What's the difference between constable and pestle?

Constable


Definition:

  • (n.) A high officer in the monarchical establishments of the Middle Ages.
  • (n.) An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to execute the warrants of judicial officers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One chief constable policing a rural area said he would have a copy of the winning candidate's manifesto on his desk when he met the new PCC on their first day of work.
  • (2) Doreen Lawrence to speak at conference on police spying, corruption and racism Read more Mick Creedon, the Derbyshire Chief Constable who is leading the police’s internal investigation into the SDS, said the public inquiry “will help us with the work that is already underway to make sure that the unacceptable behaviour of some officers in the past never happens again”.
  • (3) The home secretary, Theresa May , told the police service on Tueday that rank and file officers should expect annual rises in contributions of £349 for a new constable to £1,169 for a senior PC.
  • (4) In South Yorkshire there is Max Sahota, the assistant chief constable.
  • (5) A joint statement from the chief constables of Warwickshire, West Mercia and West Midlands forces said: "Andrew Mitchell MP has never made a complaint to police.
  • (6) Sir Hugh Orde, Acpo's president, said on Friday the introduction of police commissioners would create "inevitable tension" with chief constables over local and national policing priorities.
  • (7) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
  • (8) The chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Matt Baggott, one of his senior police commanders and the Derry regional office of the Public Prosecution Service have all received devices in the last week.
  • (9) "I knew that police officers had been hurt and things were on fire and it had all got crazy," the constable said.
  • (10) South Yorkshire police’s own new acting chief constable, Dave Jones, said he would “welcome an appropriate independent assessment of Orgreave ”, as part of the force facing up to its conduct in the past.
  • (11) At one point Keith Vaz, the chair, told the chief constable of West Mercia: "This is a car crash."
  • (12) Forty years after Reynolds's death, Constable painted one of the most emotionally charged tributes ever paid to one artist by another.
  • (13) After the chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, George Hamilton, said he believed individual PIRA members were involved in the McGuigan murder, the Ulster Unionist party pulled out of the five-party coalition at Stormont in protest .
  • (14) As a cabinet minister, it's unacceptable for someone of his standing to use such disrespectful and abusive language to a police constable, let alone anyone else.
  • (15) In an interview with the Guardian, the deputy chief constable, Dave Thompson, said the force had lost 1,500 officers in the past five years with a further 1,000 posts expected to be axed if the current rate of cuts continues.
  • (16) To fight crime, we need a modern and flexible workforce that helps chief constables manage their resources, maximise officer time and improve the service to the public."
  • (17) The Manchester police deputy chief constable, Ian Pilling, said the decision to up the threat level to critical would help the investigation into the attack.
  • (18) Chief constables are to press the home secretary, Theresa May , to authorise the use of water cannon by any police force across England and Wales to deal with anticipated street protests.
  • (19) While Scarman's was a one-man show, the Lawrence inquiry is chaired by a retired judge and is advised by a retired deputy chief constable, a bishop, and a senior figure from the Jewish community.
  • (20) The chief constable, Peter Fahy, the lead on workforce development for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said the review would "lay lasting foundations for the police service".

Pestle


Definition:

  • (n.) An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
  • (n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.
  • (n.) The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.
  • (v. t. & i.) To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crush the pistachios with a mortar and pestle, and set aside, then finely crush the cardamom seeds.
  • (2) No matter how much you enjoy cooking, you definitely won't need a mortar or a pestle.
  • (3) One product failed to release its chlorpheniramine even when ground in a mortar and pestle in HCl solution, but did release drug in H3PO4 solution.
  • (4) The Chelex resin beads were ground in a mortar-pestle to form ground Chelex resin beads.
  • (5) 2 Mash the preserved lemon – flesh and skin – in a pestle and mortar and place in a glass with the lime juice, syrup and mint.
  • (6) Patterns of prosthetic failure included fracture, fraying, and compressive deformation or rotary wear ("motar and pestle") of the silicone radial head; a prosthetic stem fracture was also present.
  • (7) This system allows the bone cartilage on the surface to receive an even impact on the whole section through the piston-like action of the pressure pestle, thus making it possible for the crushed cartilage to be evenly extended in all directions.
  • (8) The only way to prepare high molecular weight rapidly labelled RNA and polysomes was to grind freeze-dried cells together with kieselguhr with a mortar and pestle.
  • (9) Put all the ingredients for the sauce in a mortar, add a quarter-teaspoon of salt, and pound with a pestle to a rough paste.
  • (10) The data show that a rigorous washing routine must be followed to achieve a "clean" mortar and pestle.
  • (11) It was shown that encapsulated cells dried with acetone and ground to a fine powder with a mortar and pestle retain their capsules.
  • (12) The best type of seaweed to use is "aonori" flakes, but most dried seaweed can be ground in a pestle and mortar.
  • (13) Peel and mash the garlic with a pestle and mortar or in a blender with the egg yolk, olive oil, vinegar, mustard and harissa.
  • (14) Three different methods of tissue processing have been assessed: (i) freeze-clamping (-196 degrees C), using grooved, aluminium tongs which produce frozen cylinders of tissue (3 mm diameter) which fit directly into esr tubes; (ii) grinding of freeze-clamped tissue with a porcelain pestle and mortar; (iii) lyophilization of ground, freeze-clamped, tissue.
  • (15) The anvil has a rounded surface enclosed by cylindrical walls, while the pressure pestle functions as a piston within the cylindrical walls.
  • (16) The pestle, rubbing against the gutta-percha inside the amalgam capsule, generates enough frictional heat to blend the gutta-percha and the eucalyptol.
  • (17) 3 Put the cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar and bash until the pods split.
  • (18) With the microblending technique a mean of 9.4 green plants and 0.4 albino plants were regenerated per plated anther while a mean of only 2.8 green and 0.17 albino plants per anther were regenerated from microspores isolated after pestle maceration of the anthers.
  • (19) Roughly crush the peppercorns and fennel using a pestle and mortar.
  • (20) 2 In a pestle and mortar (or using a large knife) make the garlic into a paste by squashing it into a little salt.

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