What's the difference between ledge and sedge?

Ledge


Definition:

  • (n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
  • (n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  • (n.) A layer or stratum.
  • (n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  • (n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This bony strut reduces inferomedial displacement of the muscle cone and provides a medial supporting "ledge" in cases requiring late orbital reconstruction.
  • (2) The continuous ledge will be covered with a cast continuous bar, intended to restore the lingual crown morphology.
  • (3) The number of two-year sojourns in a hospital and other data are reported on the basis of an evaluation of the signature ledges of the clinical histories in the district Dresden.
  • (4) In April 2001, he secured the con- viction of Klan member Thomas Blanton for driving the men to the church in the middle of the night to lay a dozen sticks of dynamite on the window ledge.
  • (5) The ledges of some pleats partly grow toward each other as ring like diaphragms, leaving openings whose boundary is composed of alveolar epithelium separated by a basal lamina from a connective tissue sheath with capillaries.
  • (6) All the determinants for ledging were not identified with this study, and further research is indicated.
  • (7) In the outer and middle layers of the spiny deposits, the Ca, P, and Mg concentrations were all significantly higher than those of the ledge-type deposits.
  • (8) Calculus components of the ledge-type deposits contained crystal types quite similar to sandy grain-shaped hydroxyapatite (HAP), plate-shaped octacalcium phosphate (OCP), and hexahedral Mg-containing whitlockite (WHT).
  • (9) Geologists sort the waterfalls into two types: wedding-cake falls, which descend in multiple tiers, and bridal-veil falls, that plunge over a ledge into a pool.
  • (10) Ridge POAMES occurred most frequently, followed by combined, ledge and the nodular exostose types.
  • (11) The edges of the breaks appear clinically as glassy ridges or ledges and are also called Haab's lines.
  • (12) 15 had a significantly higher incidence of ledging.
  • (13) Hypoplasia of the labial enamel of 15 out of 19 teeth from sheep killed after recovery from the infection was classified according to the extent and depth as pits, grooves or larger areas of missing enamel with ledge-formation cervically.
  • (14) Immature spores in the strain studied had a ledge which disappeared during maturation.
  • (15) Shaping effectiveness of the tested files was qualitatively evaluated in terms of respect for conservation of the apical constriction and the presence or absence of ledging, specially in the apical third of the root canals.
  • (16) By following the continental ledge in search of sardines, sardinella, and mackerel, it hopes to catch 3,000 tonnes of fish in a four- to six-week voyage before it offloads them, possibly in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
  • (17) This preliminary study suggests that such a wheelchair feature might improve the safety of wheelchairs in conditions involving inadvertent loss of caster support, as when they drop off a stair or ledge.
  • (18) A complicated system of low lying slanting, diagonal mucosal ledges forms between the tall longitudinal folds.
  • (19) Ten of the 107 had small enamel fractures, primarily occurring on cingulum ledges.
  • (20) Each of the nine objects was placed on a ledge inside a dummy television screen next to the video screen, the food items alternating with the neutral objects, and 20 female patients with anorexia nervosa and 20 female controls matched for age were asked to adjust the size of the video recording to that of the real object.

Sedge


Definition:

  • (n.) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
  • (n.) A flock of herons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
  • (2) This factor would have been 1200 if lead aerosols had not collected on sedge leaves and circtumvented the tendency by sedge to exclude lead from the nutritive metals it absorbed from soil moisture.
  • (3) This ratio decreased by an overall factor of 200 in proceeding from rock, to soil moisture, to sedge, to vole.
  • (4) The plant compound, 6-methoxy-2-benzoxazolinone (6-MBOA), is present in vegetatively growing grasses and sedges and acts to trigger reproduction in other rodent species exposed to short days.
  • (5) A sedge, Mariscus congestus (Vahl) C.B.Cl., was a useful indicator of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) juppi McIntosh oviposition areas.
  • (6) B. globosus shows a clear predilection for the sedge Cyperus exaltatus as support for oviposition.
  • (7) In a market study male turkeys were raised on floor pens containing peat or wood shavings and fed 0, 5, or 10% reed-sedge peat as a diluent of a typical corn-soybean meal mash diet.
  • (8) Lesser pollens are sorrel, willow, pine, juniper, sedge, lamb's-quarters, wormwood, plantain, and others.
  • (9) parasitic on four species of wild cereals and two species of sedge.
  • (10) Larvae were most numerous in areas dominated by arrow-arum (Peltandra virginica) and maidencane (Panicum hemitomon), less so in areas dominated by sedges (Carex spp.)
  • (11) While gathering sedges or tamarinds, adult males sat in one place longer than others and obtained more food per sitting.
  • (12) Most of the lead contained in sedge and voles (mountain meadow mice) within one of the most pristine, remote valleys in the United States is not natural but came from smelter fumes and gasoline exhausts.
  • (13) This finding is consistent with one of the two principal views of grass phylogeny in suggesting that Poaceae and Cyperaceae (sedges) are not closest relatives.
  • (14) The upper levels, and the shape of the roofs thatched with straw or sedge, are conjecture, so several different styles are being tried out, included thatching over steeper ridges and shallow curved hazel hoops.
  • (15) Wombats consume grasses and sedges which are often highly fibrous.
  • (16) The finding, gathering, and preparing of sedge corms and of seeds of tamarind fruit were described in detail.
  • (17) Clavicipitaceous endophytes (Ascomycetes) are distributed worldwide in many grasses and sedges forming a perennial and often mutualistic association with their hosts.
  • (18) It was a watery anomaly, a pond in dunes, surrounded by thick tussocks of sand sedge many, many miles from the sea.
  • (19) The authors feel that friction with clothing or with scrub pads made of sedge (a very common practice amongst mexicans in the bath room) against clavicular protuberances is fundamental in its pathogenesis.
  • (20) injuring sedge have the haploid number of chromosomes n=18.