What's the difference between caisson and saucisse?
Caisson
Definition:
(n.) A chest to hold ammunition.
(n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber.
(n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach.
(n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.
(n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins.
(n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it.
(n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe an operating table in which the whole patient, apart from the eye undergoing surgery, is enclosed in a caisson within which the barometric pressure can be lowered at any time during surgery.
(2) Pneumatic caisson work in Japan has been in operation since 1924.
(3) On bed rest days 3, 7 and 14 the following rheological and hemodynamic parameters were measured: blood dynamic viscosity, Caisson viscosity, yield limit, red blood cell aggregation, stroke volume, cardiac output, and total peripheral resistance.
(4) Investigations into the etiology of caisson disease of bone have shown evidence for an increase in marrow fat cell size resulting from hyperoxia.
(5) So unmanned caisson work is considered as a better technique for such high pressure work, even though people must enter into hyperbaric working fields for maintenance or repair of unmanned operated machinery and materials.
(6) Compressed air works have been used as the safest construction work for the basic underground or underwater compressed shield or caisson works in Japan; however, the workers who were exposed to the compressed fields must have put themselves at risk of decompression sickness.
(7) Accordingly unmanned caisson work is considered as a better technique for such higher pressurized work, even though workers must enter into hyperbaric working fields for maintenance or repair of unmanned operated machinery and materials.
(8) Nineteen caisson workers had been exposed to metallic mercury vapours while digging tubes underneath the first district of Vienna (exposure between 470 and 2440 min; mean 1621 min).
(9) According to obtain the purpose, the effect of respiratory protection has been investigated and work load under hyperbaric caisson work has also been studied.
(10) The results have confirmed a high informative value of the complex of parameters of rotational viscosimetry: the limit of blood fluidity, apparent blood viscosity, caisson viscosity of the blood, and the coefficient of erythrocyte cohesion (A) and of the parameters of aggregation of the formed elements of the blood, this complex allowing an objective differentiation between microcirculatory peculiarities in patients with initial manifestations of cerebral blood supply insufficiency (IMCBSI) versus patients with ischemic stroke (IS).
(11) Eleven Wistar rats were stimulated daily in a caisson and all stimulations were delivered after 30 min of diving at 3 ATA of air.
(12) A caisson worker with symmetrical bone infarcts in the tibiae demonstrated a malignant transformation of one of the bone infarcts with wide-spread metastases to the lungs and viscera.
(13) Discussed are coal miners' nystagmus, scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, phossy jaw, hatters' shakes, painters' colic, potters' rot, chauffeurs' knee, glanders, caisson disease, and others.
(14) The caisson, drawn by six black horses, was the same vessel that in 1937 carried the coffin of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president after the country was founded in 1918.
(15) Four of the patients had caisson disease, three had what is probably an hereditary bone dysplasia, one had sickle cell disease and eight had infarcts of unknown etiology.
(16) Pneumatic caisson work in Japan has come into operation since 1924.
(17) Extensive data concerning the incidence of decompression sickness among workers participating in the deepest caisson operation in Japan to date have been collected and analyzed for the period April through August, 1976.
(18) Progression of dysbaric osteonecrosis of the femoral and humeral heads was evaluated in 15 caisson workers.
(19) The number of exposures of workers was 23,737 in caisson work and 75,244 in shield work.
(20) Routine radiographs on Caisson workers have shown a rare form of osteopathy in the femoral neck due to decompression and which is not associated with symptoms.
Saucisse
Definition:
(n.) A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.
(n.) A fascine of more than ordinary length.
Example Sentences:
(1) Order breakfast at Saucisse Boutique Deli and they’ll bring you a coffee from the Espresso Lab Microroasters next door.
(2) There was one awkward moment when someone mentioned the brasserie's Alsatian specialities and Uggie almost choked on his saucisse until it was pointed out that this meant sauerkraut with sausage.
(3) Richard McCrohan Breakfast in Woodstock, Cape Town Facebook Twitter Pinterest Saucisse Boutique Deli Head to Cape Town’s hipster neighbourhood of Woodstock for breakfast and coffee before a day exploring the city.
(4) His brilliant cookery cards (a series of 20 glossy recipe cards in a small box, reissued in 1995) made cooking seem easy and smart: how much more sophisticated were saucisses St Germain than sausages with mash and peas, yet just as quick to accomplish.
(5) "After all his favourite word is 'moi' and he is a huge fan of saucisse .