What's the difference between pinch and sail?

Pinch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
  • (v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
  • (v. t.) To plait.
  • (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
  • (v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
  • (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
  • (v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  • (v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
  • (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
  • (n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
  • (n.) Pian; pang.
  • (n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) produced a strong analgesic effect in the formalin test and in the tail pinch test.
  • (2) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
  • (3) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
  • (4) To mimic physiological conditions, synaptosomes, which are pinched off presynaptic nerve termini, were used.
  • (5) Comparison with other pinch strength studies established that although force magnitudes may be strongly influenced by specific experimental conditions, empirical relationships among different pinch forces are fairly stable and predictable.
  • (6) Anyone still imagining that it was only the defender’s recovery from injury rather than his form that was preventing him from starting (and it’s been clear for a while that’s not the case) might have noted the coach’s instructions to Gonzalez to be ready to play a few minutes when needed, either as an extra defender or even in a pinch as an extra forward.
  • (7) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
  • (8) Other small endocytic vesicles pinch off from the surface, move deeper into the cytoplasm and fuse with the lateral plasmalemma; their protein content is emptied into the intercellular space by exocytosis.
  • (9) It is suggested that the optimal way to diagnose microsporidiosis is by light microscopical examination of duodenal pinch biopsy specimens.
  • (10) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
  • (11) Analysis of the rate of functional recovery as measured by total active motion, gross grip strength, and pinch grip strength showed no significant difference between the two groups.
  • (12) Which is another reason why, independent of talent, an Argentine is more likely to make a successful go of life in Madrid, Milan, Manchester or at a pinch (as with the case of the winger Carlos Marinelli) Middlesbrough.
  • (13) The term "barons" hasn't really had any meaning since the Combination Act of 1799 ; at a pinch 1825 , when the legislation to prevent the activity of unions was passed again, in the Combination of Workmen Act.
  • (14) A temporary pinching off of the spermatic cord was carried out in 100 male Wistar rats in order to evaluate the effect of a limited period of ischaemia on the testicular parenchyma.
  • (15) It involved bringing in Kyle Beckerman alongside Jermaine Jones in the base of midfield and asking Jones to pinch in when necessary and get forward when possible.
  • (16) Neurons were first classified as on-cells if they fired faster during noxious pinch or as off-cells if they fired slower.
  • (17) The pinch technique has been found to be useful in repairing cosmetic eyelid deformities.
  • (18) It is proposed that pinch-induced immobility is mediated by both dopaminergic and cholinergic systems.
  • (19) In this article the concept of utilizing a pinched inlet channel for field-flow fractionation (FFF), in which the channel thickness is reduced over a substantial inlet segment to reduce relaxation effects and avoid stopflow, is evaluated for steric FFF using one conventional channel and two pinched inlet channels.
  • (20) Pharmacological analysis of the involvement of the brain catecholamines in tail-pinch behavior suggests that it is critically dependent on the nigrostriatal dopamine system.

Sail


Definition:

  • (n.) An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.
  • (n.) Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.
  • (n.) A wing; a van.
  • (n.) The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.
  • (n.) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
  • (n.) A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.
  • (n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power.
  • (n.) To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl.
  • (n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton.
  • (n.) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
  • (n.) To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird.
  • (v. t.) To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force.
  • (v. t.) To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.
  • (v. t.) To direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel; as, to sail one's own ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (2) Porec , a port in Istria, is a good place to learn to sail; try the marina (marina-porec@pu.tel.hr) or istra-yachting.com .
  • (3) The coke sailed up my nasal passage, leaving behind the delicious smell of a hot leather car seat on the way back from the beach.
  • (4) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
  • (5) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
  • (6) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
  • (7) Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
  • (8) "In ocean races in sailing a handicap prize is awarded as well as a line honours prize to recognise sailing skill rather than simply the newest and most expensive boat," writes Benjamin Penny.
  • (9) For most people this ship has sailed and they want to move on.
  • (10) The new royal research ship will be sailing into the world’s iciest waters to address global challenges that affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, including global warming, the melting of polar ice and rising sea levels,” he said.
  • (11) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
  • (12) Fabregas hammers it down the middle, the ball sailing slightly to the left before bulging the net.
  • (13) The SAILS offers a criterion-based means of quantifying patient functional status for both clinical and research applications.
  • (14) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
  • (15) "I don't know why," he says, but it's something that didn't even happen at his lowest ebb: amid the bleakness of the early 70s, he somehow kept sporadically producing incredible songs: Til I Die, This Whole World, Sail On Sailor… There's always touring, however.
  • (16) Back in Liverpool, however: "My great-grandfather on my mother's side was a qualified ship's captain, but was never allowed to sail out of Liverpool as such, because the crews would not take orders from a black captain.
  • (17) Ahmad boarded at roughly the same time, calling to tell his family he would be sailing for Italy that night.
  • (18) Tourists Guy and Jo from Margaret River, in Western Australia, were preparing to sail in the lagoon in a glass-bottom boat when a police officer stopped them.
  • (19) A similar surge was expected this “sailing season”, Vivian Tan, a spokeswoman for the UNHCR, told Guardian Australia.
  • (20) Some of those operations may “sail close to the wind” in terms of breaking existing laws.

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