What's the difference between stang and swang?

Stang


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sting.
  • (n.) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
  • (n.) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
  • (v. i.) To shoot with pain.
  • () of Sting

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At a time when America has become a symbol of often ruthless power, Sister Dorothy Stang chose to ally herself with the powerless and pay the price.
  • (2) · Sister Dorothy Stang, nun and activist, born June 7 1931; died February 14 2005
  • (3) In contrast to the Stange-Poole equation for samples of constant mass, this approach can also be used for constituents with large differences in particle size and in bulk density.
  • (4) Silver-haired American nun Dorothy Stang, who has died aged 73 after being shot by two gunmen on an Amazon road, looked more like an elderly American holidaymaker than a modern-day martyr.
  • (5) Further along the Transamazônica highway another Catholic nun – the American Sister Dorothy Stang – worked ceaselessly for peasant families.
  • (6) This uptake activity is related to an mRNA species corresponding to the recently isolated rabbit kidney cortex cDNA clone rBAT (related to b0,+ amino acid transporter; Bertran, J., Werner, A., Stange, G., Markovich, D., Moore, M. L., Biber, J., Testar, X., Zorzano, A., Palacin, M., and Murer, H. (1992) Proc.
  • (7) Correlations between these reflexes and the anatomoclinical stanges of coma and the Glasgow coma scale have been established.
  • (8) All new stroke cases in the municipality of Stange were registered during one year.
  • (9) The Stange-Poole equation yielded identical values of the content variations of A and B, which is in contrast to the experimental results.

Swang


Definition:

  • () imp. of Swing.
  • (n.) A swamp.
  • (Archaic imp.) of Swing

Example Sentences:

  • (1) EPTFE suture is swanged to a needle that has the same diameter as the thread, which reduces bleeding from the needle hole.

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