What's the difference between barnyard and surrounding?

Barnyard


Definition:

  • (n.) A yard belonging to a barn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
  • (2) The results showed a reservoir of potentially pathogenic E. coli in barnyard soils contaminated with bovine feces.
  • (3) Domestic swine faeces and fresh faeces from trapped barnyard rats were heavily contaminated with Prototheca zopfii, a cause of dairy cow mastitis.
  • (4) The organism was widely prevalent in the animal environment and could be isolated from milking utensils (56.67%), watering troughs (44.00%), drains (36.37%), shed floor (4.00%), barnyard soil (3.33%), and milkers' throats (50.00%) and hands before and after milking (7.14 and 10.71%, respectively).
  • (5) From this study it is apparent that the occurrence, number, and survival of E. coli in barnyard soils is related to ranch husbandry and sanitary practices.
  • (6) The effect of heating and fortification with lysine on the protein quality of five minor millets namely Italian millet (S. Italica), French millet (Panicum miliaceum), Barnyard millet (Echinochloa colona), Kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum) and Little millet (Panicum miliare) was carried out.
  • (7) The millets analysed were Italian millet (Setaria Italica), French millet (Panicum miliaceum), Barnyard millet (Echinachloa colona), Kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum) and little millet (Panicum miliare).
  • (8) Scott Brown, the former senator from Massachusetts who hosted the barnyard meet-and-greet with Bush, sounded a similar note.
  • (9) Halothane contracture testing was conducted in vitro 12-52 days following the barnyard challenge that established the MH susceptibility of the swine.
  • (10) John Bradford, 62, died while moving an elephant into a chute connecting barn stalls to the barnyard at the Dickerson Park Zoo on Friday, city spokeswoman Cora Scott said.
  • (11) In parallel, the IMViC types of coliform and enteric bacilli isolated from barnyard soils previously contaminated with bovine feces were compared with those isolated from uncontaminated soils.
  • (12) It's thought to be one of those magic traits that supposedly separate us from barnyard animals.
  • (13) The changes in the levels of inhibitory activities during germination and plant growth of finger millet and barnyard millet are discussed.
  • (14) Johnson suggested his opponent had a penchant for “carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows”.
  • (15) The occurrence, number, and pathogenic properties of Escherichia coli in barnyard soils were obtained from six cattle ranches.
  • (16) Properties of purified proteinase inhibitors from the small-seeded grains, finger millet, sorghum, pearl millet, Italian millet, and barnyard millet are compared.
  • (17) Virtually no giardiasis risk was observed associated with report of dog or barnyard animal proximity.
  • (18) By using essentially this method we have found that barnyard eggs are somewhat superior to battery eggs, but that whether they are fertile or infertile makes no difference.

Surrounding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surround
  • (a.) Inclosing; encircling.
  • (n.) An encompassing.
  • (n.) The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
  • (2) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
  • (3) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
  • (4) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
  • (7) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
  • (8) Computed tomography does not allow differentiation between these lesions and surrounding normal tissues.
  • (9) The efficacy of the process is dependent on immersion medium, while the degree of surrounding tissue damage is dependent on energy dose.
  • (10) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
  • (11) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
  • (12) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
  • (13) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
  • (14) This technique is sensitive to the optical anisotropy within the muscle, including that due to intrinsic properties of the protein molecules as well as that due to the regular arrangement of proteins in the surrounding medium.
  • (15) Surrounding parenchyma may be partially compressed.
  • (16) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
  • (17) At this stage of the observation period the labeling index was very low in surrounding liver, but still high in the gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase-positive areas.
  • (18) The third effect was a shift in center-surround balance towards a more dominant center.
  • (19) Although sound pressure levels are high, they are probably reduced before reaching the cochlea of the fetus because of the surrounding amniotic fluid and the fluid in the middle ear.
  • (20) Glial siphoning can distribute the potassium preferentially toward the blood vessels in the area, leading to an elevation in potassium concentration in the ECF surrounding the vascular smooth muscle of the arterioles.

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