What's the difference between barrow and wheelbarrow?

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.

Wheelbarrow


Definition:

  • (n.) A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The moment he put a ball on a wheelbarrow instead of a wheel.
  • (2) If this had been a boxing match, Woods would have exited the ring in a wheelbarrow.
  • (3) Up in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in a tiny village nestled amid breathtaking landscapes and eagles in flight, a man in a woolly hat pushes a wheelbarrow up a narrow street whistling to himself as the smell of woodsmoke drifts out of chimneys.
  • (4) In the wheelbarrow race, for example, students must lift each other by the thighs rather than the feet to avoid collapsingthe back.
  • (5) "We're all angry about the cuts, about what's happening to schools and libraries and so on, given the wheelbarrows of cash that have supported the banks," says Ed Mayo, head of Co-ops UK.
  • (6) Credit: Guardian graphics At night, human chains of men and women, young and old, lined up to pass along tyres and bricks, rubble and debris that were wheelbarrowed in to build huge blocking points around the city centre in an attempt to keep the security forces at bay.
  • (7) Chiwanga recalled the dark days of hyperinflation when a wheelbarrow of cash was not worth a loaf of bread, the central bank issued a 100 trillion dollar note and people in rural areas faced starvation for the first time in living memory .
  • (8) One is that printing money conjures up images of wheelbarrows of cash being trundled through the streets of Weimar Germany, convincing consumers and businesses that things are even worse than they thought, thus making them even less likely to part with their cash.
  • (9) Men and women in hi-vis jackets and blue chest-high waders fill wheelbarrows with woodchips and spread them on the sodden riverbank.
  • (10) With schools shut, boys and girls become water-mules, spending their mornings bent under the weight of the filled containers or pushing wheelbarrows piled high with them.
  • (11) Greg Hunt says there are 'no plans' to approve crocodile-hunting safaris Read more “This has resulted in significant costs for industry and the production of enormous EIS reports, many thousands of pages long.” The business groups cite the example of Santos needing to gather 13,500 pages of information for a gas project which took two years to write, weighed 65kg and “a wheelbarrow was needed to move it”.
  • (12) Other ideas include a golf course made using beanbags and hula hoops , a wheelbarrow race , crab walk and a standing broad jump .
  • (13) "We call our shops 'bend down' boutiques because we have so many clothes we just pour them on the floor and you just bend down and select," explained Mercy Azbuike, surrounded by piles of clothes overflowing from her wooden shack and piled into wheelbarrows outside.
  • (14) During training, Anton brings Fiona a wheelbarrow full of pumpkins to carve.
  • (15) When Dyson, now 66, became frustrated with his wheelbarrow, he invented the Ballbarrow – replacing the wheel with a ball so it would turn more easily.
  • (16) Inscribe a William Carlos Williams on your wheelbarrow.
  • (17) William Carlos Williams dropped in to visit Pound, his old classmate, but the author of The Red Wheelbarrow didn’t really fit in with the author of The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas.
  • (18) It gives ministers the opportunity to overturn the wheelbarrow every time they don’t like a decision,” he said.
  • (19) With no roads and no cars, anything that needs ferrying about on the grassy footpaths is taken in a wheelbarrow, so this is the island's equivalent of a car park.
  • (20) 7.57pm BST An uncharacteristically long and dull question follows by a German journalist, worrying about inflation, as is the German want (insert newsreel footage of the Weimar Republic and wheelbarrows full of cash here).

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