What's the difference between gear and spirograph?

Gear


Definition:

  • (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.
  • (n.) Goods; property; household stuff.
  • (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
  • (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
  • (n.) Warlike accouterments.
  • (n.) Manner; custom; behavior.
  • (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.
  • (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
  • (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
  • (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
  • (n.) See 1st Jeer (b).
  • (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
  • (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
  • (v. t.) To provide with gearing.
  • (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
  • (2) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
  • (3) We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC.” Clarkson, May and Hammond have signed up to launch a rival show on Amazon’s TV service , while Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of the BBC’s Top Gear show with fellow presenters Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.
  • (4) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
  • (5) The modified CIRS was operationalized with a manual of guidelines geared toward the geriatric patient and for clarity was designated the CIRS(G).
  • (6) The allegations come weeks after Top Gear executives expressed regret over a remark made by Clarkson on the show's Burma special, broadcast in March.
  • (7) This information will allow for efficient utilization of time and resources in planning continuing education programs geared toward mammographic screening.
  • (8) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
  • (9) Turing to hypnosis, it is made clear that a trance is the execution of a momentarily proposed programme; it is not the result of a generalised mechanical action, but is preordained and geared to various situations.
  • (10) Snapchat is also thinking about new devices, launching a Snapchat Micro app for Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch in September, capable of shooting pics and videos with the device's camera, then sharing them.
  • (11) Curiously, actual modelling conducted by the Housing Industry Association suggests that limiting negative gearing could actually cause house prices to go up.
  • (12) "It's horrible and brutal to be that far back and searching for those gears and they're not there," O'Hare admitted.
  • (13) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
  • (14) However, Ofcom concluded that the word was capable of causing offence and the context did not justify its broadcast, finding Top Gear in breach of section 2.3 of the broadcasting code, which covers generally accepted standards.
  • (15) The commonest causes of death were pneumonia and entanglement in fishing gear.
  • (16) When accused of muttering it while reciting Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo, during filming of BBC2s Top Gear, he said he had not, that he would absolutely never use "the most racist word of them all".
  • (17) Hampton added: "[Hester's] pay is strongly geared to the recovery of RBS, which he was recruited to turn around, having played no part in its collapse.
  • (18) As Hillary gears up for a possible presidential run in 2016, women are already lining up to rally by her side.
  • (19) James May: ‘We are not in a race with Chris Evans’ Top Gear’ Read more The new series is expected to air towards the end of May and may be shorter than its original intended run of eight episodes.
  • (20) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".

Spirograph


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pulmonary function is little modified on the spirographic level; however, one observes an improvement of blood gases at rest which seems to result from better alveolar ventilation.
  • (2) simultaneous spirographic recording of the volume expired (FEV-1) and independent plethysmographic recording of TLC were obtained.
  • (3) In 10 patients with airway obstruction, spirographic indices and maximal expiratory flow rates were measured before inhalation of fenoterol and at different time intervals, for 5 h, following the inhalation of 200 mug of this substance.
  • (4) The improvement achieved in 42 patients included amelioration of the clinical symptoms cough, secretion and dyspnoea; the lessening of bronchial obstruction could be verified by spirographic analyses.
  • (5) Four cases of respiratory dyskinesia were investigated by using a spirograph before and after biperiden injection.
  • (6) Clinical, bronchoscopic, spirographic, scintigraphic, and chemical analyses were done in 24 children with cystic fibrosis to assess the mucolytic effects of acetylcysteine inhalations versus L-arginine hydrochloride aerosols.
  • (7) The study included atopic research through questioning and allergy skin tests; spirographic respiratory function study, airway resistance, carbachol BHR with determination of the threshold dose (FEV1 20% decrease).
  • (8) Spirographic determinations before and 1--2 months after surgery showed that the postoperative sequelae were milder in children than in adults.
  • (9) One stage total bilateral pulmonary denervation produced in a group of 23 dogs an increase breathing frequency, an increase in the amplitude of respiration and a characteristic morphology of the spirographic pattern.
  • (10) The spirographic shortage was on the whole identical in both groups.
  • (11) Spirographic parameters examined were vital capacity percent (%VC), forced expiratory volume in 1 sec divided by forced vital capacity (%) (FEV1.0%), and blood gas data.
  • (12) Administration of an aerosol of acetylcholine after normalization of the spirographic pattern produced a temporary reappearance of the immediate postdenervation spirographic pattern.
  • (13) The survey involved: a complex evaluation of respiratory tract, including internal, radiological, spirographic, gasometric and capnographic examinations.
  • (14) The functional state of the lungs was evaluated by means of spirographic and radiological methods.
  • (15) The improvement in pattency of small airways following administration of bronchodilators can be an index for early identification of patients with chronic bronchitis, although this needs to be verified in prospective spirographic studies.
  • (16) An analysis of spirographic studies and measurement of airflow resistance in diagnosing bronchial hyperreactivity in 27 children with bronchial asthma was made.
  • (17) In 21 males, aged about 20, 18 out of them with chronic bronchopulmonary diseases (bronchiectases, focal fibrosis, deforming bronchitis) and three healthy--VC, FEFR1, FVC, MMV50, MEFR200-1200, MAEFR, MAEFR25-75 and MEFR50 and MEFR90 were spirographically investigated prior to, two hours afert and 24 hours after unilateral bronchography; the three of the investigations were combined with a subsequent inhalation bronchodilatation test with orziprenalin--aersol (alupent).
  • (18) It's more of a Spirograph than an Etch a Sketch, as the sweeping curves signify.
  • (19) The author reports the results of hemoynamic, spirographic and biochemical studies conducted in patients, operated upon on the organs of the lower abdomen, pelvis and lower extremities.
  • (20) During the period of rehabilitation the usual spirographic measurements were carried out and some spiroergometric parameters were measured at standardized ergometric work loads.

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