What's the difference between barbed and barber?

Barbed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Barb
  • (a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)
  • (a.) Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.

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.

Barber


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
  • (v. t.) To shave and dress the beard or hair of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
  • (2) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
  • (3) Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the TUC, said: "[Osborne] has loaded cuts on to benefits and welfare payments.
  • (4) That translates to 34,000 votes, more than 10 times Barber’s margin of victory.
  • (5) TUC general secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the letters, which argue against the Conservative party's position that the sheer scale of the UK deficit means public spending must be cut immediately.
  • (6) Eggs of southern corn rootworm (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber) were subjected to electromagnetic energy at 2.45 GHz in slotted waveguide applicators to determine ovicidal threshold levels.
  • (7) Sharp said he ran into Wheeler a year or two ago around the holidays, when Wheeler had taken two of his sons to the barber shop in town to get a haircut.
  • (8) TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: This chancellor has presided over one of the biggest ever squeezes on the budgets of working families.
  • (9) With the aid of a series of demonstrations (plus two formal experiments) we (1) propose a new explanation for the fact that edge line terminators in a "barber pole" display are perceived as intrinsic; (2) show that inner line terminators in a plaid pattern (i.e.
  • (10) The inhabitants of Mala Kladusa are mostly refugees from Cetingrad and Dreznik, and between 1790 and 1878 they had chances to cure more than 1200 wounded and a few thousand ill people in barber's shops in Gornja and Donja Baraka.
  • (11) "In order to do something significant, we are going to have to pass laws," said Barber, a former aide to congresswoman Gabby Giffords, shot in Tucson, Arizona, in January last year.
  • (12) Simultaneously, it is important to become familiar with the works of Erikson and Barber.
  • (13) But TUC chief Brendan Barber blamed bankers and previous Tory governments for the economic mess: "This recession is not bad luck or an inevitable swing of the pendulum.
  • (14) Two such songs, Rock Island Line and John Henry found their way on to the Barber band's 1954 album, New Orleans Joys, but it wasn't until 18 months later that they were released, under Donegan's name, as a novelty single.
  • (15) The Barber Suggestibility Scale, as a measure of hypnotic susceptibility, was administered to 130 British undergraduate students by 13 student experimenters in a 2 x 2 factorial design withe sex of the subject and the sex of the experimenter as the two variables.
  • (16) To get around this handicap, the character employs a recording of scissor-snip noises and barber’s small-talk to convince his client he’s actually doing the job he was hired for.
  • (17) Her horse Barber’s Shop won the Tattersalls & RoR Thoroughbred Ridden Show.
  • (18) Gornja and Donja Baraka are good places for hospital (barber's shop) because they are near the river Kladusnica, and in the wood.
  • (19) As news was breaking in San Francisco that Trump’s travel ban had been blocked by an appeals court, in his south Bethlehem barber shop, Joe D’Ambrosio rated Trump’s performance in office so far as “fantastic”.
  • (20) David Barber wrote on Twitter: “Strictly voters at home show their racist leanings again.