What's the difference between carder and comb?

Carder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The site was set up in Ukraine in 2001 and was described by the cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs as “the most brazen collection of carders, hackers and cyberthieves the internet had ever seen”.
  • (2) A grandmother of five, Jones sports a discrete shrill carder bumblebee tattoo on her shoulder courtesy of taking part in a green art project.
  • (3) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
  • (4) The time course of the changes in the threshold of the acoustic reflex was nearly identical to the time course of behaviorally measured changes in the auditory sensitivity as reported by Carder and Miller (1972).
  • (5) The prevalence of byssinosis was 43.2% among blowers and 37.5% in carders in comparison with four to 24% among workers in other sections.
  • (6) As well as the short-haired bumblebee, the conservation work has also resulted in increased sightings of other rare bumblebee species including the ruderal bumblebee, the red shanked carder bee, the moss carder bee and the brown banded carder bee.
  • (7) At the other end, a first clean sheet in eight matches was integral to Spurs' success, although most focus was on another statistic as Andre Marriner's position as the most prolific red-carder in the top flight this season was enhanced.
  • (8) The Belarusian cyber-criminal known as Policedog online started hacking early on, and by the age of 20 he says he was earning $100,000 a month as a “carder”, turning stolen credit card information into cash.
  • (9) A significant fall in FEV1 was recorded in carders and draw- and ring-frame workers.
  • (10) The prevalence of byssinosis was 67% among blowers, 40% in carders and draw-frame workers, 42% in simplex workers and 37% in ring-frame workers.
  • (11) It was also a record summer for the rare shrill carder bee, found in two new locations in south Wales, and numerous birds.

Comb


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
  • (n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
  • (n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
  • (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
  • (n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
  • (n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
  • (n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
  • (n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
  • (n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
  • (n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
  • (n.) The curling crest of a wave.
  • (n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
  • (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
  • (v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing.
  • (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
  • (n.) Alt. of Combe
  • (n.) A dry measure. See Coomb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The regulatory element also suppresses those BX-C genes and other homeotics that, in the absence of Polycomb or extra sex combs function, can become active in parasegment 14.
  • (2) Holly Combe, a member of Feminists Against Censorship , shares these concerns.
  • (3) Corynosoma gravida Alegret 1941, C. mergi Lundstroöm 1941 and C. phalacrocoracis Yamaguti 1939 are redescribed and placed in Andracantha, with A. gravida (Alegret, 1941) comb.
  • (4) Like other members of the Polycomb group, the extra sex combs gene (esc) is required for the correct repression of loci in the major homeotic gene complexes.
  • (5) We show here that embryos lacking both maternal and zygotic esc+ function display transient, general derepression of both the Ultrabithorax (Ubx) and Antennapedia (Antp) genes during germ band shortening, but Sex combs reduced (Scr) expression is almost normal in the epidermis and lacking in the central nervous system (CNS).
  • (6) The legal team has spent more than 10,000 hours combing through evidence, spoken to more than 14,500 individuals, viewed more than 1,200 hours of CCTV and media footage, canvassed 250 businesses, completed 9,300 investigative notes and taken more than 1,000 statements from police officers, experts and civilian witnesses.
  • (7) The polarity of all the "comb" bundle fibers is descending.
  • (8) The extra sex comb trait is a homeotic transformation of the mesothoracic and metathoracic legs into prothoracic legs.
  • (9) When the duplex comb types were crossed to each other, the V-shaped comb showed complete dominance over the buttercup comb.
  • (10) The new species differs from E. knoepffleri Combes, 1965 by greater sizes of the disc, median and marginal hooks and anterior suckers.
  • (11) But by next April a new scheme will be in place based on hospitals combing through the case notes of 20,000 patient deaths – about 120 chosen randomly in each trust – to calculate the "preventable death rate" in the NHS.
  • (12) Different breeds of chickens namely Single Comb White Leghorn (S.C.W.L.
  • (13) Begue said he has been combing the island’s shores ever since.
  • (14) Grampian police joined forces with Tayside police and Marr search and rescue to comb a large area from Loch Muick to Glen Clova in the national park.
  • (15) Spectral structure of a signal depends on the size and configuration of combs.
  • (16) In Rhinolasius, one receptor possesses a short bulbous cilium without a rootlet, with a septate desmosome of the pleated sheet (comb) type and a weakly developed electron-dense band beneath it.
  • (17) In vitro transcription-translation of these com plasmids revealed two neighboring genes, comA and comB, encoding proteins of 77,000 and 49,000 daltons, respectively.
  • (18) Hymenolepis macrorchida (Kotlan, 1921), a cestode of New Guinea parrots, possessing a small number (3 to 4) of testicles, belonging to the family Hymenolepididae to which it has been assigned for more than half of the century, is transferred to the family Davaineidae and designated as Idiogenoides macrorchida (Kotlan, 1921) comb.
  • (19) Dusts were collected from the beginning of wool processing (opening) in one factory and from the middle (combing) and late (backwinding) stages of the process in two other factories.
  • (20) Urolithiasis was induced in an experimental group of Single Comb White Leghorn pullets by feeding them layer ration and exposing them to nephrotrophic Gray strain infectious bronchitis virus (IBV).