What's the difference between rigging and swifter?
Rigging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rig
(n.) DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.
Example Sentences:
(1) A single repeatedly reactive cDNA clone was identified, by screening with CSF antibody, sequenced, and found to be the human homologue of the rat insulinoma gene, rig.
(2) The UK, France and Germany have been accused of hypocrisy for lobbying behind the scenes to keep outmoded car tests for carbon emissions, but later publicly calling for a European investigation into Volkswagen’s rigging of car air pollution tests .
(3) After four hours Dughan sent out a team, joined them when the rig did not respond.
(4) Of course the elections will not be rigged,” he told reporters recently.
(5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
(6) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
(7) The Republican nominee also complained about what he saw as a rigged debate and insisted that he had actually bested Hillary Clinton on Monday night .
(8) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
(9) It cannot be established whether or not seasickness contributed to the cause of death in the case of the Ocean Ranger victims, but it did occur in 75% or more of TEMPSC occupants in the other four rig disasters.
(10) At 2 years 95% of the resectable, 36% of the traditional nonresectable, and 53% of RIGS nonresectable patients survived.
(11) Between them the British and the Dutch have more than two-thirds of the offshore rigs.
(12) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(13) Walker said he spent five to six a days a week chairing Barclays, after being recruited to chair the bank in the wake of the 2012 Libor-rigging scandal.
(14) According to unedited training videos seen by Sky News captured from an Isis trainer by the remnants of the Free Syrian Army, an research and development team may have produced fully working remote-controlled cars to act as mobile bombs, which they have fitted with mannequins rigged to give off heat to suggest they are human and so to evade bomb-scanning machines.
(15) The emissions-rigging scandal, which is being talked about as a corporate failure on the scale of Enron or WorldCom, extends beyond the CEO.
(16) Republicans were supposed to learn from Mitt Romney but I don’t think they did.” Allegations of rigging were widespread, even though a vote has not yet been cast, but few were willing to predict what kind of backlash there would be.
(17) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
(18) The debate about the future ownership of Royal Bank of Scotland was kickstarted on Wednesday just hours before the bank was slapped with a fine for rigging Libor.
(19) German prosecutors have launched an investigation into the former chief executive of Volkswagen as a result of the diesel emissions-rigging scandal .
(20) Extra supplies are also looming from the US, where stockpiles are growing as extra drilling rigs are put into operation.
Swifter
Definition:
(n.) A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.
(n.) A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.
(n.) The forward shroud of a lower mast.
(v. t.) To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the vulnerability of payday loan clients cries out for something swifter and clearer.
(2) These results show that 90Y pituitary implants have a cumulative effect over the years in inducing remission and hypopituitarism in acromegalic patients, the early decline in GH levels being swifter than from other forms of irradiation.
(3) Greenhalgh said London had experienced a fall in crime, but was suffering greater delays in the courts: “With fewer defendants, we should be seeing swifter justice, but we are not.” Greenhalgh said one powerful person driving the three key arms of the justice system would help on issues such as tackling the 5,000 persistent offenders who cause the most harm in London: “For the victim its not three separate agencies,”, said Greenhalgh, who also wants devolution of the youth justice system and, eventually, the probation service.
(4) Instead, her government announced that it would establish up to five “reception centres” inside Germany for the swifter processing of asylum claims and the prompt deportation of those with little chance of obtaining refugee status, mainly people from the Balkans.
(5) We have the tools and the technology to cut unnecessary paperwork, to deliver swifter justice and to make the experience more straightforward.
(6) A single injection of diaminopropane produced an extremely rapid decay of liver ornithine decarboxylase activity (half-life about 12min), which was comparable with, or swifter than, that induced by cycloheximide.
(7) The advantages of this alternate technique are that it requires only one insertion, it is a swifter procedure, it does not require the injection of dye, and it offers positive proof of tapping the two gestational sacs.
(8) This risks demonstrating to all nations that force is a swifter way to achieve your objectives than dialogue and rule of law.
(9) Police and health experts also want more accurate and swifter data from sources such as hospitals and medical examiners’ offices about non-fatal and fatal overdoses involving heroin, to identify acute drug problems or how emergency responders are dealing with the public, he said.
(10) Triazolam and zopiclone had similar effects, but zopiclone seemed to have a faster onset of action, probably indicating swifter absorption in supine subjects.
(11) That position is backed by many Seattle business owners, although some favour a swifter introduction on the grounds that it will stimulate the local economy while others are opposed to any increase.
(12) Internally it will allow swifter decision-making and better cross-platform working.
(13) Also, the replacement of PCs will be swifter than the rate of their penetration."
(14) We have one of the best legal systems in the world and are investing over £700m to reform and digitise our courts to deliver swifter justice.
(15) Questions of methodology are addressed which apply to all studies of E use and EC; these include suspicions that women under treatment with E receive swifter diagnoses of carcinoma, the misclassification of E-related hyperplasia, and the treatment of early symptoms of the tumor with E.
(16) Addressing Congressional leaders who are demanding swifter progress against Isis, Carter said on Tuesday that the troops would be based in Iraq but will have the capability to carry out raids across the border.
(17) Abbott said: "Under those assessment bilaterals the states will do all the assessment work and we hope that in the not-too-distant future we will have approvals bilaterals in place which will mean the states will not only do the assessment but will also do the approvals.” The prime minister said the new regime will mean “the same high standard of environmental approval but much less red and green tape, much less paperwork for the applicant and a much swifter outcome we hope, which means more investment and more jobs."
(18) The stapler, compared with conventional manual sutures, allows a simpler and swifter suture of the bronchial stump, reduces the contamination of the operative field, achieves uniform and tighter closure of the bronchus, leaves a better preserved terminal blood perfusion of the stump and utilizes a more tolerated sewing material with less resultant tissue inflammation.
(19) The UK’s ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch, has previously argued that a UK-US free trade agreement would be swifter to achieve than TTIP, which has not yet been completed after three and a half years of negotiations, because agricultural policy is less of a hurdle in the UK.
(20) And while it is true that it all feels shinier and swifter than in the days before privatisation, that was after years of under investment.