What's the difference between salve and slave?

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.

Slave


Definition:

  • (n.) See Slav.
  • (n.) A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
  • (n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
  • (n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
  • (n.) An abject person; a wretch.
  • (v. i.) To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
  • (v. t.) To enslave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
  • (2) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
  • (3) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
  • (4) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
  • (5) The transformation of the global slave trade from a high-cost, slow-recruitment business to a low-cost, rapid-recruitment one is driving criminal interest in trafficking and slavery, which is why it is permeating every corner of the global economy.
  • (6) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
  • (7) Northup eventually detailed his experiences in a book, also titled Twelve Years a Slave , which helped historians build a picture of the slave experience at the time.
  • (8) She was repeatedly raped, beaten and “treated like a slave” throughout her teenage years.
  • (9) As well as World War Z, Plan B has also produced 12 Years A Slave , the much-lauded slave drama released in the UK on January 10.
  • (10) Pathological changes indicate that the cemetery contained individuals representing two slave occupational groups, house servants and laborers.
  • (11) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
  • (12) It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.” The pamphlet added that it was also permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female slaves, “for they are merely property, which can be disposed of”.
  • (13) From the steel mines where child slaves gather surgical steel, all the way up to senior doctors working 36 hours on no sleep, the most healthy people in the NHS are actually the patients.
  • (14) The report said Isis had begun holding online slave auctions with an encrypted application to circulate photos of captured Yazidi women and girls.
  • (15) The much anticipated landslide for Steve McQueen's powerful slavery drama 12 Years A Slave did not materialise, although it gained a single and respectfully prominent win as best film (drama).
  • (16) Alfonso Cuarón has won the best director Oscar for Gravity at the 86th Academy Awards, defeating a field that included 12 Years a Slave's Steve McQueen, Nebraska's Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street.
  • (17) The details of her biography presented here are not as well known--especially the subsequent course of her illness and treatment and her struggle against prostitution and the white slave trade, the latter carried on with special fascination.
  • (18) But making immigration work for everyone and not just a few means people should contribute before they claim and we should never, ever allow companies to undercut wages and conditions of workers here by paying slave wages to those brought in from overseas.” Miliband also criticised the prime minister for his failure to commit to TV debates during the general election campaign, claiming Cameron was desperate because he “knows he has failed”.
  • (19) "She said she is going to be sold as a slave this afternoon, for $10," Kaliph said, his tears dropping into the brown dust.
  • (20) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.