What's the difference between flaking and knap?

Flaking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flake

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most common microscopic features included dense marrow fibrosis or "scar" formation, a sprinkling of lymphocytes in a relative absence of other inflammatory cells (especially histiocytes), and smudged, nonresorbing necrotic bone flakes.
  • (2) In a local television interview last week, Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said of Trump’s run: “I don’t think it’s a very serious candidacy, frankly.” Trump also came under fire on Monday from Bush, who performed shabbily in the most recent polls.
  • (3) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
  • (4) No differences were observed in cocoa powder for drinks and plain chocolate flakes treated with 0.5 dm2 polystyrene of 1 mm thickness.
  • (5) The first case involved the identification of flakes of a metallic material claimed by a 14-year-old girl to appear periodically between her mandibular molars.
  • (6) Aggie Wai, a first year business student at Reading University, faced the same scenario when she arrived to try and fly to Hong Kong, and found herself stood outside as flakes of snow drifted to the ground.
  • (7) Irritation, as manifested by erythema or flaking, occurred in 61.5% of topical masoprocol-treated patients versus 26.7% of those treated with vehicle and did not correlate with clinical response.
  • (8) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
  • (9) 3 Add the rice to the salmon flakes along with the spring onion, ginger, soy and mirin.
  • (10) A method has been developed for estimating crudely the quantity of lead in dusts derived from paint flakes.
  • (11) Then there were the plastic domes with Mao inside that rained gold flakes when you shook them.
  • (12) Lower the heat, add the ginger, garlic, chilli flakes and rosemary.
  • (13) The basal ration fed to the sows consisted of ground barley+oats+flaked potatoes or ground barley+sugar beet chips.
  • (14) The company, whose brands include Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Special K and Pringles is thought to use about 50,000 tonnes of palm oil a year, said that it planned to impose the changes by December 2015.
  • (15) On 9 April, it warned against Republicans such as Flake, who voted for the gun debate, and urged members to call these senators and "tell them that when the Bill of Rights reads 'shall not be infringed' with regards to the second amendment, it means exactly that".
  • (16) And now, in a damp-smelling dressing room at Berlin's Admiralspalast, with its flaking plaster and a carpet that looks like a relic from the communist East, he reveals German is next on his list.
  • (17) Flaked rye seemed to contain both faster and slower carbohydrates than the corresponding rye bread of similar fibre content.
  • (18) Mucus flakes and plaques are transported by the tips of the cilia over this interciliary liquid.
  • (19) It can also be highly saline and contain solids, such as flakes of rock.
  • (20) Para-tertiary butylphenol [(PTBP); the Union Carbide Corporation trademark for this chemical is UCAR Butylphenol 4-T Flake] has applications as a raw material in the manufacture of resins and also as an industrial intermediate.

Knap


Definition:

  • (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.
  • (v. t.) To bite; to bite off; to break short.
  • (v. t.) To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.
  • (v. i.) To make a sound of snapping.
  • (n.) A sharp blow or slap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pH-rate profile for inactivation of the RTEM-1 cysteine beta-lactamase by iodoacetate supports previous evidence [Knap & Pratt (1989) Proteins Struct.
  • (2) Photograph: Dixe Wills Size: 0.09sq miles Around 5,000 years ago, the community living at the Knap of Howar on Papa Westray crossed over to the Holm of Papay to build a burial cairn in which to lay their loved ones to rest.
  • (3) I thought this was all fair enough, although surely, I cavilled, if building simulacra of Neolithic houses and learning how to flint knap is our new route to the past, then really the actual monument itself is somewhat besides the point.
  • (4) On a hot day last week, workers from Poland and Bulgaria were spreading straw across fields of strawberries while the knapped flint of Hoo's several 13th-century churches shone in the sun.
  • (5) At the village of Knap o'Howar on Papay the bones of domesticated cattle, sheep and pigs have been found alongside those of wild deer, whales and seals, for example, while analysis of human bones from the period suggest that few people reached the age of 50.