What's the difference between flak and flam?

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.

Flam


Definition:

  • (n.) A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
  • (v. t.) To deceive with a falsehood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) FLAM-76 cells were positive for cytoplasmic kappa (kapp)-type immunoglobulin but did not secrete it into the culture medium.
  • (2) The flanking sequence contains an open reading frame that probably corresponds to the 5' end of flaM.
  • (3) The Na and K ionic flows were measured by flam-photometric dosimetry allowing a 10(-5) Kg.
  • (4) These directed the synthesis of polypeptides with the following apparent molecular weights: flaV, 11,000; flaK, 42,000; flaL, 30,000 and 27,000; flaM, 38,000; flS, 60,000; and flaT, 35,000.
  • (5) (ii) hag gene expression was positively regulated by flaA, FLAB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaG, flaH, flaI, flaK, flaL, flaM, flaN, flaO, flaP, flaQ, flaR, flaV, flaW, flaX, flaY, flaZ, flbA, and flbB genes.hag-lac expression was not observed in strains with these fla mutations.
  • (6) No structures homologous to flagellar bases or their parts were detected in the early-fla group nonflagellate mutants of flaAI, flaAII, flaAIII, flaB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaFII, flaFIII, flaFVI, flaFVII, flaFX, flaK, and flaM.
  • (7) The identification of a free left Alu monomer (FLAM) family plus a free right Alu monomer (FRAM) family suggests that the dimeric structure results from the fusion of a FLAM sequence with a FRAM sequence (2).
  • (8) A friend from university also said Cameron smoked cannabis with him occasionally while listening to Supertramp as part of a group called the Flam Club.
  • (9) In particular, the following mutants were shown to have beta-galactosidase activity in the membrane fractions: on the inner membrane, mutants with flaB fusions, and on the inner and outer membranes, mutants with flaA4850, flaM, and flaU4849 fusions.
  • (10) The opposition leader, Tony Abbott , dismissed Beattie as "another flim flam man" who would just add to the leadership instability.
  • (11) FLAM-76 cells expressed CD38 (OKT10) and cell adhesion-associated antigens such as CD44 and CD54 (ICAM-1).
  • (12) "I don't know if they were deliberately hidden or just lost in the civil service flam – but because of this vast flow of material you would suddenly find a reference, for example, to 'we are going to lift the cap on the number of private beds in NHS hospitals' very deep in the impact memorandum."
  • (13) By using these mutant strains, the transcriptional order was shown to be flaV-flaK-flaL-flaM-flaS-flaT.
  • (14) Thus, the growth of FLAM-76 appeared to be regulated by the paracrine mechanism of IL-6.
  • (15) Among flagellar mutants of Escherichia coli, flaM or flaU mutants form basal bodies lacking the outer P and L rings, whereas flaY mutants predominantly form basal bodies lacking the L ring.
  • (16) Gene-polypeptide correlations from other studies enabled us to complete gene-polypeptide-structure correspondences for these two proteins as flaM----39-kilodalton protein----P ring and flaY----26-kilodalton protein----L ring.
  • (17) As for Buerk, he later dismissed the coverage as "silly season flam".
  • (18) The first phase, which involves only monomeric elements, is characterized by deep remodelling of the progenitor sequences and ends with the appearance of the first Alu dimeric element through the fusion of a FLAM and a FRAM element.
  • (19) From these experiments, we propose that the gene order in region II is flaK-flaE-motA-motB-cheA-cheW-cheR-cheB-++ +cheY-flaM-flaC, which is identical with that in E. coli.
  • (20) Chromosome analysis revealed FLAM-76 to have a hypodiploid chromosome constitution with t(11;14)(q13;q32) abnormality, which frequently is seen in neoplasms of B-cell origin.

Words possibly related to "flak"

Words possibly related to "flam"