What's the difference between rear and tear?

Rear


Definition:

  • (adv.) Early; soon.
  • (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
  • (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
  • (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
  • (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
  • (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
  • (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
  • (v. t.) To lift and take up.
  • (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
  • (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
  • (v. t.) To rouse; to stir up.
  • (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
  • (2) Laboratory-reared Ixodes scapularis Say, Amblyomma americanum (L.), and Dermacentor variabilis (Say) were fed on New Zealand white rabbits experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (JDI strain).
  • (3) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
  • (4) Maternal age had a significant effect (P less than .05) on live body weights of broilers reared either separately or intermingled.
  • (5) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
  • (6) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
  • (7) Infected ticks were reared from larvae feeding on each of 11 rabbits taken from the same site.
  • (8) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
  • (9) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
  • (10) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
  • (11) Serum somatomedin A was significantly reduced in the growth-retarded rats as compared to those whose growth was enhanced by rearing in small litters.
  • (12) This measure was significantly greater by 17.2% in chicks trained for 140 min than in dark-reared controls.
  • (13) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
  • (14) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
  • (15) In contrast, when hamsters reared under LD conditions at 25 degrees C for 12 weeks were transferred to SD, testicular regression was associated with a decrease in plasma testosterone and the total LH binding per two testes and an increase in LH binding per unit testicular weight.
  • (16) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
  • (17) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
  • (18) There were no significant differences in the adrenal weights of males or females, but females reared by bisexual pairs had larger absolute and relative adrenals than females reared in populations.
  • (19) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
  • (20) In cats that viewed lines of the same orientation with both eyes during rearing, a substantially smaller proportion of units were selective for orientation; the preferred orientations of these units also tended to match the orientation to which the cats had been exposed.

Tear


Definition:

  • (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
  • (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
  • (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  • (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
  • (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
  • (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
  • (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate.
  • (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
  • (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
  • (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
  • (2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
  • (3) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
  • (4) Recently the presence of a coating inhibitory factor was described in human tears which can prevent the binding of proteins to a solid phase.
  • (5) The typical signs of muscle tears and neuromuscular diseases in relation to normal sonomorphology are discussed.
  • (6) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
  • (7) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
  • (8) In contrast, significant tear IgG increase was observed during the rejection phenomenon.
  • (9) At least one of these manipulative tests was positive in 79% of meniscal tears.
  • (10) Tests were undertaken to study resistance to tears in laser welded dental metal alloys.
  • (11) Death, helicopter crashes and tears: nurses' career-defining moments Read more Of course, we still continue to accept and treat patients as we always have.
  • (12) Even a long tear with a stable reduced position can be expected to show good healing.
  • (13) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
  • (14) According to Israeli media reports, the US statement had caused "senior officials in Jerusalem to tear out their hair".
  • (15) The patients usually had a history of recurrent hamstring "tears."
  • (16) Egged on by Israel, Trump has threatened to tear up Obama’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
  • (17) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
  • (18) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (19) The MRI scan is a highly accurate, noninvasive modality for documentation of meniscal pathology as well as cruciate ligament tears in the knee.
  • (20) Lateral ligament tear is often associated with anterior cruciate ligament tear.

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