What's the difference between coat and coot?

Coat


Definition:

  • (n.) An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.
  • (n.) A petticoat.
  • (n.) The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
  • (n.) An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.
  • (n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.
  • (n.) Same as Coat of arms. See below.
  • (n.) A coat card. See below.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a coat or outer garment.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
  • (2) This mAb inhibited monocyte binding of both soluble FITC-labeled IgA and IgA-coated E, whereas it did not inhibit IgG binding.
  • (3) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
  • (4) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
  • (5) Charcoal particles coated with the lipid extract were prepared and the suspension inoculated intravenously into mice.
  • (6) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
  • (7) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (8) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.
  • (9) Although the brain AP50 is prominently phosphorylated by an endogenous protein kinase in isolated coated vesicle preparations, the neuronal AP50 was not detectably phosphorylated in intact cells as assessed by two-dimensional non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophoresis of labeled cells dissolved directly in SDS-containing buffers.
  • (10) MAb Q-1 distinguishes between Sendai virus-coated and uncoated lymphocytes only cells with low-affinity binding.
  • (11) Both buffy coat and platelet transfusions evoked production of the non-specific blocking antibodies.
  • (12) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
  • (13) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
  • (14) The coatings formed contain only stable chemical bonds (e.g., C-C, C-O-C), and easily-derivatized hydroxyl moieties.
  • (15) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (16) Significant biases in the distribution of cases of babesiosis were found with regard to season (P < 0,05), sex (P < 0,001) and coat colour (P < 0.01).
  • (17) One portion of the coat is complete by 5 to 6 h but additional material consisting primarily of glucose is added after 8 h.
  • (18) Recently the presence of a coating inhibitory factor was described in human tears which can prevent the binding of proteins to a solid phase.
  • (19) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
  • (20) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.

Coot


Definition:

  • (n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.
  • (n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.
  • (n.) A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was at least one happy tale, after a coot family miraculously escaped from the floods.
  • (2) The timing of upper lip protrusion movements and accompanying acoustic events was examined for multiple repetitions of word pairs such as "lee coot" and "leaked coot" by four speakers of American English.
  • (3) Andrew Coote (@ACunit) @DanLucas86 Endless Blue by @horrorsofficial - he should have remained blue, he blue the season for @ManUtd & because he will be blue April 22, 2014 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.26pm BST The severance package Here's some information courtesy of someone who wishes to be known as Handsome B.
  • (4) This calls for a specific HP48SX implementation with ASCII text output of the algorithm presented by Roberts and Coote (1965), and extended by Roussel and Husson (1991).
  • (5) John Coote describes these treatments and their possible mechanisms of pharmacological action.
  • (6) The duo – "two old coots", in Bowles' own quip this week – are the elder statesmen of federal budget battles.
  • (7) There is a proven link, says Coote, between shorter working hours, health and wellbeing, and freeing up time to take part in voluntary and democratic action.
  • (8) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
  • (9) This included white crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys, gold crowned sparrows, Z. atricapilla, and English sparrows, Passer domesticus, (68% in the composite); coots, Fulica americana, (29%); blackbirds, Euphagus cyanocephalus, (33%); crows, Corvus brachyrhyncos, (29%); robins, Turdus migratorius, (16%); pigeons, Columba fasciata, (10%); and mallard ducks, Anas platyrhynchos, (7%).
  • (10) There was evidence for a sequential mortality similar to that reported previously at this site: coots were the first birds to die, followed by American wigeon (Anas americana) and northern pintails (A. acuta acuta); northern shovelers (A. clypeata) and mallards (A. platyrhynchos) died late in the epizootic.
  • (11) There was evidence for a distinct sequence in the bird species dying at one site; American coots (Fulica americana) appeared to be the first species to die.
  • (12) At the height of the carping, Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker likened Clinton to an “ill-tempered coot driven a little mad by Obama’s success”.
  • (13) This report analyzes a large data set (1906 individuals, 15 allozyme loci) from a single field collection of the coot clam Mulinia lateralis and demonstrates (1) significant heterozygote deficiencies at 13 of 15 loci, (2) a correlation between the magnitude of heterozygote deficiency at a locus and the effect of heterozygosity at that locus on shell length, and (3) a distribution of multilocus heterozygosity which deviates from that predicted by observed single-locus heterozygosities.
  • (14) Anna Coote, Nef's head of social policy, believes that if larger charities moved to four day weeks they would be rewarded with "a more rounded and balanced workforce, less prone to absenteeism and sickness, and more productive hour-for-hour."
  • (15) Her organisation previously talked about a 21-hour working week as being the right option for the economy and society, but Cootes believes this is too radical for many organisations to get their head around at the moment.
  • (16) The causative agent of ornithosis was isolated in virological examination of the organs of a coot.
  • (17) Se concentrations in kidneys and livers of American coots (Fulica americana) were significantly correlated (r = 0.9845); Se concentrations in breast muscles and livers of juvenile ducks (Anas spp.)
  • (18) My own first encounter with Norfolk in literature came in the form of the heroic and crime-solving adventures of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club , a plucky little gang of boys and girls who live around Horning on the Norfolk Broads, in the Swallows and Amazons series of novels, a world as far from my own upbringing as was imaginable.
  • (19) (Actually, it had a bucolic view of Regent’s canal in London: houseboats, joggers, coots.)
  • (20) At Nef, Coote questions whether pay should be seen as a limiting factor.

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