What's the difference between chiseler and spiv?

Chiseler


Definition:

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.

Spiv


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
  • (2) "McLoughlin is merely offering to hold passengers' coats while they keep getting mugged every year by the same set of spivs – the private rail firms."
  • (3) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
  • (4) Vince Cable today went ahead with his critique on the "murky" world of high finance, railing against the "spivs and gamblers" of the City despite a backlash against pre-briefed elements of the speech.
  • (5) The businessman’s reputation was dealt a further blow following a debate in which he was labelled a “billionaire spiv” who should never have received his honour in the first place.
  • (6) The tone of the language used by the business secretary, Vince Cable, at the Lib Dem conference this week has alarmed some bankers – whom he dubbed "spivs" – ahead of the commission.
  • (7) He added: "Those [Cable] once referred to as spivs and gamblers are laughing all the way to the bank."
  • (8) Four phospholipases (Sm-SP1 to Sm-SPIV) were also isolated, the latter showing, similarly to BthTX (Sm-SPv) myonecrotic activity.
  • (9) The list, which was published by Cable on Wednesday following a long campaign by politicians and the media, revealed that three aggressive hedge funds were given the "golden ticket" status despite the business secretary's pledge that Royal Mail would not fall into the hands of "spivs and speculators".
  • (10) To the aesthete Guardian, the average City trader looks pretty ugly because they drive swanky cars and are spivs,” he tells me, “but you should respect the mores and the facts.” I promise to try.
  • (11) CJ Facebook Twitter Pinterest AL Kennedy: ‘I’d rather not give vandals and spivs power over my emotions.’ Photograph: Murdo Macleod AL Kennedy Writer and comedian I live in London now.
  • (12) He later told Sky News that "spivs and speculators" shouldn't distract from the important job of putting Royal Mail on a sound commercial footing.
  • (13) "Each of those chosen few investors was given, on average, 18 times more shares than other bidders, on the basis … they would not be spivs and speculators.
  • (14) 9.27am BST Vince Cable also tells Sky News that the government's aim is to get good value for the taypayer, which he claims the government has done, and putting the company on a better footing Photograph: Sky News 9.21am BST Cable: Never mind the spivs and speculators Business secretary Vince Cable is up on Sky News, being challenged over the 35% surge in Royal Mail shares this morning.
  • (15) The capital's bankers may be glorified spivs, but we need them to maintain a respectable balance of trade and not be swept aside in the next stage of globalised capitalism.
  • (16) "McLoughlin is merely offering to hold passengers' coats while they keep getting mugged every year by the the same set of spivs – the private rail firms."
  • (17) In the photographs I had seen, Catrambone sported a spiv’s moustache, though he was starting to add what would become a thick, tightly curled beard.
  • (18) Only, I suppose, that expressing yourself is partly about feeling you can do so without being restricted by gender – even if that means dressing up in a trilby, a spiv's suit and a badly glued-on moustache.
  • (19) The business secretary Vince Cable makes speeches about spivs and charlatans and is applauded in the press.
  • (20) They got rich because, other than spivs and gamblers, they enjoyed their work and were good at it.

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