What's the difference between grice and gripe?

Grice


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Gree
  • (n.) A little pig.
  • (n.) See Gree, a step.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The statistics office's chief economist Joe Grice said the bigger picture in Wednesday's GDP data is that the UK economy, in volume terms, was flat between January and March compared with the same period last year.
  • (2) Joe Grice, chief economist at the UK's Office for National Statistics, is always chiding journalists for not loooking at the long term trend in GDP data, and maybe we need to take the same healthy scepticism to today's figures from Japan 9.03am BST Telecoms giants enter tariff battle Bloomberg is reporting that Nokia and Ericsson have told the EU to drop a probe into unfair subsidies for Chinese phone makers.
  • (3) Varising osteotomy of the calcaneum offers the advantage of avoiding sacrifice of the calcaneo-talar joint, as in the Grice-Green arthrodesis, which although indicated for the paralytic valgus flat foot, is not appropriate in the idiopathic variety.
  • (4) After predictable failure of a Grice procedure, a persisting good correction was obtained by fibula lengthening combined with talus reposition and fixation on os calcis.
  • (5) Grice-OP is able to prevent severe deformities but it is often followed by a subtalar arthrodesis after growth arrest.
  • (6) This study reports the results of a computerized baropodometric analysis of the function of primary valgus pronated flat foot submitted to talocalcanear arthrodesis according to the Grice-Green method (Grice, 1952; 1955) as modified by Vigliani et al., (1978).
  • (7) Joe Grice, chief economist at the ONS, said: “These figures - rising employment and falling unemployment and inactivity – continue the strong trend in the labour market that has been seen in recent months.
  • (8) A retrospective review was done of 19 poliomyelitis feet on which the standard Grice subtalar arthrodesis was performed for correction of valgus feet deformity.
  • (9) 9.40am BST Photograph: Sky News Joe Grice, the head of the ONS, is refusing to make any predictions for how the UK economy may fare in the months ahead.
  • (10) 9.35am GMT The recovery has been somewhat erratic, says Joe Grice, but it "feels like the economy now has a better tone".
  • (11) Lumbar segmental coupled motion categories according to the scheme of Cassidy and Grice, as well as a modified scheme.
  • (12) UK economic growth accelerated to 0.6% before Brexit vote – live updates Read more Joe Grice, chief economist at the ONS , said there was little evidence that concern about a possible Brexit vote had a negative impact on the economy before the referendum.
  • (13) The pseudarthrosis rate was 41 per cent, which is considerably higher than that reported for the Grice extra-articular arthrodesis.
  • (14) The best results were obtained with early subtalar arthrodesis (Grice) and biplanar K wire fixation.
  • (15) The results of the Grice extra-articular subtalar arthrodesis were evaluated in 102 feet of 60 ambulatory patients with spasticity at an average of five years postoperatively.
  • (16) A retrospective review of 45 patients (62 feet) who had undergone a Grice subtalar arthrodesis and who had reached skeletal maturity was undertaken.
  • (17) Confirming the new measure recently, ONS chief economic adviser Joe Grice said: While it’s right that GDP plays a central role in monetary and fiscal policy, it has long been recognised as presenting an incomplete picture of how our society is doing.
  • (18) A case presentation involving complications resulting from errors in surgical technique with the Grice-Green procedure is discussed in this report.
  • (19) 10.17am BST And here's what a bumpy, shallow recovery looks like ( via the Guardian's Datablog ) Photograph: Datablog 10.10am BST ONS: Britain's bumpy and shallow recovery The ONS's chief economist Joe Grice said the 0.3 per cent growth registered from January to the end of March fitted the pattern in recent years.
  • (20) Grice declined to say when UK workers might finally see wages rising in real terms, but did point out that inflation has recently fallen.

Gripe


Definition:

  • (n.) A vulture; the griffin.
  • (v. t.) To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
  • (v. t.) To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
  • (v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
  • (v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
  • (v. i.) To suffer griping pains.
  • (v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
  • (n.) Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
  • (n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
  • (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
  • (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
  • (n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • (n.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
  • (n.) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
  • (n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His gripe is with Jeremy – as far as I’m concerned, he will play for West Brom again,” Pulis told the Daily Mail .
  • (2) Like many, I assumed that the accumulated gripes about ticketing (thoroughly justified in this case), Zil lanes, G4S failures, McDonald's sponsorship and over-heavy security would have ensured healthy levels of Olympic alienation and even hostility.
  • (3) Where d’you live, let’s have this out in person, shall we?’” But these are small gripes.
  • (4) Or is it someone who takes 10 minutes of going on about their bunions and general gripes before revealing that they had an episode of crippling chest pain last night, by the way?
  • (5) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity,” he wrote.
  • (6) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity.” Efforts to contact Latham have been unsuccessful.
  • (7) Along with the City, they've all got a gripe with Miliband.
  • (8) Large numbers of babies are given gripe water for no valid reason or for only trivial symptoms, write Cynthia Illingworth and John Timmins.
  • (9) Simultaneous tenesmic gripes, some of the patients had also suffered from, disappeared completely, with the exception of two cases where, however, normalization of the stools was obtained by means of the loperamide therapy.
  • (10) Hannah Fletcher, a single mum who works part-time but would like more hours, said her main gripe was that the majority of politicians “are white, middle-aged men who are not in tune with society”.
  • (11) Lamont's further gripe is a council tax freeze launched as a stopgap measure in 2007-08 by the then minority SNP administration, pending the introduction of a local income tax.
  • (12) My main gripe is that there’s no flexibility about when my work gets done.
  • (13) HS That is absolutely not my gripe: if anyone is potty (and rich) enough to spend a grand on a handbag, that’s fine by me— and you’re right, all power to the craftsmen and everyone else involved.
  • (14) Premier League 2015-16 review: gripe of the season | Tom Davies Read more David Hytner For some reason, I hate it when the league is referred to as ‘The Barclays Premier League,’ either in copy or on TV.
  • (15) Wilkie says: "The main gripe is that all the music we play is crap.
  • (16) And for all my gripes, many of my most intense experiences of art happen here.
  • (17) Indeed, McClaren’s only possible gripe would have been regret that some of his side’s sharp midfield incision could have done with being replicated in the penalty area.
  • (18) Small gripes include the grading of games leading to tiered pricing, and having to buy tickets for two games if you want to go to Palace versus the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea.
  • (19) But the militant gays and thinning hair and gluteal amnesia are small gripes.
  • (20) But bias is not my gripe; the good Muslim v bad Muslim game is an old one.

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