What's the difference between chisel and gouge?

Chisel


Definition:

  • (n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
  • (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
  • (v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
  • (2) A new system, which includes cannulated chisels and a cannulated one-piece plate that can be inserted over a guide wire, is suggested.
  • (3) Our technique of using autogenous bone, cut with a thin chisel which curls to the shape of the ear canal, will be presented and illustrated.
  • (4) Nevertheless it is still far from clear, perhaps even to May herself, what will emerge once she has finished with her hammer and chisel.
  • (5) A chisel edged, stainless steel ring was cemented to the butt end of a dentin cylinder.
  • (6) Ultrasonic chisels are used clinically to remove composite-retained bridges from one or both abutment teeth.
  • (7) The super-sized Alabaman certainly looks the part: 228lbs of chiseled musculature and fast-twitch fibers that wouldn’t be out of place in an NFL team’s defensive backfield.
  • (8) We obtained good results in preventing these complications by a fixation at the hollow which is made by chiseling the frontal bone and by fibrous tissue which grows through the small holes of the implant tail.
  • (9) They scalped them to remove the hair, they removed the eyeballs and ears, they knocked off the faces, then removed the jaws and chiseled away the edges to make the rims nice and even.
  • (10) "The decision to return the marbles to the place where they were chiselled, next to those sculptures from which they were so illegally and violently ripped apart."
  • (11) The surgical blade, and especially the reciprocating motor-driven diamond tip eliminated overhangs better than the chisel.
  • (12) Back in the freezer, I put down the two-inch chisel and pick up a one-inch.
  • (13) He is a boat-rocking libertarian with a chisel-jawed faith in a small state and the power of the little man transmitted through the internet.
  • (14) Approximately half routinely use a chisel as opposed to a bur for bone removal.
  • (15) The first chink of light has been spotted between the top three and the chasing pack, a three-point gap chiselled out between Mourinho's team and fourth-placed Everton to suggest a massed scramble towards the summit is thinning out.
  • (16) Chisel in hand, he walked slowly around the base of his giant sculpture, carefully inspecting the detail on the eagle crest in front, and the name inscribed on the back – John Garang de Mabior.
  • (17) Vibration isolating gloves were tested and resulted in an additional reduction in vibration of up to 63% when used with the chisel sleeve.
  • (18) Displacement amplitude measurements at the tip of the two designs available showed that the curved chisel was twice as powerful as the straight chisel.
  • (19) Madrid kept their cool in the face of the storm and, gradually, they chiselled out a foothold.
  • (20) It showed that substantially higher vibration levels are produced at the chisel of a chipping hammer than at its handle.

Gouge


Definition:

  • (n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.
  • (n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
  • (n.) An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
  • (n.) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
  • (n.) The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
  • (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) John, who has just been released from prison on licence after serving four years for gouging a man’s eye out , admits: “I used to see Tyson on the television.
  • (2) Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have accused Turing of price-gouging.
  • (3) There was a deep gouge across the back of his head and blood was welling through his copper- coloured hair.
  • (4) Make a hole in the radius with a small gouge with insertion of the pin to the fracture site and then drive it into the proximal fragment.
  • (5) How it gouges money from those who don’t own only to put it in the pockets of those who do.
  • (6) The following technical devices have been adopted: -- curved unilateral incision into deep fascia --interlaminar space widening by chisels and gouges, avoiding the use of rongeurs -- sodium succinate methylprednisolone injection into dural sac.
  • (7) "I bought her, and I still can't believe this, I might as well have gouged out my own eyeballs with a rusty spoon, but I bought her a personalised number plate which was M155 LTD. Miss Living The Dream.
  • (8) The crumpled metal cockpit floor featured large gouges.
  • (9) Olympe de Gouges, born in 1748, led in Paris, the brilliant and dissolute life of a rather mediocre writer and a passionate feminist, demanding for women the right to go into politics.
  • (10) Their white tents stood near the brown earth gouged by the armoured trucks that had carried them there – the closest point to Mosul they had reached before an assault on Iraq’s second largest city.
  • (11) Topology favoring attachment was inherent in 0.45-mum filters and was produced in plastic by gouging irregular excavations 10 to 15 micrometer deep.
  • (12) Karen McVeigh Governor Christie (@GovChristie) We have activated temporary hotlines to report price gouging.
  • (13) Greedy, gouging bastards, depriving students of their last few pennies in a relentless quest for profit.
  • (14) Yemen's humanitarian crisis leaves a million people in dire straits – in pictures Read more Maurer, who recently visited Yemen and Iran to negotiate broader humanitarian access, said air raids had gouged craters in the streets of the Yemeni capital Sana’a.
  • (15) Crash patterns-such as cut and damaged vegetation, gouges, debris scatter, burn areas, etc.,-and their spatial relations can be very effectively evaluated by the analysis of stereo aerial photographs.
  • (16) He has people eating their sons in pies, men with their eyes gouged out, and merciless sexual jealousy.
  • (17) With a chisel or a gouge, cuts are made in the cortical surface of the bone on both sides of the fracture line, and numerous scales are lifted but remain attached at the base, like the petals of a flower.
  • (18) In what will come as welcome news to defenders across the land, chippy Chelsea striker Diego Costa may also be leaving these shores to gouge, elbow, snarl and kick his way around his old La Liga stamping ground.
  • (19) The worst of the episodes involved Mousa Dembélé, who gouged at Diego Costa’s eyes during a wider mêlée sparked by a confrontation between Danny Rose and Willian.
  • (20) ); (2) exploitation of bark surface insects and the use of trunks as a platform to locate terrestrial prey (Saguinus fuscicollis, S. nigricollis, and Callimico); (3) manipulative foraging and bark stripping to locate concealed insects and small vertebrates (Leontopithecus); and (4) tree gouging and year-round exudate feeding (many Callithrix).