What's the difference between cocking and crocking?
Cocking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cock
(n.) Cockfighting.
Example Sentences:
(1) A comparative study was performed for isoelectric and electrophoretic spectra blood serum albumin of parental breeds of chickens and their heterosis hybrids --broiler cocks.
(2) Lastly, I'll offer just one example of cock-eyed methodology.
(3) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(4) A small membranous sheet of the perivitelline layer (PL) isolated from freshly ovulated ova was incubated with cock spermatozoa, and morphological changes of PL and percentage of spermatozoa lacking acrosomes were observed during incubation.
(5) The fibrinolytic response of mature and immature cocks was comparable to that of the immature hens.
(6) All of which is knocked into a cocked one by the achievements of Martin O'Neill's Celtic.
(7) "Sorry to leave it in such a mess, old cock", was the parting shot from the Conservative chancellor.
(8) This temperature probably represents the thermoneutral temperature (TNT) of the cock.
(9) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(10) In heterospermic tests, cocks with distinguishable offspring were paired and semen was mixed within pairs.
(11) Obama doesn't have much to say, and neither does Mitt Romney but after that Libya cock-up his brain is mush and he starts going on about two parent families – what?
(12) "We desperately need donors… These people have lost so much, but they still could lose more," said Jane Cocking of Oxfam.
(13) When the acquisition was announced, Google spokespeople were cock-a-hoop, and with good reason: the guys who founded DeepMind are among the best in a very competitive field.
(14) In a cock-up of Olympic proportions, the iCloud password was reset by Farook’s employers (the owners of the phone) with the explicit consent of the FBI.
(15) He often seems mysteriously amused, cocking an eyebrow and pulling a coy, wouldn’t-you-like-to-know smirk, but he likes to laugh out loud, too.
(16) Thyroidectomy and thyroxine supplements in thyroidectomized birds failed to influence plasma corticosterone and, apart from cock, transcortine levels.
(17) Heparin has been found to stimulate or suppress the priming activity of a protein antigen (cock muscle phosphorylase-b) in mice depending on the various parameters (the dose of antigen, timing of administration, etc.).
(18) The differences were seen during the late cocking and acceleration phases, which place the greatest stress on the medial collateral ligament.
(19) The present work aims to find a biochemical criterion for evaluating the evolution of sperm according to age through the study of the ATPase activity from the spermatozoa and the acid phosphatase from the seminal plasma of cocks from three different breeds.
(20) In Experiment 2, five pens of 30 Arbor Acres and 3 cocks each were assigned to feeding times of 0830, 1130, 1430, and 1730 h. Eggs were collected hourly from 0700 to 1600 for Days 6 through 10 of a 10-day treatment period.
Crocking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crock
Example Sentences:
(1) He frequently skips lunch, such as today’s offering of meat salad, and preferred to make his own meals before the prison staff revoked his Crock-Pot.
(2) A total of 22 patients operated according to Henry Crock's indications and followed-up after 2 years were reviewed.
(3) I prefer a crocked Messi to anyone else fully fit."
(4) Denilson, and not Campbell, is on for the crocked Gallas.
(5) Ethical consumerism, once again, has turned out to be a crock.
(6) How much real world evidence needs to accumulate before politicians in the UK will stop stoking the politics of envy, as though there really was a hidden crock of gold at the end of the rainbow?
(7) Trephination with the modified Crock trephine yielded disks with diameters close to 7.3 mm in all meridians.
(8) A professor of public law at the University of Sydney, Mary Crock, said immigration officers had asked the asylum seekers just four questions before determining they should be handed back: their name, age, where they came from and why they didn’t want to go back.
(9) If Bucholtz is crocked, lets hope Nieves had been showing Doubront videos of Mike Marshall from '74 with the Dodgers and '79 with the Twins.
(10) The third was a squamous cell carcinoma of the limbus treated by lamellar excision with the Crock Contact-lens Corneal Cutter; the wound was allowed to granulate, and in so doing, caused negligible astigmatism.
(11) Gino Pozzo, son of the family business's founder, Giampaolo, stated on taking over that they are interested in investing in their English club for similar measured progress, not a rapid sprint to the Premier League's crock of gold, fortified by loan deals.
(12) Many of the patients termed crocks have symptoms referable to the gastrointestinal system, and they are at considerable health risk, since they usually alienate health care personnel.
(13) Look after the wealthy and clever and they will look after everyone else – that’s the moral basis of capitalism, and it’s a crock.
(14) "Anybody can tell you that asking someone in the middle of the high seas simple questions like that is not going to deliver anything near the information you need to work out if they are refugees or not," said Crock, a migration and refugee law expert.
(15) "So much has been made of Factory apparently turning The Smiths down, but that's a crock of shit.
(16) Elderly patients are sometimes stereotyped as "crocks" and "gomers"--crotchety chronic complainers beyond help and hope.
(17) Even Chiles was moved to described it as a "crock of shit" , but any decision to axe it would be a blow for ITV director of television Peter Fincham, who was responsible for ditching GMTV.
(18) Henry Crock was the first to reveal its principal pathogenetic factor, disc resorption, and to accurately describe the syndrome and its surgical treatment.
(19) Michael Heseltine had already been anointed as the new minister for Merseyside to stabilise Liverpool but without any crock of gold and, as the cabinet papers reveal, on what Thatcher's closest advisers considered to be a "doomed mission".
(20) Meanwhile, unemployment in Greece is around 27%; the public debt now is higher than it was when Athens collapsed, and the banking system is so crocked that small and mid-sized businesses in Greece are starved of credit (compare that with the generous terms and conditions a tech start-up in Berlin can now get).