What's the difference between bloke and pet?

Bloke


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
  • (2) The best thing we can do is to make the effort to empathise with the bloke driving or the bloke in the back.
  • (3) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (4) Pledge news: harsh • 26 Jan , Darragh MacAnthony, Peterborough chairman on the "incredibly harsh" abuse by fans of manager Mark Cooper: "Nobody has given the bloke a chance.
  • (5) It couldn't have happened to a more deserving bloke.
  • (6) Like 90% of the population, all I knew about him was that he was that bloke who’d worn a dress to the Baftas.
  • (7) 10.15am BST May the fairer sex be with you Last night's big news from Hollywood was that Star Wars Episode VII has finally added some more women to its bloke-heavy cast list, welcoming Lupita Nyong'o and Gwendoline Christie AKA Brienne of Tarth to a galaxy far, far away.
  • (8) Jan Jan is actually not a bad tune, with distinctive Anastacia-ish vocals being the highlight (alongside a fat bloke formation dancing in the video).
  • (9) Even after being ambushed by anti-terror cops when panicked Londoners reported "a bloke pretending to be a Muslim woman", I didn't complain.
  • (10) I would not say this about all politicians, but he is genuinely a thoroughly nice bloke.” But neither does he want to be too closely tied to a Corbyn project over which he has little or no control.
  • (11) At the risk of of sounding like, well, a girl, I have to say I found it a bit blokely with far too many gimmicks (Lawro's hair?
  • (12) She said: "We all know what it's like: you are at freshers' week, you meet up with a dodgy bloke and you do things that you regret.
  • (13) While Liz won new admirers with her stiff upper cleavage and bloke-dismissal skills, super-snob Sally plumbed new depths of irritation.
  • (14) He was the kind of bloke you’d book the morning cutting session with and have a pint with him at lunchtime – you wouldn’t book the afternoon one because that’d be after his pint!” Porky also encouraged bands to scratch in their own messages.
  • (15) And I raise that by saying that you’ve been criticised over a debt tax which is a tax – there’s no use being semantic and you’re not a bloke who deals in semantics – but as I understand that this was the only way that you could grab people like yourself and politicians in it so you could say, “Look I’m putting my hand in my pocket”.
  • (16) I asked a Tunisian bloke next to me in the bar where I was watching the match.
  • (17) It would be nice if we could say this was because the media had learned their lessons and recognised the importance of scientific evidence, rather than one bloke's hunch.
  • (18) There are many more opportunities for women now, but you are up against some very competitive blokes.
  • (19) In terms of the politics: well, Abbott will get the thumbs up from blokes who feel emasculated by the thought police.
  • (20) So we now know that the riders follow the bloke on the electric bicycle – known as a derny – building up speed as they go before said bloke moves into the centre with two-and-a-half laps to go, leaving the riders to sprint to the finish.

Pet


Definition:

  • (n.) A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
  • (n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
  • (n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
  • (a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
  • (v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.
  • (v. i.) To be a pet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In cases with unilateral hypoperfusion, the percentage of the activity in the lesion to that in the contralateral normal cortex on the early SPECT was correlated well with that on CBF measured by PET (r = 0.870, p less than 0.001).
  • (2) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
  • (3) The PET studies suggest dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex as a result of damage to the lentiform nuclei.
  • (4) If the PET measurement is commenced prior to arteriovenous equilibrium, significant errors occur in calculated CBV.
  • (5) Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are now being used to improve the information available from radioisotopic imaging of patients with cancer.
  • (6) The muscarinic receptor agonist carbachol had no significant effects on [3H]PEt and [3H]IP formation in nontransfected HEK cells.
  • (7) Appropriate corrections for atrophy should be employed if current PET scanners are to accurately measure actual brain tissue metabolism in various pathologic states.
  • (8) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
  • (9) Such information could be most useful for in vivo receptor visualization studies using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning.
  • (10) Half the adolescents completed the child maltreatment instrument first, while the rest completed the pet maltreatment instrument.
  • (11) In this study, PET images were obtained using [18F]-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose, a marker for glucose metabolism.
  • (12) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
  • (13) The distribution of 1-11C-acetoacetic acid after injection into adult Wistar rats and cats was investigated by PET.
  • (14) If we start letting movie stars – even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice – to come into our nation (with pets), then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Joyce said at the time.
  • (15) We have developed a method that allows two sets of regional cerebral metabolic rates of glucose (rCMRglc) to be obtained in a single extended procedure using positron emission tomography (PET) and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).
  • (16) Metabolic PET studies also give insight into pathophysiologic mechanisms of epilepsy.
  • (17) In view of the number of PET studies involving low count rate acquisitions, there has been increasing interest recently in the development of positron cameras capable of fully three-dimensional acquisition and reconstruction.
  • (18) We performed dynamic positron emission tomographic (PET) studies of glucose utilization, using (18F) 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG), in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy age-matched controls, to evaluate blood-brain-barrier glucose transport and glucose utilization rates in the disease.
  • (19) We used a 11C-glucose method for positron emission tomography (PET) while estimating cerebral glucose metabolism during human sleep with polysomnography (PSG).
  • (20) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

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