What's the difference between brit and crustacean?

Brit


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Britt

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (2) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
  • (3) But will Brits elect a man who says he will never use the weapons we have?
  • (4) But here they come now, the extraordinary defenders of allegedly ordinary Brits, the voice of a resurgent people.
  • (5) "Then the European commission and the council will start looking like an ogre here, and what the Daily Mail says – which is not true now – about hostility to the Brits inside the institutions will start being true."
  • (6) The former Take That star – who has won more Brit awards than any other artist – took home his 16th award after more than 20 years in the business, saying: "I feel like it's my birthday, I feel special, it's lovely, whether people think it or not in my head I'm going, 'brilliant!'"
  • (7) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
  • (8) The purpose of this study was to test the adrenoceptor interconversion hypothesis of Kunos and Nickerson (Brit.
  • (9) Ulbricht has denied his involvement in Silk Road, or that he was ever its administrator, but the prospect of a dragnet operation to bring in other dealers following his arrest will still make any of the nearly 960,000 registered users with the site – 30% of whom were in the US and Brits being the second biggest contingent – very nervous.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest EU referendum: Brexit for non-Brits Assuming that the UK votes to remain in the EU, the OECD expects growth to ease from 2.3% in 2015 to 1.7% this year, before recovering to 2% in 2017.
  • (11) We’re mostly Brits, with a sprinkling of Canadians, Dutch women and a guy from Dubai, and of mixed abilities; some have been surfing for years while others, like me, have barely stood up on a board before.
  • (12) ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) Maybe the Brits are just having us on.
  • (13) For the uninitiated, Menelik Watson, is a Brit in the Draft tonight.
  • (14) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
  • (15) Like many Brits involved in the process, Stevens is also a member of Cryonics UK , an organisation which describes itself as "Britain's volunteer standby assistance team", with its own ambulance and specialist equipment.
  • (16) (But could a native Brit make as many jokes as I have done over the years about Karl Lagerfeld on this newspaper’s fashion pages?
  • (17) The survey found 70% of Brits believe our present world is in decline, while 55% of respondents thought the bloom had gone off their own lives, and were dubious about the future.
  • (18) Most Brits voted against Thatcherism, but the Scots – like the northern English – voted more passionately against, and yet suffered some of the worst consequences.
  • (19) Her staff – a mix of Mexicans, Canadians and Brits – seem like adopted family, all almost falling over one other to keep us guests happy.
  • (20) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.

Crustacean


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.
  • (n.) An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is assumed that taurine increases the Ca2+ sensitivity of the force-generating myofilaments in mammalian hearts and crustacean slow skeletal muscle fibres.
  • (2) The implications of these findings for the development and physiological performance of the crustacean motor unit are discussed.
  • (3) The four hosts (Mollusc -- Crustacean -- Odonat -- Amphibian) are obligatory in the life cycle for it is impossible to infect the Insects directly with the cecariae or the frog (tadpoles as well as adults) with the mesocercariae.
  • (4) Using a spectrophotometric method, the kinetics of the crustacean muscle enzyme was compared to the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) on mammalian red blood cells and in the lobster ventral nerve cord.
  • (5) In crustacean nerve 12-14% of the phospholipids was in the form of alkyl ether phospholipids, which in the lobster were approximately half choline-containing and half ethanolamine-containing.
  • (6) Clearance of foreign materials from the hemocoel of decapod crustaceans involves several distinct kinds of cells.
  • (7) Electron microscopy has revealed that chitin from a representative selection of insect orders (plus one crustacean and one arachnid) is localized in crystallites about 2.8 nm across.
  • (8) The crustacean Na+-H+ antiporter therefore bears similarities to the vertebrate antiporter but is uniquely electrogenic.
  • (9) The highest levels were found in hepatopancreas from crustaceans.
  • (10) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
  • (11) The significance of the terminal residues of the red pigment-concentrating hormone (RPCH: Glu-Leu-Asn-Phe-Ser-Pro-Gly-Trp-NH2) for its blanching effect on crustacean chromatophores has been investigated.
  • (12) You’d be hard pushed to find half a dozen fresh oysters at this great price.” Frozen food giant Iceland sparked lobster wars last month with what it claimed was the cheapest cooked crustacean in Britain.
  • (13) Foods causing most prominent symptoms among patients in group A included legumes, tree nuts, crustaceans, and fish.
  • (14) In the walking legs of decapod crustaceans, intersegmental reflex actions originate from various joint proprioceptors.
  • (15) Ovaries from the spider crab, Libinia emarginata L. were studied to learn more of vitellogenesis in crustaceans.
  • (16) However, some responses were inhibitory, the first such demonstration in aquatic crustaceans.
  • (17) These include insects, chelicerates, most crustaceans, annelids, priapulids, nematodes, and some sipunculids.
  • (18) The pentapeptide proctolin modulates the activity of the rhythmic pattern generators in the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system.
  • (19) Tilapia is an aquaponics staple, but crustaceans are also up for discussion.
  • (20) Ross said researchers have identified four new species of fish, a new type of starfish and several new species of crustaceans living in the deepwater reefs.