What's the difference between brock and frock?

Brock


Definition:

  • (n.) A badger.
  • (n.) A brocket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Venom is attractive because the character can exist without Spider-Man and has embarked on its own adventures when in sync with Brock.
  • (2) In 18 cases previous operations were done: 12 times a Blalock-Taussig shunt and 6 times a Brock procedure.
  • (3) Louise Brock was keen for her daughter Ruby, who has Down's syndrome, to go to a mainstream school.
  • (4) BP attorney Mike Brock said second-guessing the company's efforts to cap the well is "Monday morning quarterbacking at its worst".
  • (5) Brock, who currently leads several pro-Clinton Super Pacs, raised issues with Thomas’s confirmation hearings in 1991.
  • (6) The influence of neonatal castration on neuron capacity to bind septal dorsal, lateral and medial nuclei, Brock's diagonal fold nucleus and terminal streak bed nucleus of radiolabeled sex steroids (3H-testosterone and 3H-estradiol) was studied.
  • (7) We report the successful use of a new method described by Gosden and Brock (1977) in two cases of anencephaly; according to this method 'rapidly adhering cells' are identified as neural cells of a specific morphology.
  • (8) Sciatic nerve Schwann cells were cultured and purified according to the methods of Brockes et al.
  • (9) To go back to out-of-office time, please | Emma Brockes Read more This war on Christmas was waged when the San Bernadino holiday party shooting prompted a spike in guns sales .
  • (10) No prison for Colorado college student who ‘raped a helpless young woman' Read more Despite the guilty verdict by a jury, Judge Patrick Butler decided not to send Wilkerson to prison this week with a ruling that closely resembles the lenient sentencing of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner .
  • (11) Correct the Record CEO David Brock has also publicly offered to pay for the legal fees and potential $5m penalty for anyone who leaks the rumored Apprentice videos.
  • (12) They further suggest an alternative interpretation of the double-labelled cells used by Kintner & Brockes (1984) as evidence for myofibre dedifferentiation in limb regeneration.
  • (13) Anorectal malformations, which are present in almost every patient with the Townes-Brocks syndrome, were absent in the father.
  • (14) The results are well interpreted in the framework of a model where the charge state of QA electrostatically controls the yield of primary charge separation [Schatz, G. H., Brock, H., & Holzwarth, A. R. (1988) Biophys.
  • (15) Willingham’s drive to speak publicly is just one of many ways the high-profile Stanford trial of former swimmer Brock Turner has reverberated around the world since the athlete’s controversial sentencing on 2 June.
  • (16) They have made it about as clear as mud,” said Dwight Brock, clerk for Collier County.
  • (17) 10 of whom had previous procedures including 13 Blalock-Taussig shunts, 1 Cooley anastomosis and 6 pulmonary valvulotomies (Brock) with a dilator.
  • (18) The system uses Brock's pins and a modified Nissen loop to achieve either balanced traction or fixed traction.
  • (19) "Brock" was a reservoir for a disease that could lay dormant for many years but made fast progress once passed to cattle.
  • (20) One child had a residual stenosis following a Brock's transventricular valvotomy.

Frock


Definition:

  • (n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.
  • (n.) A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
  • (v. t.) To clothe in a frock.
  • (v. t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
  • (2) I like a big, extravagant frock, but I wanted to feel like me.
  • (3) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
  • (4) Yes, her life making frocks in LA with David and three gorgeous boys must have been torture before.
  • (5) A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop.
  • (6) Designed by Future Systems, architects of the Space Age-style press pavilion at Lord's cricket ground in St John's Wood, it has about it, from the outside at least, not just something of a Pop era frock, but something of the sea and even the ocean depths - something, too, of outer space exploration.
  • (7) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
  • (8) It might not be immediately obvious from her neat wool jacket, black frock and smart perm, but 55-year-old Kim Su-yeong is, she insists, "very good with weapons" – trained in throwing grenades and firing machine guns.
  • (9) That's the one where Alexi turns up at family businesses, with amazing biceps in a Max Mara frock and says (I'm paraphrasing) "If you lot weren't such a bunch of pass-agg douchebags, you wouldn't need to expand into sex phonelines.
  • (10) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
  • (11) What appeared was Humphrey Carpenter, resplendent in an outrageous frock and an even more outrageous wig and make-up.
  • (12) Women nipped about on mopeds in summer frocks instead of the usual leather clobber; sales of bikes and scooter below the 125cc limit - which allowed you unlimited travel if you had L-plates - went up by a quarter.
  • (13) From the same source: Zooey Deschanel is wearing an Oscar de la Renta frock.
  • (14) He became not only the first contemporary artist to deliver the annual Reith Lectures for BBC’s Radio 4 in 2013, but also presented documentaries for Channel 4 with titles such as Why Men Wear Frocks.
  • (15) There's a wider range of faces, fewer handlebar moustaches, frock coats or pickelhaubes, but otherwise, when the world's governments try to decide how to carve up the atmosphere, they might have been attending the conference of Berlin in 1884.
  • (16) At 21, he leaves the family nest in Cornwall to take up his barrister pupillage in London and, yearning for love, meets Mary (Rachel McAdams), whose under-par frock and non-glam fringe can't deflect his and our appreciation of what a babe she is.
  • (17) Not the usual flowered frock but not upstage-y either, her frock today is now anticipated with interest.
  • (18) His graduate collection – which featured strands of human hair in the linings of frock-coat jackets – was called Jack The Ripper Stalks His Victims.
  • (19) It was obvious from a young age, he says, because she’d see him in his frocks.
  • (20) You mean, you couldn’t be seen at the Royal Academy in a nice frock and a stiffy?

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