What's the difference between boll and bushel?

Boll


Definition:

  • (n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
  • (n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
  • (v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
  • (2) There was no significant difference in the numbers of contaminated bolls between the excised and field-matured treatments.
  • (3) These results were discussed in the context of the species-specific defense reaction (SSDR) avoidance theory of Bolles.
  • (4) But I am confident that we as a city can shape the coexistence of different cultures we have here now.” “We have to bring the city into the camps,” says refugee coordinator Hadjiandreou-Boll.
  • (5) Expression of heat shock proteins (hsp) in the BRL-AG-3C cell line from the cotton boll weevil was examined.
  • (6) Muraschi, Thelma F. (Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany), John K. Miller, Victor N. Tompkins, and Dorothy M. Bolles.
  • (7) A heterogeneous group of 100 subjects were selected from the neuropsychological testing case records published by Golden, Osmon, Moses, and Berg in 1981, Boll (undated), and Reitan (undated).
  • (8) All of the bolls inoculated through the carpel wall had A. flavus in the seed, but only 11% of the stem and peduncle sections were infected, indicating that the fungus does not readily grow downward from the boll into the supporting stem or peduncle.
  • (9) Alix Bolle of the European association Energy Cities says many Scandinavian and German cities do well on energy not only because they have highly efficient district heating and cooling systems, but because powers to harness and manage energy are decentralised.
  • (10) Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) eggs contain two yolk proteins, YP47 and YP160.
  • (11) The seed and stem and peduncle sections of each boll were surface-sterilized, plated on agar media and observed for A. flavus.
  • (12) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
  • (13) The FokI method of gene synthesis [Mandecki and Bolling, Gene 68 (1988) 101-107] was used to assemble the plasmid from 30 oligodeoxyribonucleotides.
  • (14) The fungus was present in 20 to 58% of the immature bolls harvested 25 or 35 days after anthesis.
  • (15) Bolles tells us he is playing at the Echo in a few minutes with his band The Fancy Space People.
  • (16) Whole plants, assayed under conditions of high insect pressure with Heliothis zea (cotton bollworm) showed effective square and boll protection.
  • (17) Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used to examine gut, Malpighian tube, fat-body, testes, and ovarioles tissues of the adult cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh.
  • (18) The first are called vitellogenins and are found in frog, chicken, nematode, fish, and some insects such as the boll weevil.
  • (19) Bolls developing from early-season flowers had significantly higher percentages of A. flavus-infected seed than did bolls from flowers formed later in the season.
  • (20) The esterases of the cotton boll weevil were separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into four major regions.

Bushel


Definition:

  • (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
  • (n.) A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
  • (n.) A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
  • (n.) A large indefinite quantity.
  • (n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The US department of agriculture said corn output would only reach 10.8bn bushels for 2012-13, while yields were likely to be 123.4 bushels per acre – the lowest return for 17 years.
  • (2) "I'd be tickled to death if it would make 50 bushels (1.5 tonnes), if we don't have rain," he said.
  • (3) Bushell went one better than the silver he secured in Beijing and equalled the achievement of Hannah Cockroft in the T34 wheelchair category on Friday night.
  • (4) BT Sport set out to begin a new era of live mass broadcast for major sporting events, combining TV and digital media to make this the most widely available and social broadcast of a Uefa Champions League and Europa League final ever,” said Delia Bushell, managing director of BT Sport & TV.
  • (5) In The God Delusion I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.
  • (6) Bushell, who cruised to victory in 14.74 seconds, was born without seven vertebrae in his back and was spotted by the Paralympian Deborah Brennan when playing dodgeball at school.
  • (7) Bushell's Big Brother bombshell Today's stop press entry on Garry Bushell's website : "Big Brother bosses will today diffuse the racism row engulfing the show by sending in three new celebrities: Mel Gibson, Michael 'Kramer' Richards and Big Ron Atkinson."
  • (8) and Petter recently hired Delia Bushell, a former Sky executive, as managing director of BT TV and BT Sport to help plot its strategy.
  • (9) Glance around the current entertainment landscape and light entertainment is once again predicated on talent shows and ballroom dancing, just like Gary Bushell always said it should be.
  • (10) I nearly cried coming across the line," said Bushell, who watched his friend David Weir win his 5,000m race in the Paralympic village on Sunday night.
  • (11) Sokolove-Bushell's Q statistic was found to have a chi square distribution at the small degrees of freedom involved in estrous rhythmicity in rodents (i.e., rhythmicity with periods of 2-7 days).
  • (12) (The golden trout , native only to a small area of these mountains, is a subspecies of rainbow trout that blazes with red and gold during its spawning season; I have caught bushels of them over the years, not out of hunger or to satisfy my predatory instinct, but just to marvel at the beauty of them, after which I give each one a little kiss before releasing it to go on living its fishy life in peace.
  • (13) And Britain's track and field Paralympians, who underperformed in Beijing with just two gold medals, took their total to five in the Olympic Stadium with victory for Mickey Bushell in the T53 100m.
  • (14) The latest reduction in estimates propelled corn futures on the Chicago commodity exchange to $8.30 a bushel and accelerated a 60% increase in prices over the last two months.
  • (15) You can’t hide that light under a bushel,” he said.
  • (16) Mark Bushell, assistant curator of invertebrates at Bristol zoo, said he was delighted to have received the eggs: “These stick insects are on the verge of extinction and we are thrilled to have been invited to take part in this vital effort to help conserve the species and bolster the captive population.
  • (17) Unlike the German and Swedish Olympic Committees the BOA has not so far spoken out on the human rights issue as it relates to the Baku games.The Games are being broadcast live in the UK by BT Sport, but its managing director Delia Bushell defended its decision not to make reference to the clampdown on freedom of speech.
  • (18) Britain's fifth athletics gold medal of Paralympics 2012 saw Bushell set a Paralympic record of 14.75sec, more than 0.3sec ahead of China's Zhao Yufei and Yu Shiran, the defending champion.
  • (19) High-moisture corn was treated with a propionic acid preservative and stored in a 40,000 bushel steel bin.
  • (20) But while those two families continue to dominate the frame, let's hope at least hope that they not hide the better half of their talent under a bushel.

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