What's the difference between gore and horn?

Gore


Definition:

  • (n.) Dirt; mud.
  • (n.) Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
  • (v.) A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
  • (v.) A small traingular piece of land.
  • (v.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
  • (v. t.) To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
  • (v. t.) To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But none of those calling on Obama to act carries the moral authority of Gore, who has devoted his post-political career to building a climate movement.
  • (2) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.
  • (3) Two of four Gore-Tex grafts in the low flow category failed within the first postoperative month.
  • (4) The public and private sectors alike must do what is necessary to stop global warming," Gore told the Guardian.
  • (5) Long before anyone had heard of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, she planned to make a low-budget documentary about oil and climate change.
  • (6) These molecules may become highly substituted with phosphoglycerol moieties from the head group of phosphatidylglycerol; diglyceride is a by-product of this reaction (K. J. Miller, R. S. Gore, and A. J. Benesi, J. Bacteriol.
  • (7) The IPCC is charged with providing a scientific, balanced assessment about what's known and what's known about climate change There are lots of organisations ringing bells The IPCC is more like a belltower, which people can climb up to get a clear view 8.41am BST Al Gore , the former US vice-president and winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work on climate change , has responded to the IPCC report by saying it shows the need for a switch to low carbon sources of energy (note his emphasis is on mitigation, i.e.
  • (8) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
  • (9) In the case of glass, Gore-tex, and Dacron, which are insoluble in the solvent of the coating solution, only a superficial layer of PUPA could be obtained.
  • (10) So we have opted instead to meet somewhere Thatchery: "her table" at the Goring Hotel in London, around the corner from her house in Chester Square.
  • (11) In 31 patients we implanted a teflon membrane (Gore-Tex) during flap operation for a duration of 6 weeks.
  • (12) In an echo of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth , which evolved from a slideshow presentation into a hit eco documentary, the prince's film is currently being shot in the US.
  • (13) Saying he had spoken to the president’s daughter a number of times since then, Gore added: “I thought that he would come to his senses on it, but he didn’t.
  • (14) Gore-Tex did not loose its structural integrity despite frank injection.
  • (15) Adhesions to the Gore-SM occurred at wrinkles in or at the edges of the membrane.
  • (16) No agreement is perfect, and this one must be strengthened over time, but groups across every sector of society will now begin to reduce dangerous carbon pollution through the framework of this agreement,” said Gore.
  • (17) Since 1984, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) utilizing high pressure balloon catheters has been used as an initial approach to restore patency of PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene, GORE-TEX) hemodialysis vascular access grafts.
  • (18) Intimal proliferation of musculoelastosis which was formed of longitudinal smooth muscle bundles and elastic fibers was characteristic in shunted patients, especially after the central palliation procedure, Waterston anastomosis or modified Blalock-Taussig (BT) anastomosis using the Gore-Tex tube graft.
  • (19) Frank Gore doesn't make it in to the endzone on first down.
  • (20) Over the decades, the Mauna Loa readings, made famous in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, show the CO2 level rising and falling each year as foliage across the northern hemisphere blooms in spring and recedes in autumn.

Horn


Definition:

  • (n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
  • (n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
  • (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
  • (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
  • (n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
  • (n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
  • (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
  • (n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
  • (n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
  • (n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
  • (n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
  • (n.) The Ionic volute.
  • (n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
  • (n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
  • (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
  • (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
  • (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
  • (n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
  • (n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
  • (n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
  • (v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
  • (2) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
  • (3) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
  • (4) This study presents data supporting a selective antinociceptive role for DA at the spinal level, where it has a widespread antinociceptive influence, on cells in both the superficial and deeper dorsal horn.
  • (5) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
  • (6) In 25 rabbits, endometrium from the right uterine horn was transplanted onto the peritoneum (Experimental group = Group E).
  • (7) Differential pulse voltammetry used in combination with an electrochemically treated carbon fiber electrode allowed the detection of 5-hydroxyindoles (5-HI) in the dorsal horn of the urethane-anesthetized rat.
  • (8) Uterine blood flow to both uterine horns was measured by microsphere and by tritiated water steady-state diffusion methodology.
  • (9) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
  • (10) A few with low endometrial receptor levels had normal livers but at least one sterile uterine horn.
  • (11) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
  • (12) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
  • (13) Subpopulations of DRG neurones that subserve distinct sensory modalities project to discrete regions in the dorsal horn.
  • (14) Phospholipase A2 has been purified from the venom of Horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) by gel permeation chromatography followed by reverse-phase HPLC.
  • (15) In ventral horn motoneurons and neurons of nucleus dorso-medialis (C1) pronounced staining was found after a total dosage of 1200 micrograms HgCl2.
  • (16) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
  • (17) Postmortem examination showed axonal pathology of the anterior horns and roots of the spinal cord, and white matter hypoplasia of the brain.
  • (18) Histochemically the lowered activity of enzymes was localized mainly in the neuropil of: striatum, the Broc's nuclei and rhinencephalon: in the nervous cells of: Ammon's horn, nuclei of thalamus and in neocortex.
  • (19) Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) has been identified recently in fibers and cell bodies in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, but its function in the dorsal horn is not known.
  • (20) With immunocytochemical techniques, SP immunoreactivity (SP-I) and CGRP-I were localized in myometrial nerves throughout the uterine horns, with nerves immunoreactive for CGRP being the more numerous.