What's the difference between barbet and ironsmith?

Barbet


Definition:

  • (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
  • (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
  • (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To dissect mechanisms of caprine arthritis-encephalitis lentivirus-induced arthritis, an undefined immunodominant viral glycoprotein, gp90 (G. C. Johnson, A. F. Barbet, P. Klevjer-Anderson, and T. C. McGuire, Infect.
  • (2) Steve Barbet, the police spokesman for the local prefect in Calais, said: “We do not use teargas without a good reason and use of teargas has to be authorised and it is only authorised when it is necessary.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest London calling?
  • (3) n. is described from 13 specimens collected from the thoracic air sacs of a D'Arnaud's barbet (Trachyphonus darnaudii) originating in the Lake Baringo area of Kenya and which died in captivity in Canada.
  • (4) These two VSGs, WaTat 1.1 and WaTat 1.12 have been shown to possess cross-reactive surface-exposed antigenic determinants [Barbet et al., Nature 300, 53-57 (1982)] and similar N-terminal amino acid sequences [Olafson et al., Molec.
  • (5) The ethidium and the acridine chromophore were introduced in such bifunctional intercalators in order to allow the fluorometric study of the interaction of such molecules with DNA, which is reported in the companion paper (Gaugain, B., Barbet, J., Capelle, N., Roques, B.P., & Le Pecq, J.B.(1978) Biochemistry 17 (following paper in this issue)).
  • (6) Simmons has already occasionally stood in for Chiles on Daybreak, while Barbet has previously worked with incoming Daybreak editor David Kermode.
  • (7) Other names in the running to take over from Chiles include BBC breakfast sports presenter Chris Hollins, ITV News presenter Keir Simmons and Channel 5 News host Matt Barbet.
  • (8) An ethidium homodimer and acridine ethidium heterodimer have been synthesized (Gaugain, B., Barbet, J., Oberlin, R., Roques, B. P., & Le Pecq, J.

Ironsmith


Definition:

  • (n.) A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith.
  • (n.) An East Indian barbet (Megalaima faber), inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He felt a close bond with this president who was the son of an ironsmith and seemed to live a life almost as simple as his own, and who was an unreserved advocate for the poor.

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