What's the difference between crossbar and stemple?

Crossbar


Definition:

  • (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
  • (2) Saúl gave the ball away to John Guidetti who powered home a 25-metre drive and Correa struck the crossbar at the other end before Hernández got his second with a header from Hugo Mallo’s cross.
  • (3) Five minutes into the second half the Nigerian attacker produced an audacious flick over the head of Borges before sending a pinpoint cross to Smith, only for the veteran striker to head on to the crossbar.
  • (4) He snatches at the ball and shoots it high over the crossbar.
  • (5) The team's response to the goal was to look for the pair with every attack but the closest they came was through Ravel Morrison's 20-yard free-kick in the 23rd minute, which would have crept under the crossbar had Karl Darlow not made a fine save.
  • (6) Javier Mascherano went close to scoring for the European champions in the 26th minute when he headed a Messi centre against the crossbar while Carlos Kameni was in fine form in the Málaga goal.
  • (7) Kane reacted after Christian Eriksen’s 61st minute free-kick had come back off the crossbar and it was one of those efforts that could have gone anywhere.
  • (8) The crossbar attachment that joins the four implant posts of the substructure provides better force distribution and less potential for resorption below the primary struts of the complete mandibular subperiosteal implant.
  • (9) Sánchez barrelled through to extend Weidenfeller with a low drive while Oxlade-Chamberlain, on his 100th appearance for the club, hit a marvellous looping shot from Sánchez’s pass that rattled the crossbar.
  • (10) Not long after the break, and shortly after watching Yannick Bolasie dodge Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa before brushing the crossbar with a shot, Carver introduced Ben Arfa at Luuk De Jong's expense.
  • (11) Carroll headed narrowly over De Gea’s crossbar in the 88th minute before a flurry of later West Ham pressure resulted in a double save by the goalkeeper.
  • (12) His header from Gaël Clichy's cross drew a flying save from Lloris and he had another effort cleared off the line by Rose and then fired a third just over the crossbar.
  • (13) Unfortunately, and I don't know how, the ball went up three metres and flew over the crossbar.
  • (14) The ball was floated the other way, where it caught the underside of the crossbar and dropped over the line.
  • (15) Twenty years on, it was almost a surprise Arsenal did not add more goals, the substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain coming the closest in stoppage time with a shot off the crossbar.
  • (16) All the peptidoglycan 15N peptide resonances observed in the intact cells and isolated cell walls could be accounted for by residues in the bridge or crossbar regions of the peptide chains, which indicated that only the cross-linking groups had a high degree of motional freedom.
  • (17) Roman Eremenko offered a warning with a shot just over Hart’s crossbar.
  • (18) Paul Pogba hit the crossbar with a dipping shot in the first half but never did enough to impose himself and, rightly or wrongly, it is hard not to look at the Frenchman and expect so much more from the world’s most expensive footballer.
  • (19) Danny Welbeck wafted his attempt over the crossbar.
  • (20) The striker killed it on his chest and then crashed a rash hasty shot past Howard and onto the crossbar!

Stemple


Definition:

  • (n.) A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We also sequence the genomes of the fish we are breeding," adds Stemple.
  • (2) "Bioinformatics is the science of the future," says Stemple.
  • (3) "Thanks to the completion of the Human Genome Project 10 years ago, we discovered the structures of all the 20,000 or so genes that make up the human constitution," says Derek Stemple, head of mouse and zebrafish genetics at the Sanger.
  • (4) "So far, we have sequenced the genomes of around 3,000 mutant zebrafish and identified mutations in about half of all protein-coding genes," says Stemple.

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