What's the difference between grippe and gripper?

Grippe


Definition:

  • (n.) The influenza or epidemic catarrh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Las Tunas Province, where 30 diseased old individuals were detected; grippe was diagnosed to two of them.
  • (2) Second, according to incidence, come the gastrointestinal diseases-13.51%, grippe and grippe-like diseases-13.44%, lung diseases-5.21%, blood-3.80%, heart-3.16%, toxic hepatitis 3.26%, etc.
  • (3) Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is an acute viral fever which typically progresses through five stages: an acute grippe, followed by hemorrhage and shock, acute renal insufficiency from tubulo-interstitial nephritis, and recovery.
  • (4) Carminomycin and its derivatives had a therapeutic effect on mice with experimental grippe pneumonia also on their oral use.
  • (5) L-forms of bacteria were isolated in 18 out of 300 fever patients with diagnoses of typhoid-paratyphoid fever, grippe, virus respiration disease and others in the Diagnostic Department of an Infection Hospital during bacteriological tests of the blood.
  • (6) It was shown in ovo that the RNAases had distinct virus inhibiting activity with respect to various strains of the grippe A virus and did not practically differ by their activity from remantadin but unlike it had inhibitory action on the grippe B virus.
  • (7) Comparison of the effects of rubomycin, carminomycin, 14-oxy-carminomycin and carminomycin complex with bovine serum albumin in experiments with chick embryos showed that the inhibitory effect of carminomycin and its derivatives on the development of the grippe virus was much higher than that of rubomycin.
  • (8) Ten cases experienced an illness of one to three weeks duration with grippe-like symptoms being most frequent.
  • (9) Conclusions concerning the need to study grippe virus interrelations in man and animals in an all-round aspect, including the participation of various specialists, are made.
  • (10) A review of the medical records of 123 persons with Legionnaires' disease hospitalized in the 1976 Philadelphia epidemic showed that the manifestations of infection ranged from mild grippe to a severe pneumonia that also involved other organ systems.
  • (11) Results obtained in this field are summed up and an attempt to compare and analyse them is made in view to construct all-round conceptions and elaborate a strategy related with the study of grippe viruses also in animals and birds as their eventual biological reservoir.
  • (12) The purpose of testing was to compare the effectiveness of a combination homeopathic preparation (Gripp-Heel) with that of acetylsalicylic acid.
  • (13) A review of references found in World literature concerning the present day problem of grippe virus participation in man's and animals' pathology is made.
  • (14) New aspects of the relations between grippe viruses in man and in the animals, strain circulation, changes in their antigenic structures and the arisal of spontaneous mutations as well as the possibility for preserving human grippe strains in animals during interepidemical periods are revealed.
  • (15) Carminomycin was shown to inhibit the development of both the DNA-containing variolovaccine virus and the RNA-containing grippe virus in chick embryos.

Gripper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, grips or seizes.
  • (n.) In printing presses, the fingers or nippers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You might use the gripper to disassemble the device in the classic Hollywood movie cut-the-wire way; you might shoot high-pressure water into it, and you might do a controlled detonation.” That, Singer said, is why the department had explosives handy – sometimes the preferred way to deal with a bomb is to evacuate the area around it and use another bomb to blow it up.
  • (2) ferocity about – hold on to your hats, readers, this one's a gripper!
  • (3) When there’s a suspected explosive device, a suspected IED, you have this device with a robotic arm and a gripper on it,” Singer explained.
  • (4) The computer grippers have been successful in providing an easily operated, enjoyable, purposeful activity for end-stage grip strengthening for patients preparing to return to heavy industry.
  • (5) Scott's rich palette of building materials, meanwhile, was drawn as much from the salmon-pink bricks specially baked for the job by Mr Gripper of Nottingham as it was from the hues of churches that this intensely hard-working architect had once admired in northern Italy.
  • (6) "Do you think he uses those hand gripper exercise things so he can get a stronger hold on his opponent's shirt?
  • (7) For its day, it was groundbreaking: we did a story about racism, with Gripper Stebson, a bully who becomes a right-wing skinhead .

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