What's the difference between cot and cradle?

Cot


Definition:

  • (n.) A small house; a cottage or hut.
  • (n.) A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.
  • (n.) A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.
  • (n.) A small, rudely-formed boat.
  • (n.) A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (2) Of these, only the blood-cotting proteins and the vertebrate plasma samples were shown to contain gamma-carboxyglutamic acid.
  • (3) Transcripts from the chromatin templates when hybridized to DNA showed a larger proportion of RNase resistance of the 32P-termini at low Cot's.
  • (4) To date, a disproportionate amount of effort may have been spent on deciphering putative intracellular regulatory mechanisms, without knowing some essential fundamental properties of the Na+-Pi-COT.
  • (5) The body of one of the men was reportedly found charred and lying on a cot.
  • (6) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
  • (7) In total preparations of DNA-24 and DNA-36 at cot 0.02-0.06, the number of fast reassociating sequences was increased, on the average, by 4%.
  • (8) The BBC will cut short a controversial cot death story in EastEnders that looks set to become the long-running soap's most complained-about plotline to date.
  • (9) Boutik Services (+33 6 0958 0988) in 1850 has cots, booster seats, changing tables, buggies and child skis for hire.
  • (10) cot-1 is a temperature sensitive mutant of N.crassa that exhibits restricted colonial growth.
  • (11) Kinetics of DNA reassociation was studied by direct optical scanning and the data obout Cot curve were analized by an improved computer programm "Finger".
  • (12) The cot-2 strains produce an invertase with altered heat sensitivity, Km, and ratio of heavy to light forms.
  • (13) Treatment-induced increases in serum Ca2+ had no effect on the reduced RBC CoT function in HYPO.
  • (14) As the babies were refused admission to the regional perinatal centre because intensive care cots were not available this deficiency should be corrected.
  • (15) Several complementary DNAs for the peroxisomal enzyme carnitine octanoyltransferase (COT), cloned in the expression vector lambda gt11, have been isolated.
  • (16) Other BBC controversies of late included a cot death baby swap story on BBC1's EastEnders which led to 13,400 complaints to the BBC and another 1,044 to Ofcom in early 2011.
  • (17) The cot death story triggered 13,400 complaints to the BBC and another 1,044 to the regulator itself.
  • (18) New Zealand's high mortality rate from the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) prompted the development of the New Zealand cot death study.
  • (19) Previously, the six-year-old had been sleeping on a mattress from her sister's cot that was too short; the other child had been sleeping in a travel cot.
  • (20) 50 min after each subject had consumed an amount of water equal to 1% of his body weight, he reclined on a cot.

Cradle


Definition:

  • (n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.
  • (n.) Infancy, or very early life.
  • (n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
  • (n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
  • (n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
  • (n.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
  • (n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
  • (n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.
  • (n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
  • (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
  • (n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
  • (v. t.) To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
  • (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.
  • (v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
  • (v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
  • (v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (2) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
  • (3) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
  • (4) Whereas a film documentary might piece together the sweatshop story through footage and anecdote, the game allows players to experience the system from the inside with all its cat's cradle of pressures and temptations.
  • (5) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
  • (6) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
  • (7) But Ward also wants us all to ask some broader, deeper questions about our whole "cradle-to-grave" waste economy.
  • (8) Pioneer of the ‘cradle to cradle’ concept , McDonough argues that peace is not possible when market activity and “war-like” competition are so closely entwined.
  • (9) Despite growth outdoing the eurozone since the financial crisis, a housing boom and falling taxes, Löfven hopes to capitalise on voters seeking a return to Sweden's older image of cradle-to-grave welfare and job security.
  • (10) Protected from the cradle, they are now getting closer to their graves having managed to store up wealth.
  • (11) The Labour leader visited Essex, regarded as the political cradle of Thatcherism, on Tuesday before a trip to the county by David Cameron and the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, billed as an attempt to relaunch the government after difficult local elections.
  • (12) The authors emphasize the importance of detecting the newborns at audiological risk and screening the neonates in order to get an early diagnosis and treatment of the affection, at least within the first year of life, to avoid or reduce the consequences of hearing loss; then they describe the procedure commonly in use at present for neonatal hearing screening and a number of available different diagnostic tools (electrodermal audiometry, heart rate audiometry--with the possibility of autoregressive analysis--respiration audiometry, autoregressive analysis of EEG, acoustic impedance measurements with study of the acoustic reflex, auditory response cradle which is also named CRIB-O-GRAM).
  • (13) But it would be a surprise if they did not consider whether there has been too cosy a cat’s cradle between Salazar, Nike, Farah and those at the top of UK Athletics.
  • (14) DreamWorks production designer Raymond Zibach was in Chengdu, the cradle of the panda in Sichuan province in south-west China, to promote his film last week.
  • (15) The stuff of sci-fi If you think this sounds a bit like science fiction, you might be recalling the Kurt Vonnegut story, Cat’s Cradle .
  • (16) Subsequently he has tended to let his audiences find their own cat's cradle of reference points in his work.
  • (17) Using Smithers Medical Alpha Cradle Kits (AC 325) we have been able to achieve individual casts for our physically challenging patients.
  • (18) It had the effect of atomising the previously vibrant urban society into a world of isolated cells, each citizen’s loyalties tied to their danwei , which managed every aspect of their lives, from cradle to grave, issuing permits for marriage, divorce and even childbirth.
  • (19) A revolution in medical research in Britain is to give academics and the life sciences industry unparalleled access to the cradle-to-grave health records of about 52 million people in England.
  • (20) When we were finally taken to Dara'a, the southern city that had been the cradle of this insurrection, we travelled in the presence of four government minders and, when we attempted to talk to anyone, we found ourselves surrounded by Mukhabarat who instructed our interviewees to tell us everything was normal.

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