What's the difference between bullock and stirk?

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.

Stirk


Definition:

  • (n.) A young bullock or heifer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Graham Stirk on the roof of the Leadenhall building, also known as the Cheesegrater.
  • (2) Leadenhall Building at 122 Leadenhall Street, otherwise know as the Cheesegrater, facing the Lloyds building Photograph: David Levene Since Lloyd's, Stirk thinks there has been an increase in the "homogeneity" of architecture.
  • (3) A. McKeating, S. Stagno, P. R. Stirk, and P. D. Griffiths, J. Med.
  • (4) The 47-storey, 224m skyscraper, designed by Graham Stirk of Rogers Stirk Harbour and partners – is still empty, with the first tenants due to move in early next year.
  • (5) This is accompanied by a stirking rise in the incidence of asthma.
  • (6) But, said Stirk, the buildings had "their DNA and an evolutionary path" in common.
  • (7) In 2007 the Richard Rogers Partnership became Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners, reflecting the influence of younger colleagues Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour, and Rogers says that while there is a public demand to have one person out front, "of course it doesn't work like that.
  • (8) The building's exposed innards caused widespread palpitations when it was built in the 1980s and Stirk recalled "a very, very mixed reaction".
  • (9) One key reason for the difference, Stirk explains, is that the latter was designed for a client while Leadenhall was designed for British Land, a speculative developer.
  • (10) "Cities go through cycles," said Simon Smithson, a partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners , and head of the practice's Latin American projects.
  • (11) The services and lifts are all encased in a glazed "cassette" on one side of the building rather than being exposed, which Stirk describes as a "jellyfish" effect.
  • (12) Photograph: David Levene "When I look at Lloyd's, it is amazingly dense," said Stirk.
  • (13) Photograph: Courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners A recent London housing project, One Hyde Park, has caused controversy in its construction of some of the most expensive homes in the world with little public access.
  • (14) Whatever the truth, Project Blue (Guernsey) Ltd, which was set up by the Qatar royal family , announced today that it has withdrawn its planning application for a set of sleek, hi-tech towers designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour , a firm that, however impressive on a good day (think Lloyd's of London Building or the Welsh Assembly ), does everything Prince Charles and his train of classical revivalists believe shouldn't be done.
  • (15) Now, one of Rogers' senior partners, Stirk has overseen the design of Leadenhall.
  • (16) The triangular glass-clad tower, designed by Richard Rogers’ firm Rogers Stirk Harbour, is officially named the Leadenhall building.
  • (17) "Offices are the most difficult buildings to design as an architect," Stirk said.
  • (18) "I am sure that in their meeting, the Prince of Wales expressed his dislike for the Rogers Stirk Harbour Partnership's design, and the emir politely concurred," said Vos.

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