What's the difference between caw and crow?

Caw


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.
  • (n.) The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inbred (C57BL6 X CBA) F1 mice or outbred Ico: OF1 (Caw) mice received a weekly injection of rat erythrocytes for 2-3 months and the (IgM and IgG) antibody levels to autologous erythrocytes were measured by ELISA.
  • (2) The 27Al DOR NMR spectra of CAW measured at 9.4 and 11.7 T and spinning rates of 800-1150 Hz of the outer and 5 kHz of the inner rotor show seven sharp central lines accompanied by a manifold of spinning sidebands.
  • (3) Six airway divisions were identified: four CAW: trachea, main stem, lobar, segmental; and two PAW: subsegmental, and lobular.
  • (4) We attribute the difference in distensibility of the peripheral lobular airways to their lack of cartilaginous support, and their decreased muscular support when compared to the CAW.
  • (5) It is an ensemble piece, set in London in 1936 amid the clamour of Mosley’s Blackshirts and the cawing of newspaper vendors on the latest atrocity: another woman strangled in the west end by the so‑called Tie-Pin Killer.
  • (6) These lines correspond to the seven crystallographically inequivalent Al sites of the CAW framework derived from X-ray structure analysis.
  • (7) The Caw-Hoe-Wiga strain of the Sprague-Dawley rat was observed for a period of ten years (1974--1983).
  • (8) 1,737 compressed air workers (CAWs) were employed in the project.
  • (9) We conclude that networks containing both parallel pathways and Caw are necessary to model ZL over the entire frequency range (2-32 Hz), the effect of Caw is an important determinant of ZL above 8 Hz, and a six-parameter Caw network with the ratio of Caw to parenchymal compliance, Cp, fixed may prove useful in interpreting changes in ZL induced by alterations in lung mechanics in monkeys.
  • (10) Pink-footed geese fly overhead on their way back to Greenland, rooks caw in the beech trees, a charm of chaffinches sing from the dead branches of an alder, and black-headed gulls follow a tractor ploughing in the distance.
  • (11) Despite not modeling the decrease in RL with frequency below 8 Hz, an airway wall compliance, Caw, network in which the airways were separated into central and peripheral components resulted in an even lower Dr (approximately 11%).
  • (12) CAW appeared to be a better extender than SKMEY as revealed by sugar uptake in cold.
  • (13) 160 CAWs developed Type I decompression sickness (DCS) and 4 developed Type II DCS.
  • (14) A gull cawed overhead to cry good morning to this strange tented visitor, while the sea whispered in the distance.
  • (15) Reserpine and prochlorperazine were administered in separate experiments to adult CAW:CF1 mice and to adult LVG:LAK hamsters that had recovered from audiosensitization induced by 30 sec of doorbell sound during a critical period of infantile development.
  • (16) I assume that when he works out , he’s not listening to EDM or podcasts, but the sound of the mighty Mississippi river rushing or the incessant caw of the majestic bald eagle.
  • (17) Vultures perch on his shoulders every day, he says, cawing at him with bad vibes.
  • (18) The dimensional response of central (CAW) (greater than 2 mm diam) and peripheral airways (PAW) (smaller than 2 mm diam) to changes in transpulmonary pressure (Ptp) was determined by progressive increments in tidal volume (VT).
  • (19) QCC values in the range of 5 to 9 MHz are obtained which reflect the strong tetragonal distortion of the AlO4 tetrahedra in CAW.
  • (20) The 27Al NMR spectra of calcium tungstate aluminate sodalite (CAW), Ca8[Al12O24](WO4)2, and the 23Na NMR spectra of sodium aluminosilicate sodalites of general composition Na9[Si6Al6O24]A2 with A = B(OH)4- (SBS), SCN- (SRS) and A2 = SO4(2-) (SSS), MoO4(2-) (SMS) have been measured using magic-angle spinning (MAS) and double-rotation (DOR) techniques.

Crow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
  • (v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
  • (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
  • (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
  • (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
  • (v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
  • (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
  • (2) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (3) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
  • (4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
  • (5) When these studies are reviewed in the light of Crow's "two-syndrome" paradigm of schizophrenia, a new trend emerges.
  • (6) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
  • (7) The genetic evidence is reviewed concerning 'traditional' clinical subtypes as more novel categories derived from multivariate statistical methods and Crow's type I-type II classification.
  • (8) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
  • (9) Intracytoplasmic, rod-shaped and eosinophilic inclusions were recognized only in Purkinje cells in a case of Crow-Fukase syndrome.
  • (10) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
  • (11) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
  • (12) And as Crow demonstrated, militancy may not guarantee success – but passivity will asphyxiate unions when the workforce needs them to be stronger than ever.
  • (13) We felt blessed,” said Rebecca, pulling out another family picture in which a smiling Sarah leans her head against her mother’s shoulder, her younger siblings crowing around them.
  • (14) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
  • (15) Oh, and Tony Benn and Bob Crow, when they were alive.
  • (16) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
  • (17) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
  • (18) In contrast, in the adults melatonin caused more than a two-fold increase in E in the pigeon, and a significant increase in the crow.
  • (19) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
  • (20) Some of his well-paid members, such as drivers, queried why the union should concern itself with these lower-paid workers whose lack of job security meant they were far more difficult to reach and retain in the union, but Crow, true to his principles, always argued in favour of supporting them.

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