What's the difference between money and shrapnel?

Money


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.
  • (n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.
  • (n.) In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
  • (v. t.) To supply with money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (2) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
  • (3) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (4) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
  • (5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
  • (6) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
  • (9) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
  • (10) It just means there won't be any money when another child is in need.
  • (11) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
  • (12) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
  • (13) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
  • (14) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
  • (15) "I have tried to borrow the money, but it was simply impossible."
  • (16) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
  • (17) The money will initially be sought from governments.
  • (18) They can go into the money markets: a highly male-dominated industry.
  • (19) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
  • (20) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.

Shrapnel


Definition:

  • (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.
  • (n.) A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (2) Majdolen also received shrapnel wounds to her shoulder and head.
  • (3) 65 consecutive cases of proven splenic injuries by bullets or shrapnells were admitted at St George's Hospital between 1978 and 1987.
  • (4) Zubair required surgery to remove the shrapnel from his leg.
  • (5) Sediqullah's hands are bandaged and his face pitted by shrapnel as a result of an explosion.
  • (6) The picture, taken by an uncle, captures a scene repeated around the city, as desperate parents look for safe places from airstrikes and the shrapnel they unleash.
  • (7) For years after, pieces of shrapnel would occasionally begin to work their way up and out through his flesh.
  • (8) The interior minister, Arsen Avakov, said one officer died from shrapnel wounds and around 10 more were seriously injured.
  • (9) Claire and Hollie were being treated in hospital on Tuesday for shrapnel wounds.
  • (10) A starburst shrapnel scar across her hand is a reminder of the first time she witnessed the horror firsthand.
  • (11) These military injuries are characterized by either very high mass, low-velocity shrapnel wounds or by high muzzle velocity missiles causing extensive destruction of tissue.
  • (12) She was hit in the leg with shrapnel, but survived.
  • (13) Multiple shrapnel wounds dominated, and high-velocity missile wounds were also frequently seen.
  • (14) It left a scene of carnage inside the concert venue, where medics described treating wounds consistent with shrapnel injury.
  • (15) However, some air-to-air missiles also have fragmentation warheads which spray small shrapnel when they detonate close to a target.
  • (16) The retained missiles were 45 bullets in 45 patients, 109 shrapnel in 99 patients, 18 pellets in 7 patients, and 50 unidentified missiles in 50 patients.
  • (17) We differentiate 3 clinical types of cholesteatoma: 1 Retraction of Shrapnell's membrane or in the postero-superior quadrant with very little cholesteatoma lateral to the ossicles.
  • (18) During the last decade 419 patients were admitted to the American University of Beirut Medical Center with penetrating neck injuries mainly due to shrapnel.
  • (19) The development of a malignant fibrous histiocytoma in a 65-year-old man 44 years after shrapnel fragments lodged in his left arm is described.
  • (20) Among the missing pieces of fuselage were sections of the upper left side around the business class cabin, which were pockmarked with shrapnel holes and covered in soot, presumably from the detonation of the explosives.

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