What's the difference between cob and comb?

Cob


Definition:

  • (n.) The top or head of anything.
  • (n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
  • (n.) The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
  • (n.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
  • (n.) A young herring.
  • (n.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
  • (n.) A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
  • (n.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
  • (n.) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
  • (n.) A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.
  • (n.) Clay mixed with straw.
  • (n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
  • (n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
  • (v. t.) To strike
  • (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
  • (v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This fusion protein exhibited an in vivo endonuclease activity which specifically cleaved the intron homing site within the intronless cob gene.
  • (2) All of the pdu mutations were located in a single region (41 map units) on the S. typhimurium chromosome between the his (histidine biosynthesis) and branch I cob (cobalamin biosynthesis) operons.
  • (3) The apoprotein of yeast cytochrome b is translated on mitochondrial ribosomes and coded for by a split gene which is located in the COB-BOX region on mitochondrial DNA.
  • (4) The large deletion M9391 in contrast accumulates a 13S RNA which probably results from transcription through the junction, which ligates sequences of the cob leader to sequences of the cob-oli1 intergenic spacer.
  • (5) One of these is the group II intron in the gene encoding apocytochrome b (cob: intron cobI1).
  • (6) The organization of the mitochondrial genomes of the F1 and succeeding backcross progenies was analyzed and compared with the progenitor RD-WF9 using probes derived from the S1 and S2 mitochondrial episomes, and probes containing the genes for cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (coxI), cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (coxII) and apocytochrome b (cob).
  • (7) The transfer of the upper nucleoside ligand of adenosylcobalamin to 2-mercaptoethanol is a very slow process; S-adenosyl-mercaptoethanol and cob(II)alamin are the final products of the reaction.
  • (8) The vitamin B12 auxotrophs were divided into two major phenotypic groups: Cob mutants, which could use cobinamide or vitamin B12 to grow on ethanolamine, and Cbl mutants, which could be supplemented only by vitamin B12.
  • (9) We made specific mutations in the internal guide sequence and the flanking exons of the fifth intron in the yeast mitochondrial gene for apocytochrome b (COB).
  • (10) Continuous registration of breath, ECG, O2 tension was carried out in sleeping chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) patients (n-46).
  • (11) Alfalfa had no effect on rate of nontreated cob cell wall digestion, but increased (P less than .01) the rate for NH3-treated cobs.
  • (12) In trial 1, two qualities of alfalfa and smooth brome hays replaced 0, 15, 30 or 100% of an ammonia (NH3)-treated corn cob negative control diet in a digestion trial using 26 mixed breed wethers (31.8 kg).
  • (13) They were shown to be P22-cotransducible with a branch I cob marker at a mean frequency of 12%.
  • (14) No inhibition by EDTA was found in cob parenchyma tissue.
  • (15) Although both copies are identical in the 5' upstream region and through most of the coding region, only cob-1-specific mRNA is detected on RNA gel-blots.
  • (16) To elucidate the synthesis of cobalamin coenzymes in view of comparative biochemistry, tissue distribution of activity of aquacobalamin reductase [EC 1.6.99.8] catalyzing the reduction of hydroxocobalamin to cob(II)alamin was studied in some vertebrates.
  • (17) The solka floc and corn cob diets are acceptable for growing dairy heifers where a low mineral content is desired but normal growth rates need to be maintained.
  • (18) Xylan in such natural substrates as straw and corn-cobs was also subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis.
  • (19) Regions that hybridized to C. reinhardtii or wheat mitochondrial gene probes for subunit I of cytochrome oxidase (cox1), apocytochrome b (cob), three subunits of NADH dehydrogenase (nad1, nad2 and nad5) and the small and the large ribosomal RNAs (rrnS and rrnL, respectively) were localized on the C. moewusii mtDNA map by Southern blot analysis.
  • (20) A 13.1-kb DNA fragment carrying Pseudomonas denitrificans cob genes has been sequenced.

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).

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