What's the difference between drip and grip?

Drip


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
  • (v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
  • (v. t.) To let fall in drops.
  • (n.) A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
  • (n.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Infants were fed the same quantity of formula each day, either for 5 minutes or by continuous drip for 2 to 3 hours.
  • (2) If all 102 patients had received conventional IV drip infusions, the total patient equipment charges would have been $4,610.40.
  • (3) Particularly, the losses during blanching and thawing (drip) are discussed.
  • (4) Drip infusion pyelogram revealed a decrease in the left renal function and the presence of the gas in the pyelocalyceal system.
  • (5) Never leave a tap dripping - it can waste up to four litres a day.
  • (6) In the treatment of 31 cases of acute infections of pediatric field including upper and lower airway infections, empyema, whooping cough, acute urinary tract infections and phlegmon, CMNX was administered intravenously either as one shot injection as drip infusion.
  • (7) Appropriate conditions for administering the drug by intravenous drip infusion to neonates and infants at ages of more than 1 week were investigated taking observed blood levels and achieved peak levels and trough levels calculated using the one-compartment open model into account.
  • (8) In 4 patients with peritonitis drug levels in the ascites were determined following administration of BRL 28500 by drip infusion.
  • (9) Experiments show that the primary source of air bubbles in such a system is the drip chamber.
  • (10) The pathways involved in protein transport across the lymphatic endothelium of the rat renal cortex after in vivo drip fixation were studied ultrastructurally.
  • (11) Ampicillin-cloxacillin (Viccillin S 'Meiji') by intravenous drip infusion was used in gynecological infections, with the following satisfactory results.
  • (12) It’s also a legal authority that is exempt from oversight by Congress or the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, meaning we know even less about it than the other NSA powers that have been dripping out over the last year and a half.
  • (13) Two hundred and forty-nine patients are divided into four homogenous groups to compare the efficacy of Cimetidine versus antacids, as well as the mode of delivery--bolus versus continuous drip--in the prophylaxis of acute hemorrhagic gastritis in critically ill patients.
  • (14) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
  • (15) Many had plastic nodules stuck to their skull, to allow the nurses to attach them to a drip.
  • (16) Dopamine drip may be used as a renal rescue, whereas heparin is indicated for thromboembolic phenomena and surgery reserved for abdominal catastrophies.
  • (17) Anaesthesia was induced by thiopentone and was maintained either by a continuous drip of thiopentone or by inhalation of halothane.
  • (18) The PTT was checked every 4 hours and the heparin drip was titrated to keep the PTT at 50 to 60 seconds.
  • (19) Indeed the lack of trust suggests that funds will be drip-fed to Greece and that a longer-term agreement will be very difficult to reach.” According to local media Tsipras has called an emergency meeting with top ministers to discuss the situation, including chief negotiator Euclid Tsakalotos, the deputy prime minister, Yannis Dragasakis, and the state minister, Nikos Pappas.
  • (20) These steps include a careful guidewire technique, insisting on spontaneous free back-dripping of blood from newly introduced catheters after removal of the guidewire, aspiration of blood with a syringe and flushing with saline and contrast.

Grip


Definition:

  • (n.) The griffin.
  • (n.) A small ditch or furrow.
  • (v. t.) To trench; to drain.
  • (v. t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.
  • (v. t.) A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.
  • (v. t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.
  • (v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
  • (v. t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (2) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
  • (3) The single best predictor of EI was BW (r2 = 0.47, p = 0.0001), and further small but significant contributions were made by BMC (r2 = 0.53, p = 0.0001) and grip strength (r2 = 0.55, p = 0.0001).
  • (4) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
  • (5) Indian women are aware of our tenuous grip on our rights.
  • (6) The recovery of power grip and finger grip strength is complete in most patients by two months.
  • (7) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
  • (8) Mean grip strength and grip strength per kilogram weight are presented for age 59, ages 60-64 and 65-69.
  • (9) The measurement is used to control a sensory feedback device applied to the surface of the skin within the socket of the prosthesis informing the wearer of the strength of grip exerted.
  • (10) Plasma catecholamine levels and the haemodynamic response to the hand-grip test have therefore been evaluated in a group of young athletes, compared with a group of non-trained youths.
  • (11) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
  • (12) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (13) Heart rate elevation observed after hand grip maneuver did not change.
  • (14) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.
  • (15) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
  • (16) "Zidane, Zidane, Zidane... France was in the grip of 'zizoumania'," Marcel Desailly wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on the triumph on home soil eight years ago, when giant images of the No 10 covered the sides of floodlit office blocks.
  • (17) The Holland manager had decided to retain the 5-3-2 system that worked so effectively against Spain but he reverted to 4-3-3 at the interval after losing Martins Indi and accepting that something had to change to enable his players to get a grip on a game that Australia were controlling in the first half.
  • (18) Loss of the righting response was not associated with any gross reduction in skeletal muscle tone (inclined screen and wire grip tests) and it was proposed that the animals were not anaesthetized but instead could be placed on their backs because flurazepam had enhanced the cataleptic effect of THC.
  • (19) The blood flow through the forearm was measured 2 sec after single, brief isometric hand-grip contractions.
  • (20) Analysis of the rate of functional recovery as measured by total active motion, gross grip strength, and pinch grip strength showed no significant difference between the two groups.