What's the difference between cusk and husk?

Cusk


Definition:

  • (n.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between these worlds, Cusk has crafted a work of beauty and wisdom.
  • (2) This is my story, Cusk says, allowing no other voices that might further illuminate.
  • (3) CD: I don't think Rachel Cusk's book is particularly confessional.
  • (4) It is difficult to see where Cusk's discontent comes from when, on the face of it, she has had the cushiest of lives.
  • (5) Cusk writes: "My husband believed that I had treated him monstrously.
  • (6) Ihave never actually handled a highly strung racehorse, but that is what interviewing Rachel Cusk brings to mind.
  • (7) Cusk makes you think differently and look differently, even if you don't agree with what she's saying.
  • (8) It's only slowly, and in recent years, that the voice of the mother has come out – the odd middlebrow novel of the kind Virago and Persephone rescue ( EM Delafield or Dorothy Whipple ) and more recently Margaret Drabble , Julie Myerson , Rachel Cusk .
  • (9) Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, by Rachel Cusk , is published on 1 March by Faber and Faber.
  • (10) "Cusk anatomises motherhood as Montaigne anatomised friendship or Robert Burton anatomised melancholy ...
  • (11) And Rachel Cusk's "Aftermath", a tantalising excerpt from her divorce memoir, which comes out next year.
  • (12) Rachel Cusk may have written "childbirth and motherhood are the anvil upon which sexual inequality was forged" but using personal experience is still controversial.
  • (13) They say "What shines in Rachel Cusk's writing is the precision of her observation... she can pinpoint something profound with the merest detail."
  • (14) He still had literary supporters, with DJ Taylor, Rachel Cusk and Anne Tyler all writing admiringly of his novels, but Read had become a more marginal artistic figure, and two years ago, after completing a new novel, the thrillerish The Death of a Pope , both his publisher and agent were concerned it was too Catholic and would not appeal to a wider readership.
  • (15) Few figures in contemporary British literature divide people like Rachel Cusk.
  • (16) • The Bradhsaw Variations by Rachel Cusk is published by Faber on 3 September at £15.99 and is available from the Observer bookshop .
  • (17) Rachel Cusk's Aftermath might help me, guide me, support me during times of marriage breakdown.
  • (18) However, Rachel Cusk is not one for counting her blessings.
  • (19) Whether she imputes that view to the solicitor or not, Cusk still wants it both ways: we're asked to imagine her ex as such a magnificent lawyer that he managed to make her feel as though she were conscripting him, when all along, they were working to his long-game.
  • (20) Cusk gazes at herself unblinkingly, and judges harshly what she sees.

Husk


Definition:

  • (n.) The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
  • (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
  • (v. t.) To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study dosages of psyllium seed husk or lignin acceptable to patients with gallstones do not appear to alter the relative amounts of cholesterol, or individual bile acids in the bile.
  • (2) Rats fed cellulose tended to have greater fecal bulk and lower beta-glucuronidase activity compared with rats fed no fiber and lower 7-alpha-dehydroxylase activity compared with rats fed psyllium husk.
  • (3) To determine the optimum dose of ispaghula husk in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and to assess the correlation, if any between the relief in patients' symptoms and the whole gut transit time, and the increase in stool weight, a two part study was carried out.
  • (4) In this paper the qualitative analysis of tars formed during pyrolysis of rice husks is presented, based on identification by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and interpolation of retention times on a polyaromatic hydrocarbon index scale.
  • (5) was compared with that to meals equivalent to these foods in terms of carbohydrate, protein, fat and fibre content, but made up of maize flour, casein, maize oil and ispaghula husk.
  • (6) The compost piles consisted of ground corn husks, straw, and race horse manure.
  • (7) A double-blind controlled therapeutic trial of factorial design was used to study the therapeutic effects of lorazepam, hyoscine butylbromide, and ispaghula husk in 12 randomised blocks of eight patients with the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
  • (8) The home remedies tried by mothers were, isabgol husk with curd (30.55%), ghee with tea (28.70%) water boiled with mint leaves (25.92%), local ghutti (22.22%) and unripe mango juice (16.66%).
  • (9) But if Europe allows the ETS to hollow into a husk that is unable to meaningfully reduce emissions, it will rightly spur calls for more radical action against the international aviation industry.
  • (10) Feeding animals large quantities of dry hydrophilic fiber sources, such as psyllium husk or guar gum, may lead to intestinal obstruction or to other mechanical effects unrelated to the normal function of these materials in human diets.
  • (11) Fasting blood sugar was measured at the beginning and end of a 4-wk dietary period during which weanling rats were fed either a fibre-free diet, or a similar diet containing cellulose or ispaghula husk.
  • (12) Ten patients completed part 2 of the study in which ispaghula husk was given in the same dose (10 g, 20 g, and 30 g) but in a random order and with a "washout" period of one week between individual doses.
  • (13) No mycotoxins were detected in olive-oil destined for human consumption (6 samples) or olive-husks (3 samples) collected from oil-mills after the first pressing of olives.
  • (14) In separate experiments, the immune status of six matched pairs of yearling heifers from a field trial in which both parasitic gastroenteritis and husk had occurred in control animals, was tested with a single massive challenge of either Dictyocaulus viviparus or Ostertagia ostertagi.
  • (15) After adding the 'Husk of Isabgol' and 'aloe vera' (an indigenous plant known as ghee-guar-ka-paththa) to the diet, a marked reduction in total serum cholesterol, serum triglycerides, fasting and post prandial blood sugar level in diabetic patients, total lipids and also increase in HDL were noted.
  • (16) The biological value of combined meat products containing protein concentrates from seeds and husks of grape, soybean protein concentrate, protein compound from meat-bone residue, was investigated, when meat was substituted for each of the above proteins by 0,3.125, 6.25, 12.5,25,50 and 100%.
  • (17) Problems discussed include: uniformity, fissuring sequence, stress and plastic flow, diffusion mechanisms, temperature and other environmental factors, kernel vs. husk, controlled drying rate, chemical changes, dryer design, timing of harvest, trade-offs, reliability of data, and experimental design or approach.
  • (18) After the nesting material, oat husk, was changed in two of 10 communal nests the hens did not accept those two nests for the trial period of two weeks and laid elsewhere.
  • (19) The centre has collapsed: after acceding to Mrs Merkel's terms, Mr Papandreou's Pasok has gone from being a reliable centre-left party of government to a husk of its former self.
  • (20) No significant difference in the occurrence of clinical husk was observed between calves vaccinated against lung-worm disease and calves not vaccinated against the disease.