What's the difference between buck and busk?

Buck


Definition:

  • (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
  • (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
  • (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
  • (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  • (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
  • (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
  • (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
  • (n.) A male Indian or negro.
  • (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  • (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
  • (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
  • (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
  • (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  • (n.) The beech tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A few days later he tweeted : "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.
  • (2) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
  • (3) Social prescribing schemes, by their nature, vary considerably but generally provide a way for GPs and other primary care professionals to offer or signpost to non-clinical referral options instead of, or alongside, clinical ones,” says the report’s author, David Buck.
  • (4) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
  • (5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
  • (6) However, our airports are unable to serve the young bucks that are set to drive the world forward.
  • (7) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
  • (8) He said to me that he would not grow old, both in discussions of his paper on senescence ("I feel bucked when anyone refers to that paper") and discussions touching on personal safety.
  • (9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
  • (10) The subsequent post-rut profiles of treated bucks were characterized by lower basal plasma LH concentrations, and reduced frequency and amplitude of plasma testosterone surges.
  • (11) Sexual behavior of the buck, onset of puberty, techniques for semen collection and evaluation, the production of teaser animals, and methods of castration are also discussed.
  • (12) People moved in who wanted to make a buck out of it all, especially the drugs.
  • (13) As Buck is not challenging his guilt, the most he could hope for is life without parole, said Radelet.
  • (14) There’s just inertia and a lack of looking into ourselves to find the solutions.” Recently, Buck had told her brother about fuel money for ambulances being diverted.
  • (15) The Harris County district court is now considering whether or not to grant Buck a new sentencing hearing.
  • (16) As Fox caller Joe Buck just said to new viewers "we know where you've been"."
  • (17) Pratchett left school one year into his A-levels, after he was offered a job on the local paper, the Bucks Free Press , aged 17.
  • (18) But the buck does not stop with the commission, and it is not an invention of the US trade deal.
  • (19) It is concluded that Buck screw fixation is a safe and reliable method of treatment for painful Grade I spondylolisthesis due to isthmic spondylolysis in the young active adult with a low complication rate.
  • (20) Bevan was equally unimpressed and told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme: "The buck stops with Alan.

Busk


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
  • (v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
  • (v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.
  • (2) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
  • (3) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
  • (4) Get good at busking and later, when you're playing the Pyramid stage, you know you won't be fazed.
  • (5) A harpist takes a break from busking in a bustling Carmarthen shopping street to discuss two of his great passions: music and politics.
  • (6) I put on my performance face, threw my head back, and enjoyed myself – but safe in the knowledge that standing beside me on my right hand side was a man with decades of busking experience and a natural affinity with the crowd.
  • (7) I had always wanted to try busking but found the idea daunting – especially doing it alone.
  • (8) Updated at 11.10am BST 10.57am BST And now, it's time for Ed Miliband.... Jon Snow is just busking for a moment or two ahead of Ed Miliband coming on to the stage.
  • (9) "I had to have six frets on my guitar replaced – they were completely worn out from busking to the signing queue.
  • (10) In Galway, I went out busking on the streets, singing the filthiest, most debauched lyrics I could think of to see if anyone would understand.
  • (11) You started busking at the age of 15 and developed a street persona called Lippo.
  • (12) It didn't help that the Sunday before our busking "date", disaster struck; I lost my voice.
  • (13) The voice When you're busking, you're competing with the noise of the street, the traffic, and you're trying to get the attention of people who are in a hurry.
  • (14) They were busking and making good money, so Heaton was shocked when he learned they were all quitting to go to university.
  • (15) In 1968, aged 17, I quit school (in Ontario, Canada) and hitchhiked all over north America, busking and staying with people I met.
  • (16) We were still in a small room, effectively busking a script, but it was starting to grow.
  • (17) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian "So it's OK, for example, to sit around as long as you are in a cafe or in a designated place where certain restful activities such as drinking a frappucino should take place but not activities like busking, protesting or skateboarding.
  • (18) There were storytellers, drawing lessons, and an area for busking and debating.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Benjamin Zephaniah in Lincolnshire: ‘I miss the multiculturalism of London.’ Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian There’s a wonderful little town where I live and I love the independent shops, old-fashioned sweet shops run by little old ladies, an entertainer on the street just for the sake of it, not necessarily busking.
  • (20) After six years, I moved back to Canada, busking again and earning enough to pay my rent.

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