What's the difference between falk and flak?

Falk


Definition:

  • (n.) The razorbill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The application of the transformation technique of Stork and Falk [J. Opt.
  • (2) Adopting the voice of ageing jazz player Sid Griffiths, Edugyan narrates the terrible tale of Hiero Falk, the Afro-German trumpeter arrested by the Gestapo in occupied Paris.
  • (3) The hippocampal formation (the hippocampus and the dentate fascia) of the rabbit was studied by histochemical fluorescent method of Falk to determine localization of monoaminergic terminals containing biogenic amines: noradrenalin, dophamine and serotonin.
  • (4) 195, 423-434 and Huber, R., Schneider, M., Mayr, I., Müller, R., Deutzmann, R., Suter, F., Zuber, H., Falk, H. & Kayser, H. (1987) J. Mol.
  • (5) Enterochromaffine cells (ECC) of the rat duodenal mucosa were revealed by Falk-Hillarp's fluorescent-histochemical method, by Masson-Hamperl's method and by diazoreaction with fast red.
  • (6) Later UDCA (Ursofalk, Falk Pharma) was given at a dose of 250 mg three times daily.
  • (7) This operation offers some measure of hope for the not insignificant number of patients who have been left with poor speech after pharyngeal flap surgery and supports the recent work of Cosman and Falk (2).
  • (8) At a news conference in Indianapolis Ken Falk, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, said: "This is not about an abortion case.
  • (9) When analyzed on the basis of complementation for a wing abnormality the mutations can be divided into three groups, each of which is believed to affect the activity of one of the first three enzymes of pyrimidine synthesis (Norby, 1973; Jarry and Falk, 1974; Rawls and Fristrom, 1975).
  • (10) Such variability suggests that Falk's (Nature 313:45-47, 1985) orientation of the Hadar specimen is incorrect; she places asterion superior to the position of the squamosal suture if projected endocranially.
  • (11) Among those attending the event will be Alex Falk, who as a 16-year-old in 1953 acted as a photographer's runner for Reuters, dashing from the abbey to Fleet Street after the service to deliver slides to be processed.
  • (12) Prof Jim Falk, of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, told the symposium there were more than 40 distinct methods that could be described as geoengineering, including planting large numbers of trees and painting roofs white.
  • (13) The number and fluorescence intensity of small intensely fluorescent (SIF) cells in the nerve ganglia of the rat atria were determined after the treatment, using modified Falk's method.
  • (14) Adrenergic nerve fibers of the capillaries devoid of the smooth muscle coat were revealed by Falk's method in the mesentery and the kidney fibrous capsule of dogs after 6 daily noradrenaline infusions and with cardiogenic shock developing against this background.
  • (15) Falk's histochemical fluorescent method was used to study monoamine (MA)-containing structures in isolated hypothalamus nuclei and in the neurohemal region of the medial eminence (ME) in 40 male rats under the conditions of a long-term stress (6 months) which was caused by a repeated weak electrodermal stimulation.
  • (16) This sequence coincides with the eight residue, allele-specific peptide binding motif previously predicted from direct sequencing of naturally occurring Kb-associated peptides (Falk, K., Rotzscke, O., Stevanovic, S., Jung, G., and Rammensee, H.-G., Nature 351:290, 1990).
  • (17) John Falk, a US lobbyist whose company, Firecreek, represents the Kestral Group, one of Pakistan's largest defence firms, joined its board of directors.
  • (18) (1976) and Simpson & Falk (1982), a link between HLA and the locus for MEN 2 can be excluded.
  • (19) We reconsider the method of Ott and Falk (1982) for the analysis of genetic linkage and of epistasis in the presence of phenotypic association.
  • (20) Seven Holtzman rats were kept on a polydipsia-induced schedule of alcohol consumption for 3 months in a replication of a 1972 study by Falk and colleagues.

Flak


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On 2 June 2011, Smith wants to let Michel know he is taking a lot of flak for News Corp.
  • (2) Yorkshire swine were anesthetized and their flanks were protected by flak jackets.
  • (3) One theory is that he saw the direction of travel of the talks, and did not want to receive the flak from the press for agreeing to the terms of the regulatory regime, including the legislative lock on the charter.
  • (4) Parts of the city already feel like a war zone: its ritziest hotel is eerily deserted though many rooms are being used as offices by international agencies drawn by the deepening crisis – blue helmets and flak jackets piled up on Persian carpets in an ornate reception room, white UN vehicles parked behind the blast barriers outside.
  • (5) Marr may have copped flak, but the incident was an early example of how Cameron – an old Etonian who also professes to adore the Jam's coruscating The Eton Rifles – can be light on detail.
  • (6) Gwynnie may come in for constant flak from the media, but when she's peddling a £200 coat for kids and claiming to be intolerant to dairy, gluten, wheat, corn and oats, you can start to see why.
  • (7) Gareth Johnson: ‘Tourism can change perceptions and prejudices’ We get a lot of flak for taking tourists into North Korea, criticism we’ve received online ranges from reasonable debate to name calling and threats.
  • (8) Bumpy flight for Mr Airfix as he encounters blue-on-blue flak Read more Fallon was also warned by the senior Tory backbencher Alan Duncan that he needed to do more to inform parliament of his intentions, implicitly suggesting Fallon should not have tried to circumvent parliament.
  • (9) While fracking has the clear support of the prime minister, the UK's renewable power industry faces more flak than support from the Tory half of the coalition.
  • (10) Anthony Kwan Hok-chun, who works for the Hong Kong-based Initium media group, was held briefly on 23 August after trying to leave from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport with a flak jacket and helmet in his hand luggage.
  • (11) Thus far, Spotify has been fielding most of the flak on this issue, but the entry into the market of Google – given that separate debate on its approach towards piracy sites in its search rankings – may draw some of the fire.
  • (12) But it will earn him a lot of flak from pensioners and other savers relying on fixed incomes.
  • (13) I remember how much flak Helen Kirwan-Taylor got for admitting to being bored by her kids [in a piece for the Daily Mail in 2006].
  • (14) Met officers worked closely with the Crown Prosecution Service during the investigation, which went to the heart of Tony Blair's administration, and as they dodged the flak flying their way, became increasingly confident there would be charges.
  • (15) Maxim, a pro-Russian activist who refused to give his last name, told the Associated Press that he and other activists had been camping out overnight outside the local parliament in Crimea’s regional capital, Simferopol, when heavily armed men wearing flak jackets, and holding rocket-propelled grenade launchers and sniper rifles took over the building.
  • (16) So [Sterling's comments] didn't shock me as much as it would have had I not experienced that personally, had I not seen those things.” He added: “It showed me that America still had some progress to make … it just seems like a lot of people gave [Sterling] a lot of flak, well deserved, but you know – I feel like a lot more people were surprised than they should have been."
  • (17) I’m not confessing … I don’t think that a flak jacket is a weapon and I definitely didn’t know it was illegal here,” he said.
  • (18) Maude is also right that elected ministers should not devolve controversial decisions out of squeamishness – although I note the Independent Reconfiguration Panel , set up so health ministers wouldn't have to take flak about merging hospitals in their own or colleagues' constituencies, stays.
  • (19) You get accused of being egotistical and thinking of the brand of 'The Great LeBron' as an individual - but you took a lot of flak for saying you wanted to be part of a team with other great players I know exactly what you mean.
  • (20) Since then, our community has served as a lightning conductor for anti-anti-fracking flak put out by shale gas cheerleaders in government and the onshore oil and gas exploration industry.

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