Surgery vs Surge - What's the difference?
surgery | surge |
(medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
(senseid)(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
A room or department where surgery is performed.
*2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 51:
*:The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery .
(British) A doctor's consulting room.
(British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery.
(finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
(topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=As President Obama turns his attention once again to filling out a cabinet and writing an Inaugural Address, this much is clear: he should not expect to bask in a surge of national unity, or to witness a crowd of millions overrun the Mall just to say they were there.}}
The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation
(electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
(nautical) The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).
* Bible, James i. 6
* Dryden
(obsolete) A spring; a fountain.
* Ld. Berners
The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
(lb) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03, author=David S. Senchina, volume=101, issue=2, page=134
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, title= To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
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*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, work=BBC
, title= To slack off a line.
As nouns the difference between surgery and surge
is that surgery is a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body while surge is a sudden transient rush, flood or increase.As a verb surge is
to rush, flood, or increase suddenly.surgery
English
(wikipedia surgery)Noun
(surgeries)- Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
- I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
- Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
Synonyms
* (procedure) operation * (room or department) operating room, operating theatre, theatreDerived terms
* meatball surgery * remote surgery * surgeon * surgical * telesurgerysurge
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
- He felt a surge of excitement.
- A power surge at that generator created a blackout across the whole district.
- He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
- He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, / Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.
- divers surges and springs of water
Synonyms
* inrushDerived terms
* countersurge * surgelessVerb
(surg)Athletics and Herbal Supplements, passage=Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.}}
Wales 2-1 Montenegro, passage=Wales began the second half as they ended the first, closing down Montenegro quickly and the pressure told as Bale surged into the box and pulled the ball back for skipper Ramsey, arriving on cue, to double their lead.}}