What's the difference between rending and ripping?

Rending


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rend

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Or perhaps we could focus on the relationship of Leia and Solo, now married, and there could be a heart-rendingly poignant study of their elderly existence together, rather like Michael Haneke's Amour , but set in space.
  • (2) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
  • (3) It reads , in part: “These young people, who have come to learn how to strive against the propagation of stereotypes, from people who only see in immigration a source of illegality, social conflict and violence, can contribute much to show the world a Church, without borders, as Mother of all; a church that extends to the world the culture of solidarity and care for the people and families that are affected many times by heart-rending circumstances.” Carroll said: “It is wonderful to know that he was touched by the letters we wrote him and hopefully those letters will inspire him as he prepares to come to the US.
  • (4) He flew to Kuala Lumpur for the public service marking the first anniversary of the plane’s disappearance, and was moved by a “heart-rending” speech given by Grace Subathirai Nathan, whose mother was on the plane and who continues to speak on behalf of the families of missing passengers.
  • (5) Climate change is also contributing to the heart-rending refugee crisis.
  • (6) On Sunday, Kassig’s parents released in full the heart-rending letter their son wrote to them from captivity.
  • (7) Dr John Doherty Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire • Marty Feldman turned the French text on HP sauce ( Letters , 16 January) into a heart-rending chanson.
  • (8) She has drawn up an illustration of Malcolm's dizzyingly complex 'web of care' and gives a heart-rending account of the challenges they faced with different types of care Malcolm needed.
  • (9) A method is proposed to induce chemically the incorporation of bacterial agents inot enamel and thus rende this tissue resistant to bacterial colonization.
  • (10) Binding of antibodies to hemopoietic cells rends their idiotypic determinants major immunogens even in the presence of tolerance to constant region epitopes.
  • (11) "The Hellenic republic today is in heart-rending turmoil, a humiliating sovereign debt crisis has brought Greece to the brink of absolute ruin.
  • (12) It is the blistering, heart-rending story of two people finding each other and trying to heal themselves through love.
  • (13) This report lays bare the heart-rending, prolonged suffering of civilians in Afghanistan, who continue to bear the brunt of the armed conflict and live in insecurity and uncertainty over whether a trip to a bank, a tailoring class, to a court room or a wedding party, may be their last,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
  • (14) I get these heart-rending letters with some awful stories."
  • (15) There is the squeezing type contraction in which the network contracts to a single small clump with gradual expulsion of solution material, and the rending type contraction in which the network tears itself into a number of separate pieces.
  • (16) We are supporting her family at this very difficult time, and will be providing support for friends and colleagues from the constabulary as we come to terms with the loss of an officer in such tragic and heart-rending circumstances.
  • (17) Numerous technical problems concerning dosage methodologies are encountered especially with angiotensin II determination and must rend cautious when interpreting data.
  • (18) The existence of different centromere stages in different cell types, rends Parascaris chromosomes a very good model to study centromere organization.
  • (19) Tumour recurrence rends to be localized in the anterior commissure and sometimes infiltrates into the prelaryngeal area.
  • (20) Authors advise a strict prevention of acute rend failure and early grafting.

Ripping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rip

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (2) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
  • (3) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
  • (4) Instead he ripped out the phone, left the couple and fled empty-handed with his accomplices.
  • (5) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
  • (6) The distribution of derepression among castrated recombinant inbred strains (9 X A) indicated a close link of a locus repressing I-P-450(16 alpha) in male mice to the Rip locus on chromosome 7.
  • (7) It rips at our souls every single time we look the results,” said Winters, who was paid $12.8m, including a $10m buy-out award .
  • (8) Conformation of the renin inhibitor peptide, Pro-His-Pro-Phe-His-Phe-Phe-Val-Tyr-Lys (RIP) has been studied in aqueous solution and in lipid bilayers using 500 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy.
  • (9) In chronic liver disease the frequency of HBAg with the RIP method was 83.3% in chronic persistent hepatitis, 42.8% in chronic aggressive hepatitis, 23% in cryptogenic cirrhosis and 16.6% in alcoholic cirrhosis.
  • (10) The former is an RNAase, whereas RIPs are N-glycosidases.
  • (11) Using interferon in the pretreatment sample as a measure of RIP concentration, a semilog plot of the pretreatment interferon titer and interferon subsequently produced, resulted in an approximately linear relationship between 10 and 100 units of interferon in the pretreatment sample.
  • (12) Clubs got into a mess partly because rich people, who knew nothing about football, put money in - and they got ripped off."
  • (13) Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are a group of proteins that inhibit protein synthesis in eucaryotic cells.
  • (14) Response The DfE ripped up the first draft, replacing it with technology-based programme that includes 3-D printers in secondary classrooms, while primary school pupils will design and test structures and circuits.
  • (15) These results demonstrate that the RIP phenomenon can be a source of new functional alleles.
  • (16) "Around 2009, when Twilight was huge and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were wearing ripped jeans, that look was big, though it wasn't really from the catwalk," he said.
  • (17) Toward this goal performance in two 30-min rapid information processing (RIP) trials separated by a 10-min smoking period was compared among preselected high and low CO absorbing smokers, nonsmokers, and smokers not allowed to smoke (n = 12 per group).
  • (18) Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said: "The Lords today have ripped the heart out of this deeply flawed flagship bill.
  • (19) In 10 patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome, we studied the effects on respiratory system mechanics of two levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), best PEEP (BP) and half of this value (HBP), using a respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP) combined with a super syringe.
  • (20) The regulator, Monitor, is partly constrained from letting competition rip.