What's the difference between bobbin and robbin?

Bobbin


Definition:

  • (n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
  • (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
  • (n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
  • (n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.
  • (n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Last December, while the rest of my office was settling into its Christmas lunch, I was singing “Wind the Bobbin Up”.
  • (2) Then he got A Mystery Illness and has been bobbins, nicking the ball off Oscar’s feet and denying him a hat-trick against Swansea to make matters worse at the weekend.
  • (3) The Reuter-Bobbin tube had a much greater rate of plugging, compared to the other tubes.
  • (4) It's the star attraction of Georgia's beloved Redneck Games , alongside events such as the Armpit Serenade and Bobbin' For Pigs' Feet.
  • (5) A filamentous zone develops proximally in the cells concurrently with hemidesmosomes, which assume the typical larval bobbin form as the skeins occupy more of the cytoplasm.
  • (6) At nearly three times the price of their previous record transfer Andrey Arshavin , Gooners can at least relax safe in the knowledge he can't possibly end up being three times as bobbins.
  • (7) Instead of an afternoon of drunken shouting I was sitting with a circle of new mums at a music group in our local community centre belting out an irritating song to a room of babies who have no clue about bobbins, or any other part of the textile industry.
  • (8) This condition persists into the postmetamorphic stage when the figures of Eberth and the bobbin-type hemidesmosomes have gone.
  • (9) Even if it does mean joining in with the mums on “Wind the Bobbin Up”.
  • (10) With the exception of the Reuter Bobbin, all mean air conduction thresholds in functioning tubes were below 20 dB.
  • (11) Previous results demonstrated that nimodipine, an L-type of Ca2+ channel antagonist, abolished the negative summating potential (SP) recorded from anesthetized guinea pigs (Bobbin et al., 1990), suggesting that Ca2+ is involved in generation of the negative SP.
  • (12) The Suquet-Hoyer canal was surrounded like a sheath by numerous thin adrenergic fibers, which were distributed like threads around a bobbin.
  • (13) The eight tubes used in the survey were the Shepard, Exmoor, Bobbin, Armstrong, Paparella, Shah, Arrow, and collar button.
  • (14) Two other machines only delivered hypoxic mixtures if the cyclopropane bobbins were removed from their seats and the flow controls opened.
  • (15) There follows detailed considerations of the structure and structural properties of the aorta and its supports ("bobbins").
  • (16) In one machine the bobbin did not prevent back flow and the hypoxic mixture occurred when the cyclopropane flow control was left open.
  • (17) Shepard Teflon grommet, Armstrong beveled tube, Reuter-Bobbin tube, and Goode T-tube.
  • (18) Progress in preventive measures depends on better knowledge of the metabolism of the "bobbins".
  • (19) "I can put ministers on the spot, I think," he says self-deprecatingly, searching his rucksack for a copy of Hansard and his 1985 private members bill, during a rest-stop in an ancient patch of silver birch, planted as coppice for making textile mill bobbins.

Robbin


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds.
  • (n.) See Ropeband.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Antibodies were raised against a component specific for Kirkman-Robbins hepatoma of mol.
  • (2) Only Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary to the Department for Exiting the European Union , had a slim notebook (shut) and pen.
  • (3) Arnie Robbins, executive director of the American Society of News Editors, said: "It's also troubling because it is consistent with perhaps the most aggressive administration ever against reporters doing their jobs – providing information that citizens need to know about our government."
  • (4) There is an ebola of Isis in your Baskin Robbins right now.
  • (5) 96:1064-1071; Robbins, A. R., C. Oliver, J. L. Bateman, S. S. Krag, C. J. Galloway, and I. Mellman.
  • (6) Three classes of non-histone proteins were obtained from hamster Kirkman-Robbins hepatoma and liver nuclei following separation of nucleic acids with the polyethylene glycol-dextran mixture and fractionation of nuclear proteins on hydroxylapatite in a salt-glycerol-phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride system at increasing concentrations of Na+ and K+ phosphate buffer, pH 6.8.
  • (7) Having not just one do so well is a big deal, but having so many – Heaven is for Real, God’s Not Dead and Son of God – all come along and do well in the space of this year is unprecedented,” says Shawn Robbins, an analyst at boxoffice.com .
  • (8) Networks future The key to this expansion – and a phrase that's over-used at TV industry conferences – is "good content", but Robbins added a twist to the familiar claim that quality is what will separate winners from losers in the entertainment world.
  • (9) The most senior officials coordinating the negotiations, Sabine Weyand, who is the European commission’s deputy chief negotiator, and Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the EU, will also meet in the afternoon.
  • (10) Robbins said the paintings reflected Pérez Simón's tastes.
  • (11) It was tested in Syrian hamster 6 days after heterotransplantation of Kirkman-Robbins hepatoma.
  • (12) The above metabolic changes associated with cell wall components followed rapid kinetics similar to those involved in the formation of the phytoalexin kievitone in the elicited cultures [Robbins, M. P. et al.
  • (13) Robbins says the workforce has welcomed the initiative warmly: "There's a lot of emphasis on making people feel comfortable coming to work.
  • (14) 'All I know,' concludes Robbins 'is that there isn't a day when I'm not approached about that film - approached by people who say how important that film is to them, who tell me that they've seen it 20, 30, 40 times, and who are just so...
  • (15) With a DNA probe derived from the cloned CHS1 gene that codes for chitin synthase I [Bulawa, C. E., Slater, M., Cabib, E., Au-Young, J., Sburlati, A., Adair, W. L. and Robbins, P. (1986) Cell 46, 213-225] a Northern analysis was conducted of CHS1-specific transcripts.
  • (16) For Tim Robbins, the true significance of The Shawshank Redemption has nothing to do with religion, but resides in the fact that 'it's a film in which you actually see a relationship between two men which isn't based on car chases, or scoring some women, or some kind of caper'.
  • (17) Malcolm McVicar, vice-chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire, attacks the Browne review , on which the government has based its new policy: "David Willetts has said that the Browne review will rank alongside the Dearing report and the Robbins report as one of the landmark policy reviews in British higher education.
  • (18) The purified mitochondrial enzyme is similar to the cytosolic glutamine transaminase K whose beta-lyase activity with S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine (DCVC) is regulated by concurrent transamination (Stevens, J. L., Robbins, J. D., and Byrd, R. A.
  • (19) Cysteines 358, 421, and 424 are ligands to the Fe-S cluster in the inactive [3Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proteins 5, 289-312) and active [4Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proc.
  • (20) "Kids really don't care where the content is coming from, just as long as it speaks to them," said Robbins.

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