What's the difference between bullock and oxen?

Bullock


Definition:

  • (n.) A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.
  • (n.) An ox, steer, or stag.
  • (v. t.) To bully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sequence analysis indicates that bovine lung PGF synthase shows 62% identical plus conservative substitutions compared with human liver aldehyde reductase [Wermuth, B., Omar, A., Forster, A., Francesco, C., Wolf, M., Wartburg, J.P., Bullock, B.
  • (2) Simon Bullock of Friends of the Earth said cuts to onshore wind and solar power subsidies reflected their success.
  • (3) In these bullocks decreases in the concentrations of serum Ig from 12.2 to 8.2 g per l in IgG1 and from 3.8 to 1.7 g per l in IgM were also proved.
  • (4) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
  • (5) I won't dilate too much about the experience of seeing the marbles close up, which is something the ancient Greeks never did, because they were placed high on the Parthenon, but what is moving is the human detail of the sculptures – the snapshots of people turning round to see what's going on, struggling with a bullock that is about to get loose, and men expiring at the hooves of centaurs.
  • (6) The last conversation I ever had with him was about Alan Bullock’s joint life of Hitler and Stalin , which I’d given him.
  • (7) This result was similar to that of Semmel (1965), but contrasted with that of Kirby, Nettlebeck, and Bullock (1978), who found no such difference in vigilance performance when comparing mildly mentally retarded and nonretarded adults.
  • (8) To that one might add a number of current releases and Oscar contenders: Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity , despite its starring role for Sandra Bullock; Lee Daniels' The Butler, about a presidential servant and the civil rights movement; and Captain Phillips , Paul Greengrass's piracy drama, which involves an all-male gang of pirates attacking an all-male shipping crew.
  • (9) In the past decade he has become known as the buff, handsome actor able to genre-jump: he has done comedies (Just Friends, Van Wilder: Party Liaison), horror (The Amityville Horror remake, which is memorable to his fans mostly because it featured Reynolds chopping wood topless), action thrillers (Blade: Trinity) and, in 2009, his breakout romcom The Proposal, in which he starred opposite Sandra Bullock.
  • (10) The only cattle seen occasionally are groups of bullocks being raised together for slaughter.
  • (11) These changes were noted in experimentally infected animals at 1-7 day post infection, its three weeks before antibody anti BHV1 and lasted for 3-9 weeks, while in naturally infected bullocks they appeared at 1-28 day of the experiment and persisted for 4-8 weeks the virus was easy isolated from nasal swabs especially of naturally infected animals.
  • (12) Bullock, who won the best actress Oscar in March for her role in drama The Blind Side, beat Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker to the top spot, according to Forbes magazine .
  • (13) Overall the weight of bruised trim from unfasted bullocks (0.48 kg) was significantly less (P less than 0.01) than from bullocks fasted for 24 h (0.99 kg) or 48 h (1.03 kg).
  • (14) In The Proposal , Sandra Bullock’s inhuman editor leaves female employees shaking, and so emasculates her male secretary she actually asks him to marry her.
  • (15) The recapture data after the first day of marking was significantly delayed for tabanids that fed on fenvalerate-sprayed bullocks.
  • (16) Phospholipids isolated from the plasma of monkeys fed a diet enriched in fish oil were poor substrates for cholesteryl ester (CE) synthesis by the lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) reaction relative to those from animals fed a lard containing diet when the phospholipids were used for the preparation of recombinant particles by cholate dialysis (Parks, J. S., B. C. Bullock, and L. L. Rudel.
  • (17) Bullock describes the British crew, though, as "civilised".
  • (18) Among the big world premieres, Ridley Scott made a major return to form with The Martian , and Sandra Bullock entered the race once again for her wildly appealing performance in the political satire Our Brand is Crisis .
  • (19) AP in serum and bile from calves and bullocks was very heat labile and did not inhibit phenylalanine much.
  • (20) Sandra Bullock agrees: "We had no idea if it would be successful.

Oxen


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Ox

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The antiserum cross-reacted with monkey serum, but not with sera from dogs, rats, and mice, horses, pigs, guinea pigs, oxen, and rabbits.
  • (2) The identification of these metabolites as 9 beta,15(S)-dihydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-epoxymethano-5(Z),13(E)-prostadienoic acid and the R and S isomer of 15(S)-hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(C-hydroxy-epoxymethano)-5(Z),13(E)-prostadienoic acid is only tentative since no reference compounds were available, but clearly thromboxane synthase was acting as an oxene transferase in this reaction.
  • (3) Hydatid cysts were collected from camels, horses, oxen and sheep in various geographical locations.
  • (4) Zebu oxen had higher pvCO2 and FFA and lower pH, pvO2 and lactate in response to exercise.
  • (5) A number of young Friesian oxen were slaughtered (one at a time) for parasite recovery for 12 consecutive months, from April 1987 to March 1988, on a farm in the Fauresmith district of the south western Orange Free State.
  • (6) The daily starch intake of the oxen ranged from 575 to 2739 g on nutrition level (NL) 1.7 and from 365 to 1804 g on NL 1.1.
  • (7) A mechanism is proposed in which an initial Lewis acid-base interaction of Fe(III)Cl3 with H2O2 generates a highly electrophilic Fe(III)-oxene species as the reactive intermediate.
  • (8) Seasonal changes in weight were severe for both work oxen (87 to 107% of mean weight) and for cows (88 to 110%).
  • (9) Visitors roam like herds of lobotomised oxen in search of nourishment, from clambering on a net over some flowerbeds inside Brazil’s giant climbing frame, to the touch-screen excitement of playing “Lithuania or not?” (a game of swiping national dishes into a digital shopping basket).
  • (10) Other discoveries in the area include evidence of Mesolithic people feasting on aurochs (huge oxen), salmon, trout, hazelnuts and even frog’s legs, around eight millennia before they became a French staple .
  • (11) All four tick resistant oxen recovered after a mild febrile reaction.
  • (12) "Wild" Simulium bovis females were collected after they had taken blood on a bait oxen with skin microfilariae (mf) of Onchocerca dukei and Onchocerca ochengi.
  • (13) An involvement of the immonium oxene in the reaction mechanism is consistent with ferryl heme reduction by nitroxides and a detection of the reduced nitroxide when the reaction mixture is supplemented with the two-electron reductant sodium borohydride.
  • (14) Step a few feet from the beach, however, and the small towns are 100% Chilean with colourful adobe homes and farmers who still use oxen-pulled carts.
  • (15) The differences in the content of DNA, RNA and protein per g tissue between male calves, bulls, short scrotum bulls and oxen of the same age were in part significant.
  • (16) In the present study, the position of the parathyroids III (external parathyroids) and of the parathyroids IV (internal parathyroids) was examined in 25 young calves, 10 veal calves and 5 adult oxen.
  • (17) In addition, sera from 200 sheep and cattle and from 39 wild mammals were tested: 8 sheep, 3 oxen, and 1 hedgehog showed evidence of recent infection.
  • (18) A total of 458 cows, oxen, and calves (up to the second year of age) were studied over the 1971-1973 period.
  • (19) These studies were carried out using chronically implanted thermode probes in conscious oxen at 15 degrees C air temperature.
  • (20) The cost due to draft oxen being affected was estimated at K. 428 (US$193) per affected ox.

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