What's the difference between dolly and winch?

Dolly


Definition:

  • (n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
  • (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
  • (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
  • (n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
  • (n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
  • (n.) A child's mane for a doll.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the local beauty parlour run by Truvy (Dolly Parton), the two meet new employee Annelle (Daryl Hannah).
  • (2) © Focus Features Where Dolly, a kind, pious, modest, anxious figure, the mother of five living and two dead children, belongs very much to the old Russia, Stiva Oblonsky, her husband, is recognisable as the caricature of a modern man.
  • (3) Dolly Parton has offered to adopt a dog that was found abandoned at Glastonbury festival, after rescuers named the canine after her.
  • (4) The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park won best musical revival for Hello Dolly!
  • (5) Dolly, the police spokesman, said officers had succeeded in protecting local businesses from a second round of thefts.
  • (6) It will be me on the leaflets.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Matthew Wright with his dog Dolly in Bolton.
  • (7) And that, of course, was the most disturbing aspect of the story of Dolly.
  • (8) In Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent the camera is moving on a dolly throughout the entire movie.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aunty Dolly Jerome calling for justice for the Bowraville child murder victims during a march on NSW Parliament House.
  • (10) She accused the singer on Twitter of miming on stage, adding "how disappointing": Kay Burley (@KayBurley) Oh, Dolly is miming.
  • (11) Trout fry (Dolly Varden), aquatic insect larvae, and periphyton (attached algae) within and below the treatment site during and after treatment did not show signs of mortality compared with an upstream untreated control site.
  • (12) Once there, Lomax - a trainspotter to the end - enquired about the gauge of tracking used for the dolly shot.
  • (13) Sometime, somewhere in the limitless future it will be listened to, and, if there is intelligent life in another galaxy and creatures from outer space do land on earth having learned English from BBC broadcasts, the chances are they will not say 'Take me to your leader' but 'How bona to vada your dolly old eek!'"
  • (14) The son of two devoted workers for the Salvation Army, Jeffries disliked personal publicity and was a zealot when preparing a role (he ran two miles every morning before appearing in the musical Hello Dolly!
  • (15) Dolly the sheep , the world's first successfully cloned mammal, was given the name in 1986 by scientists who were fans of the singer.
  • (16) Sergeant Colby Dolly, a spokesman for St Louis county police, said at a makeshift command centre early on Tuesday morning that some 150 officers had been involved in the operation and had made about 10 arrests.
  • (17) Parton in the flesh is so exactly how one imagines her to be that as she sits opposite me, bandying about such Dolly-esque phrases as "You just need some good ol' horse sense!
  • (18) The car service area has vintage motors sitting on mechanics' dollies, and there's an exhibition area, a bar, a kitchen, and two old buses that serve as offices.
  • (19) Dolly's 'creator', Ian Wilmut, of Scotland's Roslin Institute, was equally stunned.
  • (20) Country music star Dolly Parton has answered the critics who questioned whether she was miming during her Glastonbury set in her own inimitable style, telling the Sun : "My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart."

Winch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
  • (n.) A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
  • (n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
  • (n.) An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
  • (n.) An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.
  • (n.) A wince.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We see people who are grossly fat, their wobbling, sad bodies being winched out of windows, and class that as "obesity", distancing ourselves from the term.
  • (2) Because of the centrally placed winch and simple design, it withstands strong pulling and is very reliable.
  • (3) The $2.5bn (£1.6bn) trundling science lab began its mission on Mars after a dramatic arrival last month in which the rover was winched to the surface from a spacecraft hovering overhead on rocket thrusters.
  • (4) The Dp was measured at 1.40 m.s-1, using a mechanical winch and a strain gauge with a load cell connected to a strain bridge.
  • (5) As their hot blood pours in torrents into the sea, the defenceless whales are finished off by winching them up by the tail to force their massive heads beneath the surface and electrocuting them as they thrash and drown in panicked desperation.
  • (6) With more than 50,000 supporters remaining commendably calm, engineers eventually arrived and were winched up to re-attach the screen.
  • (7) "We'll black it out, drop Barry the dummy down, and they can practise winching and rescue."
  • (8) Once full, the bags will be winched by helicopters and flown down the mountain.
  • (9) The Aylesbury itself is one of London's largest estates and its long construction throughout the 1960s and 70s was overseen by architects Derek Winch and Hans Peter Trenton of Southwark council.
  • (10) Shrimp boat winch injury to the upper extremity was identified in three patients.
  • (11) On Monday, the bodies were winched to the top of the 550ft (168 metre) cliffs, as detectives broke into a silver Volkswagen people carrier found in a nearby car park that was believed to have belonged to the group.
  • (12) But this was to be expected – the first stage of tightening the dozens of winches around the vessel and starting to ease it off the rocks was always expected to be the most delicate.
  • (13) Charlie Winch, a third-year international relations student, says: "This small group of occupiers risk widening the already growing divide between the university and its students.
  • (14) As a consequence of inaccessible accident sites in the mountains, 23% of the rescues had to be performed by winch.
  • (15) In October a terminally ill woman was left stranded in the hydraulic lift that was to winch her onto a Ryanair flight which took off without her, and in 2011 a person with multiple sclerosis successfully sued the same airline after the lift failed to arrive and she had to be hauled up the aircraft steps over her husband’s shoulder.
  • (16) The pirate boat, Coopepes 20, is a rusting 60ft fishing vessel, its longline winch clear on the rear deck, alongside a barrel brimming with shining hooks.
  • (17) "The oil industry is moving away from helicopters for in-field operations because of safety concerns and, in any case, being winched on to the top of a 100m turbine in a gale is not an attractive proposition."
  • (18) The results were discussed in terms of their implications for Winch's theory of complementary needs and for past and future investigation of need compatibility.
  • (19) Swiss Air Rescue (REGA) teams execute more than 3000 aeromedical missions annually, of which some require the use of a winch.
  • (20) His green shirt balloons round his body, baggy slacks winched up high.