What's the difference between salve and satisfy?

Salve


Definition:

  • (interj.) Hail!
  • (v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.
  • (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
  • (n.) A soothing remedy or antidote.
  • (n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
  • (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
  • (v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Complete atrio-ventricular block, and salves of ventricular premature beats were the most serious rhythm disturbances.
  • (2) They include chemical methods, such as suppositories, gels, salves, or foams which contain spermicidal substances, but these can be used only as long as there is no injury to the vagina.
  • (3) This is not merely too little too late, but it is also a slap in the face of all those who were hoping for some kind of salve on their wounds," said Nitiyanand Jayaraman, of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.
  • (4) But if you will stay and listen to the story, then together we may find salve for our wounded souls.
  • (5) Lagophthalmos and exposure keratitis resolved or were significantly improved in all patients, and most were able to dispense with eyedrops and salves.
  • (6) 97 per cent of the patients were discharged from the hospital with a salved limb, the one year patency was 76 per cent and one year limb survival 90 per cent.
  • (7) A cable car runs from Hopfgarten to the top of the Hohe Salve in the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental ski area.
  • (8) In a family of 9 persons over 3 generations, 6 had incessant polymorphic ventricular extrasystoles, often in salves, resembling unsustained bidirectional ventricular tachycardia.
  • (9) Top-rate Isas pay only 3%, so switching means savers lose little to salve their conscience.
  • (10) She believed that only total victory would salve her reputation, and no compromise that rewarded aggression could be tolerated.
  • (11) Though urea creams provided relief from itching in neurodermatitis, their use after treatment of eczema with fat-containing salves caused burning sensations.
  • (12) They’re actually so beautiful, the kind of movement from one note to the next; they’re like salves,” he says.
  • (13) Chinese patients preferred external agents (salves, oils, massage, etc.)
  • (14) For the older customer – sorry, patient – with a less sweet tooth, there are sprays, topical salves and even bath salts.
  • (15) Larvae were held in either 24-well culture plates with media plus penicillin, streptomycin sulfate, nystatin, and chloramphenicol or in small salve jars on Perlite and media plus the same antibiotics.
  • (16) The most dangerous player in all of this is Ivanka herself – poised, polished, telegenic and continually trotted out as salve for her father’s explicit sexism.
  • (17) It has previously been reported as a contact sensitizer from its use as a sun screen in a lip salve.
  • (18) Use of these salves repeated every second enabled the authors to demonstrate two types of changes in cortical excitability after intermittent photic stimulation: 1. responses which were more frequent and of greater amplitude appearing in the first 3 or 4 seconds after IPS; after paralysis of the animal amplitude and frequency of the responses are augmented.
  • (19) Wounded in spirit, South Sudan's people need the salve of mutual forgiveness | Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala Read more The council’s 15 members demanded Kiir and Machar “genuinely commit themselves to the full and immediate implementation of the peace agreement, including the permanent ceasefire and redeployment of military forces from Juba”.
  • (20) Apple however has little reason to salve these complaints.

Satisfy


Definition:

  • (a.) In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.
  • (a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.
  • (a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.
  • (a.) To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.
  • (v. i.) To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.
  • (v. i.) To make payment or atonement; to atone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (2) Follow-up for half of the cases operated extended up to 2 years, the longest being up to 5 years, showed that 96% of the patients were satisfied.
  • (3) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (4) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
  • (5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (6) Most respondents (46, 95%) were satisfied with life in general.
  • (7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
  • (8) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
  • (9) Twenty-two of them could be shown to satisfy the Poisson law.
  • (10) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (11) Epidemiological criteria for a causal association between snoring and vascular disease have not been satisfied.
  • (12) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
  • (13) Whereas on the Self-Cathexis Scale, 45% (N = 9) were satisfied and 55% (N = 11) were dissatisfied with self.
  • (14) Response latency has been shown to satisfy the first two of these conditions.
  • (15) He was also satisfied he had joined in racist chanting.
  • (16) If you can't give them everything at once, you may be able to satisfy at least some of the items on their wish list.
  • (17) Thus, despite the apparently higher level of pyruvate production in the NPC, exogenous pyruvate is necessary to satisfy the metabolic needs of NPC.
  • (18) Pain relief was very good, and the patients were generally satisfied.
  • (19) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
  • (20) The most important basis for evaluating an assistive device is whether it satisfies the needs of the disabled consumer.