What's the difference between burin and graver?

Burin


Definition:

  • (n.) The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.
  • (n.) The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What we are doing to each other is what we are doing to the planet?” Margaret Burin (@margaretburin) #VDay dance against violence towards women ends in liberating nude swim, #ByronBay .
  • (2) He etches with his sharp, implacable burin questions that need to be faced now more than ever in the resistance to terrorism.

Graver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.
  • (n.) An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scottish voters say departure would have graver effects for the UK as a whole than do their English counterparts.
  • (2) There was no anaphyactic shock in 81.2% of the thymectomized animals as a result of the inhibited immunoallergic reactivity, but dystrophic and inflammatory changes in their parenchymatous organs were more frequent and graver in comparison with the nonthymectomized animals.
  • (3) At early stages prognosis was based on the level of macrophage and fibroblast differentiation in the infiltrate: the more mature nonlymphoid elements were, the graver was a course of disease.
  • (4) The authors conclude that isoserological incompatibility has different grades of intensity and offer methods for the screening of animals for simulation of graver and facilitated grades of incompatibility.
  • (5) In addition to an increase of the content of glycosylated proteins, deterioration of the rheological properties, and a rise of microviscosity associated with hypoxic phenomena, a group of patients suffering from IDDM with low microviscosity and graver clinical manifestations (microangiopathies, coronary heart disease, cerebral atherosclerosis) were distinguished.
  • (6) Combined exposure to fluoric compounds, heating microclimate and electromagnetic fields results in a graver involvement of the circulatory and autonomic nervous systems.
  • (7) The graver the craniocerebral trauma the more probable are sharp loss of visual functions and the development of coarse pathology of the fundus oculi.
  • (8) There were 26,370 knife crimes in Britain last year , yet a few thousand hungry mouths from war zones (many of them children) are widely held to present the graver threat to our way of life.
  • (9) Comparison of the disease clinical picture in 2 groups of patients, who had fallen ill at 14 to 24 years (278 subjects) and at 40 to 55 years (25 subjects) revealed a graver clinical picture in the group of patients, who had fallen ill at a younger and (nephritis in 82% against 56% in the group of older patients) and a considerably less survival as compared to the group of older patients despite more intensive care including pulse-therapy with methyl prednisolone.
  • (10) The matter of the present article is to review the graver subclinical anomalies.
  • (11) This is likely to be related to graver destructive lesions in the colonic mucosa in acute dysentery.
  • (12) In chronic lymphocytic leukemia, tests for surface markers for T and for B cells may permit detection of the less common T-cell leukaemia, which may have a graver prognosis.
  • (13) It is no longer possible to be extradited to face trial for something that’s not a UK offence – the so-called dual-criminality provision – and, after some courts became clogged with costly applications to extradite people on minor charges such as non-payment of parking fines, it will only apply to graver offences.
  • (14) In a rebuff to coal, oil and gas companies, Rachel Kyte, the World Bank climate change envoy, said continued use of coal was exacting a heavy cost on some of the world’s poorest countries, in local health impacts as well as climate change, which is imposing even graver consequences on the developing world.
  • (15) When he was a columnist, MP or mayor of London his remarks could be embarrassing and offensive ; now that he is Britain’s top diplomat the potential consequences are far graver.
  • (16) It is concluded that in pubertal gynaecomastia it is necessary to determine whether the disease is merely a temporary fibrosis that will heal by itself, or whether it is a sign of some other, graver disease.
  • (17) In angina pectoris patients, the highest content was detected if the disease took a graver course.
  • (18) Six of the 70 surviving control infants and none of the 71 surviving treated infants had ROP stage II or graver.
  • (19) There’s an acceptance that it will be messy, but the risk of not supporting DDR programmes at all could be far graver given the high amount of weaponry around the country,” said a senior western diplomat based in Juba.
  • (20) The official said that, over the long term, for Pyongyang to share nuclear technology and know-how with the US's enemies is potentially a much graver threat than North Korea launching an attack itself.