What's the difference between burr and splinter?

Burr


Definition:

  • (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
  • (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
  • (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
  • (n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
  • (n.) The sweetbread.
  • (n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
  • (n.) A small circular saw.
  • (n.) A triangular chisel.
  • (n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
  • (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
  • (n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
  • (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
  • (n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
  • (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
  • (n.) The lobe or lap of the ear.
  • (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
  • (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
  • (v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Burr admitted the bill would still allow companies to share directly with the NSA, and could potentially receive liability protections if information is shared “not electronically”.
  • (2) Incumbents facing competitive re-election battles in November, including Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, John McCain of Arizona and Richard Burr of North Carolina, voted for that bill, which had the backing of the NRA.
  • (3) The animal model was induced by left frontal burr hole opening and inoculation of a small piece of G-XII glioma tissue to 6- to 8-week-old rats.
  • (4) A number of predictions were derived from the work of Cristensen, Reiss, and Burr.
  • (5) Patients were treated with observation, serial percutaneous needle drainage, drainage through burr holes, drainage into a closed external drainage system, or subdural to peritoneal shunt.
  • (6) Burr said that language in the bill would require companies to “remove all personal information before that data is transferred to the federal government”, and that the Department of Homeland Security would scrub any data not cleaned by companies.
  • (7) A limited craniectomy was performed at the fronto-temporal junction using three adjacent burr-holes.
  • (8) Together with William Burr of the National Security Archive, Aid has co-authored an article in Foreign Policy that explores the significance of the new disclosures.
  • (9) The ideal drill is a slim straight instrument, which rotates dental burrs and is operated by a light finger pressure.
  • (10) "I'll be brief," Burr said at the start of his second-round question for Brennan.
  • (11) In a letter addressed to Richard Burr and Mark Warner, chairman and vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Page notes media reports that secret court orders were issued last October to allow the FBI to conduct surveillance of “US persons” in an investigation of possible contacts between Russian banks and the Trump Organization.
  • (12) All patients were managed with diagnostic burr-hole procedures.
  • (13) None of the patients initially managed with craniotomy were worse or died, whereas of the four patients initially managed with burr holes, two were worse (25 per cent) and two died (25 per cent).
  • (14) Warner indicated in a statement, issued alongside his statement with Burr, that he did not necessarily view the intelligence panel’s inquiry as the final investigative option.
  • (15) 2) Technique for release of ventricular catheter obstruction by percutaneous management through the "8-shaped" burr hole.
  • (16) It has previously been demonstrated that pp60v-src is associated with a detergent-insoluble matrix containing the cellular cytoskeleton (J. G. Burr, G. Dreyfuss, S. Penman, and J. M. Buchanan, Proc.
  • (17) Burr said it was safe to assume the Russians were “actively involved” in the forthcoming French election, adding: “We feel part of our responsibility is to educate the rest of the world what’s going on because it’s now into character assassination of candidates.” Burr, who served as a security adviser to Trump’s campaign, confirmed that he voted for the Republican nominee but said he had not coordinated with the White House on the reach of the investigation, which he described as one of the biggest of his congressional career.
  • (18) 59 cases were treated through burr holes, irrigation and drainage and 57 cases were completely cured after operation.
  • (19) 79 cases of obstructive hydrocephalus treated between 1972 and 1983 by burr hole third ventriculo-cisternostomy have been analysed together with the published literature.
  • (20) After rotablation of the posterior lateral branch over 3 cm with a 1.5 mm burr and rotablation with a 1.75 mm burr of the posterior branch of the left circumflex coronary artery the vessel was reopened with a smooth surface without perforation and dissection.

Splinter


Definition:

  • (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
  • (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
  • (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
  • (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the Democrats have often found in the US, when they have tried to construct rainbow coalitions out of class- and colour-defined blocs of the population, groups that can be counted on wholesale in theory often splinter into individuals that it may not be possible to count on at all.
  • (2) A splinter group of the nationalist National Liberation Front of Corsica had made a statement warning extremists that any attack on the island would trigger “a determined response, without any qualms”.
  • (3) Oleg Konstantinov, editor of local news site dumskaya.net, who was in hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and leg, and splinter wounds in his arm, said he had sent most of his reporters home for the two-day holiday.
  • (4) His National Congress party (NCP) feels sufficiently confident that it is not contesting 30% of the parliamentary seats, as an inducement to the splinter parties and smaller movements it has convinced to run in these elections.
  • (5) A patient with acute Leber's optic neuropathy had a large splinter retinal hemorrhage noted after he had strained to install fire hydrants.
  • (6) An elevated RP accumulation at the ends of the bone splinters was found from the 1st day after fracture.
  • (7) Splinter haemorrhages, hypocalcaemia and evidence of renal dysfunction were absent.
  • (8) The conclusion was drawn that the sciatic nerve is angulated at the osteotomy and further endangered by the risk of bone splintering at the sciatic notch.
  • (9) His power only grew after La Familia splintered, giving rise to the Knights Templar in 2011.
  • (10) In either case the chip waste also contains plenty of fine and finest compact chips which are broken off and splinter during the removal or knocking-off of the chips from solid bone.
  • (11) The various types of corticotomy, each with its own special purpose, include transverse or oblique, longitudinal, "splinter," and partial.
  • (12) Less than 24 hours after the murder, which many in Derry are blaming on the New IRA – an alliance of dissident republican splinter groups – the PSNI issued a description of Kieran McLaughlin.
  • (13) Extracts of Fernambouc splinters were made for serological testing.
  • (14) Last week a Taliban splinter group calling itself Asian Tigers executed Khalid Khawaja , a jihadi sympathiser it was holding hostage and accused of spying for the US and the Pakistani military.
  • (15) Iraq's "very future" will be determined in the coming days, the most senior US diplomat, John Kerry , said on Monday as he urged the country's feuding leaders to form a government and confront the jihadist surge currently splintering the country.
  • (16) Police inspector Mozammel Hoque said most of the injured were hit by bomb splinters but none was in critical condition.
  • (17) He wanted to check whether the abrasions and secondary wounds found on Steenkamp's body could have bee caused by wood splinters from the door.
  • (18) The duration of splinter hemorrhages ranged between six and 30 years.
  • (19) It can be shown that stone splinters do not injure the kidney tissue, but liquid jets generated by oscillating cavitation bubbles lead to tissue damage.
  • (20) Both excised lesions were abscesses, with associated granulomatous inflammation, fibrosis, and plant splinters.