What's the difference between sward and swarf?

Sward


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.
  • (n.) Skin; covering.
  • (n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Referee Mark Clattenberg leads them out on to the Villa Park sward, where the match-ball is waiting on a bespoke Premier League plinth.
  • (2) To minimize the incidence of grass tetany, winter pastures should be established on soils containing Mg-rich minerals, drainage should be improved on five-textured soils, legumes should be included in the sward and soil pH should be at least 5.5.
  • (3) A sward is kept in a vigorous state by preventing repetitive defoliation at the one extreme, and avoiding excessive shading (mature growth) of photosynthetic material at the other.
  • (4) Read more Near the terminus, towering rock walls shelter a beautiful sward of yellow bird’s foot trefoil carpeting the inner quarry floor – and attracting the attention of a common blue butterfly.
  • (5) The health of the sward must be maintained while improving individual animal performance and simultaneously increasing stocking rate.
  • (6) But in tropical grass swards, leaf density and leaf:stem ratio have a greater influence on bite size than does leaf surface height.
  • (7) Sixty-four intact lambs and twenty-four lambs fitted with a duodenal cannula were weaned at 6 weeks of age and grazed pure species swards of either lucerne (Medicago sativa), white clover ((Trifolium repens), ryegrass (Lolium perenne) or prairie grass (Bromus catharticus) for 6 weeks.
  • (8) Biting rate values were similar for all treatment groups but lower than those previously reported on other grass swards.
  • (9) A single sward of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv.
  • (10) Sward type had a pronounced effect on serum and urine Mg concentrations and a slight effect on hair Mg concentrations (P less than 0.10) only during midsummer.
  • (11) The stocking rate in each paddock was adjusted by either adding or removing animals so as to maintain as uniform a sward and rate of grazing as possible.
  • (12) Pure swards of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv.
  • (13) Samples of switch hair, blood, and urine were obtained periodically over 5.5 months from 11 Angus and 13 Angus-Charolais cows grazing either all-grass or grass-legume swards.
  • (14) From one soap opera to another: Adrian Chiles is directing this one, with Lee Dixon, Gareth Southgate and Roy Keane making up the cast of pundits standing on the Allianz Arena sward.
  • (15) Their close grazing, in concert with that of sheep, reduced the short sward to a thin crust of roots over sand.
  • (16) Pure swards of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L. cv.
  • (17) Durability of fixation of caesium-137 increases in a number of soils: sward-podzolic sandy, podzolic loamy soils, chernozem.
  • (18) A total of twenty Friesian steers were grazed on pure swards of either perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv.
  • (19) Mobility of caesium-137, sodium and potassium in the natural environment in podzolic gray and chernozem medium-loamy, sward podzolic sandy soils and chernozem has been studied.
  • (20) In Britain during the last interglacial period, elephants, rhinos and other great beasts maintained a mosaic of habitats: a mixture of closed canopy forest, open forest, glade and sward .

Swarf


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To grow languid; to faint.
  • (n.) The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.

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