What's the difference between crook and staff?

Crook


Definition:

  • (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
  • (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
  • (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
  • (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
  • (n.) A pothook.
  • (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
  • (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
  • (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
  • (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
  • (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
  • (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A patient presented at the Department of Orthodontics, Medunsa Dental Hospital, complaining of "crooked teeth".
  • (2) And, I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump doubles down on his Isis comments, saying that Hillary Clinton is the group’s MVP On Thursday, Clinton attacked Trump for the remarks on Twitter.
  • (3) Subjects were examined for somatic symptoms in accordance with Crooks' index of hyperthyroidism.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook in Detectorists.
  • (5) I have these words for the authorities: [it is a] creepy, crooked, evil way."
  • (6) Reinforced polyethylene or polyurethane catheters in the shape of a "Shepherd Crook" have led to improve selective and superselective catheterization of visceral arteries.
  • (7) The restenosis rate was 18% in the shepherd's crook group and 21% in the control group; repeat PTCA (14% v 15%) and bypass surgery (2% v 6%) rates were also similar in both groups.
  • (8) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
  • (9) He is less concerned with the legal debate than he is with the fact that western firms are being fleeced by shadowy cyber-crooks half a world away.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) Some of them may feel favourable towards what they're doing, but many of them are able to hear their inner Jiminy Cricket over the voices of their leaders and crooked politicians – and of the people whose intimate communication they're tapping.
  • (12) For analysis of the cytokeratin (CK) of Crooke's cells, 28 post-mortem pituitary glands with unequivocal Crooke's hyaline change were investigated immunohistochemically using monoclonal antibodies for CK subfamilies.
  • (13) We drove north from Salima, past Nkhotakota, looking out for the crooked painted sign, but it had disappeared.
  • (14) Various locations, Chicago, opens 3 October New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933 It’s 1920: the German Empire has crumbled, and Berlin is a city of cripples and crooks, communists and cabaret stars.
  • (15) Clinical assessment (using the Crooks-Wayne index) was combined with the measurement of free thyroxine and triiodothyronine indices (FT4I and FT3I) and the assessment of two tissue markers of thyroid hormone action--sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels and the thyrotrophin responses to TRH.
  • (16) The zones were perpendicular to the long axes of the crooked floccular folia, forming the crooked zones.
  • (17) 'During the war, my grandparents were often uprooted - they moved in and out of London, and even came over here to America - but their Steinway always went with them and had to be squeezed up crooked staircases wherever they lodged.
  • (18) • The trip was provided by Crooked Trails (+1 206 383 9828, crookedtrails.org ), which works to help indigenous and rural communities worldwide benefit from tourism.
  • (19) about some property crook he'd first exposed in 1969 but who wasn't finally convicted until five or six years ago.
  • (20) Meanwhile in September 2014 we told how Barclays “has been accused by victims of fraud of loose security procedures which have enabled international crooks to open accounts with foreign passports and then use them to fleece individuals online”.Victims who have contacted Money this week include: • A judge and his wife living in the north of England who have lost £5,040.

Staff


Definition:

  • (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
  • (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
  • (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
  • (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
  • (n.) The round of a ladder.
  • (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
  • (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
  • (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
  • (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
  • (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
  • (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
  • (2) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (3) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (4) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (5) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
  • (6) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
  • (7) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (8) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (9) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
  • (10) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
  • (11) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
  • (12) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
  • (13) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
  • (14) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
  • (15) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (16) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
  • (17) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
  • (18) Shop staff must be trained in the procedure and a record kept of the training.
  • (19) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
  • (20) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.