What's the difference between hollow and rush?

Hollow


Definition:

  • (a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
  • (a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
  • (a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
  • (a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
  • (n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
  • (n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
  • (v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
  • (adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
  • (interj.) Hollo.
  • (v. i.) To shout; to hollo.
  • (v. t.) To urge or call by shouting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No evidence for consumptive coagulopathy was noted in the absence of heparin during hemodialysis with cuprophane hollow fiber dialyzers.
  • (2) The buccal glands of adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis consist of a pair of small, bean-shaped, hollow sacs, embedded within the basilaris muscle in the region below the eyes and to either side of the piston cartilage.
  • (3) The whole thing has made me feel hollow inside,” says one Tory MP.
  • (4) "The hollow words of praise from the home secretary are meaningless today.
  • (5) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
  • (6) A significant improvement in the precision of the hollow cathode as an emission source is reported.
  • (7) These include a redistribution of the neurons that originally were in barrel sides; a reduction in the neuropil between the neurons that originally were within hollows; and differential growth of layer IV dendrites.
  • (8) In layer IV high NMDA receptor densities were specifically confined to the barrel hollows.
  • (9) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
  • (10) Pathogenetic and etiologic points of view of the perforation of dermoid cysts of the small pelvis into adjacent hollow organs are discussed in short.
  • (11) This article describes the presurgical evaluation and surgical procedures for the treatment of partially edentulous patients with ITI hollow-screw implants.
  • (12) B43 MoAb was produced in vitro by hollow fiber technology and purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography.
  • (13) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
  • (14) attack of pain, retroperitoneal hematoma, hemoperitoneum, rupture into a hollow viscus, infective aneurysm.
  • (15) Produced by Morrissey and Johnny Marr with Stephen Street, MIM sounds more full-blooded than anything they had previously recorded – notably Hatful of Hollow , the compilation that preceded it.
  • (16) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
  • (17) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
  • (18) We also show that the laminin-derived synthetic peptide YIGSR contains sufficient information to induce single endothelial cells to form ring-like structures surrounding a hollow lumen, the basic putative unit in the formation of capillaries.
  • (19) The story of the past 30 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain, the single biggest change to the British economy in the postwar era.
  • (20) At the basis of each pilus, a cell wall differentiation was observed appearing, in face-on-view, as a ring-like structure made up of subunits, and in side-on view as a hollow cylinder penetrating through the cell wall.

Rush


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
  • (n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
  • (v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
  • (v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
  • (v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
  • (v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
  • (n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
  • (n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
  • (n.) A perfect recitation.
  • (n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
  • (n.) The act of running with the ball.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
  • (2) Thinking I had the dreaded Norovirus, I rushed home.
  • (3) Maguire's colleagues rushed to her side, some administering first aid while others held her attacker, witnesses said.
  • (4) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
  • (5) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
  • (6) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
  • (7) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
  • (8) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
  • (9) The spectacle earlier this year of London's mayor, Boris Johnson , rushing ahead to buy water cannon for use in the capital before the home secretary had authorised the use of such equipment, is hardly helpful.
  • (10) Nightmarish visions of suicide bombers and dead children, a rushed conversion to Catholicism, and a mental breakdown over the war on Iraq.
  • (11) It is essential that charities integrate new trustees well from day one – and the process must not be rushed.
  • (12) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
  • (13) I’m not satisfied until I collect everything' … EFL Cup Europa League International Champions Cup Community Shield Which competition was Ian Rush talking about when he said: 'This is why cup finals are so special, because anyone can beat anyone.
  • (14) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
  • (15) A British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
  • (16) Lawyers acting for a severely disabled prisoner who was rushed from jail to a life-support machine in hospital, are asking the high court to rule he should not be sent back to a prison that cannot meet his medical needs.
  • (17) He advises first-time buyers not to rush in: "Try and save as much as you can: having a bigger deposit will not only mean you can get a mortgage, but also secure you a better rate."
  • (18) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lamar Alexander voted yes but has previously expressed concerns about the rush to repeal without a replacement plan.
  • (20) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.