What's the difference between chuck and diminutive?

Chuck


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
  • (v. i.) To chuckle; to laugh.
  • (v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens.
  • (n.) The chuck or call of a hen.
  • (n.) A sudden, small noise.
  • (n.) A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
  • (v. t.) To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
  • (v. t.) To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
  • (v. t.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
  • (n.) A slight blow or pat under the chin.
  • (n.) A short throw; a toss.
  • (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.
  • (n.) A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.
  • (n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.
  • (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
  • (2) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
  • (3) Seven more were charged in the US and four more, including the former Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer, pleaded guilty.
  • (4) Secretary of state John Kerry and defense secretary Chuck Hagel are still expected to meet their Russian counterparts for a series of discussions over other matters at the State Department on Friday.
  • (5) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
  • (6) On Friday the defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, defended Shinseki, but added: “We know things went wrong.
  • (7) Should I man up, chuck out the Union flags and get back to grumbling about the Games?
  • (8) It also includes vice president Joe Biden, secretary of state John Kerry, the defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, and several of the most senior Obama advisors, lawyers and staff.
  • (9) In his book Fight the Power , Chuck rails against everything from Hollywood to the sports industry for portraying blacks as 'watermelon stealin', chicken eatin', knee knockin', eye poppin' lazy, crazy, dancin', submissive, Toms.
  • (10) He hadn’t known, and he’d chucked her the moment he found out.
  • (11) You should do what Chuck Grassley does,” he said.
  • (12) On stage, Chuck gave his speech about the weapons of mass distraction and praised 'all my brothers and sisters from the Caribbean', though it's hard to see who in the audience he was referring to.
  • (13) Two nurses ready a yellow and black machine that looks like a drill press with an oversized button where the chuck would be.
  • (14) Chuck in an n, chuck in a p. Spastic was another one, the c-word was a no-no.
  • (15) "So we are restricting them from breastfeeding there, while in society breastfeeding mothers are still getting chucked out of cafes and out of libraries.
  • (16) "I think the American people are not interested in Benghazi," said Senator Chuck Schumer.
  • (17) If people don't like what national politicians do, they can chuck them out at the next election.
  • (18) In her talks, Mother Agnes claims to be part of the "liberal opposition to Assad”, said Chuck Kauffman, national co-ordinator of the Alliance For Global Justice, which hosted Mother Agnes’ talk and workshop at its annual Tear Down The Walls gathering in Tucson in November.
  • (19) The other pollutants chucked out by diesel meant that, on balance, the tax regime should be pushing people towards petrol.
  • (20) It’s in these barren parts that the Edwards air force base is located, where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time, and where the test pilots celebrated in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff proved their mettle before going on to become America’s first astronauts.

Diminutive


Definition:

  • (a.) Below the average size; very small; little.
  • (a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
  • (a.) Tending to diminish.
  • (n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
  • (n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Age, histological type, number or location of the index diminutive polyps, were not associated with proximal lesions.
  • (2) The rate of removal of exogenous PGE2 in the hind limb circulation was not influenced by HC, suggesting that the diminution of PG release by HC results from the suppression of PG generation rather than from the enhancement of degradation.
  • (3) Incubation of freshly isolated rat hepatocytes with highly purified radiolabeled rat transferrin in weakly buffered medium in the presence of 10 mM ethanol resulted in a marked diminution of iron uptake by these cells, associated with a greater pH depression than in ethanol-free control studies.
  • (4) The effect was more pronounced in those patients with a greater basal excretion of THP and in those with a more significant diminution of their bone mass.
  • (5) After intact, cycling female mice received subcutaneous injections of antipain and leupeptin for 16 days, their uteri showed significant diminution in weight and total DNA when compared to untreated controls.
  • (6) The fibrosis of the gastric wall with motility disturbances, and the diminution of acid and pepsin production from damage to the glandular elements, would weigh against the addition of a vagotomy to the drainage procedure.
  • (7) The content of membrane lipids also diminished continuously up to 90 years of age, when a marked diminution in level of gangliosides and cerebrosides occurred, a result indicating a rapid reduction in amount of neuronal membranes and myelin.
  • (8) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
  • (9) Large loads of aspartate cause 20% diminution of glutathione in outer cortex, due entirely to changes in proximal tubule segments.
  • (10) Rabbits immunized with the flagella developed an immune response to the flagella but showed no statistically significant prolongation of incubation time or diminution of lesion severity when challenged intradermally with 4 X 10(3) Treponema pallidum organisms.
  • (11) Major changes include an early diminution in myofibrillar density, accompanied by a small reduction in mitochondrial density.
  • (12) Simultaneous treatment with both drugs resulted in a decrease in the quantity of immune complexes and a diminution of the migration inhibition.
  • (13) The results presented in this report suggest that the diminution of interphase cytoplasmic microtubules in tumor cells is probably due to the deficiency of microtubule organizing mechanism in interphase tumor cells.
  • (14) Animals irradiated with 1 Gy showed no diminution in plasma and ileal DAO activities through Day 13 relative to nonirradiated controls.
  • (15) Response to reimmunization was characterized by a significant acceleration and diminution of skin response, but not to the degree seen in an equivalent group who had received their primary immunization percutaneously.
  • (16) During the operation and the postoperative period various hemorheological and hemostasiological alterations acquire clinical significance: 1. hyperreagibility of platelets with increased aggregation and adhesion tendency 2. changes in fibrinogen, albumin, and globulin concentrations, which affect viscosity and red cell aggregation 3. impairment of red cell deformability 4. increase in clotting factors 5. disturbance of fibrinolysis characterized by diminution of plasmatic plasmin and increase in antiplasmin activity In addition, anesthetic techniques have also been shown to affect hemorheological and hemostasiological parameters.
  • (17) In dilute solution this is indeed observed, and the diminution in tetramer concentration when 30% of normal spectrin is replaced by alpha beta' dimers, amounts to only a small proportion.
  • (18) In contrast to acidosis induced in vivo, mitochondria from normal rats subjected to a diminution in medium pH, either by manipulation of HCO3 concentration or PCO2, significantly decrease NH3 production.
  • (19) All individuals manifested a marked diminution of CD4+ cells.
  • (20) Flow cytometric determination of DNA content in R3327AT-3 cells treated in vitro indicated a selective diminution of cells in the G2 and M phases of the cell cycle.