What's the difference between bread and cob?

Bread


Definition:

  • (a.) To spread.
  • (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
  • (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  • (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (2) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
  • (3) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
  • (4) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
  • (5) Some oligomers of N-acetyl-glucosamine were also effective in blocking the inhibitory effect of "bread" wheat gliadin peptides.
  • (6) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
  • (7) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (8) For the consumer, it’s a convenient way to buy local groceries, everything from vegetables to fish, cheese and bread is all sold on one website and can be collected from one place.” There are now over 450 assemblies in France and Belgium, and the company is launching in Britain, Germany and Spain.
  • (9) But the co-founder of London's Prufrock cafe says that producing great espresso is "no more complicated than making bread".
  • (10) Approximately 80 g labeled bread was consumed by each subject, providing a total calcium load of 13.3 mg.
  • (11) The feeding test indicated a relatively low toxicity of molded bread.
  • (12) "So 44% of workers in South Africa are working for a loaf of bread a day," he said.
  • (13) During pregnancy, a mother should be encouraged to eat less saturated fat and drink few sugary drinks while eating more brown rice, brown bread and porridge, added Poston.
  • (14) Of 1353 cereal samples, 11.7% contained the mycotoxin; of 1372 samples of feed, 1.5%; of 368 bread samples, 17.2%; of 215 flour samples, 22.3%; of 894 porcine serum samples, 37.4%; and of 1065 human serum samples, 7.2%.
  • (15) In both cases the postprandial glucose response was lower after rye bread than after wheat bread.
  • (16) Rheological properties of flour and quality parameters of bread are changed to a greater or lesser extent, among other, by addition of free amino acids.
  • (17) We have studied the effects of dextrose, rice, potato, corn, and bread on postprandial plasma glucose and insulin responses in 16 subjects.
  • (18) A probable explanation for the well maintained serum folate levels in late pregnancy as well as in other populations studied in this report may be the high dietary intake of Iranian bread made from wheat flour of high extraction rate.
  • (19) Studies in normal or iron deficient adults also demonstrated a better absorption of iron from NaFeEDTA than from Fe2(SO4)3 whether these compounds were given in an aqueous solution (5 mg Fe) or with a standard meal consisting of beans, tortillas, bread, and coffee providing also a total of 5 mg Fe.
  • (20) A similar meal in which guar was added to the bread and pectin to the marmalade resulted in significant reductions of blood glucose at 15 min (P less than 0.002) and 30 min (P less than 0.01).

Cob


Definition:

  • (n.) The top or head of anything.
  • (n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
  • (n.) The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
  • (n.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
  • (n.) A young herring.
  • (n.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
  • (n.) A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
  • (n.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
  • (n.) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
  • (n.) A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.
  • (n.) Clay mixed with straw.
  • (n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
  • (n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
  • (v. t.) To strike
  • (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
  • (v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This fusion protein exhibited an in vivo endonuclease activity which specifically cleaved the intron homing site within the intronless cob gene.
  • (2) All of the pdu mutations were located in a single region (41 map units) on the S. typhimurium chromosome between the his (histidine biosynthesis) and branch I cob (cobalamin biosynthesis) operons.
  • (3) The apoprotein of yeast cytochrome b is translated on mitochondrial ribosomes and coded for by a split gene which is located in the COB-BOX region on mitochondrial DNA.
  • (4) The large deletion M9391 in contrast accumulates a 13S RNA which probably results from transcription through the junction, which ligates sequences of the cob leader to sequences of the cob-oli1 intergenic spacer.
  • (5) One of these is the group II intron in the gene encoding apocytochrome b (cob: intron cobI1).
  • (6) The organization of the mitochondrial genomes of the F1 and succeeding backcross progenies was analyzed and compared with the progenitor RD-WF9 using probes derived from the S1 and S2 mitochondrial episomes, and probes containing the genes for cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (coxI), cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (coxII) and apocytochrome b (cob).
  • (7) The transfer of the upper nucleoside ligand of adenosylcobalamin to 2-mercaptoethanol is a very slow process; S-adenosyl-mercaptoethanol and cob(II)alamin are the final products of the reaction.
  • (8) The vitamin B12 auxotrophs were divided into two major phenotypic groups: Cob mutants, which could use cobinamide or vitamin B12 to grow on ethanolamine, and Cbl mutants, which could be supplemented only by vitamin B12.
  • (9) We made specific mutations in the internal guide sequence and the flanking exons of the fifth intron in the yeast mitochondrial gene for apocytochrome b (COB).
  • (10) Continuous registration of breath, ECG, O2 tension was carried out in sleeping chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) patients (n-46).
  • (11) Alfalfa had no effect on rate of nontreated cob cell wall digestion, but increased (P less than .01) the rate for NH3-treated cobs.
  • (12) In trial 1, two qualities of alfalfa and smooth brome hays replaced 0, 15, 30 or 100% of an ammonia (NH3)-treated corn cob negative control diet in a digestion trial using 26 mixed breed wethers (31.8 kg).
  • (13) They were shown to be P22-cotransducible with a branch I cob marker at a mean frequency of 12%.
  • (14) No inhibition by EDTA was found in cob parenchyma tissue.
  • (15) Although both copies are identical in the 5' upstream region and through most of the coding region, only cob-1-specific mRNA is detected on RNA gel-blots.
  • (16) To elucidate the synthesis of cobalamin coenzymes in view of comparative biochemistry, tissue distribution of activity of aquacobalamin reductase [EC 1.6.99.8] catalyzing the reduction of hydroxocobalamin to cob(II)alamin was studied in some vertebrates.
  • (17) The solka floc and corn cob diets are acceptable for growing dairy heifers where a low mineral content is desired but normal growth rates need to be maintained.
  • (18) Xylan in such natural substrates as straw and corn-cobs was also subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis.
  • (19) Regions that hybridized to C. reinhardtii or wheat mitochondrial gene probes for subunit I of cytochrome oxidase (cox1), apocytochrome b (cob), three subunits of NADH dehydrogenase (nad1, nad2 and nad5) and the small and the large ribosomal RNAs (rrnS and rrnL, respectively) were localized on the C. moewusii mtDNA map by Southern blot analysis.
  • (20) A 13.1-kb DNA fragment carrying Pseudomonas denitrificans cob genes has been sequenced.

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