What's the difference between crabbing and scour?

Crabbing


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.
  • (n.) The fighting of hawks with each other.
  • (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
  • (2) King crabs (Family Lithodidae) are among the world's largest arthropods, having a crab-like morphology and a strongly calcified exoskeleton.
  • (3) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
  • (4) In a second series, crabs were repeatedly exposed during training to a light pulse (CS) immediately followed by shock (UCS), and after a 6-h rest interval, tested with either CS-UCS or UCS.
  • (5) No blood group polymorphism was revealed by testing bonnet macaque red cells with isoantisera produced in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) and in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis).
  • (6) These findings provide ultrastructural correlates of the electrophysiological changes produced by glycerol treatment of the closer muscle of the ghost crab (Papir, 1973), namely, interference with excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling.
  • (7) A clottable protein, named coagulogen, was highly purified from the amoebocyte lysate of Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) by a method similar to that used for the lysate of Limulus polyphemus amoebocytes.
  • (8) The carbon dioxide solubility coefficient, alphaCO2, and the apparent carbonic acid dissociation constants, K'1 and K'2 were estimated in the serum of the crab Carcinus maenas at various temperatures and ionic strengths.
  • (9) Two forms of cytochrome P-450 (P-450MC1 and P-450MC2) were purified from liver microsomes of crab-eating monkeys (Macaca irus) treated with 3-methylcholanthrene (MC).
  • (10) Electrical activity recorded intracellularly from peptidergic neurosecretory terminal dilatations in the sinus gland of crabs (principally Cardisoma guanhumi and C. carnifex) is described.
  • (11) Isolated muscle fibers from the motor legs of the crab Trichodactilus dilocarcinus were submitted to strong hyperpolarizing currents of varied intensities which produced tension during the current pulse.
  • (12) The amino acid sequence of troponin C obtained from horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, striated muscle was determined by sequence analysis and alignments of chemically and enzymatically cleaved peptides.
  • (13) C.subimmaculatus was closely associated with a particular substrate and the presence of burrowing crabs.
  • (14) Our studies in crab-eating macaques indicate that presence in a mother's serum of potent antibodies reactive for red cells for her fetus will not necessarily cause erythroblastosis; in one case the maternal antibodies did not penetrate the placental barrier, and in two cases although the fetal red cells were maximally antibody-coated, they remained undamaged and the disease failed to develop.
  • (15) A 40-day adaptation of crabs to the freshened sea water results in an increase of maximal activity of Na,K-ATPase, but does not affect the enzyme affinity for ATP, Na+, K+, Mg2+ and ouabain, as well as its cooperative properties.
  • (16) When crab meat was ingested, none of these four arsenic species were observed at elevated levels until the urine was heated in 2N NaOH.
  • (17) Clots were allowed to form in samples of whole blood taken from the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in the absence and presence of dansylcadaverine (16), and were analyzed for their contents of N epsilon(gamma-glutamyl)lysine and gamma-glutamyl-dansylcadaverine.
  • (18) The experiments were performed on in vitro X-organ sinus gland neurosecretory systems from the eyestalk of the crab Cardisoma carnifex.
  • (19) On the upper reaches of the Cross River from the region around Mamfe and extending as far as the Nigerian fronter at Ekok, the crabs were infected exclusively with P. uterobilateralis.
  • (20) When the crabs Cancer antennarius and Petrolisthes cinctipes were in seawater (SW), amiloride (10(-4) M) reduced NH3 efflux by approximately 33 and 60%.

Scour


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.
  • (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse.
  • (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away.
  • (v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast.
  • (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing.
  • (v. i.) To cleanse anything.
  • (v. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
  • (v. i.) To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper.
  • (n.) Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said the ongoing Australian-led search had already scoured 43% of the high-priority area.
  • (2) The new development, which the Californian technology giant dubs "real-time search", aims to bring users more up-to-date information as they scour the web for information.
  • (3) Three cases of dairy herds affected by production disease (infertility, calf scours and low milk yield) were carried out.
  • (4) Chances are both online and instore is a worth scouring if girls are looking for cut-price designer dresses.
  • (5) This study was initiated to determine the etiologic and pathogenic significance of an American strain of bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) virus (strain NADL-MD) in enteritis of neonatal calves (calf scours).
  • (6) Oocysts of Cryptosporidium species were identified in the faeces of scouring calves from a dairy farm.
  • (7) Investigators grappling to solve the mystery of the jet's disappearance are set to scour a zone 1,100 miles (1,800km) west of Perth – previously subject to an aerial search – when an underwater probe resumes in August, the West Australian newspaper said.
  • (8) Scour scores on d 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14 post-arrival increased (P less than .01) with increased levels of protein in the receiving diets.
  • (9) For all these reasons I had serious doubts when I heard that Michelin was scouring Tokyo for worthy recipients of its stars.
  • (10) School authorities are calling for at least 25,000 new teaching recruits to cope with the large numbers of new pupils, police officers are being brought out of retirement in their thousands, and the nation is being scoured for suitable accommodation as winter approaches.
  • (11) Every Monday morning, Dan Franklin scours the book charts on Amazon to find out if the weekend reviews of his authors' books have done anything for their sales.
  • (12) The military said forces were scouring the area near the Palestinian village of Beit Furik after the attack on Thursday night.
  • (13) There were no significant differences between calves from placebo-treated and vaccine-treated dams with regard to the proportion treated for all diseases, or for scours, or the proportion which died.
  • (14) No one who relies on a service should be expected to scour the CQC website for inspection results, or chance upon them in a local newspaper report.
  • (15) Their dams slow rivers down, reducing scouring and erosion, and improve water quality by holding back silt.
  • (16) Make a list of possible courses by scouring prospectuses and speaking to teachers, students and lecturers.
  • (17) Markets will be scouring a speech on Friday by Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, for any hints.
  • (18) This country, like a depressed teenage self-harmer, takes out a razor to scour a forearm and now contemplates its own throat,” said the author.
  • (19) And I had all kinds of pictures of Dylan on laps and with arms around him.” There was, she says, “an assumption that he was mistreated, or not loved”, one that Klebold knew not to be true, even as she scoured photos looking for external verification.
  • (20) Broadcasters are scouring the world of internet video bloggers – vloggers – in the hope of finding the next big thing, and Dapper (real name Daniel O’Reilly) was touted as one of the first to be given his own TV series .

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