What's the difference between binder and bunder?

Binder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
  • (n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-five children with stable chronic renal failure, not on dialysis, were treated conservatively with a regimen of mild dietary phosphate restriction and high-dose phosphate binders for up to 5 years.
  • (2) The use of the pellet binder "Lingnosol FG" in broiler diets at three levels plus a control group revealed differences in the consistency, quantity and color of the caecal contents between the treated and untreated groups.
  • (3) Epithelial components in both pulmonary blastomas and hamartomas showed a reactivity for R-binder, suggesting that these tumors contained components composed of cells with bronchiolar cell differentiation.
  • (4) We have studied the time-resolved and the steady-state fluorescence of the DNA groove binders 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and Hoechst 33258 with the double stranded DNAs poly(dA-dU) and poly(dI-dC) and their halogenated analogs, poly(dA-I5dU) and poly(dI-Br5dC).
  • (5) Extracts from solubilized kidneys were shown to contain a folate binder with the same relative affinities for folates and methotrexate as the in vivo system.
  • (6) In the present study the vitamin B12 complexes of the two vitamin B12 binders were separated at a pH of 1.8 using the cationic exchange chromatograph Mono S attached to the fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) system.
  • (7) (5) There was renal release or production of TC II (6) Some TC II but more of a larger molecular size binder came from the liver.
  • (8) "They brought us whole binders full of women," he relates after he complained that there weren't enough qualified women candidates.
  • (9) Association and binder dilution curves were prepared in order to optimize the reagent concentrations and the analytical conditions.
  • (10) Health hazards from environmental pollution may be irritation of the mucous membranes when the indoor environment is painted and fish mortality due to slowly degradable polyacrylate binders.
  • (11) These findings support the view that abdominal binders assist breathing in tetraplegic patients who are seated or raised to near vertical positions.
  • (12) The assay incorporated an antibody against purified human salivary R binder as the binding reagent.
  • (13) Are the 'Set Piece' binders to stay like we are playing a weird version of American Football?'
  • (14) Transcobalamin I (TCI) is a member of the R binder family of vitamin B12 binding proteins.
  • (15) Evaluation of the binding parameters of the high affinity binders in both AP and PP gave similar association constants.
  • (16) Cholestyramine was found to be the most effective bile acid binder, with more than 90% of bile acids adsorbed at all of the pH values studied.
  • (17) In competition experiments with T cell hybridomas, the poor binder I-Ed molecule required 10- to 15-fold higher competitor concentrations than the good binder I-Ak molecule to achieve 50% inhibition of antigen presentation.
  • (18) High definition microfocal radiography permitted the quantitative assessment of the radiographic features of renal osteodystrophy in the phalanges of 11 children in stable chronic renal failure, treated with phosphate binders for 1 year.
  • (19) Use of magnesium hydroxide-containing antacids as phosphate binders in patients with CRF was largely discontinued 2 decades ago after reports described increases in serum magnesium concentrations to toxic levels.
  • (20) At pH 7.4 the relative affinities are quite disparate, with folic acid showing the greater affinity for milk binder.

Bunder


Definition:

  • (n.) A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The piers are busy, from Coal Bunder, where more than a million tonnes of coal for regional power plants are unloaded annually; to Lakdi Bunder, with its timber market; to Darukhana, where workers cut up ships in less-than-ideal safety conditions for £3 a day.
  • (2) So what happens to that work?” That question echoes on the old bunders, or piers, near Mazgaon Dock.
  • (3) Keti Bunder, a grotty little port that has been slowly dying over the years, could be revived.

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