What's the difference between shrapnel and stinger?

Shrapnel


Definition:

  • (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.
  • (n.) A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (2) Majdolen also received shrapnel wounds to her shoulder and head.
  • (3) 65 consecutive cases of proven splenic injuries by bullets or shrapnells were admitted at St George's Hospital between 1978 and 1987.
  • (4) Zubair required surgery to remove the shrapnel from his leg.
  • (5) Sediqullah's hands are bandaged and his face pitted by shrapnel as a result of an explosion.
  • (6) The picture, taken by an uncle, captures a scene repeated around the city, as desperate parents look for safe places from airstrikes and the shrapnel they unleash.
  • (7) For years after, pieces of shrapnel would occasionally begin to work their way up and out through his flesh.
  • (8) The interior minister, Arsen Avakov, said one officer died from shrapnel wounds and around 10 more were seriously injured.
  • (9) Claire and Hollie were being treated in hospital on Tuesday for shrapnel wounds.
  • (10) A starburst shrapnel scar across her hand is a reminder of the first time she witnessed the horror firsthand.
  • (11) These military injuries are characterized by either very high mass, low-velocity shrapnel wounds or by high muzzle velocity missiles causing extensive destruction of tissue.
  • (12) She was hit in the leg with shrapnel, but survived.
  • (13) Multiple shrapnel wounds dominated, and high-velocity missile wounds were also frequently seen.
  • (14) It left a scene of carnage inside the concert venue, where medics described treating wounds consistent with shrapnel injury.
  • (15) However, some air-to-air missiles also have fragmentation warheads which spray small shrapnel when they detonate close to a target.
  • (16) The retained missiles were 45 bullets in 45 patients, 109 shrapnel in 99 patients, 18 pellets in 7 patients, and 50 unidentified missiles in 50 patients.
  • (17) We differentiate 3 clinical types of cholesteatoma: 1 Retraction of Shrapnell's membrane or in the postero-superior quadrant with very little cholesteatoma lateral to the ossicles.
  • (18) During the last decade 419 patients were admitted to the American University of Beirut Medical Center with penetrating neck injuries mainly due to shrapnel.
  • (19) The development of a malignant fibrous histiocytoma in a 65-year-old man 44 years after shrapnel fragments lodged in his left arm is described.
  • (20) Among the missing pieces of fuselage were sections of the upper left side around the business class cabin, which were pockmarked with shrapnel holes and covered in soot, presumably from the detonation of the explosives.

Stinger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, stings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Common problems--muscle cramps, burners (or stingers), and ankle and shoulder injuries--can be managed effectively with certain basic techniques.
  • (2) Based on the clinical course and positive patch tests, it was concluded that the patient developed a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to the sea urchin's stinger.
  • (3) "For killstreaks, one of the things we noticed when we've watched players is that they'll spend a lot of time just running and then being killed by something from the sky, or running around looking up, trying to fire their stinger missile at something above and not paying attention to what's in the game around them.
  • (4) History of previous corresponding sensations from contact with cosmetic products was significantly more common in stingers than in non-stingers (p less than 0.001); other factors, such as dermatologic history, sensitivity to ultraviolet light or skin dryness had no characteristic patterns.
  • (5) The stinger of the wasp was examined from the zoological aspect and is compared with that of the honeybee and hornet.
  • (6) Protesters have also been fired on with 60-calibre Stinger rubber bullets and what appear to be 40mm wooden baton rounds .
  • (7) Since Stinger's appointment in March 2005 he has struggled to break the company out of its "silo" organisation that has prevented co-ordination between different divisions.
  • (8) In the objective, immediate non-immunologic contact urticaria tests with sorbic acid and benzoic acid, the stingers developed significantly more erythema to 0.5% sorbic acid (p less than 0.05) and to 1% benzoic acid (p less than 0.02).
  • (9) "Some were seized by the Soviets, and Stingers were acquired by the Iranians within a year."
  • (10) Gili said this was mostly surprising because the mauve stingers were close to beaches.
  • (11) Soon, the proxy war against Gaddafi was underway, and "Charlie Chad" and his CIA counterpart were there, ferrying Habré C141 Starlifters full of weapons, eventually including a dozen Stinger missiles, the coveted and deadly shoulder-fired anti-aircraft weapon system lusted after by terrorists and aspirant armies worldwide.
  • (12) It will inevitably be a custodial sentence.” The facts of the case were not given in court, but the Guardian understands that on New Year’s Eve Sheppard placed a home-made stinger made of nails and plywood across a road close to Concorde House in Emersons Green, a police base to the east of the city centre.
  • (13) The institute has detected a surge this spring in one of the most poisonous species, the mauve stinger or Pelagia noctiluca , along the coast of Catalonia and Valencia.
  • (14) 1% sorbic acid also induced more edema in stingers (p less than 0.02).
  • (15) The same protein has, however, been reported to be sorted by an indirect pathway through transcytosis from the basolateral to the apical cell surface in hepatocytes (Bartles, J.R., Feracci, H., M., Stinger, B., and Hubbard, A.L.
  • (16) "Great midfield, solid defense, but absolutely no chance of scoring when they should..." 8.12pm BST 26 min: Jorge Jesus, managing Benfica while on secondment from 1980s American MOR rock group called Boston or Journey or Commute or something, is starting to look anxious, probably because Chelsea are starting to grind their way forward and Oscar has just got their first shot on target, a decent stinger from 20 yards.
  • (17) Stingers and non-stingers reacted similarly to open, cumulative SLS irritation as measured with transepidermal water loss.
  • (18) It's the element of surprise – a hidden stinger in a cosy chat, something unusually personal from the grand inquisitor – that works.
  • (19) Emma Sheppard, who has been convicted in Bristol of damaging police cars with a stinger device.
  • (20) Most American weapons, including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, were channelled by the Pakistanis to the Hezb-i-Islami faction of the mujahideen led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

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