What's the difference between ear and pear?

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.

Pear


Definition:

  • (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
  • (2) This protein was not present in extracts from pears or apples.
  • (3) The pearly skin of these subjects becomes more translucent and the detail extra-perfect.
  • (4) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (5) The aim was to create an infinite number of ways in which the story could be read – though Pears emphasised that Arcadia was not an interactive novel.
  • (6) Computer taxonomic studies using the nucleotide and inferred amino acid sequence of the MOMP of C. pneumoniae IOL-207 and all known chlamydial MOMP sequences supported the designation of C. pneumoniae as a new species, but electron microscope studies suggested that the presence of pear-shaped elementary bodies (EBs) may not be a reliable taxonomic criterion.
  • (7) On admission, she had an asymmetrical pear-shaped tumor in the right supraclavicular region and severe hypercalcemia.
  • (8) Adsorption with extracts from apples and pears had no such effect.
  • (9) Boiling of spinach, pears, grapes, tomatoes, and wheat, treated with different EBDCs, resulted in 3-30% conversion to ETU.
  • (10) The stenosis appeared to be caused by a specific change in the pattern of growth leading up to an anterior narrowing ('pear'-like) of the cricoid ring and a conspicuous thickening of the subepithelial layer.
  • (11) The "startle response" ap peared earlier in the experimental ani mals, as did the development and re sponse of the electroencephalogram to novel stimuli.
  • (12) At least six different cell types are recognizable: (1) nondifferentiated duct cells; (2) cells containing apical secretory granules; (3) goblet cells; the mucosubstances of type 2 and 3 are PAS- and Alcian-blue-positive, also reacting wih methenamine silver; (4) ciliated cells, containing a single cilium with the microtubular pattern 9+2; (5) tuft cells with extremely long and wide microvilli and a pear-shaped cell body; (6) migrating cells, mainly lymphocytes and some assumed eosinophils, showing reaction to Mg++-activated ATPase.
  • (13) I was a dancing Fury; I'm told that Peter Pears came but I never saw him."
  • (14) Such a pear-like geometrical figure is, in fact, formed spontaneously by DNA collapsed under certain conditions in vitro (Eickbush & Moudrianakis, 1978).
  • (15) The character George Bowling bites into a frankfurter he has bought in an milk bar decorated in chrome and mirrors: "The thing burst in my mouth like a rotten pear.
  • (16) They were amacrine cells with a pear-shaped soma and dendrites distributed in 3 sublayers within the inner plexiform layer.
  • (17) We are talking about apples and pears when we compare the two.
  • (18) Children's author Allan Ahlberg, the mind behind much-loved titles Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum, has turned down a lifetime achievement award because it is sponsored by Amazon and the idea that his success "should have the Amazon tag attached to it is unacceptable".
  • (19) These axon endings are supposed to belong to afferent climbing fibers of cerebellum stimulating differentiation of pear-shaped neurons, localization of these fibers causing a certain succession in the development of perisomatic processes.
  • (20) The trichorhinopharyngeal (TRP) syndrome type I (Giedion, 1966) is characterized clinically by craniofacial dysmorphism with sparse hair, pear-shaped nose and long philtrum, and abnormalities of the extremities (disabling deformities of the hands and feet).

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