What's the difference between hench and wench?

Hench


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pantano, and L. L. Hench, "Auger spectroscopic analysis of bioglass corrosion films," J.
  • (2) It was then that he returned to the character of Simon Hench from Otherwise Engaged for a new play, Simply Disconnected.
  • (3) The granules consisted of Hench's Bioglass and another glass with the same chemical composition made in Italy.
  • (4) Simon Hench, the publisher in Otherwise Engaged, simply wants to be left alone and fends off the world by acting as if it doesn't exist.
  • (5) More than 20 years later, in 1996, Gray successfully returned to the character of Hench in Simply Disconnected.
  • (6) Granules of a glass (A) prepared according to Hench's formula and a new vitreous material for biological applications (AKRA 15) were used for repair of bone defects in the dental field.
  • (7) The announcement in 1949, by Hench at the Mayo Clinic, that cortisone had a dramatic beneficial effect on bed-ridden patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis ushered in the cortisone era.
  • (8) This report deals with comparative results obtained with unloaded intra-osseous implants of bioglass (L. L. Hench), Al2O3-ceramic and Al2O3-ceramic coated with a mod.
  • (9) The objectives of the present article are to confirm the bone bonding phenomenon of Bioglass (BG) developed by Hench et al., and to observe the singularity of tissue reaction to it.

Wench


Definition:

  • (n.) A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
  • (n.) A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.
  • (n.) A colored woman; a negress.
  • (v. i.) To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
  • (2) And it seems to have a reverse Midas touch – or, according to the version of the myth related by Aristotle, a standard Midas touch (everything the king touched turned to gold, including his food, so he starved to death, apparently lacking the wit to engage a serving wench to spoonfeed him).
  • (3) It’s as if John Falstaff , having been rejected by the newly crowned Hal in Henry IV Part 2, had suddenly started screaming about having photos of Hal’s misbehaviour with the wenches in an Eastcheap tavern.
  • (4) Nor is it a place for sunshine, cheer, labradors bumbling amiably across sweeping lawns, toffs fumbling buffoonishly with fish knives, shots of bonneted wenches that don't involve unwanted pregnancy or crying, or apple-cheeked Windy Miller types snapping their braces and whistling merrily as they inflate the bouncy castle of Social History.
  • (5) Now, call me a heartless wench, but the story of a nerd stealing a vague computer idea from a pair of wealthy twins called Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, as Zuckerberg was accused of doing, doesn't strike me as having the same dramatic hook as, say, saving the planet from imminent destruction, or escaping from the Nazis.