What's the difference between dog and saucer?

Dog


Definition:

  • (n.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
  • (n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
  • (n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
  • (n.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
  • (n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
  • (n.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
  • (n.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
  • (n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
  • (v. t.) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
  • (2) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (3) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (5) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
  • (6) For similar inotropic responses, normo- and hyperkalaemic dogs had similar levels of (Na+, K+)-ATPase inhibition and microsomal-bound digoxin.
  • (7) Complete heart block was produced in 20 of 20 dogs.
  • (8) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
  • (9) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (10) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
  • (11) From the present results it is concluded that secretion of extrapancreatic glucagon increased in response to arginine infusion in the diabetic state, both alloxan diabetic dogs and one-week post-pancreatectomized dogs.
  • (12) The effect of pO(2) was studied in a further nine dogs.
  • (13) The effects of tachycardia caused by ectopic right or left ventricular stimulation on ventricular recovery potentials were studied in 30 dogs.
  • (14) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
  • (15) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
  • (16) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
  • (17) Liver bloodflow remained unchanged in AS dogs, but hepatic alanine uptake nearly tripled (p less than 0.01) and hepatic glucose production increased by 60% (p less than 0.05).
  • (18) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
  • (19) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
  • (20) Temelastine produces these species-specific changes by enhancing thyroxine clearance from the circulation in the rat, but not in the dog or mouse.

Saucer


Definition:

  • (n.) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.
  • (n.) A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.
  • (n.) Something resembling a saucer in shape.
  • (n.) A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
  • (n.) A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
  • (2) Two different flying saucers can appear on screen – a large one that fires inaccurately, and a smaller one that is much more deadly.
  • (3) And these are not just breadsticks and saucers of olives, but a choice of sizeable, filling mini-meals.
  • (4) The opening lines sounded a bit like a personal manifesto for a new kind of lightness (they were, he later claimed, something of an admonition from Rachel): "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes.
  • (5) The guidelines now being proposed by Mr Abbott mean that basically the only thing the CEFC could invest in is flying saucers, because anything that is any closer to development than that, Mr Abbott has conveniently saying is an established technology.” Shorten said is “personally supportive” of having the CEFC continue beyond 2020.
  • (6) The saucer-like defects of lymphocyte migration that are present in the basal lamina beneath the squamous epithelium of the skin were not observed in rat foregut.
  • (7) Rising 70 metres above the treetops on the edge of Flushing Meadows in New York are a trio of concrete watchtowers, their circular platforms topped with rusting rotor blades, like flying saucers retired from service.
  • (8) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
  • (9) Of these cases, 71.4% were treated by saucerization, followed by secondary closure or by skin grafting.
  • (10) People often proclaim: "I won't believe in ghosts [or flying saucers, angels, etc.]
  • (11) The preferred treatment is repair of the posterior capsular disruption with saucerization of the remaining meniscus.
  • (12) The edges of the defects were usually thickened; in some areas they were saucer-shaped but in two cases there was erosion of the outer table of the skull at a distance from the margin of the defect, the erosion being related to an extracranial fluid-filled cavity in continuity with a porencephalic cyst.
  • (13) It started to produce super-stable, saucer-like short boards designed to make it virtually impossible to catch an edge.
  • (14) Cup by saucer, manufacturing was farmed out – to Indonesia in the case of Royal Doulton – and hundreds of years of Irish and English glass and ceramic making began to topple.
  • (15) In addition, the use of the SA primer (3% N-methacryloyl 5-aminosalicylic acid in 80% ethanol) and the LVR (visible light-cured, 33% microfilled low viscous Bis-GMA resin) dramatically improved the adhesion and adaptability of the composite restoration in the saucer cavity at the cervical area.
  • (16) restorations with margins located 50 per cent in dentine and 50 per cent in enamel) using Scotchbond VLC or Scotchbond 2 bonded to dentine in conventional and saucer-shaped cavities were evaluated.
  • (17) With further incubation, some of these colonies do not increase in diameter (arrested dome), some form an expanding annular monolayer of cells around the central mount (fried egg), and some grow by enlarging the central mound into a low multilayered disc (saucer).
  • (18) His Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, a flying saucer on a stalk outside Rio, has some of the worst spaces ever conceived – all sloping walls and curves and glass in the wrong places – for showing art.
  • (19) We all remember the terrible letdown of The Phantom Menace , all of us saucer-eyed nostalgists and nerds excitably gathered outside the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End, ready for the first-ever showing, and hardly able to believe that it was actually happening.
  • (20) The treatment consisted chiefly of sequestrectomies and saucerizations supported by 3--12 months of lincomycin treatment.