What's the difference between gravelly and rasping?
Gravelly
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Julie", she said in that famous, gravelly but soft voice, "I see it like this.
(2) With a thick Brooklyn accent so gravelly it sounds like he swallowed a bag of pebbles before coming on stage, he tells the crowd in Burlington later that night that he is less about change and more about revolution.
(3) I walked through the gate and knocked on a door, which opened to reveal a white-bearded man with a gravelly voice.
(4) The more angry Phil gets, the more gravelly his threats become.
(5) The route becomes untamed towards Pine Lodge, perfect for a live music jam at Ziggy’s , and the gravelly trip out to the Cape Recife point and lighthouse is surely worth the journey.
(6) But last Friday his gravelly brogue was inescapable, at least for anyone tuned to BBC radio news bulletins.
(7) Beginning when the rover was still suspended under a parachute, the movie shows surface dust being kicked up by the rockets on the rover's descent stage, followed by the first post-landing view of the gravelly surface.
(8) Don’t expect a wild change of tack from Cohen, who turns 80 the day before the album comes out – Popular Problems is as laconic and gravelly as ever.
(9) After the shoot wrapped, Cotillard says she continued to be haunted by Piaf, sometimes speaking in her gravelly voice.
(10) It is almost impossible for evening TV viewers in Japan to avoid the gravelly voiced and impressively coiffured figure of Shinsuke Shimada.
(11) Dry, dead stalks of Wahweap milkvetch that had grown in 1985 and 1986 made up 15% of cattle diets overall, and 24% of diets when cattle grazed gravelly benches where it was abundant.
(12) High in the Atlas mountains my sister Caroline and I sat by the side of a gravelly road in the ramshackle village of Imlil.
(13) She laughs when I ask if this is still what drives her – less gravelly now, a touch more grandmotherly.
(14) Control sweet clover was harvested from gravelly subsoil and processed and fed to another group of guinea pigs for the same period.
(15) In 1993, Cash's gravelly baritone featured on The Wanderer, from U2's Zooropa album ("I was thrilled to death, because I love that song," Cash enthused), and in 1994 the American Recordings album amounted to a complete reappraisal of the legend of Johnny Cash, and one which found a ready new audience.
(16) Bernie Sanders addresses gun control record in effort to soothe Democrats Read more But when he takes on Hillary Clinton for the first time, in a television studio in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, staff members are hoping he will bring his indoor voice instead of the gravelly bark that has electrified record crowds at rallies.
(17) My love affair with running embraces its many forms – I love pounding urban pavements or the gravelly paths of the nearby common.
(18) Samples of fly ash, gravelly subsoil, sweet clover, liver, kidneys, and left-rear gastrocnemius muscle of all guinea pigs were freeze-dried and analyzed for 35 elements by neutron activation analysis.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bibi Bourelly is a Def Jam signee with an incredible gravelly voice who’s already made a name for herself as a songwriter (she wrote Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money).
(20) Anaerobically digested dewatered sludge (10 to 15 cm thick) was applied to a forest clearcut as a fertilizer source in northwest Washington on gravelly glacial outwash soil.
Rasping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rasp
Example Sentences:
(1) There were two recipient-site complications, with one case of complete bone resorption that occurred in a densely fibrotic nose with preexisting septal perforation and a case of overcorrection that was successfully rasped 1 year later.
(2) 8.46pm BST 44 min: Joe Allen tries to double his tally of career goals for Liverpool with a rasping effort from the corner of the penalty area.
(3) A cigarette dangled from my lips as I rasped away at the audience.
(4) Sunderland were back in it after only 16 minutes, when that dodgy back line went awol as John Mensah headed in Andy Reid's cross, then equality was restored by Henderson's rasping finish.
(5) Both laboratory tests on variously prepared specimens of cement and clinical experiences demonstrate that recementing over old cement is a practical alternative if the technique employed includes the removal of blood from the old cement surface, rasping of this surface and the early application of fresh cement.
(6) "It was stupid," she says, in her distinctive Mediterranean rasp.
(7) In a subsequent series of 68 patients (52 males, 16 females) who had 81 meniscal repairs by means of the rasp for parameniscal synovial abrasion, the failure rate was 9%.
(8) Not for Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carle Raspe, who are all dead.
(9) Vardy scored one and he might have added a second with a rasping drive after the break.
(10) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."
(11) So, Rasping procedure was effective for type I and type II valve degeneration.
(12) We identified the presence in the Aleutian skate, Bathyraja aleutica, of two classes of immunoglobulins (Ig), a high molecular weight Ig analogous to mammalian IgM and a low molecular weight Ig, similarly to the spiny rasp skate, Raja kenojei, (Kobayashi, K. et al., Mol.
(13) By the latter half of the decade, her body was wasted, her voice weathered down to a hoarse rasp, and Strange Fruit was the only song that seemed to dignify her suffering, wrapping her own decline in a wider American tragedy.
(14) He drops a shoulder, cuts inside, and unleashes a rasping, rising drive, the ball only just missing the top-right corner.
(15) A new nasal rasp has been developed from tungsten-carbide steel and is available in eight different cutting grits.
(16) The rasp appears to be the safest and most effective method to gain vascularity for healing of meniscus repairs.
(17) "Cannes has always been a useful idiot for Hollywood," explains Toback, rasping down the line from his apartment in New York.
(18) Log survivorship curves of interval data from both intact animals and isolated CNS indicate that the pattern of motor output is controlled by at least two processes, one generating intervals between rasps within a bout, and the other generating intervals between bouts of rasping.
(19) SEM shows certain basic features such as spines in the oral sucker and the acetabulum which may facilitate rasping and attachment of the parasite to stay in the bloodstream of the definitive host.
(20) Standup Terry Alderton argued aloud with his demonic subconscious; Nick Helm 's rasping fury barely concealed a need to be loved; Cariad Lloyd had great fun seeking a father figure in the front row.