What's the difference between lunch and lurch?

Lunch


Definition:

  • (n.) A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.
  • (v. i.) To take luncheon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
  • (2) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
  • (3) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
  • (4) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (5) I watch three hours of Smiley, then I have lunch, then I write for a couple of minutes. '
  • (6) The existence of a circadian rhythm for GFR, uTP, uA, and uRBP was corroborated by spontaneous changes over baseline levels, which also were prominent after lunch CL as compared to those following supper CL.
  • (7) The school lunch contaminated by the infected food handler is the most probable source of this outbreak due to SRSV.
  • (8) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
  • (9) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
  • (10) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
  • (11) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
  • (12) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
  • (13) In one of his lunch breaks with Sleep, he told him that he had been tortured by the army, smashed over the head with the butt of an AK47 and left for dead.
  • (14) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
  • (15) "Free school meals for all infant school pupils will save parents an average of £400 a year, and make sure every child can get the healthy lunch that will help them do well at school."
  • (16) For her two-year-old’s birthday, a swimming trip and family lunch was planned and yet friends would ask, “Aren’t you doing anything to celebrate?” As India’s commercial capital, Mumbai has long been home to some of the richest people on the subcontinent.
  • (17) More time in bed, more time with the kids, more time to read, see your mum, hang out with friends, repair the guttering, make music, fix lunch, walk in the park.
  • (18) Sitting in the back of Nigel Farage's Volvo, as we are driven from a long lunch in Tunbridge Wells to a town hall gathering in Windsor, at which the UK Independence party (Ukip) leader is due to speak, I'm struggling to dispute any of those findings.
  • (19) "Lunch was great, cricket was nice, it was a very English scene.
  • (20) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.

Lurch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
  • (n.) An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  • (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
  • (v. t.) To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
  • (v. t.) To steal; to rob.
  • (n.) A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
  • (v. i.) To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
  • (v. i.) To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
  • (v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
  • (2) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
  • (3) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
  • (4) These countries which carry the burden of hosting refugees on a scale far higher and for far longer than anything experienced in Europe today must not be left in the lurch.
  • (5) Don't worry, there is a BTL section for you all to contribute to the debate, so we're not leaving you in the lurch.
  • (6) In a Guardian article in October, O'Brien directly challenged the new group when he wrote: "Obviously Cameron should ignore calls from the usual suspects to lurch rightward."
  • (7) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
  • (8) The company has lurched from one crisis to the next over the past two years, including industrial action this spring by the chorus, with a strike only narrowly averted .
  • (9) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
  • (10) So where is the left-lurching that the Tories allege, with Charles Falconer, Tristram Hunt and Douglas Alexander all exalted?
  • (11) A white double-decker bus, also packed with foreigners, lurches in behind, then come vans and more coaches.
  • (12) She lurches up from the corner with cheerful gloom.
  • (13) It must say something about the swirling currents of prejudice, fear and anger in modern Britain that even Banksy cannot predict their next bizarre lurch.
  • (14) A video appeared to capture the moment the attack began; the time was 10.30pm as the truck lurched forward, heading east, gathering speed for a calculated, unstoppable death charge towards 30,000 people.
  • (15) He warned of a dangerous lurch to the far right on continental Europe but made a point of distinguishing Ukip from the likes of the Front National in France and Golden Dawn in Greece.
  • (16) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … Lurch from the Addams Family .
  • (17) Runaway inflation, rising crime and corruption have blighted the country, and the government has been accused of lurching from one policy to another, with little continuity undermining confidence in the country's economy.
  • (18) We need to know what protections they will be required to give to students, to ensure they are not left in the lurch and ripped off by institutions that may be focused on shareholders rather than students’ interests.” David Morris (@dgmorris295) By my calculations, #HEWhitePaper and BIS confirmation of RPI as inflation measure could mean £10,000 fees by 2020-21.
  • (19) Miliband may not have lurched left, but he's begun to break with that failed consensus.
  • (20) The battle to prevent Greece lurching into disorderly default continues as lawmakers return to the Athens parliament on Thursday to approve the next stage in the hugely unpopular austerity package.