What's the difference between craw and gullet?

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.

Gullet


Definition:

  • (n.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.
  • (n.) Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions
  • (n.) A channel for water.
  • (n.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
  • (n.) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The incidence of sarcocysts was investigated microscopically after 0.25% trypsin action in the muscles of bovine gullet and diaphragmal columns of pigs.
  • (2) It was a speech that might well have stuck in the gullet of any Greeks or Spaniards who happened to be watching.
  • (3) It can be placed at the time of original surgery and is also workable in patients who have had radiation and extensive radical surgery with total reconstruction of their gullet.
  • (4) Concomitant with the outbreak, the supermarket implicated in the outbreak purchased an unusually large quantity of beef (7,000 pounds) from a nonregular supplier in Nebraska, which had reportedly instituted the practice of trimming gullets (a procedure that removes the muscles from bovine larynx for beef) about three months earlier.
  • (5) The essential part of this technique consists of the construction of a tracheo-esophageal shunt using only the remainder of the trachea obtained at the time of laryngectomy to reestablish an air communication between the trachea and the gullet.
  • (6) To give a true representation of vitamin amounts actually consumed, different forms of calculating losses on the way from harvesting or producing foods to the gullet have been applied.
  • (7) Esophageal carcinomas are visualized endosonographically as localized thickenings of the gullet wall with disruption of its echo-layers.
  • (8) Sometimes adjective-rich tributes to the great departing rather stick in the gullet.
  • (9) While there was nothing disgraceful about the behaviour of Mr Finegold, it had "stuck in his gullet" for Mr Livingstone to apologise.
  • (10) As an alternative to this, staple closure of the gullet has been growing in acceptance and implementation as a mucosal eversion technique.
  • (11) There is no cytotoxic effect on animal (kidney of monkey) and human (carcinoma of the gullet) cellular cultures.
  • (12) In patients with oesophageal corrosive stricture which needs operation, both a by-pass procedure and resection can be adopted, but it should be pointed out that malignancy may develop even years after the operation in the remaining part of the gullet.
  • (13) First, the mucosa is sufficient to restore a new gullet.
  • (14) Traditionally, gullet closure that is done after a laryngectomy has been accomplished with tedious and time-consuming suturing procedures.
  • (15) Bovine thyroid tissue had been introduced into the neck trimmings inadvertently during the process of "gullet trimming," a procedure that harvests muscles from the bovine larynx.
  • (16) More than 50% of the complains are of the nose-gullet which decrease with the increase of the length of service, while the objective changes in the mucous membrane of the nose raise high.
  • (17) Defective relaxation of the cricopharyngeal muscle (cricopharyngeal dysfunction) is radiographically demonstrated as a posterior impression into the pharyngo-esophageal segment of the gullet in patients with dysphagia.
  • (18) Manometric testing showed that no swallowing pressure was produced in the reconstructed gullet; therefore, bolus propulsion at the pharyngeal stage occurs mainly by gravity.
  • (19) The follow up in 19 patients over the last four years showed that the pectoralis major flap is a good alternative for partial reconstructions of the upper gullet, provided that a mucosal strip of 2 cm can be preserved and that secondary shrinkage of the muscle pedicle is allowed for.
  • (20) Compared with the other two groups of patients studied the patients with cricopharyngeal dysfunction were found to have a slightly wider gullet above and below the cricopharyngeal muscle.