What's the difference between buck and soak?

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.

Soak


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.
  • (v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
  • (v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
  • (v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
  • (v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
  • (v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (2) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
  • (3) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
  • (4) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
  • (5) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
  • (6) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
  • (7) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
  • (8) In this model, an endotoxin-soaked thread is implanted in the adventitia along the ventral side of the rat femoral artery.
  • (9) Aflatoxin content in grains increased considerably with the increase in duration of soaking.
  • (10) He's got a very, very good memory and he soaks it all up."
  • (11) Sponges soaked in distilled water were implanted as controls.
  • (12) They had soaked up his blood into the soles of their boots and stamped it around in footprints that anyone who cared to might examine.
  • (13) A sample is extracted with tetrahydrofuran containing an internal standard, by sonication or overnight soaking.
  • (14) A video, seen by Guardian Australia but which we have chosen not to publish, shows Omid standing in a clearing, soaked in a liquid believed to be accelerant.
  • (15) For the detection of anthrax bacillus, sterile swabs should be soaked in the fluid of the vesicles.
  • (16) Over the same period, employment in the private sector increased by 104,000, more than soaking up public sector job losses.
  • (17) The other structures were equilibrium experiments carried out by soaking crystals in substrate containing solution.
  • (18) There was no significant change in phytic acid content of beans after soaking at 25 degrees C for 22 hours.
  • (19) Central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements after instillation of H2O2 into the cul-de-sac and after wearing H2O2 soaked soft contact lenses (SLC) for 2 h using 60 ppm, 100 ppm and 300 ppm H2O2.
  • (20) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.