What's the difference between crud and crux?

Crud


Definition:

  • (n.) See Curd.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A substoichiometric extraction method with nitroso-R salt (NRS) has been studied for the determination of trace Co in crud.
  • (2) You could water window boxes with dish-slop, though, and that was another tip: take a shower by standing under Selfridges' petunias, which were given a pretty upmarket daily dousing in water largely free from bits of crud and washing-up-liquid slick.
  • (3) The results applied for the determination of trace Co in crud are described.
  • (4) This paper adds TLC identification of binglang and other three cruds drugs to the quality control of kakxiong shunqi pills incorporated in Chinese Pharmacopoeia.
  • (5) Up from the smooth ridges at his base, his pectorals form those sticky clumps that are bound in crud, fitting together so magically, a shitty Pangaea before the fecal tectonic split.
  • (6) For sensitive bioassay of cartilage development in response to bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), the supernatant of interstitial fluid containing crud BMP was obtained from an implanted diffusion chamber, applied to a cellulose acetate film, and stained with Alcian blue.

Crux


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although the most common pattern is for the right coronary artery to bifurcate at the crux giving the posterior descending (posterior interventricular) artery, a branch may arise before the crux, either as an aberrant acute marginal artery or as an early posterior descending artery, crossing the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle.
  • (2) Kafala sponsorship system At the crux of the debate over how Qatar and its Gulf neighbours treat migrant workers, human rights groups have long called for the kafala system that ties workers to their employers to be abolished.
  • (3) The crux of the trisection strategy is to restrict attention to the smallest block of ordered loci among which the new locus can fall and to divide this block into thirds for the next comparison.
  • (4) Bidirectional continuous turbulent Doppler signals were detected in the proximal portions of the dilated right and left coronary arteries, in the distal portions of the fistulas around the crux and in the right atrium.
  • (5) The crux is that the culling proposed by the government is very different to that in the earlier £50m RBCT.
  • (6) But the crux of the rift among Republicans is what to do about the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US.
  • (7) That said, yeah, I think both public and private perception that big powerful game consoles are still somehow the crux or core focus of videogames will go away over the next few years, but even with the Vita TV and iPad Whatever and Steamboxes, I don't see these cannibalising enough of the existing console audience to actually make these things go away.
  • (8) These views provide improved visualization of the proximal branches of the left coronary artery, the region of the crux of the right coronary artery, and the left ventricle in the left anterior oblique projection; structures which in the conventional projections are often superimposed on one another or are foreshortened.
  • (9) The Mistake Creek Massacre, an indigenous painting at the crux of Australia’s culture wars.
  • (10) The septum which separated it from the main chamber was directed to the crux of the heart.
  • (11) I would say take it out, but it forms the crux of the call and is VERY funny.
  • (12) "We've won it," came the crux of Tenenbaum's translation.
  • (13) The crux of Muñoz Marín’s ridiculously illogical argument – one cannot achieve “political freedom” and be “deadset against colonialism” when one is not “demanding independence” or “asking for statehood” – illustrates how the island’s mostly white, male and affluent political class never had a real vision for Puerto Ricans or Puerto Rico , even from the outset of Muñoz Marín’s failed “commonwealth” experiment that he sold his fellow boricuas .
  • (14) In other words, the crux of this tale isn't Toronto city council's softness, it's Toronto voters' wildcard craziness.
  • (15) Cynics may ask: “If it is that simple, why can it not happen all the time?” That for me is the crux of the matter.
  • (16) The mass media campaign was important, but the party says the crux of its strategy was face-to-face meetings, conversation-by-conversation.
  • (17) The crux of the matter is whether the virus recovered from or detected in the cornea is 1) truly latent in cell populations that are nonneuronal; 2) resident in the cornea, replicating at a slow rate; or 3) newly arrived in the cornea following ganglionic reactivation.
  • (18) ", the memo said: "In typical fashion, while the government of Libya's public criticism has comprised pseudo-populist rhetoric against "the forces of Zionism", the crux of the matter is in fact about personal relations and politics."
  • (19) Because estimates of recombination are different in each set of data, the crux of the problem is to present scores that provide a close approximation to the true likelihood away from maximum likelihood (ML).
  • (20) Finally, the distribution of blood vessels within the retina formed a watershed pattern with its crux centered on the ridge of this horizontally oriented high-density zone.