What's the difference between beetle and roller?

Beetle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
  • (v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.
  • (v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
  • (v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
  • (v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
  • (2) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
  • (3) Permethrin (0.5%) was applied to individual Lutz spruce, Picea x lutzii Little, to protect them from attack by spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby).
  • (4) This paper is the first published report of vesicular dermatitis due to blister beetles of the family Meloidae in Panamá.
  • (5) Cutting up carcasses is the simpler of the two techniques but there are circumstances in which beetle digestion would be advantageous.
  • (6) After removal of a transverse strip of ventral thorax from the beetle, Tenebrio molitor, interaction occurred between epidermis posterior to the mesothoracic leg and that anterior to the metathoracic leg.
  • (7) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
  • (8) A hypertrehalosemic neuropeptide from the corpora cardiac of the two tenebrionid beetle species, Tenebrio molitor and Zophobas rugipes, was purified by high performance liquid chromatography, and its sequence determined by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing employing Edman degradation after deblocking enzymatically the N-terminal pyroglutamate residue.
  • (9) Shortly after gamma irradiation, flour beetles exhibited a decline in resistance to oxygen toxicity.
  • (10) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
  • (11) One-way deformation tests using sera prepared against known beetle and tabanid spiroplasmas showed each of the above strains to be unique.
  • (12) Case records of 21 horses with acute illness following ingestion of hay containing dead striped blister beetles (Epicauta spp) were selected for review.
  • (13) This report reexamines experimentally the problem of competitive indeterminacy in mixed-species populations of the flour beetles, Tribolium confusum and T. castaneum.
  • (14) Outside, the ancient trees provide a habitat for several rare insect species, including the cobweb beetle, and many bats, such as the noctule, that like to eat them.
  • (15) However the plants are then attacked by pollen beetles, necessitating a further use of pyrethroids.
  • (16) The present analysis outlines how the shape of motoneurons which persist through metamorphosis in the beetle Tenebrio molitor is regulated by cellular interactions.
  • (17) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
  • (18) Nesting birds were already protected, as were fenced-off areas for insects – 112 spider and 68 beetle species have been identified at Tempelhof.
  • (19) In staphyliniformic beetles, as in other Coleoptera, the number of type III and V neurosecretory cells is equal to 4.
  • (20) Glossopharyngeal nerve stimulation of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, revealed responsiveness to low levels of cantharidin (1.3 x 10(-6) M), providing a first demonstration of neural gustatory sensitivity of an animal to this defensive chemical from blister beetles (Meloidae).

Roller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
  • (n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
  • (n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
  • (n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
  • (n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.
  • (n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
  • (n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
  • (n.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
  • (n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They stayed in suites usually reserved for high-rollers.
  • (2) The Atlantic rollers aren't huge here but they are consistent.
  • (3) A servo controlled transapical LV to aortic bypass system employing a roller pump was evaluated.
  • (4) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (5) The patient is allowed to do functional exercises 24 hours after reduction with the aid of the spring stepping roller, which not only helps dissipate swelling in the early stage but also remold the articular facet.
  • (6) The system includes a membrane oxygenator and a roller pump.
  • (7) Since tobacco is known to be mutagenic and carcinogenic, urinary cotinine was estimated in bidi rollers and control subjects as an index of tobacco-specific exposure while the concentration of urinary thioethers was determined to ascertain exposure to electrophilic moieties.
  • (8) A covalently bonded heparin-coated extracorporeal membrane oxygenation system and a roller pump were used for the bypass.
  • (9) Hyaluronate (HA) distribution patterns were examined in the cranial mesenchyme underlying the mesencephalic neural folds of mouse embryos maintained in roller tube culture.
  • (10) A new pulsatile assist device that converts roller pump flow to pulsatile flow has been developed and proven effective through clinical testing.
  • (11) PMN factor was released from early inflammatory peritoneal exudate cells (98% of PMN) stimulated with kaolin under roller bottle culture conditions.
  • (12) The synthesis and secretion of non-virus-associated gp51 is especially stimulated in the roller culture, and is largely independent of the quality of the culture medium.
  • (13) A simple, inexpensive modification to an existing device is described that enables such an apparatus to be used for the roller-tube technique.
  • (14) This a time when these crucial policies, central to everyone’s lives and the future of the nation, have been on a roller coaster ride through years of political disruption.
  • (15) St Osyth is earthier than this, even though you'll find Rollers parked next to the fanciest caravans.
  • (16) Each subject wheeled his or her personal wheelchair, which was mounted on a set of frictionless rollers with side-mounted flywheels.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.40am BST Pirates 5 - Reds 1, top of 7th On a 2-2 count, the crowd are up looking for Liriano's sixth strikeout of the night - they don't get it, but they do get ground ball out number 13 on a roller to third base which then heads over to first and retires the side.
  • (18) Menton may not have Saint-Tropez's party people, Cannes' film stars or Monte Carlo's high rollers, but that's what makes the town so appealing.
  • (19) Culture vessels were constructed by using roller bottles and Pyrex tubing.
  • (20) Beady Eye tracks such as The Roller are, it has to be said, shown up by the former bands' glories, but closing track Bring the Light matches their peaks for sheer verve at least.