What's the difference between craw and crow?

Craw


Definition:

  • (n.) The crop of a bird.
  • (n.) The stomach of an animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lactobacilli and streptococci were a stable component of the microflora of craw wall, in contrast with the decreasing counts of anaerobic amylolytic and lactate-utilizing bacteria.
  • (2) This man’s “private life” is subsidised to the hilt by the taxpayer, and that is what really sticks in the craw.
  • (3) He told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “I would think in the next three months we are going to have a number of people brought forward by the Conservatives, whether it’s Gary Barlow or Mr Pessina, saying: ‘Don’t vote Labour.’ The idea that somebody who doesn’t pay tax in Britain telling people how to vote will stick in the craw.” Balls pointed out that Pessina criticised only one policy – the threat of leaving the European Union – something only likely under the Conservatives or Ukip.T he Tories insisted they had nothing to do with Pessina’s comments but George Osborne took the unusual step of providing a direct quote highlighting the businessman’s stance.
  • (4) But what sticks in my craw is the sheer stinking, blunted crapness of them.
  • (5) It was a very close play but Craw got his foot in before the tag and Matheny is out to argue which gets him nowhere.
  • (6) Though a minority of landlords may sell up as a result of the changes, this is unlikely to be as widespread as many believe.” The good news for tenants is that the tax changes could dampen property speculation and create a fairer market, according to Dan Wilson Craw of campaign group Generation Rent .
  • (7) 2.54am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 0, top of 6th Ryu continues to retire Cardinals - Carpenter grounds out to second, then Beltran skies out to right - Craw puts it away and down go the Cards in the sixth.
  • (8) It simply stuck in the craw that Edis was earning less than 10% of the daily fees enjoyed by some of his opponents.
  • (9) And if, like Jeremy Corbyn , you are a pacifist republican with an embedded horror of empire, being required to hum along will understandably stick in the craw.
  • (10) And seems those unflattering comparisons to Donovan have rather stuck in Brad Davis's craw.
  • (11) We watched as billionaire Alexei Mordashov's bags went from speeding people-carrier to private jet without so much as touching security: Photograph: Hannah Borno Not that I think Alexei Mordashov has been nicking the cutlery from the conference venue in order to melt it down into car parts, but it does slightly stick in my craw that as airport security for the average citizen gets ever tighter, airport security for the likes of the oligarch Mordashov barely exists.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Tory cries of ‘take back control’ really stick in my craw.
  • (13) The Tory cries of “take back control” really stick in my craw.
  • (14) But there were a few parts of the song that always stuck in my craw.
  • (15) Dan Wilson Craw from Generation Rent said: “The failure of governments to build enough houses is forcing more people to make compromises in order to afford a roof over their head.
  • (16) Michael Ayton Durham • Anne Perkins is correct ( The national anthem may stick in Corbyn’s craw, but it is his job to sing it , 15 September, theguardian.com), and Corbyn should have been more sensitive both to the context of situation and the people he was collectively representing.
  • (17) And it's the last of these that sticks most in the craw, because the degree of over-representation is so extraordinarily intense.
  • (18) So the unexpected windfall in overall national wealth must stick in the craw of the eurozone strugglers.
  • (19) But however much it sticks in the craw to discover there is a market for gold-plated revolving safes, this is ultimately cause for celebration.
  • (20) The national anthem may stick in Corbyn’s craw, but it is his job to sing it | Anne Perkins Read more This is no isolated view.

Crow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
  • (v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
  • (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
  • (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
  • (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
  • (v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
  • (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
  • (2) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (3) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
  • (4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
  • (5) When these studies are reviewed in the light of Crow's "two-syndrome" paradigm of schizophrenia, a new trend emerges.
  • (6) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
  • (7) The genetic evidence is reviewed concerning 'traditional' clinical subtypes as more novel categories derived from multivariate statistical methods and Crow's type I-type II classification.
  • (8) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
  • (9) Intracytoplasmic, rod-shaped and eosinophilic inclusions were recognized only in Purkinje cells in a case of Crow-Fukase syndrome.
  • (10) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
  • (11) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
  • (12) And as Crow demonstrated, militancy may not guarantee success – but passivity will asphyxiate unions when the workforce needs them to be stronger than ever.
  • (13) We felt blessed,” said Rebecca, pulling out another family picture in which a smiling Sarah leans her head against her mother’s shoulder, her younger siblings crowing around them.
  • (14) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
  • (15) Oh, and Tony Benn and Bob Crow, when they were alive.
  • (16) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
  • (17) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
  • (18) In contrast, in the adults melatonin caused more than a two-fold increase in E in the pigeon, and a significant increase in the crow.
  • (19) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
  • (20) Some of his well-paid members, such as drivers, queried why the union should concern itself with these lower-paid workers whose lack of job security meant they were far more difficult to reach and retain in the union, but Crow, true to his principles, always argued in favour of supporting them.