What's the difference between spearing and stab?

Spearing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spear

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
  • (2) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
  • (3) If they refuse to do so, make the least show of resistance, or attempt to run away from you, you will fire upon and compell [sic] them to surrender, breaking and destroying the Spears, Clubs, and Waddies of all those you take prisoner.
  • (4) will.i.am feat britney spears - Scream & Shout on MUZU.TV .
  • (5) The spear-phishing tricks we saw the Chinese secret police using against the Dalai Lama in 2008 were being used by Russian crooks to steal money from US companies by 2010.
  • (6) The wealth magazine Spear’s noted, in an interview with a company that provides contract cleaners to the Dorchester, that a cleaner at the Park Lane hotel would have to work for 56 hours to be able to take an entry-level room for the night , before tax.
  • (7) Manipulation of intra abdominal embedded spears may require unusual surgical procedures, and no attempt to extract the weapon should be made before emergency laparotomy is carried out.
  • (8) López and Machado were defeated by Capriles in opposition primaries, but they rejected Capriles's willingness to enter into dialogue with Maduro on public safety following the murder in January of Mónica Spear, a former Miss Venezuela .
  • (9) Hemicellulose B and holocellulose from spear grass (Heteropogon contortus) were the best sources of carbon, and the optimum temperature was 27 degrees.
  • (10) Spears joked that she was “thrilled” at being added to the dating app.
  • (11) To evaluate these hypotheses, the nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene was determined from a bushbaby (Galago senegalensis), flying lemur (Cynocephalus variegatus), tree shrew (Tupaia glis), spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus), rousette bat (Rousettus leschenaulti), and nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) and was compared with published sequences of a human, cow, and mouse.
  • (12) Jesus' death was ensured by the thrust of a soldier's spear into his side.
  • (13) What an incredible contrast between the passionate compassion so emotively expressed in Britain and the ruthless bloodlust in Japan, where tens of thousands of dolphins are killed with spears on beaches every year and where crowds cheer the departure of a huge mechanised fleet whose objective is the mass slaughter of these majestic mammals in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.
  • (14) Spectra were obtained with synchrotron radiation from the SPEAR storage ring using highly sensitive fluorescence detectors.
  • (15) Twenty four hours of food and maternal deprivation, shown previously to increase brain serotonin and 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid and their ratio in neonates (L. P. Spear & F. M. Scalzo, 1984, Developmental Brain Research, in press) was observed to induce tail flick analgesia, an effect blocked by metergoline.
  • (16) Adult male hunters who used dogs and carried only one spear were injured most frequently.
  • (17) I try not to read my reviews, but there's always some friend who'll come along and, under the guise of trying to comfort you, let you know that you've been speared.
  • (18) This tusk specimen contains a metal spear with a wooden component, which is surrounded by a quiver-like osseous encasement.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Armed with a makeshift spear, an Assam man sets out to chase away the elephant that crushed a woman to death in the village of Galighat.
  • (20) By the 16th century the conduction of sound by a rod or the staff of a spear was reported by a number of writers; however, these writers considered these phenomena as a curiosity rather than having practical value.

Stab


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
  • (v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
  • (v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
  • (n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon.
  • (n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
  • (n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
  • (3) You could understand why the Met was frantic to find who had stabbed Rachel Nickell 49 times on Wimbledon Common while her screaming child looked on, but the case against Stagg was preposterous.
  • (4) Results indicate that 75% of the participating boys and 10% of participating girls had witnessed the shooting, stabbing, robbing, or killing of another person in their own lives.
  • (5) Stab wounds to the temporal fossa appear as a characteristic clinical entity.
  • (6) Many of the patients with stab wounds of the precordial chest (danger zone) had cardiac or major vascular injuries, and the mortality rate of them was high.
  • (7) Sigurdsson’s deep corner kick was headed back across goal by Borja and Fer, via a slight touch from Van der Hoorn, stabbed over the line.
  • (8) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
  • (9) Later, it proved that he was stabbed with a foreign body penetrating into the contralateral frontal lobe through the left nasal cavity.
  • (10) Violence had subsided by Sunday evening – but not before dozens had been shot or stabbed, leaving 25 dead and 56 injured.
  • (11) It consists of the comprehensive extraction of the varices through extremely small stab incisions, followed immediately by vigorous marching.
  • (12) It is possible that Clegg could yet get to 30 seats or so at the next election, and in Britain's fluid politics that may give him a stab at forming another coalition.
  • (13) Another Palestinian man, suspected of having stabbed and wounded an Israeli teenager, was shot dead by police in Jerusalem.
  • (14) Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing “was well managed by all agencies”.
  • (15) Overall mortality was 130, 8.7%; 9.5% for gunshot wounds, 3.4% for stab wounds, and 2.5% for blunt trauma.
  • (16) I got to HaHagana bridge with a friend and we saw a big man in a red sweatshirt stabbing a soldier twice, apparently someone from the air force,” he said.
  • (17) On the other hand, both blunt trauma and posterior stab wounds frequently caused isolated retroperitoneal duodenal lesions where the diagnosis was not evident on admission, but in which the insidious and progressive development of symptoms and signs drew attention to the need for laparotomy.
  • (18) A patient who sustained an acute carotid-cavernous fistula due to a stab wound is presented.
  • (19) The use of the Columbia agar stab culture is recommended as a rapid and simple test for recognition of group B streptococci.
  • (20) If so, ministers may need to be prepared for a new breed of civil servants, who will no longer fall on their swords if they believe they have been stabbed in the back.

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