What's the difference between comb and crest?

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).

Crest


Definition:

  • (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
  • (n.) The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.
  • (n.) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.
  • (n.) The upper curve of a horse's neck.
  • (n.) The ridge or top of a wave.
  • (n.) The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
  • (n.) The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
  • (n.) The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
  • (n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
  • (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.
  • (v. i.) To form a crest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hence, the absence of NGF receptors on premigratory neural crest and early migratory neural crest cultures was not due to enzymatic alterations of the receptor.
  • (2) Predominantly observed defects included neural crest cells in ectopic locations, both within and external to the neural tube, and mildly deformed neural tubes containing some dissociating cells.
  • (3) Our results suggest that cAMP may be an important regulator of phenotypic expression in at least some neural crest cell lineages.
  • (4) Neural crest cells give rise to various essential tissues in vertebrates.
  • (5) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
  • (6) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
  • (7) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
  • (8) The talus was revascularized with a vascularized corticocancellous iliac crest bone graft.
  • (9) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
  • (10) The center of resistance was located at 0.24 times the root length measured apical to the level of alveolar crest.
  • (11) By means of immunoreactivity for spot 35 protein, a novel cerebellar Purkinje cell-specific protein, the regional heterogeneity among non-pigmented ciliary epithelial cells of rats was demonstrated with reference to the antero-posterior and crest-valley directions of individual ciliary epithelial folds in immature and mature eyes.
  • (12) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
  • (13) The type II, III, IV, and V boutons appear mature at all ages examined but crest synapses formed by the type III terminals are observed in the later stages of the study.
  • (14) The use of the pectoralis major muscle only flap in conjunction with a free iliac crest bone graft for reconstruction of the mandible is described.
  • (15) The outer coat turned to be extremely sculptured, presenting as interlaced crests of various height.
  • (16) The effects of AAGTP are different in nervous tissue from other tissues, and experiments with that nucleotide have led to the discovery of a new, 32 kDa GTP-binding protein which appears only in neural crest cells.
  • (17) The neural crest has been suggested as the origin of the ectomesenchymomas.
  • (18) He had huge eyes, a wide, deep brow, an angel's mouth, with the upper lip crested.
  • (19) We have examined the distribution and function of the defined cell adhesion molecules, N-cadherin and N-CAM, in the emigration of cranial neural crest cells from the neural tube in vivo.
  • (20) On E7, a slender neuropil was present in the migrating cell clusters, but all the crest derived cells were uniform.