What's the difference between fleecing and fleeing?
Fleecing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fleece
Example Sentences:
(1) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(2) However, collagen fleece patches were only 8 cm X 4 cm in size and should be available in larger dimensions, particularly when it comes to larger sealing areas.
(3) After four months the treated male alpacas gained on average 3.1 kg more than the untreated males, and their fleece weighed 0.36 kg more.
(4) Meconium was present on the fleece of 114 newborn lambs in sixty-two per cent of the cases.
(5) At the group application of a granulated formula the fleece in some animals was removed hardly on the 11th-15th day, and with one sheep and 3 weaned lambs shearing was effected mechanically.
(6) has been saying for years - that credit card companies have been fleecing their customers with unfair, sky high credit card charges.
(7) Immunization to provoke a persistent anti-melatonin antibody response at the winter solstice resulted in significantly increased greasy fleece weight, % cashmere yield, and mass of cashmere produced, but no change in fibre diameter in both sexes.
(8) He is less concerned with the legal debate than he is with the fact that western firms are being fleeced by shadowy cyber-crooks half a world away.
(9) In a flock of sheep of different genetic background not selected for resistance or susceptibility to fleece rot and fly strike, positive phenotypic correlations were also noted between fleece rot and plasma leakage.
(10) Hardening off in a cold frame or under fleece will take about two weeks; by that time, any fear of frost should have passed.
(11) Meanwhile in September 2014 we told how Barclays “has been accused by victims of fraud of loose security procedures which have enabled international crooks to open accounts with foreign passports and then use them to fleece individuals online”.Victims who have contacted Money this week include: • A judge and his wife living in the north of England who have lost £5,040.
(12) I work in the freezer department so the cold doesn't affect me so much," he says, and laughs, but his son complains about their refusal to put the radiator on in his room; they bought him a fleece to wear in bed.
(13) Its widely trumpeted “success” is built on turning a blind eye to quasi-criminality in investment banking and to systemic fleecing of ignorant customers in the asset management industry through an opaque and self-serving fee structure.
(14) It's almost as if I watched old Jethro Tull at the cash machine and leaned over his shoulder as he put his credit card into the machine to check out his PIN and filched his credit card form from his back pocket as he walked away and then fleeced his bank account."
(15) The gene for white fleece (W), therefore, appears able to regulate pigmentation in Merino sheep, at least in part, by controlling the location and activity of melanocytes within the wool-bearing skin.
(16) I put on a pair of jogging bottoms, an old fleece hoodie and some flip-flops over my socks.
(17) Perhaps inevitably, there are also artful dodgers looking to fleece tourists of $100 (£64) to pass the gate.
(18) The genetic correlations between ewe productivity and weights at different ages were variable, ranging from -.71 between weaning weight and grease fleece weight to values greater than 1.00 for correlations between weight of lambs weaned and weights at birth, weaning and 18-mo.
(19) A human-collagen fleece (Beristypt) is now available for the first time.
(20) Four years into the credit crunch, it has become mainstream to distinguish between the important functions of banking and those things that the Financial Services Authority chair, Adair Turner, brands as "socially useless" : activities that involve someone getting rich by fleecing someone else, and leaving the taxpayer to pick up the pieces.
Fleeing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flee
Example Sentences:
(1) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(2) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
(3) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(4) Photograph: Met police The three girls were interviewed in December by detectives about the whereabouts of their friend but were not themselves considered at risk of fleeing Britain.
(5) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(6) 21 April 2009: Unicef says it faces a "human avalanche" of civilians fleeing the conflict .
(7) Young people with degrees are fleeing the country, leaving permanent skills gaps that will undermine any future recovery.
(8) Children with special needs also had to flee St Matthews parish hall during the attack on the Lower Newtownards Road.
(9) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
(10) At one stage he even contemplated fleeing the country to avoid the obligations of serialisation.
(11) Speaking about the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the charity to which he is going, he said: "The organisation was founded at the suggestion of Albert Einstein in the 1930s for those fleeing the Nazis, so given my own family history there is an additional personal motivation for me.
(12) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
(13) Traditional media companies have been fleeing the US stock market to escape their low valuations.
(14) Many of those fleeing the violence currently live as refugees in Turkey.
(15) Obama said: “The people who are fleeing Syria are the most harmed by terrorism.
(16) In all likelihood, Congress will recess for the month of August without doing anything about the flood of children fleeing across our border ... and those children will just keep coming.
(17) But many other Eritreans have not been so lucky in their attempts to flee a country where President Isaias Afewerki – described as an "unhinged dictator" in the US embassy cables revealed by WikiLeaks – justifies the existence of his large army with the threat of a renewed conflict with Ethiopia, from which Eritrea gained independence in 1992.
(18) The Congolese army's campaign against the rebels has not progressed well, with troops fleeing when they hear of the approach of M23.
(19) Police said later that he fell to the ground while trying to flee with his hands cuffed behind his back and cracked his head on the ground.
(20) "While the state security forces in some instances intervened to prevent violence and protect fleeing Muslims, more frequently they stood aside during attacks or directly supported the assailants, committing killings and other abuses," said an HRW report released on Monday.