What's the difference between grass and scythe?

Grass


Definition:

  • (n.) Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
  • (n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
  • (n.) The season of fresh grass; spring.
  • (n.) Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
  • (v. t.) To cover with grass or with turf.
  • (v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  • (v. t.) To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
  • (v. i.) To produce grass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
  • (2) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
  • (3) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
  • (4) Key to this has been the employment of Erin McCallum, a highly-respected political strategist and grass roots organiser, as our new national campaign director.
  • (5) The clinical findings in six natural and two experimental cases of Kikuyu grass poisoning in Natal, South Africa, are described and compared with findings in cases of toxicity reported elsewhere.
  • (6) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
  • (7) Six atopic subjects with grass pollen allergy and six nonallergic healthy volunteers were enrolled into this study.
  • (8) The survival of infective larvae of Ancylostoma caninum on outdoor grass plots was studied in 40 experiments over 1 year.
  • (9) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
  • (10) Most patients showed several positive skin tests to common allergens particular to grass pollen, house dust and mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssimus).
  • (11) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
  • (12) Highest concentrations of haptoglobin and orosomucoid were recorded in subacute grass sickness.
  • (13) The principle’s not so different now.” Fifteen years ago, when he was 27, Baker found himself with an ailing father and 250 cows, farmed traditionally – grass in summer, silage and concentrates in winter – around the village.
  • (14) Consumption of alfalfa hay resulted in the highest total viable counts of rumen bacteria but a lower proportion of fibrolytic counts than seen on the grass diets.
  • (15) The year 2000 process, a national grass-roots initiative, may be a useful model for individual states to adopt.
  • (16) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
  • (17) Cattle are excellent converters of grass but terrible converters of concentrated feed.
  • (18) passing through a 1.18 mm sieve during wet sieving) from the reticulo-rumen were negatively related to dimensions of particles, with greater ease of outflow for legume than for grass particles of the same length or diameter.
  • (19) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
  • (20) When the couple looked over their own balcony on the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive in Glasgow's Red Road estate, they saw three bodies on the small square of grass below.

Scythe


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
  • (n.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
  • (v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cohen crossed the ball long from the right and Hurst rose magnificently to deflect in another header which Tilkowski could only scramble away from his right hand post, Ball turned the ball back into the goalmouth and the German’s desperation was unmistakable as Overath came hurtling in to scythe the ball away for a corner.
  • (2) His first goal was clinical in its execution and classy in its creation but the second was a thing of beauty, a scything volley after he exchanged passes with the substitute Ángel Di María, launching himself into the air and making the perfect connection to volley the ball into the far corner.
  • (3) The case report is presented of a 50 year-old scythe smith who produced 1400 scythes daily in piece-work over a period of 17 years.
  • (4) Four minutes later he scythed down the substitute Jordon Ibe and walked before Martin Atkinson could produce the second yellow card.
  • (5) They are entitled to have grievances about Nemanja Vidic's late red card, when a booking would have been sufficient for his scything challenge on Eden Hazard, but they were also extremely fortunate Rafael da Silva did not follow him in stoppage time for his two-footed tackle on Gary Cahill.
  • (6) The way Hakan Balta scythed down Necid took the sentiment too literally.
  • (7) Hence George Osborne's insistence that, when he wields the scythe through the national budget, he'll always have the poorest in mind.
  • (8) That seems to have been kicked into the long grass, though we may yet see them get out the scythes to retrieve it.” For Rudgard’s shop, however, the “snowed-in” atmosphere has been good for business, which is his retirement hobby.
  • (9) 5 min: Gabriel Heinze gets penalised for a scything tackle on Elias in midfield.
  • (10) Tioté was eventually booked for a scything foul on Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the 60th minute.
  • (11) But Howe claimed the 22-year-old was lucky to still be on the pitch after he was scythed down by Rudd in the first half but was only booked by the referee, Robert Madley .
  • (12) Across London, MPs for what in happier times was called the Thames riviera were scythed down – Vince Cable in Twickenham, Ed Davey in Kingston, Paul Burstow in Sutton and Cheam.
  • (13) More than 200 inmates staged a mass breakout and, in the panic, guards opened fire, scything down escapees with machine guns.
  • (14) The events which have no name scythe through the valley like invisible reapers.
  • (15) They also have a good case for thinking that Gary Cahill should have been sent off for the scything challenge on Sánchez that persuaded Wenger to stride from his technical area to the one designated for Chelsea personnel and respond to Mourinho’s orders for a retreat by putting both hands into his chest to give him a shove and then reminding him, close-up, who was the taller, more imposing man.
  • (16) Played beneath a gunmetal grey sky on a day when temperatures struggled to reach 10C, it featured Dale Stephens equalising early in the second half only to be shown a straight red card after scything down Gastón Ramírez three minutes later.
  • (17) Sunderland never showed any hint of inferiority complex from the moment Phil Bardsley scythed down David Silva in the first few minutes.
  • (18) Taking a scythe to the production business would, however, wreck a key element in Grade's turnaround plan, which considered it an engine of growth that would supply 75% of the network's programmes.
  • (19) A red, white and blue grim reaper stood with his scythe among the crowd, repeatedly shouting for the heads of the Dutch players.
  • (20) After one crazed scything tackle, the recipient, Nemanja Matic, gets up and shouts something that would have Mark Lawrenson giggling into this commentary mic.