What's the difference between reck and ruck?

Reck


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.
  • (v. t.) To concern; -- used impersonally.
  • (v. i.) To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) DNA sequence data were used to examine phylogenetic relationships between six species of economically important Tetranychidae mites: Eotetranychus carpini (Oudemans), E. pruni (Reck), Tetranychus pacificus McGregor, T. mcdanieli McGregor, T. turkestani Ugarov & Nikolski and T. urticae Koch.
  • (2) Stampy also guest-stars in Maker’s new YouTube show for children, Meet Me at the Reck , which launched this week.

Ruck


Definition:

  • (n.) A roc.
  • (v. t. & i.) To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.
  • (v. t.) A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.
  • (v. i.) To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
  • (n.) A heap; a rick.
  • (n.) The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
  • (2) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
  • (3) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
  • (4) You see, I have a lot of truck with the sack of ruck.
  • (5) Farrelly's question had concerned the effectiveness of legislation to protect the freedom of the press in the wake of Trafigura and Carter-Ruck obtaining the original injunction, which banned any references to the Minton report on the alleged dumping in Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.
  • (6) Increased risk of injury was related to the following factors: 98% of injuries occurred in matches and 81% were incurred by adults; 69% of injuries occurred in age-group A team or senior first team players; and 57% of injuries occurred in the tackle situation and 39% in scrums, rucks and mauls.
  • (7) It was on 11 September that Carter-Ruck, the libel specialists employed by the London-based trading company, first went to court to get an emergency super-injunction preventing the Guardian from publishing the Minton report.
  • (8) Proposals being circulated online included plans for a protest outside the offices of Carter-Ruck.
  • (9) The Guardian had been prevented from publishing a parliamentary question from MP Paul Farrelly about the effectiveness of legislation to protect the freedom of the press in the wake of a high court injunction obtained by Trafigura and Carter-Ruck "on the publication of the Minton report".
  • (10) It asked about the injunction obtained by "Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton Report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast , commissioned by Trafigura".
  • (11) In view of the seriousness of this, will you accept representations from me over this matter and consider whether Carter-Ruck's behaviour constitutes a potential contempt of parliament?"
  • (12) Peter Bottomley, Tory MP for Worthing West, threatened to report Carter-Ruck to the Law Society.
  • (13) And even if they try, Carter-Ruck can probably issue a gagging order that follows them into the afterlife and kicks their larynx off its hinges.
  • (14) MPs debated how Carter-Ruck had been able to stop the Guardian reporting a parliamentary question tabled by the Labour MP Paul Farrelly relating to an injunction awarded by Trafigura.
  • (15) Tommy Bowe scored their first try, linking brilliantly with Jared Payne down the right, before Francois van der Merwe leapt over a ruck for the second after brilliant breaks by Payne and Gilroy.
  • (16) This PDF document is the 'super-injunction' which Trafigura and Carter-Ruck used to gag the Guardian (and "persons unknown") on September 11.
  • (17) Cameron Doley, managing partner with Carter-Ruck, denied that his firm had any involvement with Mosley, who he said was not a client.
  • (18) Brown spoke after Conservative Peter Bottomley told MPs he was reporting Carter-Ruck , the law firm that acted on behalf of Trafigura, to the Law Society, saying that no lawyers should be able to inhibit the reporting of parliament.
  • (19) Carter-Ruck agreed to release the Guardian from the injunction on Friday night after the existence of the Minton report into the disaster, commissioned by Trafigura, was revealed in parliament.
  • (20) Privilege was never better used than in the case of the oil-trading firm Trafigura , which hired British lawyers Carter-Ruck to gain a superinjunction against journalists who sought to investigate the firm's behaviour in attempting to cover up a massive dumping of toxic waste off Ivory Coast.

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