What's the difference between brusk and rusk?

Brusk


Definition:

  • (a.) Same as Brusque.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have to note in all the five cases the report of specific pain produced after unimportant traumatisms and brusk changes on the temperature at tumor level.

Rusk


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.
  • (n.) A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.
  • (n.) Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The food they give us is biscuits, rusks and apples.
  • (2) The sucrose in the rusks, rather than their content of other sugars such as glucose, maltose and lactose, etc, emerged as a major factor in determining their effect on teeth, but cereal components can also play a part in governing adhesiveness and fermentability.
  • (3) A review of recent research conducted at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City concerning speech and language deficits in closed head injured patients (CHI).
  • (4) The caries scores in the animal experiments ranged from very high, with rampant dental destruction, for 31%-sucrose rusks, down to virtually non-cariogenic on a zero-sucrose variety.
  • (5) Exposure tests with ispaghula powder mixed with crushed rusks were made in symptomatic subjects.
  • (6) The strain was cultivated for seven days at high relative humidity on a substrate mostly of cereals (Karlovarské suchary--Carlsbad rusks).
  • (7) But we can replace a large proportion of the beef in lasagne ready meals or rusk in sausages with buckwheat without the taste being affected, and consumers eating a more sustainable meal.” • This article was updated on 20 August.
  • (8) Especially popular with local lawyers at lunchtime, this small taverna’s excellent menu includes such classic Cretan dishes as barley rusks topped with tomatoes and mizithra cheese and peppery sautéed wild greens.
  • (9) Howard A. Rusk earned the approbation "Father of Rehabilitation Medicine" when he first demonstrated that rehabilitation of the ill and injured made it possible to restore meaning to life and at the same time reduce the duration and costs of disability.
  • (10) The US secretary of state, Dean Rusk, told one of the secretary general's aides that President Kennedy was "extremely upset" and was threatening to withdraw support from the UN.
  • (11) The commonest age for starting solid feeding was between 3 and 4 weeks and the practice of adding rusk or cereal to the bottle was common.
  • (12) As well as having to appeal to Asda Woman or Worcester Woman or Mumsnet Woman, or any other variety of female dreamed up by male wonks who go red when a lady speaks to them, the leader's wife can be expected to be derided as "out of touch" if she doesn't know the price of a packet of custard creams or a rusk or something.
  • (13) In response to concern over the sugar content and possible dental effects of infants' rusks, a programme of research was undertaken to compare six different kinds of rusk with respect to (a) their cariogenicity in caries-active laboratory rats; (b) their capacity to serve as substrates for acid production by oral microorganisms, and the attack of this acid on dental mineral; (c) the adhesiveness of the rusks to the enamel surface.
  • (14) The N-terminal segment of human interleukin-2 (hIL-2) appears to mediate binding of the beta hIL-2 receptor (R. Robb, C. Rusk, J. Yodoi, and W. Greene, Proc.
  • (15) In addition, Rusk and Betts have been magnificent in attracting the public's attention to the needs of the disabled.
  • (16) In my experience, this distinguished list of advocates has included Rusk, Kottke, Lowman, Lehmann, Spencer, Ditunno and Materson.
  • (17) Only 20 brands were recommended for use as emergency rations or as nutritious supplements; eight brands were similar to traditional baked biscuits and four were infant rusks.

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