What's the difference between cop and copper?

Cop


Definition:

  • (n.) The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
  • (n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
  • (n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
  • (n.) Same as Merlon.
  • (n.) A policeman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (2) Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a synthetic basic random copolymer of amino acids that has been shown to be effective in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and has been proposed as a candidate drug for multiple sclerosis.
  • (3) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
  • (4) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
  • (5) COP-BLAM III therapy was given to 18 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of the treatment were examined.
  • (6) A new electrophoretic variant of the lactate dehydrogenase B subunit was found in the erythrocytes of the COP strain of the rat.
  • (7) Three independent BFA-resistant cell lines (BER-40 from Vero cells, PtK1, and MDCK) showed cross-resistance to EDIN regarding the release of the beta-COP from the Golgi membrane by EDIN or BFA.
  • (8) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
  • (9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
  • (10) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
  • (11) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
  • (12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
  • (13) "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: that's been going on a hundred years, absolutely," said Murdoch.
  • (14) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
  • (15) The COP regime was the most frequently used therapeutic regimen.
  • (16) "But I can assure you, if I had known that cops were sitting in car parks, they would have been deployed pretty quickly," he said.
  • (17) "There will be a meeting of the 22 countries of the COPS [the EU's political and security committee] ... if not today then tomorrow," Kouchner told reporters in Paris.
  • (18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
  • (19) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (20) I heard him say to another cop: “I don’t even know why they told me to lock this guy up.

Copper


Definition:

  • (n.) A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.
  • (n.) A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.
  • (n.) A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
  • (n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.
  • (v. t.) To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This result was confirmed by atomic absorption spectroscopy, which indicated a stoicheiometry for copper and manganese of approx.
  • (2) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
  • (3) Copper therapy was applied to 7-day-old mutant mice.
  • (4) Several derivatives and analogs of the recently reported antiproliferative and antitumor agent trans-bis(salicylaldoximato)copper(II) (CuSAO2) have been prepared and tested for antiproliferative activity against L1210 leukemia cells in vitro.
  • (5) Accumulation of copper was not detected in the brain or small intestines of LEC rats until 13 mo.
  • (6) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
  • (7) The affinity of haFGF for copper was also confirmed to be higher than that of hbFGF using a copper affinity HPLC column.
  • (8) In the present study, maternal and fetal zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), and calcium (Ca) status has been studied in Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Wistar rats.
  • (9) This study provides evidence for a maternal yolk factor associated with increased tolerance and resistance of larvae to copper.
  • (10) With copper-ion catalysis, ligands inhibit competitively.
  • (11) No decisive numerical criterion was found that could be used to separate normal from abnormal copper concentrations because of this continuous array.
  • (12) No clear population trends were seen in dental disease incidence except for cemental caries which were found among Copper and Bronze Age remains.
  • (13) At 2 months of age there were no major differences in growth or health detected in infants fed the different copper intakes.
  • (14) In order to determine the specific action of cadmium on bone metabolism, the effect of cadmium on alkaline phosphatase activity, a marker enzyme of osteoblasts, was compared with that of other divalent heavy metal ions, i.e., zinc, manganese, lead, copper, nickel and mercury (10 microM each), using cloned osteoblast-like cells, MC3T3-E1.
  • (15) However, two observations suggested that surface epithelial loss alone was not sufficient to trigger the proliferative response to DOC: intracolonic instillation of DOC followed by removal of the DOC solution at 1 h, at which time surface epithelial loss was maximal, did not result in an increase in ornithine decarboxylase activity or [3H]dThd incorporation into DNA when these parameters were assessed at 4 h or 12 to 48 h, respectively; phenidone, an antioxidant and radical scavenger, and bis[(3,5-diisopropyl-salicylato) (O,O) copper(II), a lipophilic agent with superoxide dismutase activity, abolished the DOC mediated proliferative response but did not prevent the early loss of surface cells.
  • (16) Retinal changes should be reversible by short term systemic copper administration.
  • (17) Wilson disease is due to a genetically determined impairment of copper excretion from liver into bile resulting in copper overload of the organism.
  • (18) Arachidonic acid was also increased in plasma and liver phospholipids in low copper rats.
  • (19) These results suggest that HVE cells are more susceptible to concentration-dependent copper cytotoxicity than HAIN-55 cells are, and that copper could induce vascular endothelial injury, which may be involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease.
  • (20) Cadmium and copper content was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry from four tissue types; young blade, old blade, young stipe and old stipe.

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