What's the difference between cusk and ling?

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.

Ling


Definition:

  • (a.) A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.
  • (a.) The burbot of Lake Ontario.
  • (a.) An American hake of the genus Phycis.
  • (a.) A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.
  • (n.) Heather (Calluna vulgaris).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Residues 106-115, which are presumed to bind to the bFGF receptor [Baird, A., Schubert, D., Ling, N. & Guillemin, R. (1988) Proc.
  • (2) Combined therapy influences favorably the prognosis of small cell cancer of the ling, expecially in those patients with limited disease and favorable performance status.
  • (3) The authors' traditional Chinese herbal prescription, Qiang Zhuang Ling, was used to treat childhood anorexia with Spleen deficiency.
  • (4) Speaking the day after the return of Laura Ling and Euna Lee from Pyongyang with the former president Bill Clinton, Ling's sister said the reporter wanted to explain what had happened more fully in an article.
  • (5) To study conversion of 3,5,3'-triiodothyroinine (T3) and 3,3',5'-triiodothyronine (rT3) to 3,3'-diiodothyronine (T2) in vitro, T3 or rT3 was incubated at pH 7.35 with homogenates of several rat tissues (liver, kidney, muscle, heart, ling, spleen, intestines, and brain) for 15 min at 37 C. The T2 generated during incubation was measured in an ethanol extract of the incubation mixture by a specific RIA of T2; T4, T3, and rT3 cross-reacted in the T2 RIA only to an extent of 0.006, 0.2, and 0.04%, respectively.
  • (6) Relatively high levels of TNF activity were noted in the groups given Angelica radix, Bupleuri radix, Cnidii rhizoma, or Cinnamomum cortex, very low activities in the groups given Xiao-chai-hu-tang, Zhu-ling-tang, or Krestin, and no TNF activities in the groups given Polyporus or Hoelen.
  • (7) Northern blot hybridization revealed that pc LINGS encodes the nodule-specific subunit of the GS while pcLIGS1 represents the nonspecific one present in nodule tissue as well as in uninfected roots.
  • (8) At least five linked genes are amplified in the multidrug-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cell line CHRC5, selected with colchicine (A. M. Van der Bliek, T. Van der Velde-Koerts, V. Ling, and P. Borst, Mol.
  • (9) Endothelial cell growth factor activity purified from bovine kidney by heparin-Sepharose affinity chromatography was previously identified as basic fibroblast growth factor [Baird, A., Esch, F., Böhlen, P., Ling, N., & Gospodarowicz, D. (1985) Regul.
  • (10) In order to regulate proportion and function to immune cell, the 30 patients were given to take immuno-modulating herbs (xin shen ling, XSL) during 6 weeks, while their 7 immunological markers were detected before treatment (BT) and after treatment (AT).
  • (11) We also believe, based on our interactions, that [the PM and his wife] harbour political ambitions for their son, Li Hongyi.” The comments by Lee Wei Ling, a neurosurgeon, and Lee Hsien Yang also took aim at the first lady, chief executive of the state investor Temasek.
  • (12) A polyomavirus middle T-antigen (MTAg) mutant containing a substitution of Leu for Pro at amino acid 248 has previously been described as completely transformation defective (B. J. Druker, L. Ling, B. Cohen, T. M. Roberts, and B. S. Schaffhausen, J. Virol.
  • (13) Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Shen Ling, 29, a teacher from China, said she and her friends heard the news that the shutdown was over in Chicago airport, just as they were about to board their flight.
  • (14) Of all of us, little Hana had the most confidence that she would be seeing her mom soon," Ling said.
  • (15) In 1974, Fitch and Srolowitz reported 4 new cases, and Fraser, Ling, Ologe and Nogrady a further 7 in 1978.
  • (16) This protein was named ling zhi-8 (LZ-8) and its biochemical and immunological properties are described.
  • (17) Stood nearby on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Shen Ling, 29, a teacher from China, said she and her friends heard the news that the shutdown was over in Chicago airport, just as they were about to board their flight.
  • (18) A closed transcutaneous approach to the muscle was made by needle puncture and the Em was measured utilizing standard Ling electrodes.
  • (19) Xiao Long Ling depresses the increase of vascular permeability induced by a variety of inflammatory media such as histamine, 5-HT and PGE.
  • (20) Monocyte culture medium containing 10% of Fu-Ling extract significantly inhibited secretion of TNF-alpha, IL-beta, IL-6 and GM-CSF from the monocyte monolayer.

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