What's the difference between carriage and chaise?
Carriage
Definition:
(n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.
(n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
(n.) The price or expense of carrying.
(n.) That which carries of conveys,
(n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
(n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
(n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
(n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
(n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
(n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staphylococcal carriage seems largely to depend on individual characteristics rather than environmental factors.
(2) A higher proportion (14 of 40; 35%) had evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection than had evidence of either hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriage (17.5%) or alcohol abuse (30%).
(3) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
(4) Bronchial carriage may, however, not always be associated with pathological effects.
(5) 2) Chronic HBsAg carriage in the adult household contact was associated with female sex of the index case and with being a sibling; among young subjects, household contacts were more likely to be chronic HBsAg carriers when the index case was the mother, a sibling, or an HBV-DNA-positive subject.
(6) This study further confirms the importance of skin carriage of group A streptococci as a precursor to pyoderma and demonstrates the importance of minor skin trauma as a predisposing factor.
(7) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
(8) The current uses of serotyping of N. gonorrhoeae include epidemiological studies, clinical purposes and surveillance of antibiotic resistance and plasmid carriage.
(9) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
(10) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
(11) The carriage of C. diphtheriae was found to be 19.8%, 65.3% of them were toxin producing by counter-immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).
(12) Efforts at prevention of non-A, non-B hepatitis associated with blood transfusion have thus far been hampered by the lack of reliable laboratory markers for carriers of this disease, and controversy exists over the implementation of screening tests on blood donors, using such nonspecific indicators of possible viral carriage as serum alanine aminotransferase levels.
(13) The epidemic strain, which was not agglutinated by commerical diagnostic antisera, was isolated from the hands of personnel in five instances directly incriminated hand carriage as the mode of spread.
(14) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
(15) These patterns are generally consistent with available information concerning the distribution of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriage in New Zealand and suggest that HBsAg carriage is likely to be a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in New Zealand, as it is in other countries.
(16) In renal transplant recipients carriage was positively related to treatment with ranitidine, consumption of more than three types of cheese in the previous 20 months, and consumption of English cheddar cheese more than once per week.
(17) The objectives of this preliminary study were to determine the prevalence of oral candidal carriage and infection in a group of HIV-positive individuals and compare the humoral immune responses in serum and saliva in this group with a control group of HIV-negative subjects.
(18) "My service is not as frequent as it should be and has very old carriages," he said.
(19) An association between fecal carriage of Streptococcus bovis and colorectal carcinoma has been reported.
(20) The carriage rates were 89% in children, 39% in adolescents and 34% in adults.
Chaise
Definition:
(n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.
(n.) a carriage in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) "My husband, Mr Wickham, and Captain Denny alighted from the post chaise and ran into Pemberley woods.
(2) The inn, which also served as a pub for locals and estate workers, was built to cater for visitors who were well enough off to arrive by stage coach or post chaise and pay 6d for a guidebook without which they had no hope of making sense of the garden, but were not grand enough to be invited to stay in the house.
(3) The lavender, reclining on a chaise longue is looking shifty and smoking a cigarette.
(4) Her house was like a studio, bits of art everywhere, big glass cabinet of curios and treasured possessions, a chaise longue – the works.” Her life was quieter later on and her neighbours didn’t necessarily know who Knight was or what she had achieved.
(5) Outside on the deck, a row of chaise longues are arranged perfectly perpendicular to the ocean-parallel pool.
(6) 'Poor Ben' Johnson says she has been keeping her head down since last month's Channel 4 documentary The Lady and the Revamp , which followed her after she took the editor's chaise longue at the journal for gentlewomen – still the place to find a nanny or under-gardener – last year.
(7) So 20 minutes later, I was summoned into this dark little room where Lee [as friends called McQueen] was lying on a chaise longue with his cigarettes and this woman, whom they called Mrs McQueen – she came in close to the shows, but took no part in the work, I think – was holding the lighter in case the cigarette went out.
(8) Wherever he was, whether sectioned in the madhouse, or home, sprawled on his red-velvet chaise longue, amid a blizzard of books, ash and paper, he was one of life's great learners, a modest student of the world he wrote about with such exhilarating power.
(9) In glorious 1960s Technicolor, she vamps it up in turbans and pearls on chaises longues, staring into the middle distance through layers of kohl and unlikely eyelashes.