What's the difference between buffalo and yama?

Buffalo


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
  • (n.) A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
  • (n.) Any species of wild ox.
  • (n.) The bison of North America.
  • (n.) A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
  • (n.) The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aryl hydrocarbon (benzo(a)pyrene) hydroxylase is present and inducible in Buffalo rat liver cells in culture.
  • (2) Estimated daily intakes of metabolizable energy by buffaloes on moderate, high, and very high intake treatments were 31.9, 45.8, and 50.6 Mcal, respectively.
  • (3) The X chromosomes contained appreciable amounts of centromeric heterochromatin only in the two buffaloes.
  • (4) We have previously reported that in culture, rabbit serum inhibits the growth of the epithelial cell line from Buffalo rat liver (BRL) lower than that of the tumorigenic one transformed by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV-BRL).
  • (5) Forty-one hearing foreign students were tested in the fall of 1989 at the English Language Institute at SUNY Buffalo.
  • (6) Total tooth length was measured in the first lower molar of two short-faced strains of rats (Sprague-Dawley and Buffalo) and two long-faced strains (BN and GRL).
  • (7) One hundred newborn swamp buffalo calves (Bubalis bubalis) from three villages in North-East Thailand were divided equally into treatment and control groups.
  • (8) We have compared features of experimental thyroiditis in the Buffalo strain rat induced by neonatal thymectomy, immunization with rat thyroglobulin (Tg) and complete Freund's adjuvant, and subcutaneous administration of trypan blue or 3-methylcholanthrene.
  • (9) Both Buffalo and Fisher thyroid monolayers responded to gamma IF with MHC class II antigen expression when assessed by laser flow cytometry using MRC OX-6 monoclonal anti-RT1.B.
  • (10) The setting is an Adult Day Health Care Program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Buffalo, New York.
  • (11) Bovine herpesvirus-4 is not strictly species-specific: infection was proved in American bison (Bison bison), African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), sheep and probably cat, because feline herpesvirus-2 is in fact a BHV-4 strain.
  • (12) Thus, buffalo herds are likely to be more infectious at some times than at others.
  • (13) Using buffalo serum, first extraneous proteins were precipitated by making the serum 2.26 M saturated with ammonium sulphate at pH 7.0 and then albumin was precipitated from the supernatant at 1.9 M ammonium sulphate concentration at pH 4.2.
  • (14) Both species ate the same amount per unit body weight but buffaloes spent 53% more time ruminating than cattle.
  • (15) Monitoring of DDT and HCH residues in abiotic and biotic components of the environment of Delhi during 1988 to 1989 revealed low to moderate levels of these insecticides in soil, earthworms, birds, buffalo milk, water, freshwater clams, fish, human fat, human blood and breast milk samples.
  • (16) This was investigated in Buffalo strain rats bearing the tumor, Morris hepatoma 5123tc.
  • (17) Rates of passage and rumination (kp, kr) were higher for buffaloes than for cattle.
  • (18) A study was carried out to determine the effect on the reproductive performance of female Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood when allowed to feed, in vitro, for 63 days on fresh defibrinated blood of buffalo, bushbuck, cattle, eland, oryx, warthog, waterbuck or wildebeest.
  • (19) Four hundred and six serum samples from buffalo (Syncerus caffer) were tested for leptospirosis, using the microscopic agglutination test.
  • (20) The buffalo muscle aldolase was found to be similar to rabbit muscle aldolase in physico-chemical properties.

Yama


Definition:

  • (n.) The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when even Felix started to echo back the word yamas – "cheers" in Greek – I knew it was time to catch the ferry to a simpler existence, away from the blurry influence of Dionysus.
  • (2) Yama Nayab, an Afghan surgeon fleeing persecution by jihadists, said: “Sometimes the smugglers give me a GPS coordinate, sometimes they send a map, sometimes they send a car.” The cost can involve buying fraudulent visas.
  • (3) But the only local presences I detect are Yama’s Thai (closed during our visit) and Proper Coffee .
  • (4) Please at least take this,” Yama Nayab, an Afghan surgeon, says to a passing stranger, holding out a cup of dirty well-water.
  • (5) Yama Torabi, from Integrity Watch Afghanistan , an NGO that monitors reconstruction projects in the country, welcomed the move.

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