What's the difference between phew and relief?

Phew


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So the ECB is not on fire #phew Michael Steen (@michaelsteen) Ok.
  • (2) "When you have got an organisation that didn't change for a long time then goes through four years of change, there is a tendency to then go, phew, that's great, we've changed, now we can go back to normal - but if we started off at minus five out of 10, I think we are now at four out of 10.
  • (3) Observers described the vote as more of a referendum on Lula, while the front-page headline of one Rio newspaper yesterday exclaimed: "Phew!
  • (4) I said Tanja was quiet and considerate: she said the cats and I were friendly, the facilities very clean (phew!)
  • (5) It was also where she intended to build an academy for girls, which never happened (though Madonna still helped build classrooms), all against a backdrop of missing millions, for which Madonna's side blamed the sacked prospective academy headmistress (also the Malawian president's sister), while there has been an ongoing investigation into the role of the Kabbalah Centre in New York … and (phew) see what I mean?
  • (6) I’m extremely proud but it is not going to help us win the next game of football.” Explaining his point further, Coleman added: “When I say complacency, it’s not because of the group of people we’ve got, or the players; it is subconsciously a bit like: ‘Phew, we’ve done that.’ But the problem is that it is also gone.
  • (7) Phew,” I say laughing, “that is a relief.” Moments later, she’s back to check on me once more, and the conversation turns political.
  • (8) After Thomson's letter was published the company issued a short statement: "Phew what a scorcher!
  • (9) But this feels very natural and logical and 'phew, thank God we have at last got there'."
  • (10) Phew, just thought that this crazy lady had converted into this Islam nonsense and was on her way down on her knees to mumble a prayer.
  • (11) Take those €19.7 billions (over £16bn) off the balance sheet along with a few trifles and – phew!
  • (12) 7.00pm: No - phew - it's Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
  • (13) The coding region of pheR is identical to that of three other cloned tRNA(Phe) genes, pheU, pheV, and pheW.
  • (14) But before you think, "Phew, job done", Naomi Gummer , a Google executive, said last week that technology moves too fast for filters to work and that parents are to blame if their children watch porn.
  • (15) Phew, that's enough exercise for one week … time for a lie down.
  • (16) Multicopy plasmids carrying pheR, like those carrying pheU, pheV, or pheW, complement a temperature-sensitive lesion in the gene for the alpha-subunit of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase (pheS).
  • (17) This summer, I was forever laying down my New Yorker or my New York Review of Books and saying: “Phew!
  • (18) It included a link to News Corp UK title the Sun’s notorious “Up Yours Delors” front page from 1990, aimed at the then European Commission president, with the accompanying comment: “People probably have enough evidence to judge that one for themselves.” This follows Google’s equally pithy initial response to News Corp’s latest broadside last week, when it issued the following statement referencing another infamous Sun splash headline : “Phew what a scorcher!
  • (19) The nucleotide sequences of the 5'-flanking DNA of pheR, pheU, and pheW are almost identical but are quite different from the same region of pheV.
  • (20) Smoke and lights and noise and shouting and all kinds of stuff and it was just, phew, mindblowing.

Relief


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.
  • (n.) Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.
  • (n.) That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay.
  • (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant.
  • (n.) The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed.
  • (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.
  • (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.
  • (n.) The elevations and surface undulations of a country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
  • (2) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
  • (3) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
  • (4) During the treatment phase we found a complete relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), a partial relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), and some relief of symptoms in 12 (54%) in group 2.
  • (5) Among patients in whom the neuroma had been operated on once previously (first recurrence group), 88% achieved good to excellent pain relief with the technique described in this article.
  • (6) The improvement in the two groups of patients was statistically comparable to the relief of pain and the over-all restoration of function.
  • (7) All four active treatment groups also experienced significantly more relief of pelvic-abdominal pain compared with placebo: piroxicam 40 mg for two days followed by three days of 20 mg (p = 0.002), piroxicam 40 mg for one day followed by four days of 20 mg (p = 0.023), piroxicam 20 mg for five days (p = 0.012), and ibuprofen (p = 0.011).
  • (8) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
  • (9) The plasma zinc level was significantly lower at the time of onset of zinc deficiency than in normal subjects, before the procedure of TPN, or at the time of symptomatic relief achieved by administration of zinc.
  • (10) BPV provides long-term relief of pulmonary valvular obstruction in the majority of patients.
  • (11) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
  • (12) An integrated approach to the surgical management of diffuse subaortic stenosis has been designed to provide adequate relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction whatever the anatomical features encountered at operation.
  • (13) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
  • (14) Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is recognized as an effective therapeutic procedure for nonsurgical relief of critical coronary stenosis.
  • (15) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
  • (16) Hence, they self-administer opioids for pain relief with PCA according to their expectations.
  • (17) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
  • (18) Its complete removal results in dramatic relief of proptosis.
  • (19) Deficiency in polyunsaturated fatty acids was not found in erythrocyte membranes under conditions of the relief-diet therapy course used.
  • (20) From this information, it would appear that it is possible that the mechanism for the prolonged effect of acupuncture in treating chronic pain is that the repeated activation of the physiological systems by which acupuncture inhibits pain, by the repeated acupuncture treatments, trains the body to continue this activity and thereby maintains the pain relief for a period of time after the last treatment.

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