What's the difference between cob and gull?

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.

Gull


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.
  • (n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
  • (n.) One easily cheated; a dupe.
  • (n.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The normal bacterial and fungal flora of the seagull was established and it is considered that the C. albicans in fresh gull droppings would not materially increase albicans infections in man.
  • (2) People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality.
  • (3) Later that day, Collins, Perkins and Jones were observed meeting again at the Castle pub, moving on to the upmarket Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar in nearby Exmouth Market.
  • (4) Renal clearance experiments were performed on herring gull (Larus argentatus) and great black-backed gull chicks (L. marinus) to test the importance of parathyroid hormone (PTH), parathyroidectomy (PTX), and calcium loading on excretion patterns of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate.
  • (5) "It's the people who were persuaded to vote no who were misled, who were gulled, who were tricked effectively.
  • (6) The rate of isolation from gulls was 0.26% in the cold months and 3.0% in the warm months.
  • (7) Though waterbirds, including moorhens and gulls, live on the margins, and a thin scum of litter is visible at the shore, the reservoir is not intended as a home to wildlife, and any fish living here are accidental visitors.
  • (8) Nine of 16 gulls rigorously examined were found infected simultaneously with both species.
  • (9) Cloacal swabs collected from 264 ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) at four sites near MontrĂ©al, Canada were cultured for the presence of Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp.
  • (10) In view of the endangered status of Audouin's gull, there is a need to observe closely the developing trend of contamination in this species.
  • (11) Clinical, necropsy, bacteriologic, parasitologic, histopathologic, toxicologic and animal inoculation studies suggest that organochlorine (PBC, dieldrin and DDE) poisoning was an important factor in causing deaths of free-flying ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) in southern Ontario in 1969 and 1973.
  • (12) Audouin's gull (Larus audouinii) is a very rare species endemic to the Mediterranean basin.
  • (13) The Northern Ireland secretary is making clear this work will accelerate and the existing Operation Gull to tackle illegal migration to Northern Ireland expanded to close any potential backdoor to Britain post-Brexit.
  • (14) The nature of the vascular alpha-adrenoceptors has been studied in the herring gull, Larus argentatus.
  • (15) Landfill disposal of a fertilizer manufacturing waste product was associated with a die-off of gulls in New Hanover County, North Carolina.
  • (16) About one-third of oxychlordane in herring gull eggs was lost in 1 year under these conditions, but none was lost after freeze-drying when the homogenate was stored at -18 degrees to -28 degrees C.
  • (17) The rate for C. jejuni and C. coli, respectively, was in gulls from regional garbage dumps 78% and 4%, from the coast 58% and 21%, and from islands 47% and 47% of the isolations in the corresponding area.
  • (18) those feeding on other birds (sparrow-hawk 33.00 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs, hawk 239.98 mg.kg-1 in fat) or those associated with water (great crested grebe 11.97 mg.kg-1, sea-gull 11.24 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs).
  • (19) In 1967, shell thickness in herring gull eggs from five states decreased with increases in chlorinated hydrocarbon residues.
  • (20) The brains of gulls dying with clinical signs of neurologic involvement, and dead gulls with no other apparent cause of death, contained organochlorine residues of significantly greater levels than those found in healthy gulls shot for comparison.

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