What's the difference between crag and gravel?

Crag


Definition:

  • (n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
  • (n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
  • (n.) The neck or throat
  • (n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) OS Map: Explorer 171 Chiltern Hills West and Explorer 172 Chiltern Hills East Arthur's Seat Edinburgh Salisbury Crags and Edinburgh's skyline from Arthur's Seat.
  • (2) Continue straight on at two roundabouts from where the pavement makes its way alongside Salisbury Crags to reach an obvious grassy path.
  • (3) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
  • (4) Edinburgh’s skyline is dominated by Castle Rock, Calton Hill nearby, the dramatic volcanic remnants of Arthur’s Seat and the cliffs of Salisbury Crags , but festival events rarely focus on the city’s geological history.
  • (5) Why it's special For the painter John Ruskin, Keswick was almost too beautiful to live in; while the view from Friar's Crag was one of the three loveliest in Europe.
  • (6) Overall, anastomotic leak rates and death rates were lower in the CRAG group, and the lowest incidence of anastomotic leak was reported in the patients receiving CEA.
  • (7) Comparison of the P1 enzyme with the inducible P2 alkylsulphatase of this organism, and with the Crag herbicide sulphatase of Pseudomonas putida, showed that, although there are certain similarities between any two of the three enzymes, very few properties are common to all three.
  • (8) An unusual case of sustained electrocerebral silence on electroencephalogram (EEG) in a three-year-old retarded comatosed child with preserved intracerebral perfusion documented by a series of cerebral radionuclide angiograms (CRAG) is presented.
  • (9) Superb paths also run around the rim of Salisbury Crags (where a little care should be taken) and once the ascent of Arthur's Seat is accomplished, the hard work is done for the day and it is a simple matter of following a pavement through Holyrood Park back to the start.
  • (10) Both Sharp Edge and adjoining Foule Crag could be taken in from a vantage point near Troutbeck, rated by mountaineer Doug Scott as his favourite view.
  • (11) As grim as a gargoyle, craggy as a crag, jaw set in steel – even the famous smirk was well hidden behind the scowl.
  • (12) The stony way climbs steeply through the crags, wanders across an airy summit not far below the clouds, and then dips down in leisured zigzags to the edge of the world.
  • (13) Huge crags of fossil-rich red rock jut forth towards the sea to form private coves and slips of sand.
  • (14) The path from Keswick to the Crag is wheelchair- and pushchair-friendly.
  • (15) The CRAG helped detect subdural fluid collections, cerebrovascular disease, and cerebral cysts, but it was of little value in detecting hydrocephalus.
  • (16) Lovely as it is, on a sunny summer's day Plockton can start to feel crowded and there's nothing like this hike to the summit of the crags which loom over the village to blow the cobwebs from your hair, taking in the view of the village and its stunning coastal setting.
  • (17) Operations were performed upon patients anesthetized with either combined regional (epidural) and general anesthesia (CRAG) or general anesthesia alone (GA).
  • (18) Friar's Crag will have a special significance for fans of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons.
  • (19) Bear left from Queen's Drive and follow the path as it climbs gradually underneath Salisbury Crags until it joins a red gravel path.
  • (20) For maximum diagnostic yield, a CRAG should be performed with all pediatric brain-imaging studies.

Gravel


Definition:

  • (n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
  • (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
  • (v. t.) To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
  • (v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
  • (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • (v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
  • (2) Except for the blue guard towers it is drained of colour, a grey sameness coating gravel, fences and buildings.
  • (3) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
  • (4) I found myself skirting the wood’s perimeter, a no-go zone of the past for us, and came next to a gravel-pocked face mined by rabbits with one of the burrows crowned with the skull of an ancestor.
  • (5) Opening up these magnificent forests for logging is like mining the great pyramids of Egypt for road gravel," said McKim.
  • (6) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
  • (7) On the Sabbath the fleet of earthmovers that ordinarily grind the route to Lombrum – ferrying gravel to the detention centre building site where a crew of 300 labor to finish new staff accommodation – are resting in their compound.
  • (8) The reactivity of soils varies widely as geological and sedimentological conditions offer typical but different environments: gravels, chalk soil, clay, salt soils, sands, cave earths are examples of this wide variety, including atmospheric and biogenetic implications.
  • (9) The cellar level is on the average 5.4 times higher if the cellar has partially a gravel or earth floor than if the whole cellar surface is covered with a concrete floor.
  • (10) But it doesn't work that way: you may have "less gravel", but most writers agree that you can only have "fewer pebbles", not "less pebbles".
  • (11) This biomass was computed from that of the organisms and associated naphthalene oxidation activity washed from the gravel compared with the original suspension.
  • (12) We can talk about "many pebbles" but not "much pebbles", "much gravel" but not "many gravel".
  • (13) Ultrasound detected 59 of 60 foreign bodies, including all cubes of meat embedded with gravel, cactus spine, plastic, metal, and wood.
  • (14) Tulisa led, and did so with panache and some beautiful gravel.
  • (15) This means putting a layer of bark, grass cuttings, manure, even gravel on top of the soil to trap moisture in the earth, or at least slow down evaporation.
  • (16) Aged 102, Bi Kidude, the gravel-voiced singer known her raucous sense of humour and her love of cigarettes, suddenly vanished from her home.
  • (17) Trying to solve an actual problem of enhancing the spontaneous passage of fragments, "calculous trails" and gravel in the patients who underwent remote lithotripsy the authors used the technique of local vibrotherapy in 54 postoperative patients.
  • (18) We are on a gravel track and have been driving for a long time.
  • (19) One of its largest islands is gentle-paced Brønnøya, with its apple orchards, gravel roads and beaches.
  • (20) Photograph: Water Literacy Foundation In Masagi’s pit-based system, permanent structures of mud, sand, soil, gravel and boulders are built, eight per acre of farmland, and partially filled with a mix of gravel and sand.