What's the difference between rubstone and whetstone?
Rubstone
Definition:
(n.) A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
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Whetstone
Definition:
(n.) A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.
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(1) The selection of diamond-coates whetstones manufactured by Chirana for turbine drills is extended at present by two new types of toods with a different size of diamond particles.
(2) Google has done more than almost any other company to help tackle online piracy,” Rachel Whetstone, the former adviser to Conservative leader Michael Howard who is now Google’s senior vice president global communications, responded.
(3) Whetstone wrote: “ Given the tone of some of your publications, that made quite a few people chuckle ” and followed the comment with a gif of a baby laughing.
(4) Collins was promoted in mid June to take over Whetstone's role.
(5) He is married to Rachel Whetstone, who used to advise Michael Howard and is now a very big cheese at board level in Google.
(6) Whetstone is married to Steve Hilton, who was Cameron’s director of strategy from 2005 until 2012.
(7) Whetstone admitted that Google makes more than 500 changes a year to its algorithms, but only to improve user experience.
(8) His close friend Rachel Whetstone, another former special adviser who works as Howard's political secretary, is the most influential member of the Tory leader's immediate team.
(9) Rachel Whetstone, the Briton who has been head of communications and public policy at Google for several years, has been poached by Uber for a similar role.
(10) Whetstone said that last year Google removed 222m web pages that broke copyright rules, with an average take down time of six hours.
(11) One leading member of the set argues that two key appointments to Howard's office, made on Whetstone's recommendation after he won the leadership, show that she does not push a clique.
(12) Before starting her career with Google in Europe in 2005, Whetstone was Michael Howard’s chief of staff after he became Conservative leader in 2003.
(13) Whetstone’s appointment was first reported by Recode .
(14) It’s why we remove malware from our search results and other products.” Whetstone’s blog post poked fun at Thomson’s assertion that by undermining the “basic business model of professional content creators” such as News Corp, Google was helping create a “less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue”, with the result that “intemperate trends” across Europe would proliferate.
(15) Hilton is married to Cameron's long-time friend Rachel Whetstone.
(16) He shares godparenting duties to Cameron's first child with Whetstone.
(17) We agree about free expression and the importance of high quality content,” said Whetstone.
(18) George Bridges, a former adviser to John Major who now runs the Tory "grid" which sets out party announcements hour-by-hour, is close to Howard and a close friend of Whetstone and Cameron.
(19) As part of the reorganisation, Rachel Whetstone, Google's European head of communications and former political secretary to Michael Howard, moved to the US to take the role of vice-president of communications and public affairs for Google.
(20) He joined Conservative Central Office on graduation, working alongside a young Cameron, and Whetstone.