What's the difference between scouring and shearing?

Scouring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scour

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said the ongoing Australian-led search had already scoured 43% of the high-priority area.
  • (2) The new development, which the Californian technology giant dubs "real-time search", aims to bring users more up-to-date information as they scour the web for information.
  • (3) Three cases of dairy herds affected by production disease (infertility, calf scours and low milk yield) were carried out.
  • (4) Chances are both online and instore is a worth scouring if girls are looking for cut-price designer dresses.
  • (5) This study was initiated to determine the etiologic and pathogenic significance of an American strain of bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) virus (strain NADL-MD) in enteritis of neonatal calves (calf scours).
  • (6) Oocysts of Cryptosporidium species were identified in the faeces of scouring calves from a dairy farm.
  • (7) Investigators grappling to solve the mystery of the jet's disappearance are set to scour a zone 1,100 miles (1,800km) west of Perth – previously subject to an aerial search – when an underwater probe resumes in August, the West Australian newspaper said.
  • (8) Scour scores on d 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14 post-arrival increased (P less than .01) with increased levels of protein in the receiving diets.
  • (9) For all these reasons I had serious doubts when I heard that Michelin was scouring Tokyo for worthy recipients of its stars.
  • (10) School authorities are calling for at least 25,000 new teaching recruits to cope with the large numbers of new pupils, police officers are being brought out of retirement in their thousands, and the nation is being scoured for suitable accommodation as winter approaches.
  • (11) Every Monday morning, Dan Franklin scours the book charts on Amazon to find out if the weekend reviews of his authors' books have done anything for their sales.
  • (12) The military said forces were scouring the area near the Palestinian village of Beit Furik after the attack on Thursday night.
  • (13) There were no significant differences between calves from placebo-treated and vaccine-treated dams with regard to the proportion treated for all diseases, or for scours, or the proportion which died.
  • (14) No one who relies on a service should be expected to scour the CQC website for inspection results, or chance upon them in a local newspaper report.
  • (15) Their dams slow rivers down, reducing scouring and erosion, and improve water quality by holding back silt.
  • (16) Make a list of possible courses by scouring prospectuses and speaking to teachers, students and lecturers.
  • (17) Markets will be scouring a speech on Friday by Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, for any hints.
  • (18) This country, like a depressed teenage self-harmer, takes out a razor to scour a forearm and now contemplates its own throat,” said the author.
  • (19) And I had all kinds of pictures of Dylan on laps and with arms around him.” There was, she says, “an assumption that he was mistreated, or not loved”, one that Klebold knew not to be true, even as she scoured photos looking for external verification.
  • (20) Broadcasters are scouring the world of internet video bloggers – vloggers – in the hope of finding the next big thing, and Dapper (real name Daniel O’Reilly) was touted as one of the first to be given his own TV series .

Shearing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear
  • (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
  • (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.
  • (n.) Same as Shearling.
  • (n.) The act or operation of reaping.
  • (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
  • (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  • (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sticking probability decreased as the cell receptor concentration was lowered from approximately 10(4) to 10(2) receptors per 4-microns diam liposome and as the shear rate increased from 5 to 22 s-1.
  • (2) Gonococcal outer membranes were purified by differential ultracentrifugation of sheared organisms treated with EDTA.
  • (3) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
  • (4) This model characterized the abnormal flow by a weak fluctuation of wall shear stress at the site adjacent to the vessel wall.
  • (5) The hemolytic characteristics of 14 different polydimethyl-siloxane materials were studied, using a rotating disk device to shear whole human blood for 6000 sec.
  • (6) Since the antithrombin action of heparin fails to interrupt arterial thrombosis, a mediating role for thrombin (EC 3.4.21.5) in the formation of high-shear platelet-dependent thrombus has been unproven.
  • (7) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
  • (8) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
  • (9) 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.
  • (10) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
  • (11) At the divider side walls, wall shear stresses are relatively high and approximately follow the flow rate distribution in time.
  • (12) Platelet adhesion onto subendothelium of a damaged blood vessel depends upon the presence of von Willebrand factor (vWf) only at high flow shear rate.
  • (13) Shear stress and first normal stress difference are measured as a function of shear gradient to calculate the apparent shear viscosity eta 1 and the apparent normal viscosity psi 7 as well as an apparent shear modulus G'.
  • (14) The accepted cause of this shear rate-dependent and time-dependent behavior is the progressive breakdown of rouleaux into individual red cells.
  • (15) The mean length of a population of microtubules containing GMPPCP increased only by 37% over a 150 min time period after shearing.
  • (16) By studying the kinetics of urease-catalyzed urea hydrolysis during application of hydrodynamic shear under varying chemical environments, we demonstrate that micromolar quantities of metal ions, in this case adventitious Fe, can accelerate the oxidation of thiol groups on urease and thus inactivate it when the protein is subjected to a shearing stress of order 1.0 Pa.
  • (17) The viscosity of these materials were measured by using the Ishida-Giken cone and plate high shear rheometer.
  • (18) The primate skull physical model data and the critical shear strain associated with the threshold for severe diffuse axonal injury were used to scale data obtained from previous studies to man, and thus derive a diffuse axonal injury tolerance for rotational acceleration for humans.
  • (19) Flagellar filaments were isolated from either culture fluid or concentrated cell suspensions that were subjected to shearing.
  • (20) Hemodilution seems particularly promising under hemodynamic condition of low shear stresses in vivo.