What's the difference between ease and salve?

Ease


Definition:

  • (n.) Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.
  • (n.) Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.
  • (n.) Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind.
  • (n.) Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address.
  • (n.) To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind.
  • (n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.
  • (n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.
  • (n.) To entertain; to furnish with accommodations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (2) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
  • (3) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (4) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
  • (5) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
  • (6) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
  • (7) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
  • (8) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
  • (9) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
  • (10) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
  • (11) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
  • (12) Ease of use has meant that a greater number of patients with superficial burns can be treated as outpatients and many are able to do their own daily dressing change, so fewer attendances at the clinic are needed.
  • (13) The participants strongly preferred the experimental leaflets to the approved leaflets, both with respect to accessibility of the contents (overall preference 78.1% v 17.8%) and ease of understanding the contraindications of drug use (90.2% v 73.7%).
  • (14) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
  • (15) This article describes the development of REHAB, a behavior rating scale for use with people with chronic psychiatric disability, which has been carefully designed with respect to content, format, and ease of use.
  • (16) This modification allows for precision of movement, ease of repositioning, and adaptation of rigid skeletal stabilization of mobilized osseous segments in the chin.
  • (17) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
  • (18) Clinical open trials of beta-methyldigoxin were carried out in 15 institutions in order to examine the effect, usefulness and ease of its oral administration.
  • (19) The ease of use of this form of DRB typing is emphasized and potential complications are discussed.
  • (20) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.

Salve


Definition:

  • (interj.) Hail!
  • (v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.
  • (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
  • (n.) A soothing remedy or antidote.
  • (n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
  • (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
  • (v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Complete atrio-ventricular block, and salves of ventricular premature beats were the most serious rhythm disturbances.
  • (2) They include chemical methods, such as suppositories, gels, salves, or foams which contain spermicidal substances, but these can be used only as long as there is no injury to the vagina.
  • (3) This is not merely too little too late, but it is also a slap in the face of all those who were hoping for some kind of salve on their wounds," said Nitiyanand Jayaraman, of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.
  • (4) But if you will stay and listen to the story, then together we may find salve for our wounded souls.
  • (5) Lagophthalmos and exposure keratitis resolved or were significantly improved in all patients, and most were able to dispense with eyedrops and salves.
  • (6) 97 per cent of the patients were discharged from the hospital with a salved limb, the one year patency was 76 per cent and one year limb survival 90 per cent.
  • (7) A cable car runs from Hopfgarten to the top of the Hohe Salve in the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental ski area.
  • (8) In a family of 9 persons over 3 generations, 6 had incessant polymorphic ventricular extrasystoles, often in salves, resembling unsustained bidirectional ventricular tachycardia.
  • (9) Top-rate Isas pay only 3%, so switching means savers lose little to salve their conscience.
  • (10) She believed that only total victory would salve her reputation, and no compromise that rewarded aggression could be tolerated.
  • (11) Though urea creams provided relief from itching in neurodermatitis, their use after treatment of eczema with fat-containing salves caused burning sensations.
  • (12) They’re actually so beautiful, the kind of movement from one note to the next; they’re like salves,” he says.
  • (13) Chinese patients preferred external agents (salves, oils, massage, etc.)
  • (14) For the older customer – sorry, patient – with a less sweet tooth, there are sprays, topical salves and even bath salts.
  • (15) Larvae were held in either 24-well culture plates with media plus penicillin, streptomycin sulfate, nystatin, and chloramphenicol or in small salve jars on Perlite and media plus the same antibiotics.
  • (16) The most dangerous player in all of this is Ivanka herself – poised, polished, telegenic and continually trotted out as salve for her father’s explicit sexism.
  • (17) It has previously been reported as a contact sensitizer from its use as a sun screen in a lip salve.
  • (18) Use of these salves repeated every second enabled the authors to demonstrate two types of changes in cortical excitability after intermittent photic stimulation: 1. responses which were more frequent and of greater amplitude appearing in the first 3 or 4 seconds after IPS; after paralysis of the animal amplitude and frequency of the responses are augmented.
  • (19) Wounded in spirit, South Sudan's people need the salve of mutual forgiveness | Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala Read more The council’s 15 members demanded Kiir and Machar “genuinely commit themselves to the full and immediate implementation of the peace agreement, including the permanent ceasefire and redeployment of military forces from Juba”.
  • (20) Apple however has little reason to salve these complaints.