What's the difference between slew and swivel?

Slew


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Slay
  • () imp. of Slay.
  • (v. t.) See Slue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) FC Terek Grozny, the newly energised team based in the troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya , is hoping a slew of high-profile international acquisitions will help it make waves in the Russian premier league, which kicked off last weekend.
  • (2) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
  • (3) A slew of figures from showbusiness, royalty and sport have also been linked with offshore companies in the documents.
  • (4) The developments include a DC SQUID with FM read-out, resulting in the most compact SQUID electronics so far, a planar microwave biased RF SQUID with very high slew rate, and efforts to create reliable SQUIDs with sufficient sensitivity for biomagnetic applications that are cooled by liquid nitrogen.
  • (5) Last year saw a slew of shootings involving members of the Yamaguchi-gumi - Japan's biggest underworld organisation - and a rival gang as they battled for control of lucrative districts in Tokyo.
  • (6) Individual cities have introduced a slew of initiatives, such as San Diego’s recycling of wastewater for drinking .
  • (7) "Our asset purchases depend on economic and financial developments, but they are by no means on a preset course," Bernanke will testify, according to Reuters : Bernanke set off a brief but fierce global market sell-off last month when he outlined plans to reduce the quantitative easing program, and he has joined a slew of Fed officials since then who have spelled out their intention to keep interest rates near zero well after the asset purchases.
  • (8) It works thus: you pick out what you want from a slew of local shops, and for £3.50 a man in a van delivers it to your house after work, a sort of posh meals-on-wheels meets Ocado.
  • (9) He conceded his speech was wide-ranging, which is one reason it prompted a slew of different headlines in the weekend press .
  • (10) Between the election and inauguration, Trump spent much of his time hosting meetings with representatives on a slew of topics and interest groups.
  • (11) It is the third suit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights against a slew of North Dakota laws aimed at making the state abortion free.
  • (12) However, Black produces a slew of evidence that questions the analysis of the Office of National Statistics used to work out the productivity of the health service.
  • (13) The average chronic slew rate was half the average acute value.
  • (14) A slew of former and current New York politicians are joining demonstrators, who are bringing in 100 wheelchairs.
  • (15) CT scatter was observed to increase as scan field size and slice thickness increased, whilst there was little change in scatter with changes in gantry tilt and table slew.
  • (16) Similar changes were noted for the rate of voltage change (slew rate).
  • (17) Following a slew of downbeat economic indicators, market expectations are growing that there will be more quantitative easing from the Fed before the end of the year.
  • (18) The contentious Carmichael project has been delayed amid a thermal coal market slump and a slew of legal challenges from conservationists and traditional owners.
  • (19) The only real difference between Adam and Eve's kids and Marion and Ralph's over-achieving sons is that while the first murderer (Cain) slew Abel because, according to Genesis, the latter was favoured by God, David might have to slay Ed for being favoured by Labour party members.
  • (20) Some had been expecting an even weaker reading after a slew of downbeat economic indicators from the US in recent weeks.

Swivel


Definition:

  • (a.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
  • (a.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun.
  • (v. i.) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Political policy is based on swivel-eyed assumptions and prejudices, rather than the world, evidence, the reality of suffering, the reality of global warming.
  • (2) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
  • (3) It is likely that the target of camptothecin is the "swivel" topoisomerase required for DNA replication and that it is located at or very near the replication fork in vivo.
  • (4) The cannulation system consists of an injection port 'In Stoppers' as a flow swivel, connected to an injection needle, which is inserted into a polyethylene tube protected by a steel spiral.
  • (5) Inside Hall’s lair was a glass table on which lay his spectacle case and iPad (no computers for ranking BBC execs), surrounded by seats rescued from an old kitchen, and a pair of swivel chairs salvaged from Television Centre.
  • (6) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.
  • (7) That's slightly different from what Feldman said earlier this year after the Times and the Telegraph reported that a senior figure had said that Conservative associations "are all mad, swivel-eyed loons."
  • (8) These animals were tethered for periods of 14-70 h during which brain perfusates and peripheral blood samples were collected at 10- to 30-min intervals through the tether-swivel assembly.
  • (9) The asymmetrical swivel face-bow as described above is advisable to use because eccentric bendings and less forces at the outer-bows will decrease, stop or even reverse the asymmetrical effect.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Survivor of Bataclan attack: ‘it was a bloodbath’ He then swivelled and shot through a car drivers’ window.
  • (11) We discuss a model in which supercoiling changes are produced by differential swiveling activities on the opposite sides of a transcriptional flow during transcriptional modulation.
  • (12) It is the raging rows over Ukip, gay marriage, Europe and swivel-eyed loons that have given these people a political presence.
  • (13) Nigel Farage went down in the second round, gasping for air, eyes swivelling.
  • (14) It comes as a shock then to discover that in one crucial and fundamental area of social care the SNP resembles the "swivel-eyed loons" of the Tory shires.
  • (15) Osborne called it “fantastic” on 5 July, only to clash with Whittingdale who called the show “debatable” on 14 July, but who then, no doubt under pressure from his chancellor, swivelled, calling it “admirable” by 19 July.
  • (16) A new design of swivel walker for the severely disabled is described which has advantages over previous types.
  • (17) The key to this system is a swiveling guide tube held in a small, skull-mounted base by a low-melting-point metal alloy.
  • (18) Alejandro Faurlin fizzed a low shot wide after swivelling near the penalty spot.
  • (19) The overall system consisted of a harness and jacket, an umbilical and back pack, a combined electrical and fluid transmission swivel and a monitoring implant and catheters.
  • (20) The use of metabolism cage and swivel joint-equipped infusion system allows also continuous infusion of fluids in freely-moving animals.