What's the difference between rasp and raspy?

Rasp


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
  • (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.
  • (v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
  • (v.) The raspberry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were two recipient-site complications, with one case of complete bone resorption that occurred in a densely fibrotic nose with preexisting septal perforation and a case of overcorrection that was successfully rasped 1 year later.
  • (2) 8.46pm BST 44 min: Joe Allen tries to double his tally of career goals for Liverpool with a rasping effort from the corner of the penalty area.
  • (3) A cigarette dangled from my lips as I rasped away at the audience.
  • (4) Sunderland were back in it after only 16 minutes, when that dodgy back line went awol as John Mensah headed in Andy Reid's cross, then equality was restored by Henderson's rasping finish.
  • (5) Both laboratory tests on variously prepared specimens of cement and clinical experiences demonstrate that recementing over old cement is a practical alternative if the technique employed includes the removal of blood from the old cement surface, rasping of this surface and the early application of fresh cement.
  • (6) "It was stupid," she says, in her distinctive Mediterranean rasp.
  • (7) In a subsequent series of 68 patients (52 males, 16 females) who had 81 meniscal repairs by means of the rasp for parameniscal synovial abrasion, the failure rate was 9%.
  • (8) Not for Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carle Raspe, who are all dead.
  • (9) Vardy scored one and he might have added a second with a rasping drive after the break.
  • (10) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."
  • (11) So, Rasping procedure was effective for type I and type II valve degeneration.
  • (12) We identified the presence in the Aleutian skate, Bathyraja aleutica, of two classes of immunoglobulins (Ig), a high molecular weight Ig analogous to mammalian IgM and a low molecular weight Ig, similarly to the spiny rasp skate, Raja kenojei, (Kobayashi, K. et al., Mol.
  • (13) By the latter half of the decade, her body was wasted, her voice weathered down to a hoarse rasp, and Strange Fruit was the only song that seemed to dignify her suffering, wrapping her own decline in a wider American tragedy.
  • (14) He drops a shoulder, cuts inside, and unleashes a rasping, rising drive, the ball only just missing the top-right corner.
  • (15) A new nasal rasp has been developed from tungsten-carbide steel and is available in eight different cutting grits.
  • (16) The rasp appears to be the safest and most effective method to gain vascularity for healing of meniscus repairs.
  • (17) "Cannes has always been a useful idiot for Hollywood," explains Toback, rasping down the line from his apartment in New York.
  • (18) Log survivorship curves of interval data from both intact animals and isolated CNS indicate that the pattern of motor output is controlled by at least two processes, one generating intervals between rasps within a bout, and the other generating intervals between bouts of rasping.
  • (19) SEM shows certain basic features such as spines in the oral sucker and the acetabulum which may facilitate rasping and attachment of the parasite to stay in the bloodstream of the definitive host.
  • (20) Standup Terry Alderton argued aloud with his demonic subconscious; Nick Helm 's rasping fury barely concealed a need to be loved; Cariad Lloyd had great fun seeking a father figure in the front row.

Raspy


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Danny takes on a high-pitched, raspy tone when he speaks in Tony's voice, and he curls one of his index fingers up and down in time to Tony's lines.
  • (2) It is the abnormal production of sound, perceived as raspiness, breathiness, harshness, vocal tension, or lower pitched voice.
  • (3) The clinical signs in both dogs consisted primarily of acute onset, rapid breathing, and raspy lung sounds.
  • (4) There are different supply limits for in-state and out-of-state customers; different tax rates for medicinal and recreational customers and a host of different strains, tinctures and medibles (“edibles that are medicinal”) that compete with a new concentrated form of marijuana called wax The wide eyes and raspy voices on both sides of the counter suggest locals have less difficulty working out where to start, but visitors looking to consume rather than gawp also have to grapple with a ban on smoking in public places, cars and hotels which has so far mostly prevented the opening of Amsterdam-style coffee shops.
  • (5) Can we not leave?’” Bakshi, 32, says she feels well whenever she goes abroad, so is certain it is Delhi’s air that makes her chest grow tight and her breathing raspy.
  • (6) With her raspy voice and brash New York accent, she turned the red carpet of the Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes into a stalking ground for E!
  • (7) I also love the original version of Irresistible Bitch , from about 1982, which is a very dark disco tune with growly, raspy vocals.
  • (8) The raspy-voiced blonde with the brash New York accent was a TV talk show host, stage, film and TV actress, fashion critic, and she sold a line of jewelry.
  • (9) This systolic murmur is characterised by its exceptional intensity, its raspy character at the base, becoming softer at the apex and in the axilla, the presence of a thrill and irradiation into the neck in 50 to 75% of cases.
  • (10) Photo, guys?” she asks strangers in a raspy voice.