What's the difference between rase and raze?

Rase


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
  • (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
  • (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
  • (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
  • (n.) A scratching out, or erasure.
  • (n.) A slight wound; a scratch.
  • (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Randomized, blinded review of RASE and SE sequences from 20 patients was conducted to evaluate qualitative performance.
  • (2) A complete labour physiology and psychology laboratory has been designed and set up for the purpose of unifying the methods of physiological and psychological investigations, standardizing measurements procedures and rasing the effectiveness of examinations.
  • (3) Since nonlinear stress-strain properties were not included, subglottal pressure did not produce a pronounced effect upon fundamental frequency under these somewhat edealized conditions F0 rasing correlated strongly with increased tension in the ligament, and somewhat with increasing tension in the vocalis.
  • (4) The dynamic contrast-enhanced RASE technique resulted in contrast-to-noise and contrast-to-artifact values and time efficiency measures significantly greater (P less than .05) than those obtained with use of conventional T1- and T2-weighted pulse sequences, indicating a higher likelihood for lesion detectability.
  • (5) Accordingly, the authors compared four breath-hold T2 or T2* weighted sequences comprising T2*-weighted FLASH, T2*-weighted PSIF, T2-weighted rapid spin echo (RASE), and T2-weighted Turbo-FLASH (Turbo) in 20 different healthy volunteers, 10 at 1.0 T and 10 at 1.5 T with reference to regular T2-weighted spin echo.
  • (6) The RASE sequence was implemented in conjunction with rapid intravenous injection of gadopentetate dimeglumine to enable performance of dynamic contrast material-enhanced MR imaging of the liver.
  • (7) We have investigated this protein by using a synthetic peptide corresponding to the 11 amino acids adjacent to the amino-terminal methionine and rasing antisera in rabbits.
  • (8) There is no reason to accept an ince rase of urinary tract infections by oral contraception.
  • (9) RASE is an easily implemented imaging technique that utilizes widely available existing technology.
  • (10) In the cases with intralesional resections the tumors were diligently curatted and the resulting bone cavity was shaved with a rase.
  • (11) In the 70s, however, Kennard’s simpler, starker imagery sought to rase awareness of human rights violations in Chile and Northern Ireland.
  • (12) Excellent to good performances for phase-encoding artifact reduction, edge sharpness, and overall image quality were recorded for 89%, 88%, and 86% of RASE examinations, respectively, versus 41%, 59%, and 47% of conventional SE examinations, respectively.
  • (13) In steroidogenic tissues of the developing hen, specially in the right ovary, 5 beta reductase (Rase) increases after hatching.
  • (14) The rapid acquisition spin-echo (RASE) technique combines a short repetition time, a short echo time, and a single excitation pulse sequence with half-Fourier data sampling.
  • (15) Measurements obtained from volunteers and with phantoms reveal that RASE images have a lower signal-to-noise ratio and contrast-to-noise ratio than do conventional multiacquisition spin-echo (SE) images due to reduced data acquisition.
  • (16) Images obtained with RASE were devoid of respiratory-related ghost artifacts or edge blurring.
  • (17) Rapid acquisition spin-echo (RASE) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging allows for coverage of the entire liver with highly T1-weighted SE images during a single 23-second breath-holding period.
  • (18) A relationship between ALAs and Rase curves during embryonic development of the left ovary and the adrenal suggests that 5 beta pregnanedione is a natural inducer of ALAs in these functional endocrine glands, at least during their embryonic stages.

Raze


Definition:

  • (n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
  • (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
  • (v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (2) MSF said the village of Lekongole has been razed to the ground.
  • (3) Helicopter crews have reported that entire villages have been razed there.
  • (4) His village was later razed and he felt too traumatised to return, he said.
  • (5) As a newly appointed prime minister in 1999, before becoming president on New Year's Day 2000, he began with a war in Chechnya , brutally suppressing an armed insurrection against Moscow's rule in the north Caucasus and razing the provincial capital, Grozny.
  • (6) The provisional structures that have been built in the area, including shops, cafes, churches and mosques, will all be razed as part of efforts to clear regions of the camp next to a motorway leading to the port, where there have been clashes with police.
  • (7) What is known is that a number of villages, including Likuangole, were razed to the ground.
  • (8) The massacre at Sharpeville , the first trial of Nelson Mandela , the razing of the black township of Sophiatown , signalled a regime prepared to shoot, jail or exile its opponents – and as Nakasa said, to bore the rest to death.
  • (9) When Katniss stands in the rubble of her district razed to the ground, it could be parts of Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan.
  • (10) The last one – a magnitude 8.1 in 1934 – razed around a quarter of Kathmandu to the ground and killed 17,000 people.
  • (11) Up to 15 people are thought to have been killed and more than 160 injured after a massive explosion and fire tore through a fertiliser plant and razed dozens of homes in a small Texas town on Wednesday night.
  • (12) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
  • (13) Moses wanted to extend Fifth Avenue through the square, ostensibly to ease congestion in Greenwich Village's dense maze of streets, but also to reward developers building on 10 blocks he'd razed to the south.
  • (14) Author deals with the possiblity of determination of various razes.
  • (15) But it is the first such modern museum in Poland , devoted to the 63-day insurrection in August and September 1944 that left 200,000 dead and incurred a terrible revenge when the Nazis methodically razed Warsaw.
  • (16) The result has been to raze the platform of the governing socialist party to a charred mess.
  • (17) Andy Warhol's first Factory location was razed in the late 1960s.
  • (18) But I don’t think this gets to the heart of why the razing of the temple rightly matters so much to us, and why such concerns can be as powerful as the ones we have for individual lives.
  • (19) First is that it goes the way of Badia East, razed for high-rises, or Bar Beach, site of a massive land reclamation project that is turning nine square kilometres of Atlantic Ocean into what developers are touting as “the Manhattan of west Africa”, a residential and commercial mini-city called Eko Atlantic .
  • (20) Britain can now boast its place as the world’s leading internet economy, but if no action is taken, our success stories could be razed to the ground.