What's the difference between parbuckle and sling?
Parbuckle
Definition:
(n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.
(n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
(v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
Example Sentences:
(1) 11.54am BST Lizzy Davies has sent me this brief rundown from the briefing by the salvage engineers: • Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy's civil protection agency, said that the parbuckling was proceeding "exactly according to predictions".
(2) Parbuckling is a common method but has never been used on a ship so big.
(3) Their recovery was a priority of the parbuckling but engineers have not yet seen any sign of their remains in the wreck.
(4) Parbuckling is a common means of salvaging wrecked vessels, but it has never been used on one of the Concordia's size – the cruise ship is 290 metres (950ft) long – let alone one balancing precariously on two rock pinnacles on a steep slope.
(5) In a statement on Sunday, the Italian civil protection agency gave the final go-ahead for the parbuckling, saying wind and sea conditions had fallen "within the range of operating feasibility".
(6) The parbuckling is the most important stage so far in the long and much-delayed salvage operation, the cost of which is now estimated at over €600m- a figure which may well increase.
(7) The plan is to level the ship using a salvage method known as parbuckling, in which dozens of crank-like pulleys use chains looped round the hull to slowly rotating the ship, with water-filled tanks pulling down the exposed side through gravity.
(8) Exhausted but relieved, the engineers in charge of the marathon parbuckling of the Costa Concordia said they had "kept [their] promise" of a safe and successful operation, hours after bringing the wrecked cruise ship upright for the first time since its catastrophic crash against the rocks of Giglio island last year.
(9) But he cautioned: “You will have to wait some time before you can see some change with the naked eye.” The Italian civil protection agency gave the final go-ahead for the parbuckling on Sunday, saying wind and sea conditions had fallen “within the range of operating feasibility”.
(10) Twenty months after the 114,000-tonne vessel crashed into rocks off the coast of Giglio island, causing the deaths of 32 people, engineers will begin an ambitious process of "parbuckling" that they hope will result in it being brought to rest securely on underwater platforms.
(11) After months of preparation, 15,000 individual dives, the use of over 30,000 tons of steel, 22 vessels and eight barges, the day had finally come to parbuckle the Costa Concordia .
(12) Here's an excerpt: At a 4am press briefing in Giglio, with the re-emerged hull looming large over the port, Italy's civil protection agency chief, Franco Gabrielli, was applauded by firefighters as he announced that the ship's rotation had reached 65 degrees, meaning the operation known as parbuckling was finally complete.
(13) Begun at 9am on Monday with a delay due to a fierce overnight storm over the Tuscan island, the parbuckling rotated the 114,000-tonne ship by 65 degrees to bring it fully vertical.
(14) This was "an important milestone", he said, as from now on the parbuckling would continue helped by the entrance of sea water into the sponsons which would help push the ship downward and onto to the underwater platforms.
(15) "Large deformations" had been observed on the starboard side, said Girotto, but for the moment, the parbuckling was succeeding.
(16) 12.06pm BST In the comments, a reader notes that as well as the parbuckling of the USS Oklahoma (see 9.25 BST ) the French liner the SS Normandie, marginally longer than the Costa Concordia at 299 metres, was righted in New York harbour in 1943, a year after it capsized following a fire.
(17) Lizzy writes: So, two hours later than originally thought, we're waiting for the parbuckling of the Costa Concordia to begin.
(18) Elio Vincenzi, from Priolo Gargallo in Sicily, said he was desperately hoping the parbuckling would finally enable divers to locate the body of his wife, Maria Grazia Trecarichi, who had been on the cruise with her daughter, Stefania, for her 50th birthday.
(19) The parbuckling revealed a large amount of damage to the part of the ship that had been submerged.
(20) Five TV cameras with five microphones have been placed on the highest deck of the Concordia; the images and sounds monitored during the parbuckling will allow the engineers to make adjustments depending on any twist and torsion arising on the ship.
Sling
Definition:
(v. t.) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.
(v. t.) The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
(v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension
(v. t.) A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
(v. t.) A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
(v. t.) A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
(v. t.) A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.
(v. t.) To throw with a sling.
(v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to cast.
(v. t.) To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
(v. t.) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
(n.) A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
Example Sentences:
(1) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
(2) The sphincter urethrae muscle is located inside the sling of the puborectalis muscle in both sexes, but no muscle fibres connect them to one another.
(3) The Z-plasties facilitate effective dissection and redirection of the palatal muscles to produce an overlapping muscle sling and lengthen the velum without using tissue from the hard palate, which permits hard palate closure without pushback or lateral relaxing incisions.
(4) The use of the technique of wax-plate serial section-reconstruction, based on contiguous axial plane CT images of the upper thorax, to prepare a replica of the central air-way (trachea and major bronchi) of an infant with sling left pulmonary artery type 2B, with bridging bronchus, abortive right main bronchus, and tracheal stenosis due to absence of the tracheal pars membranacea with "ring" tracheal cartilages is described.
(5) 13 patients were treated by classical techniques of insertion-suspensions of the paralyzed side with a perioral loop and slings of PTFE suspended to the zygomatic arch and the infraorbital rim, by way of nasolabial angle or rhytidectomy incisions.
(6) The glenohumeral joint is stabilised superiorly by a posterior superior sling consisting of the long biceps tendon, the superior joint capsule, and the coracoacromial and coracohumeral ligaments.
(7) Of these patients 13 had undergone a pubovaginal sling procedure, 3 of whom had refractory symptoms, including urge incontinence, which resulted in augmentation cystoplasty in 2 and supravesical urinary diversion in 1.
(8) A method is described that overcomes the problem of flap detachment during the early postoperative period by suspending and supporting the tongue pedicle with a palatal sling.
(9) In 21 patients, fractures were treated with a sling for 1 week, and in 21 with a hanging cast for 1 week.
(10) It was transplanted ventral to the puborectalis sling into the anal dimple if present.
(11) The plastic slings of the Zoedler type led to an increased risk of complications such as retropubic infections, rejection of the mersilene, and chronic urinary retention.
(12) The fascia lata sling procedure has been used over the past 22 years in our unit for treating recurrent urinary stress incontinence when irreparably poor local support tissues were suspected.
(13) Hemorrhage of 14 ml.kg-1.5 min-1 was done in two groups of chronically prepared, splenectomized Yorkshire pigs that were conditioned behaviorally to lie in a Panepinto sling.
(14) Simultaneously it is used extraorbitally as a sling to raise the ptotic upper eyelid.
(15) This is the first such case, to our knowledge, without vascular sling.
(16) The pulmonary artery sling was diagnosed by angiography.
(17) This dramatic developmental abnormality was accompanied by delayed fusion of the septum, and a reduction in the population of subventricular cells that normally migrate to form a sling of cells extending from the medial aspect of the lateral ventricles to the midline.
(18) An unusually small adult corpus callosum occurs because fetal axons are able to follow unusual pathways and actively compensate for absence of the sling, not because of arrested midline development.
(19) In 7 patients, an eyelid suspension was performed with PTFE by Arion's technique, but by replacing the classical silicon thread by E-PTFE and transposing the medial part of the temporalis muscle on the external canthus, and fixing the lateral end of the sling to the muscle.
(20) The incidence of previous bladder neck surgery in this group was over 50%, with 11 previous vaginal repairs, one Burch colposuspension, and one Aldridge sling procedure.