What's the difference between remonstration and straightedge?

Remonstration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of remonstrating; remonstrance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most worrying of all, despite the head's spluttered remonstration, the parent didn't seem to get the point that school comes first.
  • (2) Incensed by Sánchez, he went to remonstrate with Dean.
  • (3) She’s the anti-Christ,” one woman remonstrated with the media pen.
  • (4) One man, who was held back by his girlfriend, remonstrated with a group breaking into a Lidl supermarket after discovering his car had been reduced to a burnt-out shell.
  • (5) Shortly after 4pm there was a brief lull when Father Hugh Mullan, a 40-year-old priest who lived in Springfield Park, remonstrated with the crowds.
  • (6) He remonstrated with the referee, Martin Atkinson, after the sending off of Glenn Whelan with Stoke leading 1-0.
  • (7) Wenger was still remonstrating with a touchline official about some perceived wrong from several minutes earlier when United hit them with a third knockout blow, Nani leaving Lehmann for dead with a left-foot shot that snuck under him and into the far right corner.
  • (8) When other teenagers surround him to remonstrate, he draws his gun.
  • (9) With the target clearly in sight and Jürgen Klopp remonstrating furiously with the fourth official because he believed the ball had gone out of play earlier in the move, Tottenham’s leading scorer delayed his shot far too long and practically invited Dejan Lovren to stick a foot in the way.
  • (10) The DFS alleged last week that one senior banker remonstrated with a US colleague using the words "you fucking Americans" when warned of the potential breaches of US sanctions.
  • (11) Charlotte Brontë remonstrated with the critic George Henry Lewes.
  • (12) But, most disturbingly, black Americans were dying at a disproportionate rate and this only inflamed their indignation, as one black private remonstrated: "You should see for yourself how the black man is being treated over here and the way we are dying.
  • (13) He remonstrates: A unitary board will not work because the board of governors of the BBC [which preceded the BBC Trust] helped create the culture in which these huge payments were made.
  • (14) The manager, Adam Koskoff, was hit with eggs when he went outside to remonstrate.
  • (15) Coogan is remonstrating with Brydon for his stereotyped impression of a northern accent.
  • (16) He took my remonstrance in good part, but the sad thing is that "demerging" is not only a word, it's exactly the right sort of term to apply to the English heritage industry, which, whatever else we may wish to believe about it, is potentially big business, and therefore subject entirely to the same calculus of profit as our other formerly public services.
  • (17) Hodgson was remonstrating with the fourth official even as Welbeck scored England's third goal moments later and the forward took up his complaints with Kruzliak again on the final whistle, claiming he had not heard the whistle.
  • (18) The atmosphere was tense and when Martino jumped from the bench to remonstrate with the match officials, the Brazilian referee sent him off.
  • (19) Surely, after hearing it, the crowd would surge forwards and carry me on their shoulders, from our hotel in Brighton maybe even as far as Westminster (stopping off at the Pease Pottage Services ), where we would nail our Grand Remonstrance to the doors of parliament itself.
  • (20) Wenger, who waited for the referee at the final whistle to remonstrate with him, said: "It's not a surprise the referee didn't book a single Barcelona player.

Straightedge


Definition:

  • (n.) A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cut surfaces of whiskers were different for electric as compared with straightedge razors.

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