What's the difference between haul and steer?

Haul


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pull or draw with force; to drag.
  • (v. t.) To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
  • (v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
  • (v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  • (n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.
  • (n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
  • (n.) That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
  • (n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
  • (n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One tip was that he should not mention he was flying to Germany as "obviously" the environmentalists "hate short-haul flights".
  • (2) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
  • (3) Two more wins against the claret and blues of West Ham and Aston Villa would take Tottenham to 72 points, equalling their Premier League record haul set last season.
  • (4) They learned from a good example.” His replacement, Diego Costa, duly hauled the hosts level by scoring his 20th league goal of an impressive first campaign in English football from the penalty spot after John O’Shea tripped Cuadrado.
  • (5) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
  • (6) Zack Snyder's comic-book reimagining, which opens in the UK and US this Friday, is being tipped for an impressive box office haul.
  • (7) In Northern Ireland, the APD charge is £13 for short haul, while the charge for long haul has been abolished.
  • (8) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
  • (9) Sir Bobby Charlton, who is now a United director, will not have his record haul of 49 England goals taken from him just yet.
  • (10) In early November, I was contacted by my good friend Jamie Stone, who said he wanted to go and offered his truck and trailer to haul supplies.
  • (11) "This is an important day for the United Kingdom, but you can't haul the country of the United Kingdom against the will of its people.
  • (12) Tory MPs aware of the discussions in the party point to a deal on cheap air passenger duty for long-haul flights from Belfast, announced last week, as the kind of offer that may persuade DUP MPs to back the boundary reforms.
  • (13) Over the following years, he was hauled in again and again, questioned over and over, before finally, he decided to leave.
  • (14) The committee's final haul accounted for about 20% of roughly $78m in contributions this election cycle.
  • (15) Politicians including the prime minister were highly visible during a Games that delivered the best British medal haul for more than a century, but practitioners such as Jon Glenn, head of youth and community at the Amateur Swimming Association, said: "The government needs to start showing by its actions that it values physical activity.
  • (16) Just when Poland seemed to be labouring, two touches of blissful simplicity hauled them level.
  • (17) Studies of transzonal travel indicate that desynchronization of performance and physiological rhythms occurs following long-haul flights.
  • (18) The army was equally quick to crack down, hauling offenders off for “attitude adjustment” or worse.
  • (19) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
  • (20) The ones that are standing today were hauled back into place from the 1950s onwards.

Steer


Definition:

  • (a.) A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.
  • (v. t.) To castrate; -- said of male calves.
  • (n.) To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water.
  • (v. i.) To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.
  • (v. i.) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.
  • (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.
  • (v. t.) A rudder or helm.
  • (n.) A helmsman, a pilot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.
  • (2) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
  • (3) Holstein steers gained 11% faster (P less than .005) and consumed 8% less (P less than .025) dry matter per unit gain than the average of Angus and Polled Hereford steers.
  • (4) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
  • (5) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
  • (6) A detailed account of the progress of a preschool child learning to steer a powered wheelchair via a mouth-operated joystick is described.
  • (7) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
  • (8) Flying in Soyuz was “ real teamwork ” she said, adding: “Tim will have no trouble with that.” David Southwood , a senior researcher at Imperial College, and a member of the UK space agency steering board, has known Tim since he joined the European Space Agency in 2009.
  • (9) Postweaning growth and carcass characters of 110 steers from a complete two-breed diallel of the Devon and Hereford breeds were examined under two environments.
  • (10) A fired-up Lleyton Hewitt just fell short in his bid to steer Australia to an upset victory in their Davis Cup doubles showdown with the United States.
  • (11) As a parent himself, he steered a deliberate course on discipline (neither he nor his wife ever smacked their girls) and on external influences - the family did not have a television while the children were young, preferring to read.
  • (12) A mixture of (1-14C)-labeled free fatty acids (FFA), complexed in bovine plasma, was infused into the abdominal aorta of conscious young steers exposed to thermoneutral or moderately cold conditions for several hours and fed 6 or 22 h before the experiment.
  • (13) But on Tuesday the White House steered the conversation toward the website.
  • (14) Previously, Hotel Chocolat has steered clear of raising money through the traditional channels.
  • (15) These functional specializations of the different steering muscles in mediating different behavioral response components are related to the properties of two parallel visual pathways that are selectively tuned to large-field and small-field motion, respectively.
  • (16) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
  • (17) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
  • (18) In 1987, the Educational Steering Committee for Cancer Care at The Washington Hospital was established to meet this need.
  • (19) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
  • (20) The role of steering wheel design in maxillofacial trauma is discussed and new solutions briefly reviewed.