What's the difference between fling and sling?

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.

Sling


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.
  • (v. t.) The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
  • (v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension
  • (v. t.) A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
  • (v. t.) A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
  • (v. t.) A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
  • (v. t.) A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.
  • (v. t.) To throw with a sling.
  • (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to cast.
  • (v. t.) To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
  • (v. t.) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
  • (n.) A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
  • (2) The sphincter urethrae muscle is located inside the sling of the puborectalis muscle in both sexes, but no muscle fibres connect them to one another.
  • (3) The Z-plasties facilitate effective dissection and redirection of the palatal muscles to produce an overlapping muscle sling and lengthen the velum without using tissue from the hard palate, which permits hard palate closure without pushback or lateral relaxing incisions.
  • (4) The use of the technique of wax-plate serial section-reconstruction, based on contiguous axial plane CT images of the upper thorax, to prepare a replica of the central air-way (trachea and major bronchi) of an infant with sling left pulmonary artery type 2B, with bridging bronchus, abortive right main bronchus, and tracheal stenosis due to absence of the tracheal pars membranacea with "ring" tracheal cartilages is described.
  • (5) 13 patients were treated by classical techniques of insertion-suspensions of the paralyzed side with a perioral loop and slings of PTFE suspended to the zygomatic arch and the infraorbital rim, by way of nasolabial angle or rhytidectomy incisions.
  • (6) The glenohumeral joint is stabilised superiorly by a posterior superior sling consisting of the long biceps tendon, the superior joint capsule, and the coracoacromial and coracohumeral ligaments.
  • (7) Of these patients 13 had undergone a pubovaginal sling procedure, 3 of whom had refractory symptoms, including urge incontinence, which resulted in augmentation cystoplasty in 2 and supravesical urinary diversion in 1.
  • (8) A method is described that overcomes the problem of flap detachment during the early postoperative period by suspending and supporting the tongue pedicle with a palatal sling.
  • (9) In 21 patients, fractures were treated with a sling for 1 week, and in 21 with a hanging cast for 1 week.
  • (10) It was transplanted ventral to the puborectalis sling into the anal dimple if present.
  • (11) The plastic slings of the Zoedler type led to an increased risk of complications such as retropubic infections, rejection of the mersilene, and chronic urinary retention.
  • (12) The fascia lata sling procedure has been used over the past 22 years in our unit for treating recurrent urinary stress incontinence when irreparably poor local support tissues were suspected.
  • (13) Hemorrhage of 14 ml.kg-1.5 min-1 was done in two groups of chronically prepared, splenectomized Yorkshire pigs that were conditioned behaviorally to lie in a Panepinto sling.
  • (14) Simultaneously it is used extraorbitally as a sling to raise the ptotic upper eyelid.
  • (15) This is the first such case, to our knowledge, without vascular sling.
  • (16) The pulmonary artery sling was diagnosed by angiography.
  • (17) This dramatic developmental abnormality was accompanied by delayed fusion of the septum, and a reduction in the population of subventricular cells that normally migrate to form a sling of cells extending from the medial aspect of the lateral ventricles to the midline.
  • (18) An unusually small adult corpus callosum occurs because fetal axons are able to follow unusual pathways and actively compensate for absence of the sling, not because of arrested midline development.
  • (19) In 7 patients, an eyelid suspension was performed with PTFE by Arion's technique, but by replacing the classical silicon thread by E-PTFE and transposing the medial part of the temporalis muscle on the external canthus, and fixing the lateral end of the sling to the muscle.
  • (20) The incidence of previous bladder neck surgery in this group was over 50%, with 11 previous vaginal repairs, one Burch colposuspension, and one Aldridge sling procedure.