What's the difference between baker and beaker?

Baker


Definition:

  • (v. i.) One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
  • (v. i.) A portable oven in which baking is done.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
  • (2) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
  • (3) Both bryostatin 1 and 4 beta-phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PBt2) activate Ca2+- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) at the plasma membrane in HL-60 cells (Kraft, A. S., Baker, V. V., and May, W. S. (1987) Oncogene 1, 91-100).
  • (4) Genes of the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are densely clustered on 16 linear chromosomes.
  • (5) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (6) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (7) Baker was proud of having fired her dramatic coach from the set and needing a maximum of only five takes for the difficult actress.
  • (8) The protein is highly homologous to E1o of Azotobacter vinelandii and Escherichia coli and of bakers' yeast cells.
  • (9) On BBC4, Danny Baker's Rockin' Decades launched with 258,000 viewers and a 1.1% share from 9pm.
  • (10) The principle’s not so different now.” Fifteen years ago, when he was 27, Baker found himself with an ailing father and 250 cows, farmed traditionally – grass in summer, silage and concentrates in winter – around the village.
  • (11) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
  • (12) Glutamate uptake was greatly reduced by removal of extracellular Na in confirmation of work by Baker & Potashner (1973).
  • (13) Unless the latest guidance was translated into action, Baker said there would have to be a rethink in practice “because we have spent 60 years assuming that most infections will be cured by antibiotic drugs”.
  • (14) The Glaxo Australia-Baker Medical Research Institute Agreement is for curiosity driven research in specified areas of vascular pharmacology of interest to Glaxo Group Research.
  • (15) The BBC said it had no further comment to make about Clarkson's suicide remarks, on Wednesday's edition of BBC1 show hosted by Matt Baker and Alex Jones.
  • (16) The results indicate, that the transgenic yeast strain behaves like wild-type strains and the plasmid-free laboratory strain and has no properties which would make it fitter under environmental conditions, which are inappropriate for baker yeast.
  • (17) Bakers will have far more opportunity to play around with their prices.
  • (18) The retailer has put in thousands more staff to improve service and has been testing new ideas in existing stores, such as artisan bakeries run by Euphorium, a specialist baker based in Islington in London; and upmarket Harris + Hoole coffee shops and Giraffe restaurants – all businesses that Tesco has invested in over the past two years.
  • (19) Baker said: “I spoke to the woman looking after us and she said, we’ll survive this easily.
  • (20) Nor were Fowler and Baker alone in receiving such criticism.

Beaker


Definition:

  • (n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.
  • (n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After the section was mounted on the stainless steel disk with a tissue adhesive, the preparation was immersed in a 10-ml beaker containing 5 ml of drug solution at 37 degrees.
  • (2) Polarographic analysis was applied successfully to dissolution studies and content uniformity assessment of both capsules and tablets, using a dropping mercury electrode with the modified Levy beaker method.
  • (3) Disks cut from each device were attached to the sawed-off ends of 10 ml syringes and dipped in a beaker containing either butoconazole nitrate cream or a molten wax insert.
  • (4) The bronchial cuff was then inflated until air bubbles ceased to appear in the beaker.
  • (5) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
  • (6) Depending on the quality and quantity of urine needed the perineal area may be shaved and the beaker may be held by hand or attached with tape.
  • (7) Each product was tested in the USP, Levy beaker, and the regular and large magnetic basket dissolution apparatus.
  • (8) Gravid females oviposited in 500 ml beakers with a layer of water covered with small leaves of Salvinia.
  • (9) 42K influx across basolateral membranes was measured with tissues in a steady state and incubated in either beakers or in chambers.
  • (10) Normal larval development also occurred in all control cultures sprinkled with water, including one culture where there was urine in the space between the outer and inner beaker used for cultivation.
  • (11) Both when attached to a beaker simulating a pouch and when attached to a pouch whose secretion was suppressed by infusing cimetidine, the apparatus accurately measured added acid when the endpoint setting was between pH 3.0 and 9.0.
  • (12) Each resulting solution was drawn into a syringe and injected into a glass beaker (n = 10) or through a feeding tube into a beaker (n = 10) over one minute.
  • (13) Aliquots from each of the 20 beakers were taken in triplicate, diluted 1:1000 with water, and assayed by HPLC.
  • (14) We have evaluated a more direct method in which the collecting papers were pre- and post-weighed in glass beakers under conditions of stable temperature and humidity.
  • (15) It benefits because people always want to find out what Mumsnet thinks, because mums are put on a pedestal – if mums think it, it must be right – but equally there are ridiculous prejudices.” She refers to an episode a year ago when a post referring to the “penis beaker” a user’s husband kept on his bedside table to clean up after sex went viral .
  • (16) In a variety of new situations under the beaker (presence of a lifeless object, of a grouped mouse or of an isolated mouse), the isolated mice were more reactive than the grouped mice.
  • (17) The method consisted of counting the number of escape attempts of the mice placed under an inverted beaker.
  • (18) Nominees: Tracy Beaker, BBC Children's for CBBC Last Rights, Touchpaper Television for Channel 4 Children's Programme Serious Arctic, BBC Children's for CBBC "The jury described the winning programme as both aspirational and inspirational.
  • (19) Larvae were maintained isolated in 77-cm3 (area 9.6 cm2) beakers or in groups of 20, 30, 40, and 50 bugs per 1-liter beaker (area 722 cm2).
  • (20) The glass slides were then mounted in a beaker containing buffer, subjected to ultrasonication, and re-weighed.