What's the difference between chap and crap?

Chap


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  • (v. t.) To strike; to beat.
  • (v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to knock; to rap.
  • (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  • (n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.
  • (n.) A blow; a rap.
  • (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
  • (n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
  • (n.) A buyer; a chapman.
  • (n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
  • (v. i.) To bargain; to buy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For this, different detergents such as Triton X-100, CHAPS and n-octyl beta-D glucopyranoside were tested at various concentrations, durations and temperatures of incubation.
  • (2) At detergent concentrations above their critical micelle concentrations, C12E8 was also much more effective than CHAPS, suggesting that micelles are not involved.
  • (3) That’s plain wrong, has been for decades, and a clever chap like Nelson should know it.
  • (4) End-on views of G on virus clearly showed triangles consisting of three dots indicating the trimeric nature of native G. End-on views of CHAPS-isolated G showed very similar triangles confirming that, using this detergent, G was solubilized in its native trimeric structure.
  • (5) Previous investigations (El Mestikawy et al., J Neurochem 51: 1031-1040, 1988) have shown that 5-HT1A binding sites (R[5-HT1A]) solubilized by CHAPS from rat hippocampal membranes can be modulated by guanine nucleotides, as expected from their solubilization together with associated G regulatory proteins (G).
  • (6) Initially, peripheral polypeptides were removed from apically enriched vesicles by washing with alkaline buffer (pH 10.8) containing 2 mM CHAPS.
  • (7) The enzymes could be solubilized from the membrane fractions using CHAPS, and the detergent-soluble activity partially restored by addition of phospholipids.
  • (8) Furthermore, the effects of detergents other than CHAPS on hydrodynamic parameters and on [3H]TCDD binding to the receptor were studied.
  • (9) Cation exchange chromatography on carboxymethylcellulose-Sephadex with a starting buffer of pH 5 containing 2 mM CHAPS plus 20 mM beta-OG, followed by a pH 8 buffer, showed a very small OD peak at the void volume (P) and a second peak with about 95% of the protein (E).
  • (10) The binding of CHAPS to the SynChropak Propyl stationary phase and its effects on retention were found to be readily reversible.
  • (11) Leukotriene C4 (LTC4) synthase was solubilized from the microsomes of guinea-pig lung by the new procedures of a combination of 3-[3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio)-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS), digitonin and KCl.
  • (12) These treatments also caused an altered distribution of phosphorylated integrin between the CHAPS soluble and insoluble fractions.
  • (13) The ryanodine receptor protein of sheep cardiac muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes functions as a ligand-regulated ion channel following solubilization with the zwitterionic detergent CHAPS (3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1- propane sulphonate); purification by density gradient centrifugation, reconstitution into proteo-liposomes and incorporation into planar phospholipid bilayers.
  • (14) The chap who assessed my brother was a physiotherapist,” she said.
  • (15) The augmentation of tone was endothelium-dependent as it did not occur following functional destruction of the endothelium by perfusion of the vascular bed with the detergent CHAPS (0.3%) for 150s.
  • (16) Isoelectric focusing in 2% 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS) without urea gives good results as does 2% Nonidet-P40 with 8 M urea.
  • (17) Sodium nitroprusside was approximately 200 times less potent than acetylcholine in the presence of the endothelium and was the only vasorelaxant to be active after destruction of the endothelium by perfusion with 0.3% CHAPS; in the absence of the endothelium it was 3.7 times more potent as a vasodilator than in its presence.
  • (18) Among three detergents tested, CHAPS is the best in preserving hormonal binding affinity and specificity.
  • (19) In addition, the 44% peak became increasingly resistant to the inhibitory effect of CHAPS.
  • (20) Optimal yield was obtained by pretreatment of whole M. pneumoniae cells with buffer containing 1% Chaps and subsequent extraction with octylglucosid at a detergent to protein ratio of 5 and at octylglycoside concentrations between 1.5 and 2%.

Crap


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
  • (2) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
  • (3) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
  • (4) It’s just tokenistic crap so they can get more back pats from the broader community,” he said.
  • (5) They were apparently trying to promote a healthy lifestyle to the Russian public, but Muscle and Fitness magazine slated the president’s technique: “his cable crossover form is crap”.
  • (6) My father was a very important role model in my life and in his own way helped me to set high expectations for myself, to stand on my own two feet and to not take crap.
  • (7) Star Wars , it turns out, is the most ambitious, enterprising and impressive exercise in the marketing of crap ever conceived by man.
  • (8) "Being a contrary sort of person, I figured there had been enough politically correct crap going around.
  • (9) Our respondents explained why: "At the employment office, they look at you like you're crap."
  • (10) Tory rhetoric on the burden of renewable energy to bill payers has been relentless ever since David Cameron infamously referred to the levies as “green crap” .
  • (11) He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”.
  • (12) Because people tend to treat social media as conversational,” says internet psychologist Graham Jones , “they get the feeling they are just chatting with their friends, hence many of the apparent online death threats could be nothing more than the non-realistic conversational expressions of anger.” “Crap!” tweeted 28-year-old trainee accountant Paul Chambers in 2010 to his 690 followers.
  • (13) It’s more hard-wired than that; it’s crap but comforting cuisine, your first Meccano set, moral certainties, safety.
  • (14) "We don't need the big star, we can just load up on Michael Bourns and Nick Swishers, kick the crap out of the bottom feeders, catch a few breaks and make the playoffs - I love it."
  • (15) November 5, 2013 Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) Draghi has incentive to make sure he doent have "crap in his hands" after EU bank asset review next year, says #Rehn November 5, 2013 Matthew Dalton (@DJMatthewDalton) The incentive not to have crap on one's hands is universal.
  • (16) Michael Palin has said that a lot of Monty Python's material was "crap", in an interview with the Telegraph .
  • (17) Here (at least on the night I watched; the acts vary nightly), the joke is comedians performing crap circus acts.
  • (18) How do you cleanse the palate after watching a soul-destroyingly crap movie?
  • (19) The Sun quoted an unnamed source as saying: "The prime minister is going round Number 10 saying: 'We have got to get rid of all this green crap'.
  • (20) He didn't have to give a crap about me but he arranged for me to go on stages.