What's the difference between baker and bear?

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.

Bear


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.
  • (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
  • (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
  • (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
  • (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
  • (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
  • (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
  • (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
  • (v. t.) To gain or win.
  • (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
  • (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
  • (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
  • (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
  • (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.
  • (v. t.) To behave; to conduct.
  • (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
  • (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
  • (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
  • (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
  • (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
  • (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
  • (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
  • (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
  • (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
  • (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
  • (n.) A bier.
  • (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
  • (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
  • (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
  • (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
  • (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
  • (n.) A portable punching machine.
  • (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
  • (n.) Alt. of Bere

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
  • (2) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
  • (3) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
  • (4) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
  • (5) However, when conjugated to an antigen-bearing cell, a "non-antigen bearing" cell was labeled near the cell interaction area.
  • (6) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
  • (7) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (8) A significant decrease in response to two mitogens (PHA, Con-A) was seen in tumor-bearing rats concomitantly with the tumor growth.
  • (9) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
  • (10) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
  • (11) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
  • (12) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.
  • (13) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
  • (14) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
  • (15) A method for constructing Ti plasmids bearing multiple copies of a sequence integrated in tandem is described.
  • (16) All smooth strains of Brucella bear two lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigens in a ratio that defines the classification of strains in serovars, A (A greater than M), M (M greater than A) and A.M (A = M).
  • (17) Ovarian venous concentrations of these four steroids from the side draining the tumor-bearing ovary were increased in 40 to 80% of the women.
  • (18) The authors studied the localization of neocarzinostatin (NCS) in cultured cells and in tumor-bearing rats by means of immunofluorescent staining.
  • (19) Women who first give birth at ages 16 and younger are more likely to bear a second child within the next two years (26 percent) than are women who have their first child at ages 17-18 (20 percent) or at ages 19-22 (22 percent).
  • (20) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.