What's the difference between awl and awn?

Awl


Definition:

  • (n.) A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus, humidifying devices should be carefully selected from the viewpoint of not only humidifying capability but also AWL.
  • (2) We have isotopically determined rates of whole-body protein synthesis and catabolism in a group of normal volunteers and in two groups of cancer patients: 20 patients with advanced weight-loss (AWL) upper gastrointestinal cancer and 7 patients with early non-weight-loss (ENWL) lower gastrointestinal cancer.
  • (3) For other hair types G1 and G3 (awl, auchene, zigzag) the duration of the growth period is approximately 3 days longer than in the control.
  • (4) Restorative treatment can be started in the early postoperative period if a screw-awl has been applied.
  • (5) Judges and infiltrators in Labour’s civil war | Letters Read more Even under Tony Blair’s leadership, there were Trotskyist groups involved in the Labour party, ranging from the AWL to Socialist Action.
  • (6) The difficulties and risks inherent in the use of the starting awl are eliminated.
  • (7) Mountford, who has been a member of the AWL for 33 years, denies bullying, taking over the organisation or wanting to form a new party.
  • (8) Utilizing Langer's technique for skin tension lines, we punctured the auricular cartilage of 10 human cadavers and 2 mature rabbits and 24 immature rabbits with a conical awl to determine their tension lines.
  • (9) That aside, Watson highlighting efforts by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL) to get involved in the Labour party will undoubtedly fuel a media narrative that Labour is falling under the spell of revolutionary zealots.
  • (10) Using a special needle (awl) under laparoscopic monitoring, U-stitches are placed and then knotted epifascially.
  • (11) In the AWL cancer patients the rate of net protein catabolism was significantly higher than in either the volunteer or ENWL group (p less than 0.05), and glucose infusion did not result in a decrease in net protein catabolism.
  • (12) The AWL was affected significantly by the pressure monitoring site for the ventilator.
  • (13) Vertical sections of articular cartilage show different directional orientations of collagen fibers through all zones of cartilage depending upon whether the sections are parallel or perpendicular to the cleft pattern produced when the surface of articular cartilage is pierced with a round pointed awl.
  • (14) The AWL backs Labour in elections,” the group said.
  • (15) The width of the middle portion of the broadest, awl, hairs measured 12 days after irradiation decreases with increasing dose.
  • (16) The 30-cm-long side arm of this awl protects the surgeon's hand from direct radiation, and measurements of X-ray exposure show that the protection against radiation is sufficient.
  • (17) A specially designed awl makes the interlocking procedure simple and efficient.
  • (18) The AWL should “organise and politically hegemonise these people, and Labour clubs on campuses”, the motion said .
  • (19) The large follicles contain similar numbers of mitotic cells, but the BALB-c mice are more sensitive both in terms of the radiation-induced apoptosis and in terms of a reduction in awl hair width.
  • (20) According to Alice Gregory at the New Yorker , in fact, it was one particular Gawker writer, Choire Sicha, who now runs the excellent indie site the Awl .

Awn


Definition:

  • (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A continuous flow of men goes past the block, while young women in black and red underwear pose on high stools behind windows with red awnings.
  • (2) He gives vivid accounts of the utter chaos of Gallipoli where he shelters under flimsy awnings in shallow holes in the ground, exhausted and starving.
  • (3) Gorette-Nicaise, Awn, and Dhem (1983) as well as the study by Whetten, and Johnston (1985) have shown that neither the absence of the lateral pterygoid muscle nor the physical volumetric expansion of the airway increases condylar growth.
  • (4) Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani had spent 14 years in Guantánamo, where he was held without trial and was suspected of being an al-Qaida member who “possibly” worked as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, according to his leaked prisoner file.
  • (5) A small square building with a corrugated iron awning marks the corner with East Trenton Street.
  • (6) AWN may, thus, participate in the initial events of fertilization in the pig.
  • (7) The germination of freshly harvested seed is depressed following heat stress at 7--10 days after awn emergence, but is enhanced by the same stress applied 3 weeks after awn emergence.
  • (8) Analysis of the amino acid sequence of the AWN proteins showed significant similarity only to AQN-1 and AQN-3, two other boar spermadhesins.
  • (9) Hair thickness--especially at the thickest point--ranges from 140 to 236 microns for the awn hair and from 19 to 106 microns for the fur hair.
  • (10) Some of the “client accommodation” sits right on the road behind tall mesh, asylum seekers sitting in the shade of open awnings.
  • (11) The development of the allometric equation, Y = aWn, relating species body size (W) with various morphological, physiological, biochemical, pharmacological, and toxicological characteristics, as the fundamental basis for extrapolation of biological data from laboratory animals to man is outlined.
  • (12) The awn and the fur hair of Pudu were investigated.
  • (13) AWN exists as two isoforms, AWN-1 and AWN-2, which differ in that AWN-2 is N-terminally acetylated.
  • (14) In Type III, an "awning effect" of the acromion was observed to influence active motion.
  • (15) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.
  • (16) This small standing-room-only taquería, identified on its awning with the single word "HOLA", is renowned locally, a favourite of Condesa hipsters.
  • (17) A green awning offers shade to those who visit with condolences for the death of his three year-old grandchild, while the young mother leans listless against a post of the house.
  • (18) They gathered, one week on to the minute from the assault of Friday the 13th, around what seemed to be a shadow devoid of life and light – a heavy black tarpaulin draped over the entrance to the Bataclan theatre: or “ba’ta’clan café”, as the awning reads.
  • (19) AQN-1 shares extensive structural, as well as functional, similarity with two other boar sperm zona-pellucida-binding proteins, AQN-3 and AWN, which we have recently characterized.
  • (20) Underneath an awning on the pontoon, a gigantic banner proclaims "Venezuela", a gift from the young musicians of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra.