What's the difference between fling and relationship?

Fling


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
  • (v. t.) To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
  • (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
  • (v. i.) To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
  • (v. i.) To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
  • (v. i.) To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
  • (n.) A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
  • (n.) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
  • (n.) A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
  • (n.) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither of us are rampant or militant or any of those other descriptors anti-feminists fling about to scare those who stand up for their rights.
  • (2) He brushes past Felipe Melo and flings himself to the floor.
  • (3) If anyone in Macclesfield wants, for a small fee, I will come round to your house, lift the pesky varmint out of the bath with finger and thumb and fling it out of the window.
  • (4) You can see why retailers do everything in their power to lure them in, including flinging open shop doors.
  • (5) Helen aka helenlhelen I became pregnant after an ill-advised fling with a much older man.
  • (6) The kid isn’t feeding a penguin; he’s just flinging fish fingers on to the floor.
  • (7) At one point she had a bodyguard who would take her to the bank to deposit her takings.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Knight’s second-place depiction of a highland fling.
  • (8) Djokovic, though flings his entire corporeal into a forehand that near enough wins the point, and then forces Nadal to save a break point.
  • (9) I know someone whose entire circle of friends consists of ex-flings.
  • (10) Meanwhile in the American League... Steve Busfield (@Busfield) Benches clear in Detroit as Martinez and Balfour fling expletives but no punches thrown.
  • (11) It's a shame he can't just ramble on about his obsessions onscreen, flinging himself from point to point.
  • (12) [But] it does make me chuckle a little bit when Bernie flings around the word ‘revolution’.
  • (13) Gerrard flings over another free kick, much like the ones Liverpool scored from, but it evades everyone at the far post, and drifts away.
  • (14) The visitors might have been spurred into a riposte by a sense of injustice that Branislav Ivanovic was not penalised for going to ground too easily in first-half stoppage time, but by the time Allardyce reacted to fling on Song and Diafra Sakho just before the hour, a salvage mission was unlikely.
  • (15) Costa has managed only one goal in six Premier League appearances – he had scored eight at the corresponding stage last term – and has now completed a three-match suspension having been banned retrospectively for flinging an arm at Laurent Koscielny during the victory over Arsenal last month.
  • (16) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
  • (17) Cahill and Emerson tangled in the last minute, the Corinthians player appearing to fling out an arm to provoke a reaction, then feigning agony after the centre-half had flicked out his shin in riposte.
  • (18) Once in power, relations between the two soured, with stories of Brown flinging telephones across his office in frustration.
  • (19) We had canisters of it with lumps in – and a catapult to fling it.
  • (20) He is flinging canvases around as though they were sacks of coal.

Relationship


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
  • (2) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
  • (3) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
  • (4) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
  • (5) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
  • (6) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
  • (7) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (8) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
  • (9) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
  • (10) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (11) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
  • (12) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
  • (13) A topographic relationship was recognized between the MM and the anterior thalamic nuclei.
  • (14) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
  • (15) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (16) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
  • (17) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
  • (18) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.
  • (19) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
  • (20) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.