What's the difference between arroyo and wash?

Arroyo


Definition:

  • (n.) A water course; a rivulet.
  • (n.) The dry bed of a small stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) People don’t understand trade policies,” said José Arroyo, who has been working with the United Steelworkers to stem the exodus of Democratic voters around Youngstown, an Ohio city surrounded by abandoned, crumbling factories.
  • (2) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the former Philippine president, has been charged with electoral fraud after the government rushed to court to prevent her from leaving the country.
  • (3) Local human rights officials voiced fears that the Philippine government would pull its punches in any investigation because the Ampatuans have helped deliver votes for Arroyo in past elections.
  • (4) Rodrigo Duterte also said he would pardon ex-president Gloria Arroyo, who is being detained at a military hospital while on trial for graft and vote fraud.
  • (5) The vote counts were 72-16 against Arroyo, 86-4 against Gadir, 88-2 against Ganga, 72-16 against Keita, 76-12 against Santander and 67-19 against Wallwork.
  • (6) America’s best chance came when Luke Shaw felled striker Michael Arroyo on the edge of the area.
  • (7) Primate scapula and ulna fragments of uncertain taxonomic affinity (MACN-SC 101) have been recovered from the Pinturas deposits at Arroyo Feo, Santa Cruz, Argentina in association with Santacrucian (Early Miocene) land mammals.
  • (8) Arroyo's legal spokesman, Raul Lambino, said the case was fabricated.
  • (9) They are not going to spread it out smoothly all over the place like creamy peanut butter,” said Vicki Arroyo, who heads the climate centre at the Georgetown University law school.
  • (10) Based on a personal experience after having established a cardiology clinic in the town of Arroyo (Puerto Rico), we analyzed the patient population served and the services that were rendered.
  • (11) Her predecessor, Joseph Estrada, was toppled on corruption charges by a military-backed revolt in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison, but was pardoned by Arroyo.
  • (12) The article relates the story of a 25-year-old staff sergeant, Israel Arroyo, who sent an email to McChrystal from the front line in Afghanistan: "I am writing because it was said you don't care about the troops and have made it harder to defend ourselves".
  • (13) The justice secretary, Leila de Lima, said Arroyo may be intending to seek political asylum abroad.
  • (14) Agustin Arroyo of Ecuador, Zein El Abdin Ahmed Abdel Gadir of Sudan, Jean-Claude Ganga of the Congo Republic, Lamine Keita of Mali, Sergio Santander of Chile and Paul Wallwork of Samoa were believed to be the first IOC members kicked out for corruption in the panel's 105 years.
  • (15) She openly supported the removal of Joseph Estrada from the presidency in 2001, and on the discovery of alleged evidence linking President Arroyo to ballot fraud in 2005 she called for her resignation.
  • (16) Arroyo tried to leave the country with her husband on Tuesday, saying she was seeking medical treatment abroad for a bone ailment.
  • (17) As the full extent of the carnage emerged, domestic and international pressure is growing on Arroyo to find and punish those responsible.
  • (18) McChrystal then turned up at Arroyo's base and went on foot patrol with him in an attempt to understand what the soldier meant.
  • (19) The commission asked for a court order barring Arroyo from travel, and a judge will decide whether to issue an arrest warrant.
  • (20) After stepping down last year Arroyo, 64, was elected to the house of representatives and immediately faced at least half a dozen complaints, also alleging she diverted state funds for her campaign effort and benefited from foreign contracts.

Wash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
  • (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
  • (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
  • (v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
  • (v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.
  • (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
  • (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
  • (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
  • (n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
  • (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
  • (n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
  • (n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
  • (n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
  • (n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
  • (n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
  • (n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
  • (n.) A liquid dentifrice.
  • (n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
  • (n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
  • (n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
  • (n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
  • (n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
  • (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
  • (n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
  • (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
  • (a.) Washy; weak.
  • (a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (2) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
  • (3) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
  • (4) Spontaneous lipid peroxidation in washed human spermatozoa was induced by aerobic incubation at 32 C and measured by malonaldehyde production; loss of motility during the incubation was determined simultaneously.
  • (5) After short-term (1 h) incubation in suspension cultures cells were washed and plated in clonogenic agar cultures.
  • (6) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (7) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
  • (8) A cross-over study (cimetidine, 1 g daily for 19 days; ranitidine, 300 mg daily for 19 days; wash-out period: 20 days) was carried out in six healthy volunteers.
  • (9) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
  • (10) Removal of bPTH by washing the membranes virtually abolished activity, but washing after addition of bPTH plus Gpp(NH)p did not prevent continued accumulation of cAMP.
  • (11) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
  • (12) The ratio of the metabolically produced Ic to Ib but not the total amount of N-oxygenated metabolites varied greatly depending of the liver microsomal fractions used in the incubation mixtures of Ia; more Ib was produced from Ia using 9000 g supernatant and conversely, more Ic was formed using the washed microsomes of the same liver.
  • (13) On day 7, washes were collected as on day 0, and a collar was attached to the neck to prevent contamination from saliva.
  • (14) Chronic exposure of epithelial cells to the lysate mediator preparation, followed by washing, had no effect on their basal electrical or electrolyte-transporting properties.
  • (15) The binding of [3H]PAF to washed human platelets indicated subtle changes between Days 2 and 4, which became more noticeable by Day 6.
  • (16) The same ratio occurred when zinc (0 to 0.6 mM in citrate buffer) was added to semen or washed spermatozoa.
  • (17) While cells that were treated with antibody were unable to aggregate because of the inability to destroy cAMP, they aggregated normally when washed free of antibody.
  • (18) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
  • (19) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
  • (20) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .

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