What's the difference between keeled and sweeper?

Keeled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Keel
  • (a.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.
  • (a.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2007, she put the Oscars back on an even keel after poor reviews for the satirist Jon Stewart in 2006.
  • (2) As they were leaving, he told the court, D’Souza took charge of Keeling and asked Sagar to leave the pair alone.
  • (3) But before you keel over in shock she's back on form arguing that the government use the money spent on overseas aid to boost investment in prisons.
  • (4) In that time, MacKeown has had to endure tastleless coverage of her daughter’s drug use and sex life, and close scrutiny of her own lifestyle, and of her decision to allow Keeling to travel alone to Anjuna while the family toured a neighbouring state.
  • (5) Because we know how even-keeled and slow-to-anger people are during those types of situations.
  • (6) This bar is only a couple of miles from where the body of British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found five years ago.
  • (7) Another ship, called TransSpar and designed by Canada's Extreme Ocean Innovation , has a huge, deep keel for stability, giving it the shape of a seahorse, while a third is an adaptation of a Norwegian Navy minesweeping hovercraft .
  • (8) A silastic keel is secured between the vocal cords at the anterior commissure by means of a loop of nylon passing externally through the crico-thyroid and crico-hyoid membranes.
  • (9) This instrument will allow endoscopic insertion of sutures for lateralization of a paralyzed vocal cord or for fixation of endoscopically inserted stents or keels in laryngotracheal stenosis.
  • (10) In a rare case of simultaneous glottic and supraglottic webbing a tantalum keel, as described by McNaught, and a silcone elastomer keel, as described by Montgomery, were placed simultaneously via laryngofissure.
  • (11) Willetts has appointed Dame Janet Finch, a former vice-chancellor of Keele University, to sit down with academics and publishers to work out how an open-access scheme for publicly-funded research might function in the UK.
  • (12) Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Keeling was found bruised and half-dressed in the waters of popular Anjuna beach in February 2008.
  • (13) Professor Peter Styles, professor of applied and environmental geophysics at Keele University, said the find could supply the UK for decades.
  • (14) In chickens he found NCD (pseudo-fowlpest) and in ducklings a mortal disease which the author then called 'keeling disease' but which he many years later, recognized as virus hepatitis.
  • (15) Analysis of the 12-wk pooled data from both cage and floor groups indicated the occurrence of isometric growth of the shank and breast in G1 and of the breast only in G2 and allometric growth of the thigh and keel in both genotypes.
  • (16) An endoscopic technique using a Teflon keel which has been successful in properly selected cases is presented.
  • (17) Pain threshold was measured in 106 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 50 with ankylosing spondylitis, and 50 normal controls using Keele's algometer.
  • (18) I did not need O-levels to lead, to have judgment, to make decisions and to be decided.” Nevertheless, in later life he would serve several universities, as pro-chancellor of Keele, then chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan and first chancellor of Chester.
  • (19) I kept falling asleep during morning session, keeling over into the person next to me.
  • (20) Nonarticulated components, such as the solid-ankle cushion heel foot, have various keel designs; energy-storing variants provide springiness for walking and running.

Sweeper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is no graffiti and no rubbish, because a street sweeper is using a machine to blow leaves into piles.
  • (2) According to the occupation registered on their licence, the 6630 drivers were distributed into three groups: (1) professional drivers (n = 1726), (2) non-professional drivers "more exposed" to exhaust gas and fumes (this group included occupations such as vehicle mechanic, policeman, road sweeper; n = 712), and (3) non-professional drivers "less exposed," composed of all other occupations (n = 4192).
  • (3) Wright was not used as a sweeper but rather as a spare man in a flat back four.
  • (4) In the Barbara Vine book, The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy (1998), the death of a leading author, Gerard Candless, leads to the discovery that almost every detail of his life had been a fiction.
  • (5) Comparisons between indoor aspirator catches and outdoor mechanical sweeper collections enabled mosquito resting habits to be classified as: (1) endophilic (Anopheles culicifacies, An.
  • (6) What can I do?” The street sweeper demanded 75 Turkish lira and pointed to a small hole in the fence, not far from the main gate.
  • (7) We present a case of occupation-related carcinoma of the scrotum (chimney sweeper's disease) in a black man.
  • (8) Thanks to Manuel Neuer the era of “sweeper-keepers”, boasting strong lines in fancy footwork, is upon us.
  • (9) He was credited with developing the "sweeper-keeper" style of play, when a keeper acts as an extra defender when needed.
  • (10) He set about interviewing the crossing-sweepers, Punch and Judy entertainers, sandwich-sellers, rag-gatherers, rat-killers, doll's-eye makers, thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and all the other pieces of human flotsam and jetsam that had washed up in the capital.
  • (11) As a goalkeeper, he was ahead of his time, operating not only with athleticism and anticipation in the goal itself, but always ready to act as a kind of sweeper if his defence were breached, dashing well beyond his penalty area to kick the ball clear.
  • (12) This study intends to identify the occupational risks that the street sweepers are exposed by handling diary with the urban trash.
  • (13) Road sweepers, street cleaners all deserve a decent home, they certainly don’t deserve to be priced out of council property.
  • (14) Until we have a rainfall, or the city’s huge street sweeper mob arrive, you often find dust particles in your eyes and mouth.
  • (15) The ball came to the sweeper Augenthaler, who flipped an inviting angled pass over the top.
  • (16) "It is not men who immigrate but machine-minders, sweepers, diggers, cement mixers, cleaners, drillers, etc," writes Berger beneath a picture of two officials looking out over hundreds of workers at a recruitment centre in Istanbul.
  • (17) Other street cleaners are self-employed: street sweepers who move round after the dustmen work for tips from local residents, and bottle collectors make a living – just about – by selling on plastic bottles for recycling.
  • (18) The man glanced around uneasily, and finally approached a street sweeper in a blue jumpsuit.
  • (19) Measurements performed on 176 subjects, without isolating them from day-to-day work, showed 220Rn levels having a median of 0.74 Bq, with the group consisting of sweepers and helpers showing the highest average level (1.68 Bq).
  • (20) That means the extra defensive cover of a sweeper system and just one change from the side that started against Cameroon: Peter Beardsley for the injured John Barnes.

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