What's the difference between carriage and dobbin?

Carriage


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.
  • (n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
  • (n.) The price or expense of carrying.
  • (n.) That which carries of conveys,
  • (n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
  • (n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
  • (n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
  • (n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
  • (n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
  • (n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Staphylococcal carriage seems largely to depend on individual characteristics rather than environmental factors.
  • (2) A higher proportion (14 of 40; 35%) had evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection than had evidence of either hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriage (17.5%) or alcohol abuse (30%).
  • (3) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
  • (4) Bronchial carriage may, however, not always be associated with pathological effects.
  • (5) 2) Chronic HBsAg carriage in the adult household contact was associated with female sex of the index case and with being a sibling; among young subjects, household contacts were more likely to be chronic HBsAg carriers when the index case was the mother, a sibling, or an HBV-DNA-positive subject.
  • (6) This study further confirms the importance of skin carriage of group A streptococci as a precursor to pyoderma and demonstrates the importance of minor skin trauma as a predisposing factor.
  • (7) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
  • (8) The current uses of serotyping of N. gonorrhoeae include epidemiological studies, clinical purposes and surveillance of antibiotic resistance and plasmid carriage.
  • (9) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
  • (10) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
  • (11) The carriage of C. diphtheriae was found to be 19.8%, 65.3% of them were toxin producing by counter-immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).
  • (12) Efforts at prevention of non-A, non-B hepatitis associated with blood transfusion have thus far been hampered by the lack of reliable laboratory markers for carriers of this disease, and controversy exists over the implementation of screening tests on blood donors, using such nonspecific indicators of possible viral carriage as serum alanine aminotransferase levels.
  • (13) The epidemic strain, which was not agglutinated by commerical diagnostic antisera, was isolated from the hands of personnel in five instances directly incriminated hand carriage as the mode of spread.
  • (14) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
  • (15) These patterns are generally consistent with available information concerning the distribution of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriage in New Zealand and suggest that HBsAg carriage is likely to be a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in New Zealand, as it is in other countries.
  • (16) In renal transplant recipients carriage was positively related to treatment with ranitidine, consumption of more than three types of cheese in the previous 20 months, and consumption of English cheddar cheese more than once per week.
  • (17) The objectives of this preliminary study were to determine the prevalence of oral candidal carriage and infection in a group of HIV-positive individuals and compare the humoral immune responses in serum and saliva in this group with a control group of HIV-negative subjects.
  • (18) "My service is not as frequent as it should be and has very old carriages," he said.
  • (19) An association between fecal carriage of Streptococcus bovis and colorectal carcinoma has been reported.
  • (20) The carriage rates were 89% in children, 39% in adolescents and 34% in adults.

Dobbin


Definition:

  • (n.) An old jaded horse.
  • (n.) Sea gravel mixed with sand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) James Dobbins, its special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will now remaining in Washington until further notice.
  • (2) Karinda Dobbins : ‘Love will keep me going’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest I survived election night because I was on a show in Oakland with four wonderful female comedians and we got to vent on stage and afterwards comfort each other.
  • (3) The seat became vacant on Sunday after backbencher Jim Dobbin died aged 73 .
  • (4) Although Ukip polled just 2.6% in the 2010 general election, which Dobbin won with a 5,971 majority, the party performed well in this May’s local elections.
  • (5) Paul Nuttall, the party’s deputy leader, said he was certain Bickley would have triumphed had Labour waited for the funeral of its former MP, Jim Dobbin, before moving the writ.
  • (6) Speaking first in Pashto, followed by Dari, Ghani said: “We believe that the formula of winner-takes-all will not serve our national unity,” echoing arguments by James Dobbins, the US special representative to Afghanistan.
  • (7) Ambassador James Dobbins, Obama's special representative for Afghanistan, now has thrice-yearly meetings with his Chinese counterpart to discuss future areas of co-operation.
  • (8) Liz McInnes won for Labour with 11,633 votes which was well down on the 18,499 votes (40.1%) the late Jim Dobbin won at the 2010 general election.
  • (9) "We are still in discussion with the Afghan government about the appropriate next steps," said state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who confirmed Dobbins would remain in the US for now.
  • (10) "I don't think [the] state [department] has ever operated on its own, independent of the US military, in an environment that is quite as threatening on such a large scale," James Dobbins, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo and Somalia, told the paper.
  • (11) Brantly arrived in the US at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Georgia, and was driven by ambulance to the hospital, about 15 miles away.
  • (12) It is understood that a senior Labour figure will seek the consent of Dobbin's family before any attempt to begin the process of setting a timetable for a byelection.
  • (13) The election is due to be held on 9 October and Ukip hopes to overturn the 6,000 majority of the late Labour MP Jim Dobbin, who died last week aged 73 .
  • (14) Ambassador James Dobbins, its special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will now remaining in Washington until further notice.
  • (15) First, the hypothesis that low SE influences behavior more than does high SE (Wallston, Wallston, Smith & Dobbins, 1987) was evaluated.
  • (16) Broadband providers should act to protect themselves and customers, said Roland Dobbins, Senior ASERT Analyst at Arbor Networks.
  • (17) The average internet user has little recourse other than to ask their provider to scan their systems to see if they have this feature switched on, Dobbins added.

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