spondylolysis in the young active adult with a low complication rate.
  • (20) Bevan was equally unimpressed and told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme: "The buck stops with Alan.

Buckle


Definition:

  • (n.) A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
  • (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
  • (n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
  • (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face.
  • (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
  • (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
  • (n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
  • (n.) To join in marriage.
  • (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
  • (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
  • (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
  • (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
  • (2) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
  • (3) Four of 15 retinas unable to be attached by scleral buckling were reattached after the addition of a single vitreous operation.
  • (4) The cutaneous receptive field was explored with textile fiber sized probes of diameter 20-50 microns, with buckling loads from 75 to 150 mgf.
  • (5) The heme group appears to be buckled, reflecting the high content of bile pigment in liver catalase.
  • (6) Breaks responsible for rhegmatogenous retinal detachments in 78 eyes could not be seen preoperatively owing to opacities in the media, previous buckling or other causes.
  • (7) If the preoperative view of the retina was good and the extent of PVR did not exceed grade C2, pars plana vitrectomy did not seem to offer obvious advantages over conventional buckling procedures.
  • (8) Buckling down to China's restrictive rules gave a spurious respectability to such activities without helping Google much since Baidu, its Chinese equivalent, still has 70% of the search market.
  • (9) A thin (20-gauge) cryoprobe can be used to retreat retinal breaks without disturbing a previous scleral buckle.
  • (10) This report describes a young high-myopic patient who developed rubeosis iridis with peripheral retinal neovascularization one year after a circular buckling operation.
  • (11) One hundred thirty-four consecutive eyes with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment involving the macula were evaluated with reference to the effectiveness of systemic steroids in preventing choroidal detachment after scleral buckling surgery and in facilitating both anatomic and functional success.
  • (12) The outcome for extracapsular cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation in eyes that had previously undergone successful scleral buckling for retinal detachment is favorable.
  • (13) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
  • (14) When the wound was peripheral, the retina detached in the cases without buckling and it was necessary to do a secondary scleral buckling procedure.
  • (15) Binocular single vision was restored after buckle removal and strabismus surgery in three further patients (20%), one requiring a prism in addition.
  • (16) He said he would not repeat the mistake of Edward Heath who in 1972, "two years into office, was faced with economic problems and over-powerful unions and buckled and gave up".
  • (17) A radial orientation of the buckle averts this complication.
  • (18) Conventional scleral buckling surgery with cryotherapy and a silicone episcleral sponge successfully reattached the retina in all three cases.
  • (19) If there is traction from epiretinal membranes which cannot be relieved by a buckle, then vitrectomy and adjunct procedures are necessary.
  • (20) Although the use of scleral buckling techniques alone may be sufficient, closed microsurgery may be required to relieve trans-gel or surface retinal traction and to facilitate the identification and permanent closure of retinal breaks.