What's the difference between frist and grist?

Frist


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To sell upon credit, as goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Infections occured in 26,4% of the patients in the first group and in none of the second group (p less than 0,2); 27,5% of the patients with intracranial lesions and 9% of the patients with spinal lesions in the frist group had post-operative infections, and none in the second group (p less than 0,05 and 0.05 less than p less than 0.1).
  • (2) The frist group received intermittent treatment with human Growth Hormone (hGH), 1 year on, 1 year off, subsequent years on; the second group received continous treatment.
  • (3) The incidence of tuberculosis detected by X-ray and clinically was of 298.8 per 100 000 in the frist year and 283.6 per 100000 in the second year.
  • (4) May went on to set out the reasons for her own opposition to the project, the dangers of pumping crude across Frist Nations lands and wilderness areas, as well as the risks of oil spills from tankers carrying the crude across the Pacific to China.
  • (5) Mothers who had one hour of close physical contact with their nude full-term infants within the first two hours after delivery and who had 15 extra hours of contact in the frist three days behaved significantly differently during a physical examination of the infant at one month and one year, and in their speech to their infants at two years, from a control group of mothers who had only routine contact.
  • (6) Over the last week, Republicans have lined up behind possible successors to Mr Lott, with Tennessee senator Bill Frist first among these.
  • (7) This produced a 36 percent reduction in bronchitis and a 45 percent reduction in pneumonia due to all etiologies in the frist study and 37 percent and 48 percent respectively in the second study.
  • (8) It is proposed that the primary physician with a talent for understanding the nature of inner conflicts, revealed by the frist or early dreams, may slowly venture into the area of psychotherapy by including in the history of the patient a study of inner conflicts indicated by the dream material.
  • (9) Frist-line or second-line regimens containing pyrazinamide in currently accepted dosages, given daily or intermittently, carry a low and acceptable risk of hepatic toxicity.
  • (10) Accommodating this limitation in various ways, different workers have hypothesized (1) that blue-green algae frist evolved in the Early Proterozoic; (2) that oxygen producing proto-cyanobacteria existed in the Archean, but had no biochemical mechanism for coping with ambient O2; and (3) that true cyanobacteria flourished in the Archean, but did not oxygenate the atmosphere because of high rates of oxygen consumption caused, in part, by the emanation of reduced gases from widespread Archean volcanoes.

Grist


Definition:

  • (n.) Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.
  • (n.) Supply; provision.
  • (n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the policy succeeds then he's a success; if it fails, if schools are shut down for treating girls like second-class citizens , if schools don't open in time for the start of term , if buildings aren't appropriate and kids spend two years without a playground , then this is yet more grist to his failure mill.
  • (2) Nathanael Johnson, a journalist who has carefully researched GMOs, dug into this issue last year for Grist , so it’s no secret that the 2009 complaint cited by Hansen is out of date.
  • (3) He was part of a wider media landscape that regarded human nature as base, people as corruptible, public figures as grist to the scandal mill.
  • (4) You wondered what happened to the passengers.” The Mazraa attack was blamed on Jabhat al-Nusra, the rebel group that has just announced its affiliation to al-Qaida – grist to the mill of the government, which sought from the start to portray the anti-Assad uprising as an exclusively Islamist, extremist and terrorist conspiracy fomented by Arab and western enemies.
  • (5) For West Ham Matt Jarvis returned on the left of midfield and Joey O’Brien stepped in at right back in a 4-5-1 formation designed with gristly defence in mind at a ground where, despite his reputation for Wenger-baiting, Sam Allardyce has never won a game in 12 attempts.
  • (6) Gunther agrees this is true ("his statement may be factually defensible​")​​ but quotes an article in Grist as providing evidence to the contrary.
  • (7) His grimace, that it was “all gristly”, is an image I’m finding hard to shake off.
  • (8) Pressed on the levels of violence at the demonstrations, he replies: "These people are not middle-class female teachers … if they continue to be suppressed it will turn nasty in one way or another … We have put bodies on the street, writing letters to the Times does not work … if we are going to have a mess that is so much grist to the mill."
  • (9) The tragedy was grist to Health Concern's mill; a deeply emotive case that appeared to encapsulate the human cost of Kidderminster hospital's demise.
  • (10) Elsewhere, I saw someone crocheting a bra, which should really be new grist to the mill of bra-based feminist disparagement.
  • (11) • Grist is part of the Guardian Environment Network
  • (12) Last year's second nuclear test, Pyongyang's aggressive development of ballistic missiles, and its absurdly bellicose tirades, are grist to this well-tried technique of negotiation by force.
  • (13) Every marathon death or Marr story is grist to the mill of the sedentary and idle.
  • (14) In a note released today, Greece’s Centre for Planning and Economic research, KEPE, predicted that joblessness would rise from 27.6% at the end of 2013 to 29.3 % next year blaming the “dramatically high levels on the contraction of the country’s productive base.” All of which is grist to the mill for opponents of the gruelling terms of Greece’s rescue program.
  • (15) There may be no easy solution to this problem, and it will provide the grist for many bioethicists.
  • (16) But statements such as this add grist to the view that – though no worse on gender equality than the Mubarak regime – it is in fact the harbinger of a second Iran .
  • (17) Grist recently reported: “Americans drive a lot – about 8.9m miles each day during the summer driving season last year, an increase of about 3.7% over the year before.
  • (18) Disarray and acrimony over the EU arms embargo was grist to Assad's mill.
  • (19) Eastwood's rambling, freestyle address prompted a storm on Twitter and provided grist for US chatshow hosts in the weeks that followed.
  • (20) A bad break-up proved grist to his epigrammatic mill ("This person that I thought was the love of my life ended up being the love of my youth," he says) and gave him his abiding lyrical theme: the conflicted nature of desire.

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