What's the difference between fledge and sledge?

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".

Sledge


Definition:

  • (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
  • (n.) A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
  • (n.) A sleigh.
  • (n.) A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.
  • (v. i. & t.) To travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.
  • (v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The need for additional postoperative analgesia was seen earliest in the patients who received a knee prosthesis of the sledge type (P less than 0.05).
  • (2) The mechanical efficiencies (ME) of pure positive and pure negative work as well as of stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercise were investigated with a special sledge apparatus.
  • (3) A series of 271 children, injured in tobogganing and sledging accidents was studied.
  • (4) With a sledge cryomicrotome, we sectioned 273 lumbar facet joints in 38 adult cadavers and correlated the anatomic appearance of the joints with CT and magnetic resonance (MR) images.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch Sister Sledge perform We Are Family It was fun, but challenging.
  • (6) Take in the views and then hire a sledge for the journey down the Schlittelweg.
  • (7) Half of the 27 sledge dogs at the station were found to carry coagulase-positive staphylococci but this did not appear to be of pathological significance to their human handlers.
  • (8) A consecutive prospective series of 102 knees (90 patients) had unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (St. Georg "sledge") between 1973 and 1979 for gonarthrosis, Stages 2-4.
  • (9) A child once asked me – and you know that kids ask difficult questions – he asked me, ‘Father, what did God do before he created the world?’” The audience, which included Franklin, Sister Sledge, Mark Wahlberg, the comedian Jim Gaffigan and other warm-up acts, laughed, and the pope continued with a smile.
  • (10) Most accidents occurred on a slope especially designated for tobogganing and sledging.
  • (11) First experiences in allo-arthroplastics of the knee with 82 Guepar- and 28 sledge protheses are reported.
  • (12) Detailed electromyographic (EMG) analysis of primarily triceps brachii muscle was carried out on subjects who performed 100 repeated and exhaustive stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercises on a special sledge apparatus incorporating a force plate.
  • (13) Between November 1985 and January 1986, three men manhauled sledges 875 miles, following Scott's original route to the South Pole.
  • (14) The fatigue contractions were performed on submaximal levels but the before-after comparison included also maximal "drop jumps" on the sledge as well as falls on to the floor.
  • (15) 'Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend': Nick Kyrgios sledges Stan Wawrinka Read more On a changeover during the second set of their match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Kyrgios told the world No5: “Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend, sorry to tell you that mate.” Wawrinka ignored the insult and withdrew in the third set with a back injury.
  • (16) The presented scheme of tissue treatment involving standard sledge microtome, acetone, thermostat heat provides 25-35 micron sections.
  • (17) For the man who has swum through ice and hauled sledges for 1,200km it will surely be a walk in the park.
  • (18) Over this time, I have completed six expeditions on the Arctic sea ice, sledge-hauling more than 1,500 miles and spending more than 223 days in temperatures well below zero.
  • (19) He told a story about a day when he was 12 years old, soon after he had lost a leg to bone cancer, when his father took him out sledging.
  • (20) The ad, which cost about £1m to make, features a young boy and what appears to be a real penguin playing together, going sledging, visiting the park and bouncing on the trampoline to the tune of John Lennon’s Real Love sung by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell, who was used by Burberry in its online Christmas film last year.