What's the difference between dairy and wick?

Dairy


Definition:

  • (n.) The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
  • (n.) That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.
  • (n.) A dairy farm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
  • (2) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
  • (3) Dairy pipeline cleaners were the single most common causative substance, injuring ten toddlers (mean age 1.6 years), perforating the esophagus in two.
  • (4) It is concluded that BEC is the major infectious cause of neonatal calf diarrhoea in the Ethiopian dairy herds studied with RV and K99 ETEC also contributing to morbidity, either alone or as mixed infections.
  • (5) Buxtonella sulcata cysts were recovered from the faeces of adult cows on nine commercial dairy farms.
  • (6) Length, size, and interval between eating bouts were determined for four forages with two lactating dairy cows.
  • (7) Two experiments involving 3- to 5-d-old dairy calves were carried out.
  • (8) Immunoglobulin G1 concentration was measured in 919 first milking colostrums from Holstein cows during a 4-yr period on a commercial dairy farm.
  • (9) beta hydroxybutyrate (BHB) serum concentrations were measured at regular intervals throughout a lactation in groups of animals from three commercial dairy herds.
  • (10) Measurement of free cortisol in milk should allow the monitoring of changes in plasma free cortisol in studies of stress in dairy cows.
  • (11) Three cases of dairy herds affected by production disease (infertility, calf scours and low milk yield) were carried out.
  • (12) 149 Micrococcaceae strains (35 reference strains and 114 strains isolated from meat and dairy products) have been studied using 61 biochemical microtests.
  • (13) No effect of age and efficiency of dairy cows, nor of the year season on the occurrence of this disease was observed.
  • (14) In addition, fluoride profiles in the plasma of four beagle dogs after the intake of fluoride as NaF, MgF2 and CaF2 with and without addition of milk and dairy products were established.
  • (15) A survey of gastrointestinal nematodes in Georgia cattle was conducted from 1968 through 1973 from actual worm counts from viscera of 145 slaughtered beef cattle or from egg counts made from fecal samples from 3,273 beef and 100 dairy cattle.
  • (16) Ninety four dairy farmers were investigated by chest radiography, pulmonary function tests, and bronchoalveolar lavage.
  • (17) Since 2002, more than half of Britain’s dairy farmers have gone out of business , defeated by rock-bottom prices and rising costs.
  • (18) Farmers were paid an average 23.66p per litre for milk in June, down 10% since January and 25% lower than a year ago, according to AHDB Dairy , the British dairy organisation.
  • (19) A total of 262 strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from the mammary gland of dairy cows were examined for the production of alpha-hemolysin.
  • (20) When you’ve got an economy shot, as it is in Tasmania, that was seen as a reasonable endeavour by the federal government to assist in enhancing the tourism effort in our state together with helping the dairy industry and creating another 200 factory jobs.” Then opposition leader Tony Abbott announced before the election that the Coalition would provide $16m towards a $66m upgrade of the Cadbury Chocolate factory in Hobart “to boost innovation, support growth in local manufacturing jobs and expand tourism”.

Wick


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Wich
  • (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned.
  • (v. i.) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I had a not altogether satisfactory talk with Mark this morning" begins a typical confidential memo from Nigel Wicks, Mrs Thatcher's principal private secretary, to the British ambassador in Washington.
  • (2) It’s a wicked thing to do.” Thomson said the federal government had not notified him about approaching boats since 2009.
  • (3) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (4) Fluid pressure changes and digital load measurements were simultaneously detected and recorded by use of, respectively, modified wick-in-needle and force plate transducers coupled to a microcomputer.
  • (5) In cats, brain tissue pressure (BTP) was measured by the wick-catheter method.
  • (6) The lack of knowledge about proper feeding and the use of bottles, fingers, and cotton wicks, which contribute to infection, diarrhea, and malnutrition, indicates a need for better health education.
  • (7) The light stimuli are provided by a Ganzfeld stimulator and the potentials are recorded with a disposable corneal wick electrode.
  • (8) IFP was measured in squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck region in humans using the wick-in-needle technique.
  • (9) Our results on Ap4A are in contrast with those reported previously (C. Weinmann-Dorsch, G. Pierron, R. Wick, H. Sauer, and F. Grummt, Exp.
  • (10) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
  • (11) titration with wicks pre-loaded with serial dilutions of rat plasma implanted post mortem for 15-20 min.
  • (12) Dance, perform, party in Hackney Wick One of my favourite venues in London is The Yard Theatre.
  • (13) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
  • (14) The wick catheter technique was developed in 1968 for measurement of subcutaneous pressure and has been modified for easy intramuscular insertion and continuous recording of interstitial fluid pressure in animals and humans.
  • (15) The corneal wick electrode is employed for bright flash electroretinogram (ERG) recordings and for research measurements of the early receptor potential.
  • (16) In the longer term, there is a risk that local government will be seen as being wicked or incompetent as it struggles to meet George Osborne's new spending figures.
  • (17) His next book was The Great Crash 1929 (1955), a wickedly entertaining account of what happened on Wall Street in that year.
  • (18) The mistake in most international crises is to over-personalise the issue by making a pariah of the wicked man and his corrupt family at the top and thinking that, once they go, all problems will easily be solved.
  • (19) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
  • (20) Tissue pressures were recorded using saline-filled cotton-wool wicks.