What's the difference between grime and gripe?

Grime


Definition:

  • (n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
  • (v. t.) To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
  • (2) Some of these grime artists, if they’re telling you to vote, young people are going to listen.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Preach!” Speakers on the Grime 4 Corbyn panel debate.
  • (3) Grime 2.0 , compiled by Joe Muggs, is released by Big Dada on 6 May.
  • (4) Perhaps grime and dubstep were simply too abrasive and strange to be successfully watered down for mainstream tastes.
  • (5) No one expects young creatives to flock to the Tories – but why all this grime support for Labour?
  • (6) Pitch A mix of hard-edged content – rap freestyles delivered straight to camera by attitude-heavy grime artists – and glitzier material: red-carpet reporting from movie premieres, backstage interviews with popstars and high-profile music videos.
  • (7) The outside spending has even become its own campaign issue, as Grimes sought to link McConnell with the notorious Koch brothers (a cause McConnell only helped with his June speech to a Koch brothers funded group in which he promised to not take up legislation on the minimum wage, equal pay or student loan reform) and accuse him of “selling out to the highest bidder”.
  • (8) Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes began the night recalling that the soon-to-be nominee loves lifestyle TV “and can devour buffalo wings”.
  • (9) Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of state, says the race is about McConnell’s opposition to policies that would help Kentucky’s working poor, including a minimum wage increase, equal pay for women, his opposition to the Affordable Care Act – which would shut down Kentucky’s newly popular healthcare exchange Kynect – and his inability or unwillingness to bring home pork barrel spending (the nearly $3bn the state just somehow ended up with after McConnell ended the government shutdown in 2013 notwithstanding).
  • (10) "The way grime sounded, it just wasn't going to throw up kids who cross over into the charts all the time," says Darcus Beese, joint MD of Stryder's label Island.
  • (11) Meanwhile, Jonathan Grimes just took in a three-yard run for Houston against Tennessee.
  • (12) There are people in this audience who will lose their jobs if this goes through and we will not just stand by and allow that to happen,” Grimes says, to whoops and applause.
  • (13) I wish the MCs who’ve supported him all the best, but it’s a big risk to take.” In three weeks’ time we’ll find out whether grime’s support of Corbyn is a game-changing shift or just an interesting pop cultural moment.
  • (14) (With the exception of certain countries – the Netherlands and, more unexpectedly, the Czech Republic – there are no real grime "scenes" internationally, but thanks to bloody-minded obsessives such as Juzlo in Australia, Prettybwoy in Japan, Major Grave in Ireland or Starkey and Team Shadatek in the US, grime is a global affair.)
  • (15) "It's becoming more commercial, definitely," says Dec Lennon, who makes boogie tracks as Krystal Klear and has a disco-centric show on Rinse FM, the East London station formerly synonymous with dubstep and grime.
  • (16) Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes, told Guardian Australia.
  • (17) Ed Pilkington Kentucky Candidates: Mitch McConnell (R, incumbent) vs Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) Polling: The Real Clear Politics average has McConnell up by 7.2 and, though earlier polling showed Grimes well within the margin of error, polls released over the weekend didn’t trend Grimes’s way.
  • (18) His programme also includes an intriguing rarity: Ronald Stevenson’s Fantasy on Peter Grimes.
  • (19) Growing up on a council estate in east London, grime music empowered me because it made me feel: We might be from the slums, but we can make amazing music,” Sofia added.
  • (20) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).

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.