What's the difference between barrow and mound?

Barrow


Definition:

  • (n.) A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
  • (n.) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
  • (n.) A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.
  • (n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
  • (n.) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By a comparison with the published infrared spectra of the water in model systems [Mohr, S.C., Wilk, W.D., & Barrow, G.M.
  • (2) Halifa Sallah, the spokesman for Barrow’s coalition, said he expected Jammeh to change his defiant position when he saw that the military were no longer with him, which he thought would happen imminently.
  • (3) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.
  • (4) Barrows were fed two sources of phosphorus with increasing levels of sodium.
  • (5) 3, barrows fitted with an ileal T-cannula were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square design.
  • (6) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
  • (7) New Gambian leader Adama Barrow sworn in at ceremony in Senegal Read more But Jammeh, like most dictators, gives greater weight to his ego and grandeur over national peace and harmony.
  • (8) Between 1972 and 1990, 159 pediatric patients were admitted to the Barrow Neurological Institute with acute traumatic spinal cord or vertebral column injuries.
  • (9) In conclusion, reciprocal cross differences detected for BF and LMA in barrows were established before or at fertilization and seemed to be Y-linked.
  • (10) The response to rpST in lean tissue growth rate from 60 to 100 kg was highest in fatter animals (Duroc, barrows), whereas from 100 to 140 kg, response in lean tissue growth rate to rpST was highest in leaner animals (Pietrain, F1, gilts).
  • (11) Sixteen barrows and 16 gilts of average liveweight 40 kg were fed on diets containing 0, 10, 20 or 30% copra cake.
  • (12) Barrows sired by D boars reared in a D postfertilization environment (ET) had 6.2 cm2 greater LMA and 4.1 mm less BF (P less than .05) than barrows sired by L boars gestated and reared by D dams (non-ET).
  • (13) Holding a Qur’an and looking solemn, Barrow was sworn in at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, where he has spent the past few days, and delivered his inaugural speech as president.
  • (14) The administration of pST resulted in an increase in muscle fiber size for all three fiber types in all three sexes, but these changes were of greater magnitude in barrows (31.8%) and gilts (27.8%) than in boars (9.3%).
  • (15) If fabrics break down then [microfibers] are another pathway for those [chemicals into the environment].” Those fighting the use of microbeads in beauty products are finding more traction, Barrows says, because phasing them out is straightforward.
  • (16) The metabolism of 19-nortestosterone was investigated in a miniature non-castrated male pig (boar), in a castrated pig (barrow) and in a female pig (sow).
  • (17) Since then, several of you have tipped us a wink in the direction of one such man in black who actually did find the net - in a third division game between Barrow AFC and Plymouth Argyle back on November 9 1968.
  • (18) Boars at 105 kg had 1.3 and 1.7% more moisture in the BR and ST, respectively, than barrows.
  • (19) Twelve blood serum components were determined on 78 barrows and 66 gilts, serially slaughtered at six age groups, starting at 69 d, at 2-wk intervals.
  • (20) When the new energy secretary, Ed Davey , went to Barrow to formally open Walney, he was told by some local residents that there was a strong feeling the people of Barrow had missed out on jobs, opportunities and social funding.

Mound


Definition:

  • (n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
  • (n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
  • (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
  • (2) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
  • (3) In reduction mammaplasty by the inferior pedicle technique, the dermal-breast pedicle can be manipulated to form a central breast mound and enhance breast projection.
  • (4) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
  • (5) A tongue-shaped flap of the fat and the anterior sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle, approximately 7 cm in length, is pulled up, gathered, and inserted to reconstruct the breast mound.
  • (6) With the exception of poor Jose Valverde, the Tigers pitching recovered in Game Two once that Verlander guy was out of the way, and so at least that side of the game seems to be in a better place for Detroit, especially with the Animal, Anibal Sanchez on the mound tonight.
  • (7) Next to the pupil there was often a perceptible mound, presumably representing the iris sphincter.
  • (8) Sperm were not transported into the cloacae of artificially inseminated, anesthetized females without prior administration of norepinephrine to their cloacal mounds.
  • (9) Treated areas become covered with irregular mounds of RPE cells within seven days.
  • (10) Conservatively, I’d estimate that 90% of my time was spent making my students do colouring in while I sat in an impossibly tiny chair, with my knees around my ears, silently dreading the inedible mound of uncategorised meat that would invariably pass for that day’s lunch.
  • (11) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
  • (12) Reconstruction of the breast after super-radical mastectomy is difficult because not only a breast mound but also the subclavicular and anterior axillary regions must be reconstructed simultaneously.
  • (13) Individual cysts were found to be lined by a single layer of epithelial cells in most areas, with focal polyps and mounds of cells principally in collecting duct cysts.
  • (14) Each mound with its own tableau of what once were laughing, dreaming, busy human beings.
  • (15) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
  • (16) In contrast, the flat-mound and translucent-mound mutants, which aggregate normally, produced very few spores.
  • (17) Scanning electron microscopy revealed small mound-like lesions protruding from an intact endothelium in birds treated with an initiating dose of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (Me2BA) followed by twice weekly injections of the alpha 1-selective adrenergic agonist methoxamine for 20 weeks.
  • (18) Breast reconstruction has become such a commonplace procedure over the last ten years that we as plastic surgeons are no longer content to simply create a mound.
  • (19) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
  • (20) The argon laser caused a gradual mounding up of iris pigment epithelium with each successive energy application before final penetration.