What's the difference between flak and flask?

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.

Flask


Definition:

  • (n.) A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
  • (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
  • (n.) A bed in a gun carriage.
  • (n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
  • (2) In both media the DNA and protein content of cultures kept for 3-5 days in the presence of 80-800 nM Buserelin and 1 nM oestradiol were 8-27% lower than those of flasks cultured in the presence of oestradiol alone (P less than 0.05).
  • (3) The vacuum flask method of using boiling water to decontaminate soft contact lenses is better and less expensive than other ways of using moist heat and can be safely and effectively applied under most domestic circumstances.
  • (4) With 1-octanol-saturated buffers as mobile phases, a stable baseline (compared to 1-octanol adsorbed on silica) is obtained rapidly, and the log relative retention times are highly correlated with unit slope to log distribution or partition coefficients obtained from the classical shake-flask procedures.
  • (5) Bacterial and plasmid yields have been shown to be equal to or greater than those obtained using conventional shake flasks.
  • (6) The carbohydrate compounds of the mucus of flask cells in the kidney of claw-frogs (Xenopus laevis) were studied by gold marked lectins (WGA, RCA, L, LCA, HPA, PNA).
  • (7) Irradiated melanomas did not grow and did not attach to culture flasks, thus demonstrating that preenucleation irradiation alters the in vitro growth of melanoma cells.
  • (8) An orbital shaker was used to create a water current in 250-ml Erlenmeyer flasks containing the test larvae.
  • (9) The cuffed end of each tracheal tube was inserted into the neck of an empty flask, and the tube and flask were flushed with oxygen for 5 min before cuff inflation.
  • (10) Incubations were carried out in sealed flasks under oxygen concentrations ranging from 0.14 to 21% at 37 degrees.
  • (11) The reverse difference in the temperatures (higher temperature of the culture flasks) leads to the formation of the reverse pattern of the cell layer, with higher density corresponding to the holes.
  • (12) By the use of double-chamber tissue culture flasks, with the 2 cell populations separated by a cell impermeable membrane, it was found that T-T interaction does not require cell contact and is thus mediated by factor(s).
  • (13) Everyone knows that Father Christmas’s tipple of choice is brandy, so Santa, if you’re reading this, we recommend you pause in The Flask on Highgate West Hill for a quick snifter.
  • (14) The tumor specimens were minced into fragments approximately 1 mm in diameter and cultured in plastic culture flasks in RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (FCS) and 50% patients serum.
  • (15) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
  • (16) The growth-promoting effect on haemopoietic cells seems to be independent of the number of marrow cells per culture flask initially inoculated into the cultures to establish the adherent cell layer.
  • (17) Cells were cultured in Roux flasks in HAM's F-12 medium, and the pH was varied with the final medium change.
  • (18) The procedure involved the transfer of heavy mold-form inocula to flasks that contained small volumes of brain heart infusion broth.
  • (19) We have recently shown that the semi-continuous cultivation of a mouse hybridoma line in spinner flasks, with a basal defined medium (BDM) devoid of serum and protein, increases the secretion of the immunoreactive monoclonal antibody (MAb) by a factor of ca.
  • (20) Cultured human adrenal cortical adenocarcinoma cells (SW-13) form a confluent monolayer of epithelial-like cells when seeded into culture flasks.

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