What's the difference between brach and broach?

Brach


Definition:

  • (n.) A bitch of the hound kind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of BrACh as a specific inhibitor of ChAT activity allowed the calculation of ACh synthesis at individual motor end-plates in the soleus muscle of the rat: 2.1 X 10(-3) nmol h-1.
  • (2) No detectable label from leucine was incorporated into brached chain fatty acids.
  • (3) Single-channel behaviour of reduced nicotinic AChRs was similar for both ACh and BrACh as agonists, but significantly differed from that in the native one.
  • (4) Brach is aiming for high educational standards and intends to be in the top quarter of national results for primary school tests in English, reading and maths.
  • (5) It's an added extra, says Brach, that the school doesn't have to ask for fees.
  • (6) Brach, who has been a teacher for 30 years and was until recently an education lecturer at Birmingham City University, says Nishkam is "not here to convert people".
  • (7) It is interesting to note that the hydrolytic product of BrACh, bromoacetate, was as potent as BrACh to inhibit glioma cells.
  • (8) The main population of openings (burst durations 5 ms with QBr and 10 ms with BrACh) seem to be contributed by monoliganded receptors.
  • (9) Successful management of this condition will necessitate (1) clinical awareness, (2) careful scrutinization of material recovered from embolectomy, (3) angiography to demonstrate the embolic source in the aorta or its main braches, and (4) appropriate remedy by either endarterectomy or graft replacement of the diseased artery segment.
  • (10) The apparent change of the cornea profile depending on the cornea radius, which you can see in optical investigations, schematically described by Collignon-Brach, can be represented photographically by the Scheimpflug image.
  • (11) Conversely, bromoacetylcholine (BrACh), if applied after the treatment with DTT, caused irreversible activation of nicotinic AChRs manifested in the appearance of a non-declined steady-state component in BrACh-induced currents accompanied by increased membrane current fluctuations.
  • (12) More than 80% of the conductance was contributed by a population of openings with an average burst duration (lifetime) of 5 ms for QBr and 10 ms for BrACh.
  • (13) Power-density spectra of interference electromyograms of M. biceps brach.
  • (14) The distributions of durations of the gaps (closed states) and the bursts (the states identified as open states after the shortest gaps were ignored) in single-channel activity of native (non-treated with DTT) nicotinic AChRs caused by ACh (30 microM) and BrACh (30 microM) were similar and both revealed four to five and two to three components for gap intervals and burst durations respectively.
  • (15) But while, so far, it has been Sikhs who have mainly sponsored and volunteered to get the school off the ground, the headteacher, Narinder Brach, is emphatic that this primary is open to all.
  • (16) Myoballs were treated with dithiothretitol (2 mM), washed, exposed to BrACh or QBr, and then washed again.
  • (17) Kinetic and equilibrium aspects of receptor activation by two irreversibly bound ('tethered') agonists, QBr and bromoacetylcholine (BrACh), were examined in cultured embryonic rat muscle.
  • (18) It is concluded that BrACh can be used as a specific inhibitor of ChAT activity in homogenates of skeletal muscle and that its use will obviate the necessity of dividing biopsied muscle or small rodent muscles into neural and aneural segments.
  • (19) As a result of the action of DTT (1 mM), the spectrum of BrACh-induced current noise shifted to a higher frequency range.
  • (20) One component, specifically inhibited by bromoacetylcholine (BrACh), had a Km for choline of 0.26 mM; the other, resistant to BrACh, had a Km for choline of 45 mM.

Broach


Definition:

  • (n.) A spit.
  • (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
  • (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
  • (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
  • (n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.
  • (n.) A spire rising from a tower.
  • (n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
  • (n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
  • (n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
  • (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
  • (n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
  • (n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
  • (n.) To open for the first time, as stores.
  • (n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
  • (n.) To cause to begin or break out.
  • (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
  • (n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients often fear that resuming sex will be dangerous to their perceived fragile health status, while nursing staff can be reluctant to broach a subject which may cause embarrassment to both parties.
  • (2) Though it has a relatively small readership, with around 104,000 print and digital subscribers by the end of 2014, it retained an outsize influence for its coverage of the mainland and willingness to broach controversial topics such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
  • (3) He was also given a book on humour and religion – perhaps as a way to broach the topic lightly.
  • (4) The state of neuroscientific ideas and methodical possibilities on the theme is not only broached but also discussed in connection with the treatment (in the sense of an optimal coordination between brain and environment).
  • (5) Auerbach has disappeared before I can broach the subject, but Carney is equable.
  • (6) Gondry unearths long-buried resentments that he maintains could never even have been broached without the camera running.
  • (7) This paper focuses on a neglected aspect of combined therapy: broaching and exploring this question with one's individual patient.
  • (8) The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in Rotherham, which involved the abuse of predominantly white girls by predominantly Pakistani men, even suggested that the unforgivable failure of the Labour council to take action was associated with a reluctance to broach ethnically sensitive issues.
  • (9) In a tweet this spring, Rodman asked Kim to "do him a solid" by releasing Bae and last week he told the Huffington Post that he would broach the issue during his trip.
  • (10) Bone fragments left in the interosseous space and bone screws that broached the opposite part of the cortex were common findings.
  • (11) A TRIAD OF FACTORS CAN FAVORABLY INFLUENCE THE MAINTENANCE OF SEXUAL POTENCY AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY: the surgical avoidance of cavernous neurovascular bundles, the preoperative interest of the surgeon in broaching the subject with the patient and the continued encouragement given the patient by his attending physician as to probable preservation of sexual competency following the surgical procedure.
  • (12) Nevertheless, the simultaneous involvement of those tissues by ethanol has not been broached in medical literature.
  • (13) In documentation of that fact, we have presented the case of a 50-year-old man who swallowed an endodontic broach during endodontic treatment; the instrument passed through the gastrointestinal tract without difficulty.
  • (14) Tooth movement was quantified from enlarged cephalograms by measuring the position of a reproducible landmark on the molar cleat with respect to either zygomatic amalgam implants or a barbed broach placed submucosally on the palate.
  • (15) The US secretary of state, John Kerry , broached this issue again with Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, at the weekend.
  • (16) Newman had been accused of war crimes after broaching the subject of the Korean war with his guide.
  • (17) "She would never accept outside help if I tried to initiate it and I could never really broach the subject with her."
  • (18) A barbed broach covered by cotton fibers is used as a matrix to carry blue inlay wax into the canal prepared for a post.
  • (19) Is it nearer the truth to state that Cameron and Osborne only broached the subject of tax avoidance after being put under pressure to do so after excellent work by investigative journalists and Margaret Hodge’s public accounts committee?
  • (20) Its site probably determines whether a resulting meningocele widens the intradiploic space or broaches the cranial floor.

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