What's the difference between barb and barm?

Barb


Definition:

  • (n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
  • (n.) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
  • (n.) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
  • (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
  • (n.) A bit for a horse.
  • (n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.
  • (n.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.
  • (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
  • (v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of.
  • (v. t.) To clip; to mow.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
  • (n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
  • (n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
  • (n.) Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the present study, in vitro treatment of mouse bone marrow with antisera prepared in rabbits against brain tissue from rats (BARB) or hamsters (RAHB) also reduced the CFU content of the mouse marrow.
  • (2) "So, welcome to the real North Korea" declared Sweeney dramatically, standing inside a barbed wire fence apparently built to keep ordinary people away from his tour group's hotel.
  • (3) An analysis of BBC1, compiled using Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) figures, of the hours between 6pm and 10pm from 15 January, when the first episode of Call the Midwife was screened, to 5 February, showed that 90% of the audience was over 35, meaning just 719,000 under-35s were watching.
  • (4) Beneath the gold-leafed dome, one of them read aloud from a text eulogising France's founding fathers, ending with a rousing, "Long live the France of our fathers, long live La Barbe!"
  • (5) Kinetics of elongation and depolymerization from the pointed end were measured in fluorescence assays using pyrenylactin filaments capped at the barbed end by villin.
  • (6) Nomberg-Przytyk also recounts the death of Avram Ovitz, the leader of the group: "The old midget wanted his wife" and tried to slip through the barbed wire; a guard spotted him and, when Avram got close enough, shot him.
  • (7) The ad, for web hosting service CrazyDomains.co.uk, featured the Barb Wire star in a boardroom full of men.
  • (8) Epidermal cells that would otherwise produce only alpha keratin in reticulate scales are induced to reorganize and differentiate into barb ridge cells that accumulate feather beta keratins.
  • (9) She said no surprises about the election date should mean "no excuses",  a clear barb at the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, whom she has criticised as announcing "platitudes not policies" and giving few costings for his promises.
  • (10) Seventy-seven flexor tendon lesions in zone I have been reinserted by the "rope down" technique using the Jennings barb-wire.
  • (11) As a result, at high rates of filament growth a transient cap of ATP-actin subunits exists at the ends of elongating filaments, and at steady state a stabilizing cap of ADP.Pi-actin subunits exists at the barbed ends of filaments.
  • (12) After a marathon of tetchy bilateral talks and barbed plenary speeches, the Chinese premier – who refused to enter the negotiations directly – flew back to Beijing without any public comment.
  • (13) All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC and some other channels including Sky1) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated.
  • (14) Dissociation of the gelsolin-actin complex from the barbed ends can be calculated to be rather slow.
  • (15) It’s like you go through some crazy inter-dimensional vortex,” Barbe said.
  • (16) There were some security forces as well, I think employed by the Australians, waiting around outside, and they had coils of barbed wire at the ready.
  • (17) The two men, from different political camps, have a polite relationship that has sometimes been barbed and punctuated by stinging Conservative quips about French leftwing tax-and-spend policies .
  • (18) Aginactin is a barbed-end capping protein by several criteria.
  • (19) And he trades barbs and disapproving glares with Scarlett Johansson 's Black Widow, who you will want to see in her own movie after this.
  • (20) The simplest explanation for these findings is that gelsolin caps the barbed ends of the filaments in the resting platelet.

Barm


Definition:

  • (n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
  • (n.) The lap or bosom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Runners at the corners for Daniel Descalso who he hits a hard ground ball right to Barmes at shortstop (not second base), he steps on the bag at second to get Freese for one out, fires to first to get the second out, and that's what we call an inning ending double play...or sometimes we call it a pitchers best friend.
  • (2) 8.51pm BST Cardinals 0 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 3rd Barmes pops out to second.
  • (3) Mercer stays in the game and replaces Barmes at shortstop for Pittsburgh.
  • (4) 1.14am BST Reds 0 - Pirates 0, top of 1st Ryan Ludwick is up next, and the Reds left fielder hits a soft grounder to shortstop where Clint Barmes is there to fire over to first base for the second out.
  • (5) Descalso is next - he bounces to Walker at second, he tosses to Barmes who steps o the bag to get one, then he fires over to first for the doub....wait, no, for the error!
  • (6) TBS busts out the Barmes deer meat story, one of my favorites - he once broke his collar bone in Colorado carrying venison down some stairs.
  • (7) Clint Barmes laces one down the third base line but Freese dives to his right to make a GREAT CATCH!
  • (8) Then Barmes and Gomez go down on strikes - the seventh Pirate to do so in just five innings.
  • (9) 8.56pm BST Cardinals 0 - Pirates 0, top of the 4th Matt Holliday beats out a Barmes throw to avoid a double play, but Beltran is out on second for a fielder's choice.
  • (10) 1.50am BST Pirates 2 - Reds 0, top of 3rd Clint Barmes makes another strong play, on the run at shortstop, to retire Zack Cozart.
  • (11) Russell Martin pops out to center field before Clint Barmes lines a single towards Ryan Ludwick in left field.
  • (12) 3.52am BST Pirates 6 - Reds 1, bottom of 7th Clint Barmes grounds out to short before Clint Hurdle lifts Francisco Liriano for a pinch hitter, Travis Snider.
  • (13) Morton gets Yadier Molina, because you can't have a postseason game without a Molina these days it seems, to ground out to Barmes.
  • (14) He turns and fires to Barmes at the bag to get the force and retire Jay for the first out of the inning.
  • (15) Francisco Liriano lays down a sacrifice bunt to move Barmes over to second base leaving a two out runner on the bases for Starling Marte - he flies out to center.
  • (16) Eccles cake Rag pudding Manchester tart Pie barm Which Greater Manchester borough did Vimto emerge from?
  • (17) Barmes grounds into a force out to end the inning, but one where another precious run goes on the board for Pittsburgh.
  • (18) Yeah, Yadier Molina, who bounces one off the usually reliable Clint Barmes in shortstop.
  • (19) Clint Barmes is most famous for being injured by deer meat.
  • (20) There's a little visit to the mound to try and calm Cueto before Clint Barmes pops to center field for the second out.

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