What's the difference between dilapidation and stoning?

Dilapidation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
  • (n.) Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.
  • (n.) The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Children still received an education, it was just that increasing numbers did so in damp and dilapidated buildings.
  • (2) In a dilapidated cafe in north Baghdad under a TV set blasting patriotic songs in support of Iraq's embattled prime minister, a young man looked grave.
  • (3) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
  • (4) It was shot on location in Hollywood, with the real Jim Henson Studios standing in for the dilapidated Muppet Studios; Miss Piggy's costumes are all designer, as any star of her stature might expect, and include a pair of trotter-sized Louboutins.
  • (5) At least 74 people have been arrested, including Abarca and his wife, who were found Tuesday hiding in a dilapidated home in a rough section of Mexico City.
  • (6) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
  • (7) The place smells like wet cigarettes, and while the dilapidated building does have its charm, it feels as old as the games it houses.
  • (8) Even in its dilapidated state, it still received more than 140,000 visitors last year.
  • (9) Since the second world war, the area’s towering Georgian terraces, subdivided and dilapidated, had first been a semi-slum of immigrants and bad landlords, then a counterculture stronghold for squatters and hippies and punks.
  • (10) Perhaps this tragedy causes us to ask some tough questions about how we can permit so many of our children to languish in poverty, or attend dilapidated schools, or grow up without prospects for a job or for a career.
  • (11) As well as dilapidated equipment, the country's military and police suffered a serious problem of infiltration, with some officers helping the separatists.
  • (12) Until recently, most self-respecting rock bohemians would stay at the dilapidated but charming Chelsea, where they would rejoice in being shouted at by the manager for daring to ask to have the room where Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen.
  • (13) The horizon is fringed with the tall trees of the Ghanaian rainforest, but for Huang, this dilapidated shelter is his only shade from the sweltering tropical sun.
  • (14) The shells of dilapidated factories look out over an urban landscape that has been likened to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina – except Detroit's disaster was man-made and took decades to unfold.
  • (15) Thirty-two men and a boy now held at an immigration detention centre near Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, were rescued last Saturday when their dilapidated wooden vessel began sinking while making a perilous journey to Malaysia.
  • (16) Close up, the greenhouses lie derelict and trees rampage through their dilapidated timber frames.
  • (17) A couple of years ago a dilapidated little cinema called Shama was blown up in Peshawar.
  • (18) But we have already seen that Kane is dead and his Florida folly slowly turning into a dilapidated ruin.
  • (19) For example, the money could go towards improving the dilapidated Fairfield Halls theatre and concert venue.
  • (20) • Hrunalaug – a hot pot with a dilapidated changing hut in a grassy dell a few kilometres from Flúdir.

Stoning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stone

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
  • (2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
  • (3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
  • (4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
  • (5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
  • (6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
  • (7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
  • (8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
  • (9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
  • (10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
  • (11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
  • (14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
  • (15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
  • (16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
  • (17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
  • (18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
  • (19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
  • (20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.

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