What's the difference between fard and nard?

Fard


Definition:

  • (n.) Paint used on the face.
  • (v. t.) To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is in Fard’s memory that Saviour’s Day is held.
  • (2) Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Nation Of Islam, sold silk and salvation in Paradise during the Great Depression.
  • (3) The experimental data collected in previous studies on experienced (industrial) and inexperienced (non-industrial) materials handlers (Mital 1984a, Mital and Fard 1986) and the patterns of responses between the two populations (Mital 1985, 1987) were used to generate this database.
  • (4) But according to Karl Evanzz, author of The Messenger: The Rise And Fall Of Elijah Muhammad, his real name was Wali Dodd Fard, “a mulatto who immigrated to the United States from New Zealand in the early 1900s”.
  • (5) The fact that Fard had set up a religious institution for black people is not remarkable.
  • (6) For Fard was not a theorist but a fantasist: a man of many disguises, an uncertain background and some very idiosyncratic ideas.
  • (7) And it is from Fard’s legacy that Farrakhan is desperate to distance himself.
  • (8) Fard’s message proved so potent it woke her husband from his inebriated state and made him Fard’s most devoted student.
  • (9) When Fard disappeared a few years later (the last anyone heard from him was a postcard from Mexico), Elijah Poole claimed his mantle.

Nard


Definition:

  • (n.) An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.
  • (n.) An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.
  • (n.) A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They sum up the various methods of prevention of venous stasis: Nard's method, associating bandages and deambulation, as well as various techniques of contention, hemodilution, compression with inflatable boots, electric stimulation or assisted mobilization.
  • (2) The signal perceived by the NARD appears to have been a valuable warning, rightly casting doubt on the safety of triazolam and the original dosage recommendations.
  • (3) In the course of 1979 the Netherlands Centre for Monitoring of Adverse Reactions to Drugs (NARD) received a remarkably large number of reports on patients with unusual and complex psychic disturbances, attributed to the use of the then recently marketed hypnotic triazolam.
  • (4) In consequence both cases were treated as outpatients by physical compression (Nard's method), without any anticoagulant medication : the results were striking and lasting.
  • (5) It is proposed that molecular oxygen controls the expression of nar via Fnr and that the nard mutation affects the Fnr binding site of the narGHI control region.
  • (6) The authors looked back at the original publications, that is to say to the publications of Chalier and of Nard, who described methods, which have been much referred to, that were quite exacting.
  • (7) The synergic effect of walking is definitively established; the treatment of deep-set phlebites by ambulatory compression is discovered by H. Fischer in Germany and then in France by L. Nard.
  • (8) The nard mutation, located upstream of the nar structural genes, was found to be cis dominant; it led to independence from the Fnr protein which, in the wild-type strain, exerts a strict positive control on the nar operon.

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