What's the difference between grist and provision?
Grist
Definition:
(n.) Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.
(n.) Supply; provision.
(n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the policy succeeds then he's a success; if it fails, if schools are shut down for treating girls like second-class citizens , if schools don't open in time for the start of term , if buildings aren't appropriate and kids spend two years without a playground , then this is yet more grist to his failure mill.
(2) Nathanael Johnson, a journalist who has carefully researched GMOs, dug into this issue last year for Grist , so it’s no secret that the 2009 complaint cited by Hansen is out of date.
(3) He was part of a wider media landscape that regarded human nature as base, people as corruptible, public figures as grist to the scandal mill.
(4) You wondered what happened to the passengers.” The Mazraa attack was blamed on Jabhat al-Nusra, the rebel group that has just announced its affiliation to al-Qaida – grist to the mill of the government, which sought from the start to portray the anti-Assad uprising as an exclusively Islamist, extremist and terrorist conspiracy fomented by Arab and western enemies.
(5) For West Ham Matt Jarvis returned on the left of midfield and Joey O’Brien stepped in at right back in a 4-5-1 formation designed with gristly defence in mind at a ground where, despite his reputation for Wenger-baiting, Sam Allardyce has never won a game in 12 attempts.
(6) Gunther agrees this is true ("his statement may be factually defensible") but quotes an article in Grist as providing evidence to the contrary.
(7) His grimace, that it was “all gristly”, is an image I’m finding hard to shake off.
(8) Pressed on the levels of violence at the demonstrations, he replies: "These people are not middle-class female teachers … if they continue to be suppressed it will turn nasty in one way or another … We have put bodies on the street, writing letters to the Times does not work … if we are going to have a mess that is so much grist to the mill."
(9) The tragedy was grist to Health Concern's mill; a deeply emotive case that appeared to encapsulate the human cost of Kidderminster hospital's demise.
(10) Elsewhere, I saw someone crocheting a bra, which should really be new grist to the mill of bra-based feminist disparagement.
(11) • Grist is part of the Guardian Environment Network
(12) Last year's second nuclear test, Pyongyang's aggressive development of ballistic missiles, and its absurdly bellicose tirades, are grist to this well-tried technique of negotiation by force.
(13) Every marathon death or Marr story is grist to the mill of the sedentary and idle.
(14) In a note released today, Greece’s Centre for Planning and Economic research, KEPE, predicted that joblessness would rise from 27.6% at the end of 2013 to 29.3 % next year blaming the “dramatically high levels on the contraction of the country’s productive base.” All of which is grist to the mill for opponents of the gruelling terms of Greece’s rescue program.
(15) There may be no easy solution to this problem, and it will provide the grist for many bioethicists.
(16) But statements such as this add grist to the view that – though no worse on gender equality than the Mubarak regime – it is in fact the harbinger of a second Iran .
(17) Grist recently reported: “Americans drive a lot – about 8.9m miles each day during the summer driving season last year, an increase of about 3.7% over the year before.
(18) Disarray and acrimony over the EU arms embargo was grist to Assad's mill.
(19) Eastwood's rambling, freestyle address prompted a storm on Twitter and provided grist for US chatshow hosts in the weeks that followed.
(20) A bad break-up proved grist to his epigrammatic mill ("This person that I thought was the love of my life ended up being the love of my youth," he says) and gave him his abiding lyrical theme: the conflicted nature of desire.
Provision
Definition:
(n.) The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
(n.) That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation.
(n.) Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural.
(n.) That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions.
(n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
(n.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
(v. t.) To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the provision of dental care showed significant differences, with the handicapped children receiving less restorative treatment.
(2) BAE is likely to have made provision for much heavier penalties and its financial stability will not be threatened.
(3) It was designed to ensure that the institute remained the leading international centre in its field, officials said, and would not affect the provision of core services or student supervision.
(4) It is argued that the provision of accurate and useful probabilistic assessments of future events should be a fundamental task for biostatisticians collaborating in clinical or experimental medicine, and we explore two aspects of obtaining and evaluating such predictions.
(5) It has been shown that adequate brain provision of this process is based in adults both on the functional topographic differentiation and specialization of separate perceptive operations and on the possibility of controlling generalized and local activating influences according to task requirements.
(6) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
(7) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
(8) The births were categorized by maternal age, the presence or absence of four putative risk factors, and the provision or nonprovision of early prenatal care.
(9) However, a variety of policy initiatives were introduced both to restructure National Health Service (NHS) expenditure, and to facilitate private provision of health services.
(10) This can only be achieved by a well prepared and equipped team dedicated to provision of this care.
(11) Provision of breast feeding education, along with improved maternal nutrition, extension of maternity leave, and availability of nurseries at the work place, may sustain a longer period of breast feeding.
(12) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
(13) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
(14) Since group therapy and sensory stimulation over a relatively short period can result in clinical and testable improvement, the diagnosis of "chronic brain syndrome" in the elderly should not be allowed to preclude the provision of appropriate psychiatric therapy.
(15) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.
(16) In 2013, documents leaked to the Guardian by Edward Snowden revealed an internal NSA rule that Senator Ron Wyden has called the “backdoor search provision”, for instance.
(17) Alternatives in financing medical care services currently under debate include various provisions to control costs and utilization, but attention should be directed to organizing American medical care services in general, toward the more rational use of our resources.
(18) Conical root shapes without special provision of retention are not suitable.
(19) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
(20) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.