What's the difference between coaster and sled?

Coaster


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
  • (n.) One who sails near the shore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This a time when these crucial policies, central to everyone’s lives and the future of the nation, have been on a roller coaster ride through years of political disruption.
  • (2) Thus for many, the IVF-ET procedures were like an emotional roller coaster on which they experienced a wide range of feelings during a brief period of time.
  • (3) The sweeping shape is reminiscent of melted roller coaster ride, or as one Twitter user put it: "It looks like congealed intestines".
  • (4) The reality is that life’s a roller coaster – up and down, backwards and forwards, with everyone moving at different speeds.
  • (5) Gift shops were selling artists' posters, greeting cards, mugs and coasters for a fraction of the price.
  • (6) Then, in an unrelated incident two weeks after the shooting, the town's famous Grade II listed roller-coaster, which featured in an episode of Only Fools and Horses, was subject to a major arson attack that destroyed almost a third of its frame.
  • (7) But this leaves a roller-coaster in spending with cuts in the first three years and then a splurge at the end of the next parliament.
  • (8) But it is the hosts who seem more anxious ahead of a potentially roller-coaster match against opponents of reliably relentless energy and craft.
  • (9) We glimpse the record player amid stacks of coasters, magazines and empty cigarette cartons.
  • (10) A news helicopter hovered overhead, along with a swarm of television news trucks in what is ordinarily a tranquil meadow in a large, wooded section within sight of a roller coaster at the Kings Dominion amusement park along Interstate 95.
  • (11) The diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor can thrust a patient and family onto an emotional roller coaster.
  • (12) Purchase whale-stamped coasters, decorative fish, or seashell trays made from bamboo—proceeds go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium .
  • (13) Then there are the plates, the coasters, the Christmas ornaments.
  • (14) The coaster is touted as the tallest steel-hybrid roller coaster in the world.
  • (15) The news comes after a roller-coaster week for the president, who disappointed many with a lacklustre performance in the first presidential debate against Mitt Romney , before Friday brought encouraging news on the jobs front .
  • (16) A second fear survey which contained duplicate items from the first was administered to the same students in a laboratory setting prior to watching videotaped scenes of fish, rats, mice and a shorter roller coaster ride.
  • (17) Days after the roller-coaster was torched, two men strolled into the Tivoli arcade, one of the few remaining on the seafront, and doused its slot machines in petrol before setting them on fire, causing £500,000 of damage.
  • (18) That means the markets will go up and down like a roller coaster, and it will be hard to hold on.
  • (19) Tea is served on souvenir coasters from Manchester, the city she represents in parliament, and to which she returns each Friday.
  • (20) The roller-coaster is on prime land just behind Margate's sea front where a number of other buildings have been torched in mysterious circumstances.

Sled


Definition:

  • (n.) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.
  • (n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
  • (v. t.) To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two completely different total knee-endoprostheses (hinge type and sled or runner type) have been compared concerning construction and ability for take up or transmission of forces and moments.
  • (2) In order to assess the effect of extravestibular gravity receptors on perception and control of body position against that of the otoliths, the subject (S) is exposed to gravitoinertial forces along the spinal (Z) axis on a tiltable board and on a sled centrifuge.
  • (3) Eighteen young male subjects with NAMRL sled test experience to 15 G in --Gx acceleration were measured for physical characteristics of the head and neck and general body anthropometry.
  • (4) A Teflon sled, Proplast malar implant and ptosis correction acheived the desired results.
  • (5) No difference in risk of injury was found regarding the type of sled used, the number of children, or their position on the sled or for those children with a history of prior sledding experience.
  • (6) A state law enforcement agency, SLED, has taken over the investigation into the shooting along with the Justice Department and FBI.
  • (7) Each year, the winning team takes a special trip with him: this year’s winners will go dog-sledding on a glacier in Iceland; when Reilly and the DeAngeluses won in 2012, their team spent a weekend in a Scottish castle.
  • (8) These burs were tested utilizing custom-built equipment consisting of a frictionless air sled to which the Macor substrate was attached.
  • (9) In February he will leave northern Canada to trek more than 1,000km to the North Pole; what's different this time is that he is travelling with two fellow polar explorers, his friends Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley, and they will be dragging with them not just food and repair kits but 100kg sleds each, laden with equipment to take up to 12m readings of the depth and density of snow and ice beneath their feet.
  • (10) Gross examination revealed that the sleds were secured in position until well encapsulated.
  • (11) Over 150 Navy enlisted men have been subjected to impact acceleration on a sled propelled by a nitrogen-powered horizontal accelerator.
  • (12) By a systematic analysis of the so called sled-prostheses is to be shown to differantiate between real sled-prostheses with rotation and sliding mobility and pseudo-sled-prostheses (better rotation-segment-prostheses).
  • (13) When the MAbs produced against CDV were tested, 37 of 39 antibodies reacted with a virus isolated from a sled dog diseased in an outbreak of distemper in Greenland prior to the epizootic among seals in the North Sea.
  • (14) Some were mounted in a rearward firing sled; others were placed in standard cars during collisions.
  • (15) David Cameron was a master stunt-artist: the husky-sledding in the Arctic circle, the bicycle-riding to Westminster.
  • (16) They had provisions for several more weeks on the ice, the first leg of a year-long expedition (named "180 Degrees") from geomagnetic north pole to geomagnetic south pole by dog sledding, sailing and cycling.
  • (17) So, even after a massive snow fall, we don’t get much time to enjoy its pleasures – digging out igloos once the storm has passed, pretending we’re Laura Ingalls Wilder and trying to make maple candy in the snow , sledding down that one big hill.
  • (18) Coming from the position of being a high Tory with great personal wealth and aristocratic family ties, Cameron needed to ride a husky sled across a glacier and go on about global warming to persuade people he was half-way normal.
  • (19) Posterior fixation of the sled may be difficult, as the sled tends to migrate anteriorly.
  • (20) A canine distemper outbreak in a highly susceptible sled dog population of Northern Greenland was recognized in the beginning of January 1988.