What's the difference between matchstick and shred?

Matchstick


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He enjoyed quiet jokes and liked telling an interviewer that he could never be prime minister because he did his sums with matchsticks.
  • (2) To do this follow the same method as above but, when you are stitching through the holes, hold a toothpick or matchstick on top of the button and stitch over it (a) - see illustration below).
  • (3) Cooked beetroot, cut into matchsticks Cabbage, white or red, finely shredded Preserved lemon segments, pulp removed, rinsed, peeled thinly, cut into matchsticks Red onion, peeled and thinly sliced Hot-smoked trout or salmon fillets, cut into strips For the dressing 1 small pot of sour cream 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp milk ¼ tsp caster sugar 1 tbsp finely grated lemon zest 1 Arrange your salad ingredients on a large platter or individual plates, leaving the fish until last.
  • (4) They had another UK Top 10 hit later that year with Ice in the Sun, but their debut album, Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo, failed to chart.
  • (5) Many were in decrepit tower-blocks, sky high and matchstick small.
  • (6) The fragment is attached with 2 or 3 matchstick-size bone graft taken from the proximal tibia.
  • (7) Peel the ginger and slice into very fine matchsticks.
  • (8) You may need : Tape measure Needle Thread Scissors Toothpick or matchstick 1 .
  • (9) In comparison, the extracardiac rhabdomyoma filaments were more disorderly and many cases had hypertrophic Z bands corresponding to the jackstraw or matchstick structures seen with the light microscope.
  • (10) Briefly steam the broccoli then divide, together with the beanshoots and matchsticks of ginger, between 4 deep bowls.
  • (11) Patients (n = 404) with osteoarthrosis and control subjects (n = 233) were studied to examine the communicational value of five styles of illustration (cartoon (C), matchstick (M), representational (R), symbolic (S), photographic (P) and two levels of text ('easy', 'hard'), presented as educational booklets about osteoarthrosis.
  • (12) A former matchstick factory has been transformed into three bars.
  • (13) In the 60s, their management convinced them that psychedelia was the way ahead, so they wore their gaudy colours and had a hit with the haunting Pictures Of Matchstick Men.
  • (14) He ended with a warning: "Comrade Jintao, a single matchstick is enough for the arsonist, but putting out the fire would take a great effort."
  • (15) A year after that, from the opposition front bench, he was able to make the mild claim that his matchsticks seemed to work at least as well as Labour's economic devices and advisers.
  • (16) The movement consisted in moving a matchstick to and fro between the index finger (II) and the little finger (V).
  • (17) The new lineup – Parfitt and Rossi plus the drummer John Coghlan, bassist Alan Lancaster and keyboard player Roy Lynes – immediately felt their luck changing as their single Pictures of Matchstick Men (1968), written by Rossi, reached No 7 in the UK and the Top 40 in the US.
  • (18) He built a children's playground with £30,000 but within two days it was kicked to matchsticks.
  • (19) At night, they slept crowded together “like matchsticks”, Mohammed said.
  • (20) They became friends, but Parfitt didn't join the band until they recorded Pictures Of Matchstick Men.

Shred


Definition:

  • (n.) A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
  • (n.) In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Shred
  • (n.) To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.
  • (n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (2) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (3) The shredded fibres were trimmed in most cases and this allowed better definition of the amount of ligament considered to be torn.
  • (4) Not to mention the files they may have already shredded.” One core problem is that too many expectations have been heaped on a trial that cannot bear them all.
  • (5) The dream has allowed us to ignore that our social safety net has been shredded into cobwebs, because the dream tells us that if we work hard enough, we won’t ever need a net.
  • (6) It only looks like a $100m movie.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I think Britons of Poulter’s generation – now in their late teens and early 20s, spectators while the economic fiascos of recent years shredded their odds of financial stability in the future – are more inclined to be aware of money, and more inclined to be aware of its reckless use.
  • (7) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
  • (8) This week Rogoff and Reinhart are fighting to salvage their reputations from the humiliating experience of having their paper torn to shreds.
  • (9) Yousef claims that no one can “produce a shred of evidence that Hamas formally encourages prejudice against anyone’s ethnicity”.
  • (10) All of that underscores the problem Republicans are faced with: how to repeal a law that touches nearly every facet of American healthcare, and insures an additional 20 million Americans, without shredding a fragile system.
  • (11) After all, the easiest way for a government to shred social security for disabled people is to present the argument that many are not actually disabled.
  • (12) The answer reveals much about the state of our world, the limitations of power and the extent to which the liberal interventionist vision articulated by Tony Blair during the Kosovo war in 1999 - of a world in which states could no longer murder their own people with impunity - lies in shreds.
  • (13) The thick and tender, rope-like tangle of braised, shredded beef in my fat fist of a burrito was excellent.
  • (14) Do people not realise that escape often seems impossible when every shred of a person’s personality, autonomy and well-being has been systematically eroded, or when children are involved?
  • (15) Required to "stay in touch" with Jobcentre Plus and explain what he's been doing since the collapse of RBS, Fred (the Shred) Goodwin might easily face benefit withdrawal.
  • (16) If the government had the tiniest indication, the tiniest shred of evidence that, not even that I was working for the Russian government, that I was associating with the Russian government, it would be on the front page of the New York Times by lunch time.
  • (17) The method was found applicable to several dry food materials including nonfat dry milk, dried egg albumin, cocoa, cottonseed flour, wheat flour, and shredded coconut.
  • (18) And it depends on the social consequences of the spending review standing the test of time better than the claims of fairness that Mr Osborne made in his June budget, claims which were shredded within hours by the Institute for Fiscal Studies .
  • (19) They proved to appear in case of oblique direction in overrunning and the angle of a shred turned back was directed to the side of wheel rotatory movements, i.e.
  • (20) (This is a statement that could be picked apart in so many ways that it would resemble a shredded couch after a herd of tigers had gone through by the time we were done with it.)