Sling vs Brace - What's the difference?
sling | brace |
To throw with a circular or arcing motion.
To throw with a sling.
* Bible, Judges xx. 16
(nautical) To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
(weapon) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other.
* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Francis Grose, title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page=43
, passage=The Sling is also a weapon of great antiquity, formerly in high estimation among the ancients.}}
A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby.
A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
(nautical) A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.
The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
* Milton
* {{quote-book, year=1600, author=William Shakespeare, title=Hamlet'', Act III, Scene I, line 55
, passage=To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them.}}
(climbing) A loop of rope or fabric tape used for various purposes: e.g. as part of a runner, or providing extra protection when abseiling or belaying.
A drink composed of a spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
(obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
(obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
* Derham
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
* Holder
Harness; warlike preparation.
* Shakespeare
(typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in ; in music, used to connect staves.
A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural ), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
* Addison
* Fuller
A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
(nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
(UK, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
(mostly, in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
(mostly, in the plural) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
(soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
(intransitive) To prepare for something bad, as an impact or blow.
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To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
* Fairfax
(nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind
To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
To confront with questions, demands or requests.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
* Campbell
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
* John Locke
* Sir Walter Scott
In nautical terms the difference between sling and brace
is that sling is a band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural while brace is to swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.As verbs the difference between sling and brace
is that sling is to throw with a circular or arcing motion while brace is to prepare for something bad, as an impact or blow.As nouns the difference between sling and brace
is that sling is an instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other while brace is armor for the arm; vambrace.sling
English
Verb
- (Addison)
- Everyone could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss.
Derived terms
* underslingNoun
(en noun)- At one sling / Of thy victorious arm, well-pleasing Son.
- gin sling
- a Singapore sling
brace
English
Noun
(en noun)- The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that.
- the laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension
- for that it stands not in such warlike brace
- But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
- I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you,
- And justify you traitors
- He is said to have shot fifty brace of pheasants.
- A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church.
Verb
(brac)- All hands, brace for impact!
- Brace yourself!
- The boy has no idea about everything that's been going on. You need to brace him for what's about to happen.
- He braced himself against the crowd.
- A sturdy lance in his right hand he braced .
- to brace the yards
- to brace a beam in a building
- to brace the nerves
- And welcome war to brace her drums.
- The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet.
- some who spurs had first braced on