What's the difference between shank and swank?

Shank


Definition:

  • (n.) See Chank.
  • (v.) The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg.
  • (v.) Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved.
  • (v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock.
  • (v.) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms.
  • (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle.
  • (v.) A loop forming an eye to a button.
  • (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
  • (v.) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
  • (v.) The body of a type.
  • (v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
  • (v.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.
  • (v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
  • (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Retroreflective markers were placed on the posterior shank and foot of each subject.
  • (2) Similar results were obtained using either cold or labeled interferons in rabbits; moreover, the effect of albumin was confirmed in the pig by simultaneously injecting 131I-interferon (in saline) and 125I-interferon (in albumin solution) in the left and right subcutis of the shanks, respectively.
  • (3) Semiconductor strain gauges mounted on the shanks of a custom machined eye forceps and an ultrasonic method of making continuous duction measurements of the eye have proved feasible.
  • (4) Method features are the following: i) hard drying of the glass, ii) rehydration of one channel and weak wetting of the other with a three-methylchlorosilane solution before pulling, iii) simultaneous presence of water and silane in the two channels during pulling, iv) gradual silanization from the tip to the shank.
  • (5) The stainless steel shank is a cathodic component of a three-way galvanic cell, whereas the silver soldered joint is an anodic component.
  • (6) It incants the motto of the Bill Shankly school of cliche: that football is not a matter of life and death, it is far more important.
  • (7) Shank length, body weight, fertility, sexual maturity and egg weight were intermediate.
  • (8) Pigmentation levels were significantly higher in plasma and skin of roxarsone medicated chickens in two experiments and in shanks in one experiment.
  • (9) Controlled rigidity is provided by the incorporation of a spring steel shank between the sponge insole and the hard wearing plastic sole.
  • (10) It really accentuates the inherent slapstick in every Steven Gerrard shank, and every Joachim Löw tantrum.
  • (11) Both the Sultan and Cochin breeds were shown to possess two shank-feathering loci, and the data suggested that one of the loci in the Sultan contained the Pti-1L allele.
  • (12) The Spirit of Shankly and Spion Kop 1906 believe that given the fact there has been this reconsideration by the owners, it is only fair and appropriate that we reconsider our next steps until the full impact of these changes can be established.
  • (13) Weight gain and shank length at 28 days were less for males started on 15% protein in both experiments.
  • (14) Hens were sampled according to shank coloration (Grades 1 to 3) and egg production was monitored.
  • (15) However, shank motoneurons did not innervate the thigh when motor nerve transection was combined with amputation of the hindlimb just above the presumptive knee.
  • (16) Shanks’ comments are likely to stoke further fears about the fate of the UK car market in the wake of Brexit.
  • (17) Nickel deprivation resulted in: ultrastructural changes in the liver with the most obvious abnormality in the organization of the rough endoplasmic reticulum; altered gross appearance, reduced oxidative ability, and decreased lipid phosphorus in the liver; altered shank skin pigmentation that was associated with a decrease in yellow lipochrome pigments; and lower hematocrits.
  • (18) The porco bafassá (pork shank marinated for 12 hours in wine, saffron and coconut milk, £6.50) is a house favourite, as is the caldo de pé de galinha com amendoim (chicken foot and peanut soup, £2).
  • (19) 4.33am BST 64 mins: Altidore throws his head back in frustration as Bradley nudges a ball to him on the edge of the box, and the Sunderland striker spins, but misjudges the bounce of the ball so that his kick shanks high over the bar.
  • (20) Experimental below-knee prostheses incorporating suitably designed plastic shanks and alignment devices can withstand high static loads and exhibit long fatigue lifetimes in excess of 2 million cycles.

Swank


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Swink

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ramzan Kadyrov is joined by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank at his birthday party in Grozny in 2011.
  • (2) Comparison of the Bentley PFS-127, Fenwal 4C2417, Johnson & Johnson Intersept, Pall Ultipore, and Swank IL200 filters led to the conclusion that the Fenwal 4C2423 was both a significant improvement over the previous Fenwal design and comparable to the most efficient of these filters for both the removal of microaggregates during massive blood transfusion and for the blood flow rates obtained.
  • (3) Hilary Swank plays a resilient, lonely singleton who enlists Jones’s crabby claims jumper to help her escort three mentally ill women back to civilisation.
  • (4) There were 5 control puppies and 5 for which a Swank filter was placed in the arterial perfusion line.
  • (5) These changes did not occur in patients transfused comparable amounts of blood through Dacron wool (Swank) filters or in patients transfused less than 20% of blood volumes.
  • (6) Interposition of Dacron wool (Swank) blood transfusion filters prevented these changes.
  • (7) Weinberg claimed the actor had "no current plans to attend" the party; later the same month, YouTube footage showed Swank eulogising her host.
  • (8) Obviously it has taken me some time to digest this, and obviously it will take some more time,” Swank said.
  • (9) "This is a solid neighbourhood, everyone looks out for each other," Ben Swank, Third Man's co-founder, had explained to me on my tour.
  • (10) Hilary Swank is gentlewoman farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, a transplant from upstate New York who has built a successful holding but lacks a husband; men tell her she’s “plain and bossy”.
  • (11) These can be prevented by microfiltration--the Swank IL200 transfusion filter made of Dacron wool is perfectly suitable.
  • (12) So the party was seriously amaze, we had like these interns you could actually SIT on, tray Gatsby & the entire theme was "bags", non-swank my idea, everyone was going OMG it is like something out of Truman Patootie, then there is this shouting, the doormen are like, couple of liggers shall we eject, I'm like *sigh* let them in but make him do up his shirt & do not let her out of your sight?
  • (13) Apparently, the Swank blood filter protects the lung by removing leukocytes and damaged platelets from the circulation.
  • (14) The efficacy of the Fenwal filter, the Swank filter, the Biotest filter and the intersept filter was practically the same, but the Intersept filter provided the best output with an equal filtration capacity.
  • (15) On the basis of this research, we conclude that polyester mesh micropore blood transfusion filters are not as effective as Dacron wool (Swank) transfusion filters in removal of micro-aggregates from stored human blood.
  • (16) It has also been demonstrated that rises in Swank screen filtration pressure in an in vitro test circuit are due to the presence of platelet aggregates.
  • (17) At one point in the film Swank and Jones' characters are confronted by a Pawnee raiding party and have a horse stolen, but Jones rejected any suggestion that he had "stereotyped" Native Americans in his film.
  • (18) These effects are due to microemboli that pass the filters and are prevented by use of Dacron wool (Swank) micropore transfusion filters.
  • (19) Microaggregates, detected by the Swank screen filtration pressure technique, were found in blood leaving the columns during three of the four perfusions with each column.
  • (20) No rises in Swank screen filtration pressure, which detects the presence of cellular aggregates in blood, were observed.