What's the difference between cabas and handbag?

Cabas


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When purified, recombinant 65-kD protein was substituted for crude antigen, there was no evidence in the CABA of antibody to the IIIE9 epitope.
  • (2) A competitive antibody-binding assay (CABA) was developed to detect antibodies in infected armadillos and leprosy patients which compete with an M. leprae-specific 125I monoclonal antibody IIIE9 for the species-specific M. leprae-IIIE9 epitope on the 65-kD protein.
  • (3) False-positive results, possibly induced by steric hindrance, are likely to be associated with CABA which incorporate crude cell wall extracts as solid-phase antigen.
  • (4) It has been previously reported from this laboratory that CABA affects the retention of norepinephrine (NE) and serotonin (5-HT) in rat brain tissue [2, 3, 4].
  • (5) From the main town on the western shore, there is a path tracing the edges of the water through the lush Atlantic forest — here there are guava trees, purple Jabu Ti Caba berries, and even the occasional monkey and toucan.

Handbag


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
  • (2) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
  • (3) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (4) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
  • (5) The latter is fresh out of university, fluent in English and wears a canary-yellow silk blouse and tight jeans with a large designer handbag.
  • (6) Beaumont, wide of eyes and clutching her handbag, has a lovely ingenuous manner, and a reliably crowd-pleasing set, but her brand of comedy is as cosy as a Hovis ad .
  • (7) Its most recent promotional video starts with a young woman waiting at a bus stop when an elderly lady is mugged for her handbag.
  • (8) Frankly, if anyone is daft enough to spend £1,000 on a handbag, it’s no skin off anyone else’s nose.
  • (9) Elizabeth Mumbua Njeru, 35, sits on a step outside the casualty ward hugging her handbag to her chest.
  • (10) In my handbag, there’s generally a book, a spare book, and a notebook.
  • (11) Even our handbags are suspect, and you don't have to read Freud to know what that symbolises.
  • (12) 6.13pm BST 54 min: There follows a brief bout of handbags in which Ignashevich gets a yellow card for bodychecking Yaya Toure.
  • (13) Our office bearer has a hi-fi in that studio office and is as likely to be playing the new 45 from the hardcore band Leather or electro drone by Tim Hecker as he is to be playing a deep cut of Cincinnati soul or handbag disco or improv guitar noodlings, whether newly released from Oren Ambarchi or 30 years old from the Takoma label.
  • (14) Because it’s extremely easy to spend that on any of those things, and I don’t see any of them as more beneficial to the greater good than May’s trousers, or Morgan’s handbag, for that matter.
  • (15) In both experiments, younger people were more likely to steal, as were those who put the letter in pockets or handbags after picking it up.
  • (16) We’re not wild about her loveheart necklace or plastic handbag, but then we’re not eight years old, so what do we know?
  • (17) "I've got a better one," she says immediately, pulls two iPhones from her handbag and swipes impatiently across the screens in search of the app.
  • (18) Terry then said "good" and the two agreed it was "just handbags, innit".
  • (19) Instead of being seen as an important piece of equipment that can be life-saving,” he said, “like a handbag, everyone’s got one.” The inhaler – a profile Born: 1956 in the US.
  • (20) The inside story pointed out that with the R$85bn (£30bn) of public money siphoned off each year, the government could eradicate poverty, build 1.5m homes – or purchase 18m designer handbags.

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