What's the difference between barb and mow?

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.

Mow


Definition:

  • (n.) A wry face.
  • (v. i.) To make mouths.
  • (n.) Same as Mew, a gull.
  • (pres. sing.) of Mow
  • (v.) May; can.
  • (v. t.) To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
  • (v. t.) To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
  • (v. t.) To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.
  • (v. i.) To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
  • (n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
  • (n.) The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
  • (v. t.) To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
  • (2) Mowing was very effective when it was done at a height of 2 cm from the soil.
  • (3) Four years ago, a poll of DC energy insiders found that 91% thought Transcanada (the Canadian company that wants to build the pipeline) would quickly and easily acquire the permit for the pipeline; the company was so confident that they mowed the strip they were about to dig up across the centre of the country.
  • (4) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.
  • (5) --predators-placing without previous grass-mowing is effective only on banks of rivers.
  • (6) Highest was the activity of lucerne from the first mowing, gradually decreasing in each of the following mowings.
  • (7) "They're burning billions of dollars to catch a guy who wants to mow somebody's lawn."
  • (8) We believe that the increased nasal and ocular symptoms coincident with lawn mowing are allergic phenomena significantly associated with skin test sensitivity and specific IgE antibodies to grass pollens but not with sensitivity or specific IgE to molds or grass-leaf extract.
  • (9) When it's all done, you look back and you're like: 'Oh look, I mowed a whole lawn.
  • (10) Variations were likewise established in the content of genestein and cumestrol in dependence on the mowing itself and the yield.
  • (11) Westminster map The fact is that the attacker in his attempt to spread terror, was reduced to mowing down pedestrians on a crowded Westminster Bridge to tragically fatal effect.
  • (12) If you're going to cleanse the country of indigents, then you may as well do it all in one go: clear out the squatters, get rid of all the "beds in sheds", demolish unofficial Gypsy sites, hustle the rough sleepers out of doorways, and sweep away anyone a bit weird, like Anne Naysmith, 75, who slept in her old car, and built a charming garden in a car park corner next to a railway embankment, until TfL came along and mowed down the shelter, flowers and fruit trees.
  • (13) Ecological Impacts "Minimal" George said the overall ecological impact of mowing the grass and removing the beetles would likely be "minimal."
  • (14) Positive skin tests to grasses, trees, and weed pollens were more frequent in those patients with symptoms exacerbated by lawn mowing (p less than 0.03).
  • (15) Not the drunk neighbour who called us little black bastards, even when we mowed his lawn for him.
  • (16) A number of individuals with perennial or seasonal rhinoconjunctivitis state that their symptoms may suddenly worsen on exposure to lawn mowing.
  • (17) The spiel for Jeff Allen’s book, Get Laid Or Die Trying , entices the reader by promising to teach them tactics for: “Deflecting last-minute resistance with a single word” and “Convincing a girl you just met that before you fuck her, she must mow your lawn” and he gets around his home of San Francisco in a vehicle he’s nicknamed a “rape van” .
  • (18) 6.24am GMT Third set: Dimitrov* 5-4 Nadal Dimitrov positively mows through the next game to make it 5-4!
  • (19) Graham, the Fish and Wildlife biologist, compared the mowing to the hay harvesting that regularly takes place in the region's ranches.
  • (20) All samples demonstrated that genestein was present in the first and fourth mowing, while the content of cumestrol varied within a wide range showing no markedly expressed correlations.

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