What's the difference between coronel and spear?

Coronel


Definition:

  • (n.) A colonel.
  • (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A survey was performed among 22 patients with ulcers suspected of leishmanial origin in the municipalities of Quilombo and Coronel Freitas, west of Santa Catarina State.
  • (2) Teresita "Ging" Quintos Deles, presidential adviser on the peace process, and Miriam Coronel Ferrer, chair of the government's negotiating panel, interviewed in Manila, agreed there was a sound basis for optimism.
  • (3) The data presented reinforce the hypothesis that caltrin-like proteins are responsible for the previously reported (Coronel, C.E., San Agustin, J., and Lardy, H.A.
  • (4) The deputy foreign minister, Manuel Coronel, chairman of the Grand Canal Authority, said on Monday that awarding the concession to the Chinese company guaranteed the project would be carried out.

Spear


Definition:

  • (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
  • (n.) Fig.: A spearman.
  • (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
  • (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
  • (n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
  • (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
  • (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
  • (2) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
  • (3) If they refuse to do so, make the least show of resistance, or attempt to run away from you, you will fire upon and compell [sic] them to surrender, breaking and destroying the Spears, Clubs, and Waddies of all those you take prisoner.
  • (4) will.i.am feat britney spears - Scream & Shout on MUZU.TV .
  • (5) The spear-phishing tricks we saw the Chinese secret police using against the Dalai Lama in 2008 were being used by Russian crooks to steal money from US companies by 2010.
  • (6) The wealth magazine Spear’s noted, in an interview with a company that provides contract cleaners to the Dorchester, that a cleaner at the Park Lane hotel would have to work for 56 hours to be able to take an entry-level room for the night , before tax.
  • (7) Manipulation of intra abdominal embedded spears may require unusual surgical procedures, and no attempt to extract the weapon should be made before emergency laparotomy is carried out.
  • (8) López and Machado were defeated by Capriles in opposition primaries, but they rejected Capriles's willingness to enter into dialogue with Maduro on public safety following the murder in January of Mónica Spear, a former Miss Venezuela .
  • (9) Hemicellulose B and holocellulose from spear grass (Heteropogon contortus) were the best sources of carbon, and the optimum temperature was 27 degrees.
  • (10) Spears joked that she was “thrilled” at being added to the dating app.
  • (11) To evaluate these hypotheses, the nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene was determined from a bushbaby (Galago senegalensis), flying lemur (Cynocephalus variegatus), tree shrew (Tupaia glis), spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus), rousette bat (Rousettus leschenaulti), and nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) and was compared with published sequences of a human, cow, and mouse.
  • (12) Jesus' death was ensured by the thrust of a soldier's spear into his side.
  • (13) What an incredible contrast between the passionate compassion so emotively expressed in Britain and the ruthless bloodlust in Japan, where tens of thousands of dolphins are killed with spears on beaches every year and where crowds cheer the departure of a huge mechanised fleet whose objective is the mass slaughter of these majestic mammals in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.
  • (14) Spectra were obtained with synchrotron radiation from the SPEAR storage ring using highly sensitive fluorescence detectors.
  • (15) Twenty four hours of food and maternal deprivation, shown previously to increase brain serotonin and 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid and their ratio in neonates (L. P. Spear & F. M. Scalzo, 1984, Developmental Brain Research, in press) was observed to induce tail flick analgesia, an effect blocked by metergoline.
  • (16) Adult male hunters who used dogs and carried only one spear were injured most frequently.
  • (17) I try not to read my reviews, but there's always some friend who'll come along and, under the guise of trying to comfort you, let you know that you've been speared.
  • (18) This tusk specimen contains a metal spear with a wooden component, which is surrounded by a quiver-like osseous encasement.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Armed with a makeshift spear, an Assam man sets out to chase away the elephant that crushed a woman to death in the village of Galighat.
  • (20) By the 16th century the conduction of sound by a rod or the staff of a spear was reported by a number of writers; however, these writers considered these phenomena as a curiosity rather than having practical value.

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