What's the difference between drape and shroud?

Drape


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
  • (v. t.) To rail at; to banter.
  • (v. i.) To make cloth.
  • (v. i.) To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reinforcement portion of the surgical drape that contained the fenestration was segmented into four identical-appearing sections, two on each side of the fenestration.
  • (2) Striking a completely different note, Kelly Smith, a Texan who lives in Sedgefield, draped herself in the US flag and made a lone stand in support of her president.
  • (3) Attention to detail is required for all phases of shoulder arthroscopy, including patient positioning, draping, outlining of bony landmarks, and exact placement of arthroscopic portals.
  • (4) Such localization after head trauma is often hampered by cerebral distortion, previous incomplete debridement, fragment migration, and surgical draping.
  • (5) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
  • (6) folds up its comedy deckchair, presses mute on the trombones and drapes a hand towel discreetly over Mark's crotch.
  • (7) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
  • (8) The results of the study demonstrated not only significant reduction in wound infection rates but also major cost savings when a disposable gown and drape system was used in the operating room.
  • (9) Design of the drape and technique of application are important considerations in preventing lift from the skin.
  • (10) A man's body was also found draped over Tilikum at Orlando SeaWorld in July 1999.
  • (11) The innominate vein is easily accessible in every state of blood circulation, even intraoperatively when the patient is covered by drapes.
  • (12) Other precautions included the use of Charnley gowns with a body exhaust system, special draping of the patient, and preoperative culture of the urine.
  • (13) Drugs commonly implicated in DRAPEs were systemic steroids, digoxin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents, alpha-methyldopa, calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, theophylline, furosemide, sympathomimetics, thiazides, and benzodiazepines.
  • (14) This included the use of surgical drapes and gloves, collecting the cornea without interruption, saline irrigation of the eye, and inversion of the eye chamber to ensure complete contact of the cornea with the antibiotic-containing media.
  • (15) It was demonstrated that in areas away from the wound, the bacterial concentration on the drape surface was significantly affected only by airborne bacteria.
  • (16) The Brighton Pavilion seat is the Green party's best shot at a parliamentary seat in 2010 and it has draped the seafront in cheeky slogans promoting its candidate.
  • (17) In 354 operations conventional cotton gowns and drapes were used, while in 679 operations, a disposable gown and drape system was utilized.
  • (18) A simple method is described for pinning of slipped capital femoral epiphysis with a stationary x-ray machine and the limb draped free.
  • (19) On the bare floor of an open-backed military truck, Ariel Sharon's flag-draped coffin jolted along a rough track to a hilltop spot overlooking his ranch on the edge of the Negev desert, where he was laid to rest next to his beloved wife.
  • (20) At various stages of his breakdown, Mr Blair has visions of a soldier's coffin draped with the Union flag in his kitchen, a suicide bomber about to detonate himself in his office, and a dead child in a bombed-out home in Iraq.

Shroud


Definition:

  • (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  • (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
  • (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  • (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
  • (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
  • (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
  • (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The underlying pathology was shrouded by incomplete abortion.
  • (2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
  • (3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
  • (4) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
  • (5) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
  • (6) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
  • (7) Tehran, surrounded by mountains and with millions of cars on its congested streets, has long been regarded as one of the world's most polluted cities, but the heavy smog that has recently shrouded its streets has been described as the worst in its history.
  • (8) "But the fact is that the whereabouts and fate of Gao have been shrouded in mystery by the Chinese government for far too long.
  • (9) Monarchy, of whatever stamp, shrouds society in class, when we can least afford it.
  • (10) See the bullet holes in street lamps... the shrouded vision in the clouds and the fog of the buildings from which the shots came... the photographs of those who lost their lives.. the people who put themselves on the line for the future of Ukraine.” Kerry said he spoke spontaneously with Ukrainians gathered there, who pleaded with him not to go back to life as it was under Yanukovych.
  • (11) We hope that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will finally decide to comply with the law, and cease attempting to shroud in secrecy one aspect of their job that, above all others, should be conducted in the light of day."
  • (12) It sits amid north Glasgow’s famous Red Road tower blocks, shrouded and still awaiting demolition since organisers had second thoughts about blowing them up to mark the Commonwealth Games.
  • (13) Prolonged exposures of fracture faces under the protection of liquid nitrogen-cooled shrouds have shown that, because of the consequent drastic reduction of condensable gases in the specimen area, no detectable condensation contamination of exposed fracture faces occurs within 15 min at a specimen temperature of 108 degrees K. This shows that a complicated ultrahigh vacuum technology is not required for high resolution freeze- etching.
  • (14) How many other "invisible" stories are out there, shrouded by thick legal mist?
  • (15) As usual, the government applied the OSB media strategy to shroud the matters in secrecy.
  • (16) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
  • (17) If this is how it behaves in the middle of one of Australia’s biggest cities, how does it conduct itself when shrouded behind the secrecy of “on water operations”?
  • (18) On these days, the smog clings to the city like a thick grey shroud, and its residents are ghost-like shadows moving through the haze.
  • (19) Consider an example from June of last year, when rampant fires across parts of Sumatra, Indonesia, shrouded the skies of Sumatra and neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia in a thick, choking haze.
  • (20) What happened next has always been shrouded in mystery.