What's the difference between beech and buck?

Beech


Definition:

  • (n.) A tree of the genus Fagus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Academisation and a school system on the brink | Letters Read more Perry Beeches has been a favourite of Cameron, as well as former education secretary Michael Gove and his successor Nicky Morgan .
  • (2) The pollen of ash (Fraxinus), oak (Quercus), beech (Fagus) and plane tree (Platanus) was regularly found in high percentages during these years.
  • (3) Beech tar, in a concentration of 5% induced a 19% increase in orthokeratosis.
  • (4) If the majority of relevant tree pollens are to be included in a diagnostic or therapeutic programme in Western Sweden it should contain birch, alder, hazel, beech and bog-myrtle allergens.
  • (5) In previous experiments it was found that birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak are pollens with importance in pathogenesis of early pollinosis in our region of Central Europe.
  • (6) Published on 27 March 1963, Beeching's report, The Restructuring of British Railways, outlined plans to cut more than 5,000 miles of track and more than 2,000 stations.
  • (7) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
  • (8) The erythrocytes in beech marten are clearly smaller in size and volume and have a lower mean corpuscular hemoglobin than the erythrocytes in mink and ferret.
  • (9) It served as an inland diversionary route until its closure under Beeching in 1962.
  • (10) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
  • (11) In experiments carried out with beech sawdust treated with 0.1 M of sulphuric acid a digestibility of 3.7% was found, in sawdust treated with 0.47 M of nitric acid a digestibility of 61.6% was found and after a neutralization with ammonia it amounted to 72.2%.
  • (12) 4110), adenocarcinomas of the nasal sinuses, induced by oak and beech wood dust (No.
  • (13) An electron microscopic study of beech leaf white rot shows a certain number of characteristic developmental stages which are identical whether the material is from in vitro experimentation or from natural incubation.
  • (14) Luke Sookdeo, a pupil at Perry Beeches Academy, Birmingham, had a word for his "haters" after getting an A in English literature and an A* in drama.
  • (15) There was still snow in June this year in the Northern Velebit national park, which contrasts lush beech forest with more austere pine-spiked ridges, and here there is a proper day's hiking to be had, requiring detailed maps, sensible shoes and a chat with the ranger beforehand.
  • (16) He had close and affectionate relations with the monarchs, as revealed in one poem entitled Lines for January 20th death of his father, George V. The poem reads: "Beyond the river-side; The frozen fields stretch wide; To where the beech-clumps bide; Leafless and still; In snow upon the hill; I think of One who died."
  • (17) "The crucial lesson to take from the Beeching anniversary is that you have to be flexible when planning transport infrastructure.
  • (18) As a result, when Ofsted publishes its final report the school is all but certain to be downgraded to "inadequate" – Ofsted's harshest rating – and be placed in special measures, stripped of its governors and managing trust, and handed over to new, approved management – with one candidate being the Perry Beeches academy trust, a successful group of academies frequently praised by Gove.
  • (19) Partial identity between the major allergens of birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak pollen extract could be identified by means of RAST-, ELISA- and CRIE-inhibition as well as further types of crossed immunoelectrophoresis.
  • (20) Another prominent lesbian Anglican, Vicky Beeching, said: “Social and religious attitudes are shifting among young people.

Buck


Definition:

  • (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
  • (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
  • (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
  • (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  • (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
  • (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
  • (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
  • (n.) A male Indian or negro.
  • (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  • (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
  • (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
  • (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
  • (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  • (n.) The beech tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A few days later he tweeted : "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.
  • (2) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
  • (3) Social prescribing schemes, by their nature, vary considerably but generally provide a way for GPs and other primary care professionals to offer or signpost to non-clinical referral options instead of, or alongside, clinical ones,” says the report’s author, David Buck.
  • (4) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
  • (5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
  • (6) However, our airports are unable to serve the young bucks that are set to drive the world forward.
  • (7) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
  • (8) He said to me that he would not grow old, both in discussions of his paper on senescence ("I feel bucked when anyone refers to that paper") and discussions touching on personal safety.
  • (9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
  • (10) The subsequent post-rut profiles of treated bucks were characterized by lower basal plasma LH concentrations, and reduced frequency and amplitude of plasma testosterone surges.
  • (11) Sexual behavior of the buck, onset of puberty, techniques for semen collection and evaluation, the production of teaser animals, and methods of castration are also discussed.
  • (12) People moved in who wanted to make a buck out of it all, especially the drugs.
  • (13) As Buck is not challenging his guilt, the most he could hope for is life without parole, said Radelet.
  • (14) There’s just inertia and a lack of looking into ourselves to find the solutions.” Recently, Buck had told her brother about fuel money for ambulances being diverted.
  • (15) The Harris County district court is now considering whether or not to grant Buck a new sentencing hearing.
  • (16) As Fox caller Joe Buck just said to new viewers "we know where you've been"."
  • (17) Pratchett left school one year into his A-levels, after he was offered a job on the local paper, the Bucks Free Press , aged 17.
  • (18) But the buck does not stop with the commission, and it is not an invention of the US trade deal.
  • (19) It is concluded that Buck screw fixation is a safe and reliable method of treatment for painful Grade I spondylolisthesis due to isthmic spondylolysis in the young active adult with a low complication rate.
  • (20) Bevan was equally unimpressed and told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme: "The buck stops with Alan.