What's the difference between pelt and stean?

Pelt


Definition:

  • (n.) The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
  • (n.) The human skin.
  • (n.) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
  • (v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
  • (v. t.) To throw; to use as a missile.
  • (v. i.) To throw missiles.
  • (v. i.) To throw out words.
  • (n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After euthanasia and removal of the pelts, liver and kidney samples were collected from 174 mink and analyzed for 22 elements using inductively coupled argon plasma emission spectroscopy.
  • (2) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
  • (3) Rodgers' team took the lead from their first corner when Suárez – pelted with coins from the away section that he handed to referee Martin Atkinson – swept to the near post.
  • (4) After rising employment has failed to lift output as far as hoped, this reflects waning hopes about the potential of the UK economy once restored to full pelt.
  • (5) A minibus, a taxi and other vehicles that tried to travel up the street were pelted with stones.
  • (6) Social status within a cage explained only 3.6% of the pelt quality variation while it could explain 52% of the BW variation.
  • (7) Allergenic components of cat pelt extract fractionated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes were identified using sera from 15 allergic patients who showed positive skin test and RAST to cat extract.
  • (8) All mink on the ranches were tested during the pelting season and before the breeding season for 4 consecutive years.
  • (9) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
  • (10) In one incident in Jerusalem last month, an Israeli motorist was killed after his car was pelted with stones.
  • (11) United bite back and Rafael skitters down the right wing at full pelt, before sending a cross into the Stretford End.
  • (12) Also mass very positively (p less than 0.001) correlated with pelt quality (r = 0.82), indicating that the subjectively estimated pelt quality, in fact, can be derived directly from its weight.
  • (13) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
  • (14) Enthusiasts could ski to St Anton for a few runs and a Jägerbomb in the Krazy Kanguruh before pelting back for tea.
  • (15) Sixty-four white-faced rams and wethers were dressed with the aid of a commercial pelt puller.
  • (16) A. C. Jacobs, J. Venema, R. Leeven, H. van Pelt-Heerschap, and F. K. de Graaf, J. Bacteriol.
  • (17) According to local reports in Florida, two Muslim women in the Tampa Bay area were attacked after leaving prayer meetings – one was shot at and the other almost driven off the road and her car pelted with stones.
  • (18) This week he took great delight in cross-examining Robert Jan van Pelt, a Dutch architectural historian who is an authority on the gas chambers.
  • (19) The democracy march finished at the Field of Mars, where a sanctioned gay pride rally last summer ended with participants being beaten and pelted with eggs by anti-gay activists, and dozens of were detained by police.
  • (20) A commercial belt-type pelt puller and a scale that recorded force required to remove the pelt from the thickest part of the legs was used as lambs hung suspended from their front legs.

Stean


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Steen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It became apparent quite quickly in all cases," says volunteer judge Michael Stean, who is also a chess grandmaster, though he admitted to being fooled by small patches of one or two of the conversations.

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