What's the difference between swifter and tighten?
Swifter
Definition:
(n.) A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.
(n.) A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.
(n.) The forward shroud of a lower mast.
(v. t.) To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the vulnerability of payday loan clients cries out for something swifter and clearer.
(2) These results show that 90Y pituitary implants have a cumulative effect over the years in inducing remission and hypopituitarism in acromegalic patients, the early decline in GH levels being swifter than from other forms of irradiation.
(3) Greenhalgh said London had experienced a fall in crime, but was suffering greater delays in the courts: “With fewer defendants, we should be seeing swifter justice, but we are not.” Greenhalgh said one powerful person driving the three key arms of the justice system would help on issues such as tackling the 5,000 persistent offenders who cause the most harm in London: “For the victim its not three separate agencies,”, said Greenhalgh, who also wants devolution of the youth justice system and, eventually, the probation service.
(4) Instead, her government announced that it would establish up to five “reception centres” inside Germany for the swifter processing of asylum claims and the prompt deportation of those with little chance of obtaining refugee status, mainly people from the Balkans.
(5) We have the tools and the technology to cut unnecessary paperwork, to deliver swifter justice and to make the experience more straightforward.
(6) A single injection of diaminopropane produced an extremely rapid decay of liver ornithine decarboxylase activity (half-life about 12min), which was comparable with, or swifter than, that induced by cycloheximide.
(7) The advantages of this alternate technique are that it requires only one insertion, it is a swifter procedure, it does not require the injection of dye, and it offers positive proof of tapping the two gestational sacs.
(8) This risks demonstrating to all nations that force is a swifter way to achieve your objectives than dialogue and rule of law.
(9) Police and health experts also want more accurate and swifter data from sources such as hospitals and medical examiners’ offices about non-fatal and fatal overdoses involving heroin, to identify acute drug problems or how emergency responders are dealing with the public, he said.
(10) Triazolam and zopiclone had similar effects, but zopiclone seemed to have a faster onset of action, probably indicating swifter absorption in supine subjects.
(11) That position is backed by many Seattle business owners, although some favour a swifter introduction on the grounds that it will stimulate the local economy while others are opposed to any increase.
(12) Internally it will allow swifter decision-making and better cross-platform working.
(13) Also, the replacement of PCs will be swifter than the rate of their penetration."
(14) We have one of the best legal systems in the world and are investing over £700m to reform and digitise our courts to deliver swifter justice.
(15) Questions of methodology are addressed which apply to all studies of E use and EC; these include suspicions that women under treatment with E receive swifter diagnoses of carcinoma, the misclassification of E-related hyperplasia, and the treatment of early symptoms of the tumor with E.
(16) Addressing Congressional leaders who are demanding swifter progress against Isis, Carter said on Tuesday that the troops would be based in Iraq but will have the capability to carry out raids across the border.
(17) Abbott said: "Under those assessment bilaterals the states will do all the assessment work and we hope that in the not-too-distant future we will have approvals bilaterals in place which will mean the states will not only do the assessment but will also do the approvals.” The prime minister said the new regime will mean “the same high standard of environmental approval but much less red and green tape, much less paperwork for the applicant and a much swifter outcome we hope, which means more investment and more jobs."
(18) The stapler, compared with conventional manual sutures, allows a simpler and swifter suture of the bronchial stump, reduces the contamination of the operative field, achieves uniform and tighter closure of the bronchus, leaves a better preserved terminal blood perfusion of the stump and utilizes a more tolerated sewing material with less resultant tissue inflammation.
(19) The UK’s ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch, has previously argued that a UK-US free trade agreement would be swifter to achieve than TTIP, which has not yet been completed after three and a half years of negotiations, because agricultural policy is less of a hurdle in the UK.
(20) And while it is true that it all feels shinier and swifter than in the days before privatisation, that was after years of under investment.
Tighten
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(2) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
(3) Since then, Republican activists and enthusiasts have been energised and polls have tightened.
(4) With the City's regulatory framework being tightened by the coalition government, which is disbanding the FSA and handing control of bank oversight to the Bank of England , there is concern in London that the US politicians are being opportunistic.
(5) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
(6) A simplified procedure is described whereby tissue is removed via a posterior eyelid approach so that the eyelid may be tightened both horizontally and vertically, thus inverting the punctum and fixating it in the lacrimal lake.
(7) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
(8) After the 2009 shooting, the US military tightened security at bases nationwide.
(9) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(10) Otherwise, the United States will continue to work with allies and partners to tighten national and international sanctions to impede North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes."
(11) Tightening compounds which were used in the sphere of drinking-water led to a microbial settlement that differs in points of quantity and quality depending on the kind of material.
(12) As border security has been tightened in recent years, and the flow of migrant workers has declined, routes across the border have been controlled by violent drug cartels.
(13) Emanuel has received backing from establishment Democrats and business leaders who have praised his financial acumen, including attracting new businesses and budget tightening to attempt to close a roughly $300m operating deficit.
(14) Installation of an irrigation infusion in the postoperative period and well-tightened connections help avoid such complications as thrombus formation, bleeding or air embolism.
(15) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
(16) Labour sources said they also wanted to make sure that the legislation was tightened up so jobseekers' regular rights of appeal, separate to the court of appeal judgment, were not also trampled on by the new law.
(17) All of this has been accompanied by ideological tightening across academia, religion, even state media and officialdom itself: a sort of sterilisation of the environment.
(18) Plans to tighten regulation of Britain's main banks will also include "living wills", which the FSA said was moving ahead quickly.
(19) Tightening of clasps already in contact with a tooth frequently produces adverse changes.
(20) They are already under pressure from their regulator, the Financial Services Authority, to tighten their lending criteria.