What's the difference between cab and crab?

Cab


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
  • (n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
  • (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
  • (2) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
  • (3) Group 1 (purpose to preserve the bladder, preoperative MVP-CAB): Four of 7 patients achieved a partial response.
  • (4) Sequences from the 5' upstream regions (-400 to translational start) of some cab genes were determined in this study, and a total of 16 tomato cab gene promoters for which sequences are now available were analyzed.
  • (5) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
  • (6) TfL , which has come under pressure from black-cab drivers, who feel Uber has been getting too easy a time from the regulators, is running the consultation until 23 December.
  • (7) It was concluded that important alterations in SNS activity and thyroid hormone homeostasis occur in humans during CABS and deep hypothermia, and that changes in core temperature may contribute to these findings.
  • (8) Even for those who don't know a "540 cab" from a "360 grab", or what it means to "huck it", the scale of the achievement was clear.
  • (9) Endemic outbreaks of CAB often originate from contaminated infusion fluids.
  • (10) At both temperatures, the conditioned PMMA, CAB, silafocon A, and pasifocon C lenses wet slightly better, by 1 degree to 12 degrees, than unconditioned lenses.
  • (11) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
  • (12) Topographical distribution of concanavalin A binding sites (CABS) was studied in two lines of virally transformed fibroblasts as a function of fatty acid composition.
  • (13) Arrhythmias were analyzed in 50 patients undergoing cardiac surgery: 27 with valve surgery, 15 with coronary artery bypass (CAB), 5 with CAB and valve surgery, and 3 with miscellaneous procedures.
  • (14) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
  • (15) A study was made of lipid peroxidation and the antioxidant system in patients with bronchial asthma (BA) and chronic asthmatic bronchitis (CAB) before and after muscular exercise.
  • (16) The central subdivision of the BNST appeared as a histochemically clearly circumscribed compartment with massive fibre immunoreactivity for SOM, ENK, VIP, SYN, CHR-A, CAB as well as SOM, ENK, NT and CAB positive cells but lacked cytosolic or fibre-like immunolabel for NPY and SP.
  • (17) He picked the brothers up in his leased taxi-cab, and drove them to Man-O-Salwa, a kebab restaurant in Somerville, Massachusetts, where Matanov and Tamerlan often dined.
  • (18) London's black-cab drivers are to launch private prosecutions against minicab drivers who use Uber , the booking software that allows smartphone users to hail private-hire cars from any location.
  • (19) Another 129 patients with unstable disease (group II) had unilateral, asymptomatic carotid lesions and were prospectively randomized to receive either combined operations (IIA; n = 71) or CAB followed by delayed CE (IIB; n = 58).
  • (20) To determine the importance of operative variables in the development of postoperative atelectasis and the incidence of phrenic nerve injury caused by topical cold cardioplegic solution, we studied 57 patients (53 male, four female) undergoing CAB.

Crab


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
  • (n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
  • (a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
  • (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
  • (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  • (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  • (a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  • (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
  • (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
  • (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
  • (a.) Sour; rough; austere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
  • (2) King crabs (Family Lithodidae) are among the world's largest arthropods, having a crab-like morphology and a strongly calcified exoskeleton.
  • (3) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
  • (4) In a second series, crabs were repeatedly exposed during training to a light pulse (CS) immediately followed by shock (UCS), and after a 6-h rest interval, tested with either CS-UCS or UCS.
  • (5) No blood group polymorphism was revealed by testing bonnet macaque red cells with isoantisera produced in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) and in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis).
  • (6) These findings provide ultrastructural correlates of the electrophysiological changes produced by glycerol treatment of the closer muscle of the ghost crab (Papir, 1973), namely, interference with excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling.
  • (7) A clottable protein, named coagulogen, was highly purified from the amoebocyte lysate of Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) by a method similar to that used for the lysate of Limulus polyphemus amoebocytes.
  • (8) The carbon dioxide solubility coefficient, alphaCO2, and the apparent carbonic acid dissociation constants, K'1 and K'2 were estimated in the serum of the crab Carcinus maenas at various temperatures and ionic strengths.
  • (9) Two forms of cytochrome P-450 (P-450MC1 and P-450MC2) were purified from liver microsomes of crab-eating monkeys (Macaca irus) treated with 3-methylcholanthrene (MC).
  • (10) Electrical activity recorded intracellularly from peptidergic neurosecretory terminal dilatations in the sinus gland of crabs (principally Cardisoma guanhumi and C. carnifex) is described.
  • (11) Isolated muscle fibers from the motor legs of the crab Trichodactilus dilocarcinus were submitted to strong hyperpolarizing currents of varied intensities which produced tension during the current pulse.
  • (12) The amino acid sequence of troponin C obtained from horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, striated muscle was determined by sequence analysis and alignments of chemically and enzymatically cleaved peptides.
  • (13) C.subimmaculatus was closely associated with a particular substrate and the presence of burrowing crabs.
  • (14) Our studies in crab-eating macaques indicate that presence in a mother's serum of potent antibodies reactive for red cells for her fetus will not necessarily cause erythroblastosis; in one case the maternal antibodies did not penetrate the placental barrier, and in two cases although the fetal red cells were maximally antibody-coated, they remained undamaged and the disease failed to develop.
  • (15) A 40-day adaptation of crabs to the freshened sea water results in an increase of maximal activity of Na,K-ATPase, but does not affect the enzyme affinity for ATP, Na+, K+, Mg2+ and ouabain, as well as its cooperative properties.
  • (16) When crab meat was ingested, none of these four arsenic species were observed at elevated levels until the urine was heated in 2N NaOH.
  • (17) Clots were allowed to form in samples of whole blood taken from the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in the absence and presence of dansylcadaverine (16), and were analyzed for their contents of N epsilon(gamma-glutamyl)lysine and gamma-glutamyl-dansylcadaverine.
  • (18) The experiments were performed on in vitro X-organ sinus gland neurosecretory systems from the eyestalk of the crab Cardisoma carnifex.
  • (19) On the upper reaches of the Cross River from the region around Mamfe and extending as far as the Nigerian fronter at Ekok, the crabs were infected exclusively with P. uterobilateralis.
  • (20) When the crabs Cancer antennarius and Petrolisthes cinctipes were in seawater (SW), amiloride (10(-4) M) reduced NH3 efflux by approximately 33 and 60%.

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