What's the difference between baa and baba?

Baa


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.
  • (n.) The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AstraZeneca is likely to go the way of many other leading British firms such as Pilkington, Corus, BAA, Tarmac, Blue Circle, various utilities and Cadbury among many others.
  • (2) Previous studies [Fluit, A.C., Baas, P.D., van Boom, J.H., Veeneman, G.H.
  • (3) Sir Peter, 62, is believed to be backing BAA chief executive Mike Clasper to take over as chief executive.
  • (4) This suggests that the presence and position of the ether linkage, as it is in BAA, are critical for the development of hematotoxicity.
  • (5) Meanwhile, the owner of Heathrow, BAA, licences a small number of photographers who are allowed to be based airside, so they can get the first shots of whoever is coming from planes that day.
  • (6) This region is composed of 42 tandem repeating oligonucleotides, is 599 base pairs long and the sequence is 5' cdi jfa faa aba baa aaa fab aaa caa aac aca cba aaf ccb 3' (abbreviated as a = ACAGGGGTGTGGGG; b = ACAGGGGTCTGGGG; c = ACAGGGGTCCTGGGG; d = ACAGGGGTCCGGGG; f = ACAGGGGTCCCGGGG; i = ACAGGGTCCTGGGG; j = ACAGGGGTGTGAGG).
  • (7) The effect of beta-adrenoceptor antagonists (BAAs) differing in lipophilicity and partial agonist activity (PAA), and a full agonist, on the dissociation constant for [125I]-(-)- iodocyanopindolol binding to beta 2-adrenoceptors (KD) has been investigated.
  • (8) A source at one Heathrow airline acknowledged that BAA had been hit by "unprecedented" snowfall, but criticised the speed of the airport owner's response.
  • (9) In the reciprocal combination of native BaA as the immunogen and modified BaA as the eliciting antigen, the relationship of anti-BaA responses to DH was examined.
  • (10) However, whole blood amino acid (BAA) concentrations revealed significantly greater levels of methionine when methionine was administered via the jugular vein.
  • (11) If a politician or overpaid columnist reports that Baa, Baa, Black Sheep has been banned in primary schools (Phillips insists no such school has ever been identified) the chances are that they are just trying to stir up trouble rather than inform enlightened public debate.
  • (12) Land of the free Pity the BAA lawyers scratching their heads over how to buy out the owners of the acre of land at Heathrow that the company will need to build its third runway.
  • (13) Pretreatment of rats with pyrene decreased elimination of BaA.
  • (14) The mechanisms responsible are likely related to the fact that older cells are more susceptible to BE and BAA and that hemolysis of these cells during the initial exposure followed by their replacement with less susceptible younger cells may account for tolerance development.
  • (15) Such was the crush of people seeking information on their flights – or simply having nowhere else to wait – that airports operator BAA said no more passengers would be allowed into Terminals 1 and 3.
  • (16) There was no difference in short-cut, shank-off, semiboneless leg yield between control and BAA.
  • (17) These results indicate that, in rats, overall metabolism of BE to BAA, the hemolytic metabolite, was linearly related to the exposure concentration up to a concentration that caused severe toxicity (438 ppm).
  • (18) January 2012 BAA announces record traffic figures for Heathrow with 69.4 million passengers passing through its terminals in 2011.
  • (19) Dithiothreitol (DTT, 5 mM) enhanced proteinase activity threefold for UDH, fourfold for BAA, and fivefold for BANA.
  • (20) Butoxyacetic acid (BAA) was earlier identified as a urinary metabolite of BE.

Baba


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of plum cake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
  • (2) Carved into the cliffs behind Bamiyan town centre in Afghanistan's central highlands, massive holes scar the homeland of the Hazara people, a Shia minority who live between the Hindu Kush and Koh-i-Baba mountain ranges.
  • (3) Baba said viewing Google's images brought back fond memories of festivals and other communal events in a tightly knit town, whose residents are scattered across Fukushima prefecture and other parts of Japan .
  • (4) Neither she nor Baba Ram can read or write, so they had never heard of the revolution that had taken place in fertility science since they first started trying for a baby.
  • (5) Chelsea may be forced to set transfer record to buy Everton’s John Stones Read more Filipe Luís’s departure, having made just 15 appearances last season, is no surprise and means Mourinho will mount a firm push for the services of the highly-rated Augsburg wing-back Abdul Baba Rahman, who is valued at around £17m.
  • (6) After all who wants democracy when you could have the perfect rum baba?
  • (7) Resigned to their fate, Baba Ram and his two wives put aside their hopes and concentrated instead on building a shared life together.
  • (8) Baba Karim, 26, has been working in Bertoua as a motorcycle taxi rider for the past three weeks.
  • (9) Finally, in despair, Baba Ram returned to his in-laws' house and demanded something be done.
  • (10) Baba said that Pistorius tearfully told him “everything is fine” after neighbours reported hearing gunshots fired in Pistorius’s house.
  • (11) The one who is most ready is Ruben.” Mourinho, who had received public backing from Terry over the weekend, retains doubts over the £17m left-back Baba Rahman’s readiness to feature in the Premier League and has stressed his decision to substitute Matic, introduced at half-time on Saturday only to be replaced 28 minutes later, was not designed to humiliate the Serbia international.
  • (12) Baba Rahman, the 21-year-old from Augsburg in Germany, is the prime target, with his agent confirming that the Premier League champions have submitted a bid of €25m (£17.5m) .
  • (13) When I play Azpilicueta on the right and Baba on the left, I have only three.
  • (14) Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal are among a stellar list of clubs to have registered an interest in signing Baba Rahman from the German side Augsburg, but they have been told the Ghana defender could cost up to €20m (£14m).
  • (15) So I just really hope they take action as well.” Her campaign is supported by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, prominent Muslim cleric and activist Imam Baba Leigh , US congressman Joe Crowley and the Guardian.
  • (16) The sale of shares in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, which will be listed under the ticker BABA, follows a two-week global roadshow which has resulted in frenzied interest from investors eager to buy into the rapid growth of China's internet sector.
  • (17) Goldman Sachs global economics analyst Norihiko Baba said in a report that a decline of 4% to 5% had been expected, since spending in March 2010 was especially robust due to tax breaks and discounts available at the time on energy-saving cars and appliances.
  • (18) Their deaths came on a day in which, according to activists, more than 80 people were killed in the besieged district of Baba Amr in Homs, which has been under daily attack by the Syrian army for three weeks.
  • (19) It is not a good thing in the village," says Baba Ram.
  • (20) In professor Baba's lecture, the perinatal medical care was explained under the theme of "The progress of new-born medicine and the prevention from the occurrence of mental and physical disorder in children".