What's the difference between cubed and curbed?

Cubed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cube

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We examined AMT with regard to (1) its papain activity; (2) its ability to digest meat cubes in vitro; and (3) its effect on rabbit esophageal mucosa.
  • (2) There is a developmental sequence of pencil grasp, and useful development scales in copying cube models, drawing geometric shapes, and the draw-a-man test.
  • (3) First, the parameters of the two angiographic projections are determined in form of two 4 x 3 matrices from a pair of cineframes showing a 4 cm cube bearing markers.
  • (4) One format is that of multiplanar reconstruction of the eye and orbit, including an "oblique CT cube" image.
  • (5) If you squat in the corner of a big cube ( a cubical room, say), you can see at least a floor, a ceiling and three walls.
  • (6) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
  • (7) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
  • (8) I live close to the Bird’s Nest stadium and the Water Cube and see many people visiting both venues every day,” he said.
  • (9) A cube with side length 6.5 mm or a cylindrical specimen with 7.5 mm diameter and 6.5 mm length are suggested as standard specimens for comparative studies on trabecular bone mechanics.
  • (10) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
  • (11) The EMI values were correlated with physical density, electron density, and atomic number cubed (Z3).
  • (12) It had a “flat, nasty” ring to it, she says, which she has since “analysed like a Rubik’s cube; I have turned it every which way.
  • (13) By comparison of the scattering curves with triaxial geometric bodies which are equivalent in scattering, the tetrameric enzyme is described as a rectangular prism, with overall dimensions of A = 131.0 A, B = 131.0 A, and C = 65.0 A, and the octameric form as that of a cube with A = B = C = 120.0 A.
  • (14) When the man with the Rubik's Cube arrived, it was Edward Snowden."
  • (15) Children between the ages of 6 and 14 years were asked to draw an L-shaped array of three cubes from one of three views: frontal eye level, frontal looking down, and corner looking down.
  • (16) Pour the chopped tomatoes over the peaches and onions, add chopped coriander, cumin and a finely crumbled stock cube and stir in.
  • (17) The contribution of the decreased weight to the decrease in absolute AGD was examined by a variety of methods (ratio of AGD to cube root of weight or biparietal distance, comparison to weight-matched controls, and covariance analysis).
  • (18) College students and community-dwelling adults studied and later reconstructed a three-dimensional arrangement of common or abstract objects located in a compartmentalized cube so that relocation errors could be independently measured within the horizontal, vertical, and depth dimensions.
  • (19) Regional cerebral blood flow was measured in 19 subjects during the performance of three tasks thought to primarily involve right hemisphere processing: judgement of line orientation, mental rotation of three-dimensional cube arrays, and a fragment puzzle task.
  • (20) We studied gastric emptying of three differently shaped particles, (cubes, spheres, rods) of either hard or soft consistency during the fasting state in human volunteers.

Curbed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Curb

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Preemployment screening methods have been ineffective in predicting those at risk, and in curbing the impact of back problems in industry.
  • (2) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
  • (3) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
  • (4) If all households curbed their expenditures, total consumption would fall, and so, too, would demand for labour.
  • (5) But Frank argues the disastrous attempt at curbing markets through currency reform in 2009 has shown the cost of turning back from change.
  • (6) Most of the world's leading economies have set out pledges to curb their emissions, but these pledges fall far short of the action the IPCC has said is needed.
  • (7) Iran has vowed to retaliate against the ISA extension, passed unanimously on Thursday, saying it violated last year’s agreement with six major powers to curb its nuclear programme in return for lifting of international financial sanctions.
  • (8) The two men appear to be discussing Tusk's fallout with Cameron over the latter's proposals to curb access to benefits: "What the fuck are they on about with these benefits?"
  • (9) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
  • (10) Even before the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had put climate change on the international political map with a landmark speech in 1988, the company was doing ground-breaking work into photovoltaic solar panels, wave power and domestic energy efficiency as part of a wider drive to understand how greenhouse gas emissions could be curbed.
  • (11) More than 30 state and city legislatures, from Hawaii to New York, have discussed or proposed curbs on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) ranging from bans in schools to cuts in portion sizes and a sales tax.
  • (12) Also in the Lords amongst the phalanx of red leather benches is a solitary seat curbed by an armrest provided for a perpetually drunken Lord (hence the saying?)
  • (13) Curb them, now | Owen Jones Read more The inquiry followed findings by the education charity the Sutton Trust in 2016, which showed that the UK’s most high-profile jobs – from the entertainment industry to politics and journalism – were disproportionately populated by alumni of private schools and Oxbridge .
  • (14) He said the use of “overwhelming force” he witnessed was counterproductive and at odds with a new approach to policing football fans that had largely succeeded in curbing violence.
  • (15) The factors responsible for curbing the infection have not yet been specifically defined.
  • (16) An equimolar mixture of D-glucose and 3-OMG (5.55 mM each) was more effective than 11.1 mM D-glucose or 3-OMG alone in curbing hexose transport or reversing hexose starvation induced increases in transport.
  • (17) In Brusselson Tuesday, there was talk of imposing restrictions on capital movements from Russia and of curbs on exports of defence and energy technology.
  • (18) Opponents of action to curb climate change have cited the pause as a reason to reject urgent cuts in carbon emissions.
  • (19) A system of identity checks for all, including British citizens, would have to be introduced to enforce the government's moves to curb access for illegal migrants to privately rented housing and to tackle alleged health tourists, leading immigration lawyers have told the home secretary.
  • (20) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.

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