What's the difference between grease and greave?

Grease


Definition:

  • (n.) Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
  • (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences.
  • (v. t.) To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.
  • (v. t.) To bribe; to corrupt with presents.
  • (v. t.) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
  • (v. t.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trauma to the hand caused by injection of paint or grease solvents results in tissue destruction and later necrosis and fibrosis.
  • (2) For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2 .
  • (3) The diffuse type was linked to solvents other than benzene and formaldehyde, while the follicular was excessive among workers exposed to oils and greases.
  • (4) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
  • (5) Explants of adult or 10-day-old rat sciatic and optic nerves were implanted as "bridges" through a silicon grease seal in a three-compartment chamber culture system, leading from a narrow center chamber to two adjacent side chambers.
  • (6) Dietary treatments consisted of a steam-rolled, barley-based finishing diet containing 1) no supplemental fat; 2) 4% yellow grease (YG); 3) 4% blended animal-vegetable fat (BVF); 4) 8% YG; 5) 8% BVF or 6) 6% BVF and 2% crude soybean lecithin.
  • (7) For Araldite photoelastic models of an alumina head on a Vitallium spigot, as-cast taper surfaces lubricated with silicone grease gave consistent friction of typically mu = 0.14.
  • (8) The remaining areas of the wounds were covered by antibiotic-impregnated fine-mesh greased gauze.
  • (9) Various types of high-pressure equipment, including airless paint sprayers, hydraulic apparatus and grease guns, are used in industry, in farming and in the home.
  • (10) ); greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell; he is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless.
  • (11) Four complete mixed diets were formulated to contain either 0 or 3.5% added fat (grease) and either 1.6 or 1.7 Mcal NE1 (0, 1.6; 0, 1.7; 3.5, 1.6; and 3.5, 1.7).
  • (12) The clinical diagnosis of penetration of the retrobulbar fat space by the grease and the subsequent accurate drainage of the grease was made possible on the basis of high resolution computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
  • (13) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
  • (14) The use of a sterile composite resin syringe and preloaded disposable tip allows delivery of the grease to the splint with minimal chance of bacterial cross contamination to the patient.
  • (15) Using grease seal techniques on rat cerebral cortical slices and on frog hemisected spinal cords, bath applied N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA; 10-160 microM) and quinolinate (0.25-8 mM) induced dose-dependent depolarisations.
  • (16) We have studied the muscarinic agonist induced responses on the guinea-pig superior cervical ganglion in vitro, as recorded from the internal carotid nerve using a grease-gap.
  • (17) You will need : 5cm-strip of waxed paper Small tube of silicone sealant Sharp knife 1) Firstly ensure that the damaged seal is clean, dry and free from grease.
  • (18) Greases, solvents and non-human waste should also be diverted from drains, regular weekly monitoring should occur to monitor water quality and the contractor needs to create a "robust" groundwater monitoring regime.
  • (19) Trichloroethylene has been widely used for the removal of grease in dry cleaning, plate and painting industries, in which approximately 280 thousand workers contact trichloroethylene, for example, in the United States, resulting in acute and chronic poisonings.
  • (20) This possibility was investigated with the use of grease-gap preparations for assaying the depolarizing responses of CA3 and CA1 hippocampal pyramidal cells to amino acid excitants.

Greave


Definition:

  • (n.) A grove.
  • (n.) Armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural.
  • (v. t.) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At Wembley England fielded: Springett; Armfield, McNeil; Robson, Swan, Flowers; Douglas, Greaves, Smith, Haynes, Charlton.
  • (2) These things happen, it all comes together and a team suddenly starts purring; we hit five in about 10 minutes and, with Jimmy [Greaves] in that groove, we'd have beaten any team anywhere.
  • (3) Mark Greaves, campaigns director of the School Exclusion Project, said: “This new test gives headteachers far too much discretion.
  • (4) England have now put together five clean sheets for the first time since 2006 and Rooney might have pulled level with Greaves if he had been able to beat Pareiko for a second time when he ran clear in the closing moments.
  • (5) He wrote it himself, starting with Jimmy Greaves's 266 at the top.
  • (6) Only minor support is noted for the neurofacial torsion model of Greaves (J. Zool.
  • (7) Chelsea's hot shots Player (Goals) Bobby Tambling (202) Kerry Dixon (193) Roy Bentley (150) Peter Osgood (150) Frank Lampard (143) Jimmy Greaves (132) George Mills (123) Didier Drogba (113) George Hilsdon (107) Barry Bridges (93)
  • (8) That’s when everything comes together – innovation, customer insight, creativity, communications and sales – and you get to demonstrate how these different elements work together, to create value and growth for a business,” says Gemma Greaves, MD of the Marketing Society, a networking club for marketing directors.
  • (9) Tony Greaves Liberal Democrat, House of Lords • The recent Labour party conference was dominated by attempts to rebrand Jim Murphy ( Election 2015, 7 April ).
  • (10) RSA director David Greaves said: "Bad weather in the run-up to Christmas will have a major impact on the UK's economy and could lead to significant losses for already struggling businesses."
  • (11) A further possible explanation, related to the geographical variation in the reprocessing of greaves to produce meat and bone meal, was identified for the geographical variation in the incidence of BSE.
  • (12) Rat and human thymus, like sheep thymus (Narasimhan, Hay, Greaves & Murray (1976) Biochim, Biophys.
  • (13) Aggregation-inhibiting protein (AIP: Curtis & Greaves, 1965), which diminishes the adhesiveness of cells, particularly at low temperatures, is identified in the present paper as phospholipase A2 (EC.
  • (14) This GPS III launch services contract award achieves a balance between mission success, meeting operational needs, lowering launch costs, and reintroducing competition for national security space missions,” said Lieutenant General Samuel Greaves, who heads the air force’s Space and Missile Systems Centre.
  • (15) According to Greaves, this increase is the result of a new type of leukemia, which was first seen in Britain between 1920 and 1940.
  • (16) The truth seems to be that Haffey put his afternoon's experience down solely to the commanding resplendence of Haynes and his artful lieutenant Jimmy Greaves, who scored a hat-trick.
  • (17) Rooney’s second-half winner in Tallinn has put him within one goal of equalling Jimmy Greaves’s total of 44 for the national team and six off Sir Bobby Charlton’s all-time record of 49, and he will reach his century of appearances against Slovenia.
  • (18) "We believe that all monuments should be in good taste and consistent with community standards," Greaves wrote in letter to state officials.
  • (19) "He's helping a satanic agenda grow more than any of us possibly could," Greaves said.
  • (20) "With 332 goals, he is by far Derby's all-time top scorer and only Jimmy Greaves has scored more goals in the English top flight.