What's the difference between knives and steel?

Knives


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Knife
  • (n. pl.) of Knife. See Knife.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Examination of knives used for slaughtering and for dressing beef carcases showed that knives coming into contact with hides had higher counts for salmonella and a higher percentage positive than knives used for other cutting operations.
  • (2) Pregnant Muslim women had their bellies slit open with knives, and the foetuses pulled out.
  • (3) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
  • (4) When you play music like that, it’s like being attacked with knives and swords,” he said.
  • (5) Apparently, optimal disinfection of contaminated knives is extremely difficult to attain without the use of mechanical forces such as a high pressure water jet to remove the dirt.
  • (6) The day before the murder you Adebolajo bought five knives and a knife sharpener – which you used to sharpen some of the knives in preparation for their use in the murder.
  • (7) When community workers discovered these "knives and suspicious individuals" at a house in Bachu county, just outside the city of Kashgar, they were taken hostage by the gang, Xinhua said.
  • (8) The dark-green Audi in which he journeyed to his last escapades had moss growing in its foot-wells ("three different sorts", he pointed out, proudly), and a variety of useful knives in the glove-box.
  • (9) They literally just started kicking them, punching them, they took out knives.
  • (10) An additional advantage is that blocks can be cut with ordinary steel knives (Histoknife H).
  • (11) Low-angle diamond knives with angles down to 35 degrees are now commercially available.
  • (12) Alistair Darling, whose efforts leading Better Together are regularly hampered by the number of knives in his back, is to be given frontline reinforcements.
  • (13) Presence of P. aeruginosa on the hands of kitchen personnel and cutting boards and knives which they used suggests acquisition of the organism through contact with these vegetables.
  • (14) We’ve seen an increase in the number of other young people carrying knives, young people with no links to gangs.
  • (15) That’s because they used knives and a truck!” He added : “We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people.
  • (16) The number of young people killed by knives across the country in 2017 now stands at 14.
  • (17) The sections produced with dull knives had a snowflake appearance in the light microscope.
  • (18) The remaining 27 were defibulated with the use of various instruments such as knives, razor blades, and scissors.
  • (19) On Monday, the home secretary, Theresa May, met online and high street retailers, including Amazon, to discuss how better to enforce age restrictions on the sale of certain knives.
  • (20) Officers searched his bedsit and found a .22 pistol, 244 rounds of ammunition, two knives, a crossbow and six crossbow bolts.

Steel


Definition:

  • (n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
  • (n.) An instrument or implement made of steel
  • (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
  • (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
  • (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
  • (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
  • (n.) A chalybeate medicine.
  • (n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
  • (n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
  • (n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
  • (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that there is a significant difference in bond strengths between enamel and stainless steel with strength to enamel the greater.
  • (2) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (3) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
  • (4) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
  • (5) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
  • (6) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
  • (7) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
  • (8) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (9) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
  • (10) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
  • (11) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
  • (12) Glycaemia, glucosuria, plasma insulin, and the rates of appearance Ra and disappearance Rd of glucose (kinetics of double-labelled glucose, evaluated according to Steele's equation in its non-steady-state version) were observed under the following conditions, starting from normoglycaemia during glucose-controlled insulin infusion (GCII): (I) insulin withdrawal, (II) insulin withdrawal and glucose infusion, (III) constant i.v.
  • (13) Forty-five percutaneous trephine lung biopsies using the Steel apparatus were performed on 38 patients.
  • (14) It remains an open question whether the syndrom of Richardson-Steele-Olszewski is a syndrome of its own or whether it is just a variety of parkinsonism.
  • (15) Three female actors, including former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko , are rumoured to be in the running for the lead female role in the upcoming sequel to superhero reboot Man of Steel, reports Variety .
  • (16) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
  • (17) Since the heart of the MRI is a large magnet, certain metals such as stainless steel can cause artifacts in the images.
  • (18) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
  • (19) Bipolar stainless steel wire electrodes were placed unilaterally into the costal and crural portions of the diaphragm and into the parasternal intercostal muscle in the second or third intercostal space.
  • (20) The recovery of haemopoiesis in Steel mutant mice following 1 Gy sublethal irradiation is described.

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