What's the difference between gib and gin?

Gib


Definition:

  • (n.) A male cat; a tomcat.
  • (v. i.) To act like a cat.
  • (n.) A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.
  • (v. t.) To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.
  • (v. i.) To balk. See Jib, v. i.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fund is a new development for Gib because it raises private money up front for investment in a particular industry instead of investing project by project.
  • (2) Chris Huhne , the energy and climate change secretary, appears to concede the Treasury's concern that the liabilities taken on by the GIB would be added to the government's budget book.
  • (3) To analyse the importance of GIB we studied, retrospectively, the causes of hospitalization in 301 patients, all on HD in the same Unit in January 1990.
  • (4) Today's report also appeared to put pressure on Osborne as he works towards this autumn's comprehensive spending review (CSR), by warning that the task of setting up a GIB needs to begin immediately.
  • (5) Kingsbury is particularly proud of the large investments made this year in windfarms such as the £241m Gib put into Westermost Rough off the coast of Yorkshire and the £220m for a 10% stake in Gwynt y Mor, the biggest offshore field under construction in Europe.
  • (6) Extracts of B. malayi adult male worms, female worms, and microfilariae contained Gib 13 monoclonal antibody-reactive antigens of Mr 25-30,000, 57-90,000, and approximately equal to 200,000.
  • (7) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
  • (8) A green investment bank (GIB) is being pushed for to turn the £50-80bn of traditional project capital available into the much higher amounts funding experts say will be needed to pay for the low-carbon technologies the UK is expected to need.
  • (9) Sue Charman, the "one planet finance leader" at WWF-UK, said the GIB had an essential role to play in shifting the UK to a low carbon economy, but giving it no immediate borrowing powers was a critical mistake.
  • (10) Vince Cable, the business secretary, has officially marked the launch of the new green investment bank ( GIB ) by announcing funding of a new waste-to-energy plant and an energy saving scheme.
  • (11) NSAID appear to be a risk factor for GIB from erosive Gastritis and or Duodenitis.
  • (12) I am confident that the sale process will provide GIB with good new owners who will support GIB’s continued growth and leadership role in the global green economy long into the future,” he said.
  • (13) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
  • (14) The Gib 13 monoclonal antibody was raised against eggs of Onchocerca gibsoni and subsequently found to react with a phosphorylcholine epitope designated as the T15 idiotype.
  • (15) Salmond, who has played a prominent role in building up overseas investments in green energy, pointed out instead that £103m of the GIB's start up capital of £3bn came from the money owed to Scotland by the Treasury, which has been sitting on Scotland's share of the fossil fuel levy for some years.
  • (16) The evidence now indicates that only cells in a certain intermitotic state, called GIb, can be thus detached, and that when such cells are not locally available the expanding mitosis is forced into the vertical axis.
  • (17) Detection of circulating antigen in amicrofilaremic subjects with acute symptoms of lymphatic filariasis, and 53% of asymptomatic amicrofilaremic subjects, but not in nonendemic controls, suggests that the Gib 13 IRMA will also be of value in the diagnosis of occult filariasis.
  • (18) Lib Dem minister and energy secretary, Chris Huhne, wants the GIB to operate as a fully fledged bank that is able to issue bonds and underwrite loans, rather than just a fund, which would be more limited and unable to release the required capital.
  • (19) Cable will be in front of the environmental audit committee of MPs to discuss the GIB tomorrow.
  • (20) The report said that the forthcoming spending review on 20 October is a good time to deliver a GIB which is backed by between £4-6bn of capital until 2015.

Gin


Definition:

  • (n.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
  • (conj.) If.
  • (v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
  • (n.) A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
  • (n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
  • (n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
  • (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
  • (n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
  • (v. t.) To catch in a trap.
  • (v. t.) To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
  • (2) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (3) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
  • (4) The Gin DNA invertase of bacteriophage Mu carries out processive recombination in which multiple rounds of exchange follow synaptic complex formation.
  • (5) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (6) They don’t have to wait three or four years for what may or may not be the marginal difference they make to the whisky product.” Miller’s gin now sells more than all his whisky products put together, making up 80% of total sales.
  • (7) I still have a few pints of gin and tonic before I go onstage but nothing stupid."
  • (8) It is a lot like the craft beer where we’ve seen big brands say ‘it’s time we bought these brands before they become big competition’.” He said the buyout of the craft gin distiller Monkey 47 by Pernod Ricard in January marked the beginning of a trend that was likely to escalate, although there were few craft gin makers who have reached any serious scale.
  • (9) To prepare the data base of the occlusal surface of tooth crown, the data of tooth crown above the gingival line of 7 molar were also output by the "GIN-M" program.
  • (10) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
  • (11) In the presence of purified Gin FIS is the only additional protein required for efficient inversion.
  • (12) The intriguing finding that the DNA invertase Gin has the same catalytic center as the DNA resolvases that promote deletions without recombinational enhancer and host factor FIS is discussed.
  • (13) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
  • (14) Both of the alcohol-containing drinks caused mild-to-moderate inebriation, but gin and slimline tonic had no significant effect on either blood-glucose or plasma-insulin levels.
  • (15) Cameron took his jacket off and sipped from the half pint glasses of water – gin?
  • (16) By 1849 gin was respectable enough to be included in the Fortnum and Mason catalogue for the first time.
  • (17) Drinks that are mostly ethanol, such as gin and vodka, give fewer hangovers (but not none) than those full of congeners, such as red wine or whisky.
  • (18) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (19) Four types of cultured cell (Gin-1, Chang Liver, HEP-2 and L-929) were used in vitro to determine the cytotoxicity of 12 Chinese-Japanese Dental Casting Alloys from cell recovery ability.
  • (20) It is 19 years since Malton joined Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and had her last gin and tonic.

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