What's the difference between corb and cork?

Corb


Definition:

  • (n.) A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf.
  • (n.) An ornament in a building; a corbel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ramblin' Jack, Corb has explained, did not acquire his nickname because of a penchant for long walks: in nearly an hour onstage, he gets around to three songs, including Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.
  • (2) Corb especially recommends two of the Gathering's elder statesmen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Ian Tyson.
  • (3) The corA locus is contransducible with ilv at 75 min, corB is cotransducible with pyrB at 85 min, and mgt is cotransducible with malB and mel at 81 min on the genetic map.
  • (4) Excision of osteoid osteoma nidus utilizing a Kirschner wire for preoperative marking of the lesion and a CORB biopsy set for excision is described.
  • (5) Using transposon mutagenesis, three additional Co2+ resistance loci (corB, corC, and corD) were found and mapped to 55, 15, and 3min, respectively, on the S. typhimurium chromosome.
  • (6) System I, for which Co2+, Mn2+, and Mg2+ are substrates, is inactive in corA mutants corB mutants express system I after growth on high (10 mM) Mg2+ but not low (0.1 mM) Mg2+.
  • (7) Corb suggests that I arrive a couple of days early so he can teach me how to play cards.
  • (8) No mutations corresponding to the reported corB locus at 95 min in Escherichia coli were obtained.
  • (9) Corb and his band, the Hurtin' Albertans, have played Elko before, and seem to be regarded as part of the family.
  • (10) (We bonded over a shared nerdish interest in history – Corb's last album but one, Horse Soldier!
  • (11) However, while efflux of 28Mg2+ through the CorA system was decreased threefold in strains carrying one or two mutant alleles among corB, corC, or corD, efflux was completely abolished in either a corA or a corBCD strain.
  • (12) Both corA and corB mutants are resistant to Co2+ or Mn2+.
  • (13) I'm attending at the suggestion of one of the Gathering's artists, Canadian country star Corb Lund , whom I met a few years ago in London when my own modest country combination, The Blazing Zoos, opened for him.
  • (14) A second class designated corB mapped at 98 min near pyrB.
  • (15) And Corb enjoys playing to crowds which, while smaller than the ones he can draw in Canadian cities, know the life he's singing about.
  • (16) CT-directed CORB appears to be useful in localization and removal of the nidus of an osteoid osteoma.
  • (17) The corB, corC, and corD mutations confer levels of Co2+ resistance intermediate between those of the wild-type and corA mutations.
  • (18) At the end of this process, I will be forced to conclude that either Corb is a lousy teacher or I'm a terrible student.
  • (19) The data on role perceptions were compared with data previously reported by Fincher Corb et al that had been collected on these same subjects when they entered the physical therapy education program and when they completed the program.
  • (20) This study demonstrates that the nidus of an osteoid osteoma can be disrupted and removed by use of the CORB biopsy system guided by computed tomography (CT) scan.

Cork


Definition:

  • (n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
  • (n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
  • (n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
  • (v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So, for example, Cork City's first-leg victory over Apollon Limassol in the first qualifying round of this season's Champions League means one point will be added to the League of Ireland's coefficient next season - but not to Cork's.
  • (2) The tendon is threaded through a hole in the distal phalanx from the dorsal to the palmar side and impacted like a cork to create an immediate strong fixation.
  • (3) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (4) There has been some patching up to do in midfield in recent weeks and that is going to continue for some time, as Morgan Schneiderlin will miss the match against United and Jack Cork, his usual deputy, is out for up to two months.
  • (5) "I think I heard the putt-putt of champagne corks popping in No 11," one Tory said.
  • (6) Apple’s Irish offices are based near Knocknaheeny, an impoverished northern suburb of Cork.
  • (7) This built-in element consists of a drummed (milled) cap reinforced with cast resin, and a cork bedding.
  • (8) So basically, if UK votes to leave, either Northern Ireland joins with Ireland or I’ll have to leave Northern Ireland and move to Dublin, or Cork, or Edinburgh.
  • (9) A cross-sectional study on suberosis was conducted to determine the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and the level of pulmonary function, and their relationships within job categories of exposure to cork dust, toluene diisocyanate (TDI) resin bonding and conidia, among cork workers.
  • (10) Measurements were made in phantoms containing aluminum or cork inhomogeneities.
  • (11) Various aspects relating to the accuracy of density scaling for air and cork slab inhomogeneities are discussed.
  • (12) By taking art out of the gallery and sticking it up, unannounced, in the street, he fostered the idea that he was returning art to the people, a graphic Robin Hood set against the feudal grip of Mayfair's Cork Street.
  • (13) The cork layer of the potato peel prevents dehydration of the wound and protects against exogenous agents.
  • (14) Some say it's best to bang them against a stone wall or step, others that they should be brined, and others still advocate popping a wine cork into the cooking pot.
  • (15) Later, during the early 1930s, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools, but soon began to spend more time in the galleries in and around Cork Street, only a stone's throw away from academia, and the pre-war powerhouse of the modern spirit.
  • (16) We have preferably employed the so called "inverted graft", while Regnauld, in his recent monography, defines it less satisfactory than the "cork" or "hat" shaped grafts.
  • (17) Photograph: PR We followed her advice, walking down to the stream in search of terrapins and otters, or through clusters of cork oak trees, their branches hairy with lichen like the ancient trees of a fairytale forest.
  • (18) Last weekend, 82,000 people wearing the red and white of Cork or the yellow and blue of Clare watched their heroes play out what many regard as the greatest All-Ireland hurling final.
  • (19) Sandbech, McMorris and Winter X Games champion Max Parrot were among those who threw the much-ballyhooed triple cork, which is three head-over-heels flips considered way more dangerous and athletic and presumed to be the must-have trick to win the first Olympic gold in this sport’s history.
  • (20) The gifted Cork hurler confessed he had “slept better before AI final (All-Ireland)“ than he had on Thursday night.