What's the difference between bag and loaf?

Bag


Definition:

  • (n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
  • (n.) A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
  • (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
  • (n.) The quantity of game bagged.
  • (n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
  • (v. t.) To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
  • (v. t.) To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
  • (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  • (v. i.) To swell with arrogance.
  • (v. i.) To become pregnant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a paired study 12 platelet concentrates (PC) of Fresenius AS-104 cell separator were stored in new polyolefin bags of Fresenius (LE2) and Fenwal PL-732 bags.
  • (2) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
  • (3) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
  • (4) After clinical examination and semen analysis, we studied 4100 patients by scrotal US with sector mechanical (7.5 MHz) probe with water bag and by transrectal US for prostatic vesicular region evaluation with 5-6.5 MHz linear probe (lately we used biplanar probe).
  • (5) Placing the collection bag at the base of the machine provided excellent plasma removal rates with only minimal blood flows.
  • (6) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (7) Six leukocyte-rich platelet concentrates (mean, 0.6 X 10(9) white cells per bag; range, 0.3 to 1.0 X 10(9) per container) were prepared by removing as much of the platelet-rich plasma from blood as possible.
  • (8) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
  • (9) It is possible that in a similar future case, discontinuance of dextran infusion and administration of a single bolus of 12 bags of cryoprecipitate may be adequate treatment.
  • (10) The accuracy and reliability of the new system were checked by comparison with the traditional (Douglas bag) method.
  • (11) Presentation of a new case of polyorchism, its first clinical evidence being a picture o acute scrotal bag requiring surgical examination.
  • (12) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
  • (13) Dynamic and static nuclear bag fibres are shown to correspond with 'bag1 fibres' and 'bag2 fibres', respectively (Ovalle & Smith, 1972).
  • (14) In contrast, bilateral lesions of all cerebral ganglion peripheral nerves did not abolish spontaneous egg laying, suggesting that sensory input to the cerebral ganglion is not necessary for activating the bag cells.
  • (15) But volcanic liberation has never really been his bag.
  • (16) "I suddenly became aware of my own colour and the way I was looked at, carrying a bag on a train.
  • (17) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
  • (18) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
  • (19) In addition, the bag does not abrade or desiccate the bowel, potentially reducing serosal injury and adhesion formation.
  • (20) Burst augmentation of R15 induced by bag-cell afterdischarge did not cause detectable changes in the phosphorylation of the major proteins we examined.

Loaf


Definition:

  • (n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
  • (v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
  • (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meat loaf systems were also employed to determine the effects of protein additives to meat under actual meat loaf conditions.
  • (2) 8.04pm BST First challenge for the remaining seven is the tea loaf.
  • (3) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
  • (4) However when given the choice, they preferred to reduce the weight of a loaf rather than increasing the price.
  • (5) "So 44% of workers in South Africa are working for a loaf of bread a day," he said.
  • (6) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
  • (7) Vavi cited a 2010 report showing that 44% of workers in South Africa live on less than 10 rand a day, which only just pays for a loaf of brown bread.
  • (8) Premier was hit by soaring wheat prices following a Russian export ban and has warned the wheat shortage could raise the price of bread by at least 5p a loaf.
  • (9) Parkinson says: “Walking up the Sugar Loaf with him was amazing.
  • (10) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
  • (11) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
  • (12) The third major unique property of wheat flour doughs is their ability to set in the oven during baking, and thereby to produce a rigid loaf of bread.
  • (13) So, from one basic bread dough, you can make the family loaf and have a bit of fun in the kitchen too.
  • (14) Previous research has suggested that people tend to engage in social loafing when working collectively.
  • (15) Here it’s called pljeskavica and a bun is not a typical bun, but a tiny round loaf of bread called lepinja .
  • (16) He described how, during the trip back home in the taxi with his wife, he kept on crying.” Fred Ballinger, the composer he plays, loafs around a high-tone Swiss spa hotel with his old pal Mick, a veteran Hollywood film director played by Harvey Keitel , and casts a wearied eye over human frailties – both his own and those of people around him.
  • (17) Ceilings are higher, for better air; passageways are wider, for more loafing room and socialising.
  • (18) But when it emerged a huge fanzone was planned outside the hotel, the FA turned its attentions to the Royal Tulip hotel in the shadow of Sugar Loaf mountain on São Conrado beach.
  • (19) When he was young, his father would leave a loaf for him in the oven.
  • (20) Researchers have calculated that white medium-sliced bread has a carbon footprint of 1,244g of CO 2 equivalent per loaf.

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