What's the difference between ear and earmark?

Ear


Definition:

  • (n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear.
  • (n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.
  • (n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.
  • (n.) Same as Acroterium.
  • (n.) Same as Crossette.
  • (n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.
  • (v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear.
  • (n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.
  • (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.
  • (v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
  • (2) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
  • (3) Circuitry has been developed to feed the output of an ear densitogram pickup into one channel of a two-channel Holter monitor.
  • (4) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
  • (5) There were no statistically significant increases in ABR thresholds for irradiated ears vs. control ears.
  • (6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (7) In the study group 43 (64%) children had a confirmed bacterial AOM and 24 (36%) showed no bacterial growth from middle ear fluid.
  • (8) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
  • (9) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
  • (10) Fascia TM grafts atrophied in 35 of 43 ears (80%), and perichondrium atrophied in 8 of 20 ears (40%).
  • (11) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
  • (12) Recurrent respiratory infections occurred in 17 (38%), and chronic recurrent middle ear effusions were noted in 33 (73%).
  • (13) The observed staining indicated that the epithelium of the external auditory meatus has a pattern of keratin expression typical of epidermis in general and the epithelium of the middle ear resembles simple columnar epithelia.
  • (14) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
  • (15) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
  • (16) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (17) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (18) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
  • (19) Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.
  • (20) Most symptoms come from the ciliated airways (nose, paranasal sinuses, and bronchs) and from the middle ear.

Earmark


Definition:

  • (n.) A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.
  • (n.) A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
  • (v. t.) To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Treasury has also earmarked £3bn in "underspends" by departments that have cut more rapidly than planned, to be put to use.
  • (2) Although both conditions are uncommon, an awareness of these horns as specific earmarks of each is important, since early diagnosis may allow preventive intervention for their serious potential complications later in life.
  • (3) "The Sizewell B nuclear plant has been built on the Suffolk coast, a site that has been earmarked for the construction of several more nuclear plants.
  • (4) Climate scientists at the CSIRO who are earmarked for redundancy will learn their fate this week.
  • (5) Money earmarked for mental health diverted to balance NHS books Read more By campaigning for people to help each other by talking more, the royals hope to avoid a more politicised issue: claims that funding for NHS mental health services is being effectively cut.
  • (6) ITV has earmarked £7m to spend in developing the online operation this year.
  • (7) Darling said last week that the government had earmarked £11bn of efficiency savings, but that it did not plan to start cutting back until 2011-12 – when the UK economy should be in more robust shape.
  • (8) A centralized fund has been created by the Soviet Health Ministry, earmarked for concrete scientific projects instead of blanket financing of medical institutions, who, in addition, by 1989 will start being financially self-supporting.
  • (9) But in November, the pub on Hackney Road announced its closure: the site was earmarked for high-end property development.
  • (10) But it will not stop the trade, because the money which has been earmarked for the area by the government never reaches those who need it.
  • (11) However, only a very small number of these associations can be earmarked as reliable using statistical criteria, due to the limited size of the database.
  • (12) Residents of a West Bank settlement earmarked for demolitions by the Israeli supreme court clashed with police and soldiers attempting to evict them today.
  • (13) In 1949 it was estimated that around 2 million homes were unfit for human habitation, too expensive to repair and earmarked for demolition.
  • (14) Santorum insisted on Friday that earmarks were not themselves the problem, only their abuse.
  • (15) Crozier has made much of the need to revitalise the operation, pointing out that the division has not created a global entertainment hit since Dancing on Ice in 2006, and has bought in new talent and earmarked £12m to boost pilot projects.
  • (16) The government has also earmarked $328m extra to provide targeted support for disadvantaged or vulnerable families accessing childcare.
  • (17) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
  • (18) Abcul is now working with the government, which last year earmarked up to £38m to expand credit unions and modernise the 400 UK unions currently in existence.
  • (19) Writing on his BBC blog , Davie said there were "no plans" to rebrand the station, which has been earmarked for closure in a review ordered by the BBC Trust.
  • (20) About $1.2bn earmarked for those jurisdictions was removed from the federal budget in the pre-election economic and fiscal outlook as a result of stalled negotiations – a figure Pyne and Abbott sought to make a virtue of restoring this week .

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