What's the difference between gorged and gorget?

Gorged


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Gorge
  • (a.) Having a gorge or throat.
  • (a.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.
  • (a.) Glutted; fed to the full.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
  • (2) Media organisations gorge themselves, then spew out vast quantities of video, sound and copy.
  • (3) The northern part of the gorge is the only area of Abkhazia that has remained under Georgian government control.
  • (4) Psychiatric patients have an increased risk for choking compared with the general population because of risk factors such as medication side effects and food gorging.
  • (5) My plan had read: "Transfer by car from Salta to Purmamarca via the famous tourist attraction of Humahuaca Gorge, then take the bus across the Andes to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile."
  • (6) No indigenous community will be moved out of their land," he said, adding: "This is a very different project from other major projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam project, which was estimated to have relocated one million people."
  • (7) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
  • (8) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
  • (9) Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven’t panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy’s sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that’s been constructed so far doesn’t have any major weaknesses in it at all.
  • (10) We propose that binding of acetylcholine, on the surface of AChE, may trigger sequence of conformational changes extending from the peripheral anionic site through W286 to D74, at the entrance of the 'gorge', and down to the catalytic center (through Y341 to F338 and Y337).
  • (11) In June he and his team were looking at the steep hillsides around the village of Glogova, where remains had been tipped out of trucks and allowed to roll down a gorge.
  • (12) These data indicate a species difference exists between rats and mice during adaptation to a gorging food-intake pattern.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aerial view of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river, the biggest such project on earth.
  • (14) TonyRidge Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire Exploring the woodland at either side of the River Wharfe, where it flows through this spectacular, narrow gorge, is a splendid experience at any time of the year.
  • (15) In the knowledge that some of the biggest countries in world football – and some of the richest – were queueing up to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, football administrators around the world who had long gorged on the flow of Fifa cash were gearing up for a major payday.
  • (16) If he had been able to cross gorges and rivers without the need for ancient Egyptian conceits or even unadorned iron trusses, I think he would have leaped at the chance.
  • (17) As the trucks arrived at the edge of the gorge and tilted their beds back, Abu Abdullah watched in horror as the corpses of women and children began tumbling out.
  • (18) We want Squeaky Bum Time all the time - and if we don't get it we're going to sit howling in front of our flat-screen televisions, gorging ourselves on scratch cards, KFC popcorn chicken, superficial friendships, crack, two-minute microwave porridge and Ronseal super-quick-drying wood stain.
  • (19) A new partial skeleton of an adult hominid from lower Bed I (about 1.8 Myr ago), Olduvai Gorge, is described.
  • (20) Most of them scale Dome Rock, a big exfoliated granite monolith that offers 360-degree views of the mountain range, from the aforementioned Mount Whitney to the north to the Kern gorge (famous for its whitewater rafting) to the south.

Gorget


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
  • (n.) A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
  • (n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.
  • (n.) A ruff worn by women.
  • (n.) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
  • (n.) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
  • (n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The procedure need not require the use of holding sutures to evert the urethra, a gorget or similar device to aid the manipulation of the instrument into the bladder nor sutures to close the urethra.