What's the difference between grief and rief?

Grief


Definition:

  • (a.) Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
  • (a.) Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.
  • (a.) Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (2) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
  • (3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
  • (4) Does he need the grief if the support is not there?
  • (5) Earlier descriptions of pathological grief are reviewed.
  • (6) As night fell in Paris, despite the bitter cold, more than 5,000 people gathered under the imposing statue of Marianne, the symbol of the republic, to show their anger, grief and solidarity.
  • (7) This supports conclusions by other grief counsellors (e.g.
  • (8) On Friday, friends and relatives spoke of their grief.
  • (9) The impact of early childhood loss, identification with the deceased, chronic grief, delayed grief, exaggerated or masked grief, and the death of a dream are discussed, and clinical examples are used to illustrate concepts of intervention.
  • (10) The early stages of grief can make a person brazen; for awhile, you have nothing left to lose.
  • (11) This article reviews recent literature on bereavement concerning the typical features of both normal and pathological grief.
  • (12) Data are presented tentatively supporting the conclusion that the SIDS grief intervention program had a beneficial impact on the participants.
  • (13) This paper provides guidelines for health professionals in dealing with the particular grief reactions experienced by families of babies who die of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
  • (14) When I think back to that time, I recall an almost constant sense of grief.
  • (15) We should grieve and we should be angry, but we must not let grief or anger cloud our judgment,” he said.
  • (16) 'This is not the justice we seek': sorrow in Baltimore as grief turns into riots Read more The city has improved significantly in recent years – crime dropped, the economy improved, the population stopped declining for the first time in 60 years – but you couldn’t see Baltimore’s newfound prosperity in Freddie Gray’s backyard, or in the gardens nearby.
  • (17) Of course, her grief and the work she is doing now are intimately connected.
  • (18) All participants completed a sibling bereavement inventory consisting of 109 scaled items that measured self-concept perceptions and grief reactions.
  • (19) Futile cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may prevent humane care of the dying child and deprive parents of the opportunity to express their love, grief, and dedication at a critical moment, while appropriate and successful CPR may restore intact their child.
  • (20) The grief work involved in coping with a loved one's death does not end when the loved one dies.

Rief


Definition:

  • (n.) Robbery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twelve solutions of 0.1 M boric acid and varying glycerol concentration were used to vary pH in a twelve-compartment commercial recycling isoelectric focusing (RIEF) system.
  • (2) Continuous flow zone electrophoresis (CFE) and recycling isoelectric focusing (RIEF) are two of the alternative formats for fluid phase preparative isolation of biological products in liquid separation media.
  • (3) RIEF clearly separated each protein with no detectable contamination.
  • (4) These data demonstrate the superiority of RIEF over CFE for resolution of protein mixtures having only minor charge differences.
  • (5) Gel filtration chromatography removed most of the remaining, higher molecular weight contaminants of the RIEF-purified enzyme.
  • (6) Mixtures of 1) cytochrome c, myoglobin, and ovalbumin or 2) beta-lactoglobulin and ovalbumin were used to evaluate the resolving capabilities of CFE and RIEF.
  • (7) The ground-based McDonnell Douglas CFE and RIEF were compared for the ability to resolve mixtures of proteins with known charge differences.
  • (8) RIEF may be more efficient due to the documented electrodissociation of noncovalent protein:protein complexes which occurs during RIEF separations.
  • (9) It is concluded that the borate-glycerol system can be adequately stabilized in RIEF for isoelectric purification of certain proteins.
  • (10) Fibrolase, a blood clot-lysing enzyme, was isolated from the venom of the snake Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix using preparative scale isoelectric focusing in the recycling isoelectric focusing (RIEF) apparatus.
  • (11) Both CFE and RIEF apparently separated the components of both mixtures into individual peaks, separated by fractions which contained little or no detectable protein.

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