What's the difference between fledge and ledge?

Fledge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
  • (v. t. & i.) To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.
  • (v. t. & i.) To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
  • (2) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
  • (3) I knew absolutely nothing about what to expect when I entered the cinema but within 10 minutes I was a fully fledged convert.
  • (4) The downgrading in late 2013 of what had been a fully fledged A&E unit at Chase Farm to an urgent care centre, despite a huge campaign of opposition, led to a 20% increase in the number of sick people seeking treatment at the North Middlesex.
  • (5) Furthermore, feminism requires new forms of social interaction that embody the esthetical space women need to experience life as full-fledged citizens.
  • (6) On the Colville River in northwestern Alaska, the last young falcons will fledge in 1975 and the remaining adult population will disappear by 1980 unless the present rate of reproductive failure is drastically and quickly reversed.
  • (7) On the other hand the Scots voted by a two to one majority and were rewarded with a fully-fledged parliament.
  • (8) Fortunately for her and her readers, this voice arrived fully fledged, and proved to be remarkably reliable.
  • (9) This year, heading into 2016, they are becoming fully fledged substitutes for campaigns, taking over functions including opposition research, polling and even knocking on doors.
  • (10) Breeding success was measured as a function of eggs hatched and chicks fledged.
  • (11) A fledging ratio is used to support the hypothesis that maternal prezygotic exposure affects the viability of embryos and chicks.
  • (12) The author concludes that C-L psychiatry has achieved the status of a full-fledged subspecialty of psychiatry, one whose main contribution has been to draw attention of clinicians and researchers to psychosocial aspects of physical illness, and to the psychiatric complications of such illness and of the medical and surgical therapies.
  • (13) Other Hamas officials said only a fully fledged deal to end hostilities would be accepted.
  • (14) The armistice never became a fully-fledged peace agreement and therefore North and South Korea technically remain at war.
  • (15) Full-fledged allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) has been estimated to occur in 10% of patients with CF.
  • (16) The most significant difference from last year's London event is that instead of a tottering and discredited transitional regime, Somalia now has a fully fledged government, led by Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
  • (17) Kindle Fire, the fully fledged tablet computer Amazon first released in 2011, sold 9m units last year.
  • (18) Homelessness, that most visceral signifier of hard times, is on the rise and shaping up to be not merely another policy embarrassment for the coalition, but a fully fledged social crisis.
  • (19) Nursing is the agent of change for moving health care from a cottage industry to a full-fledged business enterprise--a business with compassion, empathy, and quality.
  • (20) In a speech in Manchester, Trevor Phillips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, will warn against the country "sleep-walking" into a "New Orleans-style" quagmire of "fully fledged ghettoes".

Ledge


Definition:

  • (n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
  • (n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  • (n.) A layer or stratum.
  • (n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  • (n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This bony strut reduces inferomedial displacement of the muscle cone and provides a medial supporting "ledge" in cases requiring late orbital reconstruction.
  • (2) The continuous ledge will be covered with a cast continuous bar, intended to restore the lingual crown morphology.
  • (3) The number of two-year sojourns in a hospital and other data are reported on the basis of an evaluation of the signature ledges of the clinical histories in the district Dresden.
  • (4) In April 2001, he secured the con- viction of Klan member Thomas Blanton for driving the men to the church in the middle of the night to lay a dozen sticks of dynamite on the window ledge.
  • (5) The ledges of some pleats partly grow toward each other as ring like diaphragms, leaving openings whose boundary is composed of alveolar epithelium separated by a basal lamina from a connective tissue sheath with capillaries.
  • (6) All the determinants for ledging were not identified with this study, and further research is indicated.
  • (7) In the outer and middle layers of the spiny deposits, the Ca, P, and Mg concentrations were all significantly higher than those of the ledge-type deposits.
  • (8) Calculus components of the ledge-type deposits contained crystal types quite similar to sandy grain-shaped hydroxyapatite (HAP), plate-shaped octacalcium phosphate (OCP), and hexahedral Mg-containing whitlockite (WHT).
  • (9) Geologists sort the waterfalls into two types: wedding-cake falls, which descend in multiple tiers, and bridal-veil falls, that plunge over a ledge into a pool.
  • (10) Ridge POAMES occurred most frequently, followed by combined, ledge and the nodular exostose types.
  • (11) The edges of the breaks appear clinically as glassy ridges or ledges and are also called Haab's lines.
  • (12) 15 had a significantly higher incidence of ledging.
  • (13) Hypoplasia of the labial enamel of 15 out of 19 teeth from sheep killed after recovery from the infection was classified according to the extent and depth as pits, grooves or larger areas of missing enamel with ledge-formation cervically.
  • (14) Immature spores in the strain studied had a ledge which disappeared during maturation.
  • (15) Shaping effectiveness of the tested files was qualitatively evaluated in terms of respect for conservation of the apical constriction and the presence or absence of ledging, specially in the apical third of the root canals.
  • (16) By following the continental ledge in search of sardines, sardinella, and mackerel, it hopes to catch 3,000 tonnes of fish in a four- to six-week voyage before it offloads them, possibly in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
  • (17) This preliminary study suggests that such a wheelchair feature might improve the safety of wheelchairs in conditions involving inadvertent loss of caster support, as when they drop off a stair or ledge.
  • (18) A complicated system of low lying slanting, diagonal mucosal ledges forms between the tall longitudinal folds.
  • (19) Ten of the 107 had small enamel fractures, primarily occurring on cingulum ledges.
  • (20) Each of the nine objects was placed on a ledge inside a dummy television screen next to the video screen, the food items alternating with the neutral objects, and 20 female patients with anorexia nervosa and 20 female controls matched for age were asked to adjust the size of the video recording to that of the real object.