What's the difference between railroad and rounder?

Railroad


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Railway

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A review of all railroad-related deaths and significant injuries that occurred in a medium-sized metropolitan area from January 1, 1979, to June 30, 1986, was conducted.
  • (2) And in the 1840s, American railroads began designating a “ladies’ car” for the exclusive use of women and their male escorts.
  • (3) Officers took up positions on rooftops and along railroad tracks and scanned the terrain through rifle scopes and binoculars.
  • (4) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
  • (5) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
  • (6) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
  • (7) He said police reports in Sweden showed SW had told a friend, Marie Thorn, that she felt police and others around her "railroaded her" into pressing charges.
  • (8) Manuel said Obama had done this by designating large landscapes as well as places significant to landmark social movements, including labor activist Cesar Chavez’s home ; the Stonewall Inn , where a 1969 police raid kicked off a new front in the LGBT equality movement; and a park dedicated to the work of Harriet Tubman , a former slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
  • (9) A total of 25 male railroad and underground railroad car painters were studied.
  • (10) horns of cars, sirens of emergency vehicles and alarm signals of railroad crossings, and then displays them as vibration to the driver.
  • (11) With the epizootic situation remaining tense and the danger of TBE virus infection still present, TBE morbidity and mortality rates decreased in the years of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railroad, which was due to greater attention given to measures for the prophylaxis of TBE during this period.
  • (12) Exposure, smoking, and respiratory histories, chest radiographs, flow-volume loops, and single breath DLCOs were obtained on 383 railroad workers.
  • (13) On the basis of 1518 values of concentration of glycosylated Hb in blood of workers responsible for safety in railroad transportation authors tried to calculate the range of normal values of this parameter.
  • (14) Metro North and the Long Island Railroad remain closed today.
  • (15) The majority are railroaded into the so-called sport from massively disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • (16) An adaptation of the Palmes personal passive sampler was used to measure the NO2 exposures of 477 U.S. railroad workers at four railroads.
  • (17) The study indicates a causal relation between urinary stone formation in the investigated railroad shopmen and their exposure to oxalic acid at work.
  • (18) The 44-year-old railroad worker grew up on the other side of the canal where Paris Avenue meets Treasure Street, a few blocks from Elysian Fields Avenue.
  • (19) Data from white adult men working for U.S. railroad companies in 1957 to 1960, who were free of pre-existing cardiovascular disease (N = 2,356), were used to study these relationships cross-sectionally.
  • (20) Our findings are similar; they showed slight positive signs of slowed nerve conduction velocities among the car painters and no increase in EEG abnormalities in comparison to the reference group of railroad engineers.

Rounder


Definition:

  • (n.) A tool for making an edge or surface round.
  • (n.) One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
  • (n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) British commentators, famously, do not nurture stars; they mistrust the able and reserve especial snootiness for the multi-able, as if to be a good all-rounder is, yet, to be a master of none.
  • (2) For someone who has called out Miguel Cotto, Liam Smith made surprisingly hard work of beating an opponent whose first bout of 2015 was a four-rounder in a small hall in Lancashire.
  • (3) Granule cells differentiation, as judged by the transformation of polymorph, darkly staining small cells into rounder, lightly staining larger granule cells, follows the same gradient from the external dentate limb to the internal dentate limb.
  • (4) As an all-rounder, he is the best right-sided player on the planet.
  • (5) Multivariate analysis of variance showed that culture time and subject group had significant effects: changes during macrophage development were less marked in the patient group, nucleoli were fewer, rounder and possibly smaller than normal.
  • (6) In his dust blue suit and shimmering yellow tie, he is rounder than he was in 2008 (eating too many of his children's leftovers).
  • (7) While some of the cells had their secretory granules located basally and a long narrow part extending toward the lumen, many appeared rounder and the plane of the section did not indicate that they extended to the lumen.
  • (8) Nasa geologists said the rounder shape of some of the pebbles suggested they had travelled long distances from above the crater rim.
  • (9) Incubation of stromal cells with a mixture of estradiol, medroxyprogesterone acetate and relaxin, at a concentration reported to yield maximal stimulation of PRL production, resulted in changes from elongated to rounder cells, approx.
  • (10) The better the impression material fills the ear canal, the rounder the tip of the impression, and the rounder the tip of the earmould made from the impression.
  • (11) For greater long or short axes of the detected nodes, or for rounder nodes, the metastasis rate was higher.
  • (12) The early word was that GTA IV would scale back the excesses of San Andreas and provide a rounder, more succinctly inhabited game experience.
  • (13) These small cells were larger and rounder than those of the SCG.
  • (14) The jazz-loving, heroically cigarette-smoking, Hull City-supporting Plater was a populist all-rounder with more than 300 assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and films (his screenplay for DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy, directed by Christopher Miles in 1970, is probably his best) as well as journalism, six novels, broadcasting and teaching.
  • (15) Over this pressure range, the bulges in the spindle-shaped structures in the monolayer became rounder in shape and the number of openings on the surface was apparently greater at 22 mm Hg than at 15 and 8 mm Hg.
  • (16) Those in the remaining renal tubules, which are lipid-free, were rounder and less uniform in size.
  • (17) Two centennial CD releases encapsulate the arguments: one out this week is a 3CD set from the Smithsonian Institution and the other is an extraordinary project in the pipeline at Rounder Records that will culminate in seven CDs and a book by the label's founder, Bill Nowlin.
  • (18) The stromal fraction cells were initially fusiform and proliferated; in culture, they accumulated lipid inclusions, became rounder and acquired an eccentric nucleus.
  • (19) The dividing trophozoite has daughter cells that are rounder than the pleomorphic, non-dividing trophozoites.
  • (20) Samples from the forage-crop region contained more organic material, a greater water soluble fraction and had particles that were, on average, smaller and rounder than particles from the grain district.