What's the difference between crosscut and whipsaw?
Crosscut
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut across or through; to intersect.
(n.) A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
(n.) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3) The cracks were observed to run through the face of crosscutting of canaliculus dentalis.
(2) Crosscut serial sections of the remaining parts of the root were obtained for a systematic study of the entire extension of the root canal.
(3) The blood vessels inside the skull may be crosscut or longitudinally torn by the fracture lines.
(4) Difficulty of pelt removal in wether lambs was best predicted by including crosscut shoulder weight and bodywall thickness in multiple regression equations.
(5) Basically the crosscut limbus glenoidalis has a triangular shape, however, especially in its anterior part, it has a meniscoid or labiate form.
(6) A crosscut study was undertaken over 46 families chosen at random from Tlalpan, a suburban area in Mexico City.
(7) Changes of tissue pO2 levels in chronic subcutis wounds with and without heteroplastic tumour spheroid implants in thoraco-lumbal rat skinfolds covered by transparent chambers were followed in crosscut analysis by pO2 surface electrodes as a function of post-operative age using constant normoxic, hypoxic, post-hypoxic breathing conditions and intervals for each measured area.
(8) Factors involved in difficulty of pelt removal in ram lambs included crosscut shoulder weight, fat firmness, and carcass weight.
(9) The results show no statistical difference between the intact curvature and curvature produced when skin and perichondrium were resutured over 4 full-thickness, cartilaginous crosscuts.
(10) The dissection is carried to and through the temporalis fascia and periosteum, over the root of the zygomatic arch, and anteriorly after crosscut of the external auditory canal to the parotideomasseteric fascia.
(11) An ideology of healing crosscuts the trend toward health commodification.
Whipsaw
Definition:
(n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The political scene is a whipsaw of news flows and surprises.
(2) Public sentiment whipsawed between unimaginable grief and inchoate rage, and the NRA provided a concrete proposal whose very outlandishness contained a glimmer of hope: no one has ever before seriously proposed weaponizing public schools.
(3) Reviewing it for the New York Times , Dexter Filkins captured the mood of the book when he called it “hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad.” It hit the bestseller lists when it came out in March.