What's the difference between grizzled and old?

Grizzled


Definition:

  • (a.) Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His defense was a big reason that the Grizzlies' offense was often stymied during the conference finals, so much so that he would probably be a person of interest if basketball investigators looked into the mysterious May disappearance of Grizzles forward Zach Randolph.
  • (2) There’s not an insignificant ‘if’ in that question, and that’s what everybody is pretty interested to find out, is what decision the vice-president is going to make.” ‘I didn’t deserve to be president’ Biden is a grizzled campaign veteran, and not in an entirely good way.
  • (3) John Simm plays a grizzled ex-cop from LA living in the Pacific north-west, who, when his wife (Mira Sorvino) goes missing, finds himself hurled into a mysterious, murky world.
  • (4) During his swing through the state on Thursday, he stopped to open a new campaign office in Ottumwa, packed to overflowing with wide-eyed students and grizzled party veterans.
  • (5) Art Cashin, a grizzled veteran of the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, just compared Bitcoin to the infamous Dutch tulip bubble , one of the standard comparisons for any serious modern financial crisis.
  • (6) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
  • (7) I’m grey, grizzled, just counting down the days to my death panel.” He added: “Even some foreign leaders have been looking ahead, anticipating my departure.
  • (8) It is like a driver coming to a roadblock on a road they’ve never travelled before and three grizzled veterans say: “Don’t go any further, we have been up and down this road many times and we’re warning you there are falling rocks, mudslides, dangerous hairpin bends and then a sheer drop.” And the driver says: “Screw you, stop patronising me.
  • (9) Ashker's journey from teenage tearaway to grizzled jailhouse scholar underpins a largely untold story of how Bobby Sands, Mayan cosmology, class-consciousness and the Arab spring inspired one of the biggest challenges to US penal policy in living memory.
  • (10) "That guy looks like he just got off tour in 1987," says Carney, gesturing at a particularly grizzled rocker, before quickly adding, "You have to be careful in Nashville about how loud you observe."
  • (11) In the red corner, Raúl Castro, grizzled veteran of the revolution led by his older brother Fidel, and now president of a Cuba once again undergoing dramatic change.
  • (12) Le Pen père is a grizzled ex-paratrooper who fought to keep Algeria French and founded the Front National in 1972 to highlight issues such as immigration, race and identity.
  • (13) "I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of the big oil companies always bellyaching that we can't afford clean energy," says a grizzled old man in a faded checked work shirt.
  • (14) But the Tory MP Dominic Raab, a former government lawyer and member of parliament's joint committee on human rights, said: "We need a grizzled, criminal prosecutor rather than a defence, human rights lawyer.
  • (15) Second, black and white hair was collected from each of seven human subjects with grizzled hair, who were receiving or had been administered haloperidol at fixed daily doses for more than 1 month, and the concentration of haloperidol in each type of hair was measured.
  • (16) They soon find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, before they take shelter in a tiny shack alongside a group of grizzled, gun-toting outlaws.
  • (17) And the tiny facial gesture that a grizzled Donald Sutherland makes with his mouth at the very end, when he realises that the perfect running of his system has been undermined, made me give an inward cheer.
  • (18) When black and white hairs were taken from a patient with grizzled hair, who had been treated with ofloxacin, a much larger quantity of the drug was detected in the black hair.
  • (19) Then, as an illustration of exploratory categorical data analysis, the experimental data of Grizzle are analyzed by using the second method of quantification.
  • (20) Grizzle first proposed a two-stage procedure for analysing the data from such a trial.

Old


Definition:

  • (n.) Open country.
  • (superl.) Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.
  • (superl.) Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.
  • (superl.) Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.
  • (superl.) Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.
  • (superl.) Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.
  • (superl.) Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
  • (superl.) Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.
  • (superl.) More than enough; abundant.
  • (superl.) Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.
  • (superl.) Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
  • (superl.) Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and familiarity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
  • (2) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
  • (3) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
  • (4) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (5) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (6) Scatchard analyses of binding data obtained with synaptosomal preparations from 17-day-old embryos revealed two T3 binding sites.
  • (7) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
  • (8) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
  • (9) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
  • (10) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
  • (11) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
  • (12) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
  • (13) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
  • (14) Peak incidence is found among 40 to 49-year-old and 60 to 64-year-old women.
  • (15) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
  • (16) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
  • (17) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (18) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
  • (19) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
  • (20) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.

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