What's the difference between bare and tusk?

Bare


Definition:

  • (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
  • (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  • (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  • (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
  • (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
  • (a.) Threadbare; much worn.
  • (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
  • (n.) Surface; body; substance.
  • (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
  • (a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
  • () Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
  • () of Bear

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (2) Moderately differentiated tumor revealed a wider range of nucleus size, less clustering (coefficient--3.59) and more hyperchromatic (70.1%) and "bare" (49.4%) nuclei and large nucleoli (22.2%).
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (4) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (5) Some antibodies and other proteins bind tightly to nitrocellulose and dissociation of these proteins by Tween 20 is barely detectable.
  • (6) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
  • (7) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
  • (8) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
  • (9) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
  • (10) I have in the past predicted anger, as the consequences of the recession for public spending become clear; I think the process of expressing that anger has barely begun.
  • (11) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (12) Dual-positive CD4+CD8+ T cells (which were barely detectable in normal adults), CD4-CD8+ T cells and B cells transiently reached supranormal levels during recovery.
  • (13) But Sir Hayden Phillips's proposals are stalemated by Labour determination to cap spending and the Tory desire to cap Labour's unions funding while leaving their own flow of funds barely affected.
  • (14) In Golgi-Cox-impregnated coronal sections of albino rat brains at 1, 4, 26, 24, 30, 60 and 90 days it is presented the evolution of the spine-less, bare initial zone ("nude zone", NZ) at the proximal apical main dendrites of the layer V pyramidal neurons in the somatosensory and anterior limbie cortex.
  • (15) Average earnings are forecast to grow just 2.4% in 2017, meaning they will be barely rising in real terms.
  • (16) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
  • (17) An additional 30 cm of clay covered the tailings on one plot and each plot was subdivided into bare soil and vegetated subplots.
  • (18) In order to avoid the drawbacks of the cutting end of the bare optic fibers, it may be covered with sapphire optics which conducts well laser energy.
  • (19) In addition the bare central backbone showed transverse striations.
  • (20) In a third experiment, rats were unilaterally gonadectomized and blood samples were obtained at various intervals for 48 h. Following unilateral gonadectomy there was a significant transient increase in FSH levels in male or female MSG-treated rats as compared to their 0 h values; however, the absolute levels attained were barely equal to the basal concentrations observed in the saline-treated control rats.

Tusk


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Torsk.
  • (n.) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
  • (n.) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
  • (n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.
  • (v. i.) To bare or gnash the teeth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The European council president, Donald Tusk, said the incident underlined the importance of EU attempts to revamp Europe’s border force.
  • (2) Civic Platform, led for most of its existence by Donald Tusk before he became president of the European Council, included many of the liberal architects of the post-1989 republic and their supporters – those who had negotiated the transition, those who determined its free-market economic model, those who established a conciliatory tone and pro-European orientation in foreign policy, those who negotiated the constitutional settlement reached in 1997.
  • (3) The two men appear to be discussing Tusk's fallout with Cameron over the latter's proposals to curb access to benefits: "What the fuck are they on about with these benefits?"
  • (4) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
  • (5) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
  • (6) "The PM and Prime Minister Tusk discussed the EU targeted measures approved today and agreed that the EU should continue to look at the ways it can promote a peaceful and democratic settlement in Ukraine, recognising that continued violence will make it harder to reassure all Ukrainians that their legitimate aspirations will be realised."
  • (7) Tusk added that Eurozone finance ministers could endorse cash in return for the proposed tax and pension reforms by Wednesday evening.
  • (8) EU renegotiation: UK wins partial concession on migrant worker benefits Read more In a major boost to David Cameron, who laid the ground for a short referendum campaign to keep Britain in a reformed EU after Donald Tusk published his proposals, the home secretary said progress had been made in the negotiations.
  • (9) She wants it to be a smooth, constructive, orderly process.” With speculation rife about how Britain plans to conduct the negotiations, Tusk wants to avoid a discussion and will not invite other EU leaders to respond.
  • (10) Tusk offered a declaration that the UK is “not committed to further political integration”.
  • (11) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
  • (12) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
  • (13) It shows how important our discussion was … We are ready to help rebuilding of control of our external borders,” European council president Donald Tusk said in Brussels.
  • (14) To say that it is a Pandora’s Box is too little.” Tusk’s comments were the first delivered publicly on the British issue since he took office as European council president in December.
  • (15) Updated at 8.22am GMT 7.40am GMT Coming up at Davos Here's an agenda: • 9.30am CET (8.30am GMT): Henry Kissinger speaks on “The state of the world” • 10.30am CET: David Cameron gives a "special address" • 11am CET: Enda Kenny, Mario Monti, Mark Rutte and Donald Tusk discuss the eurozone crisis • 2.15pm CET: Angela Merkel gives a "special address" • 2.45pm: George Osborne discusses an "economic insight" (your guess is as good as ours!)
  • (16) First, because of the shape of the growth curve of tusks with age, the conversion factor that relates the number of elephants killed to the ivory yield in weight is not constant, but a function of the population size.
  • (17) Florian Siepert (@siepert) @Simon_Burnton As Hungary has neither a coast nor tusked mammals, Ivory Coast translates as Elephant Bone Bank in Hungarian.
  • (18) Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits as president of the European council, said the EU should agree to share at least 100,000 refugees.
  • (19) There the message is that everything in the Tusk-Cameron document is marginal, even meaningless, though simultaneously a threat to our whole way of life.
  • (20) This tusk specimen contains a metal spear with a wooden component, which is surrounded by a quiver-like osseous encasement.