What's the difference between gound and gourd?

Gound


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subarachnoid hemorrhage, when diagnosed, was generally based on firmer gounds.
  • (2) Ratings of the degree of eye and head following were made as subjects pursued facial targets which varied in terms of the degree fo figure-gound contrast and te degree of contrast internal to the figure as defined by the presence of contrast such that the strongest pursuit occurred to stimuli which had clearly discriminable facial detailing in addition to strong figure-ground contrast.
  • (3) That provides gounds to admit that hyperprolactinemia plays no essential role as an additional diabetogenic factor in the patients with diabetes mellitus.
  • (4) A feeding trial was conducted on a total of 96 pigs to investigate the effect of lysine supplements added to rations of wheat+extracted soya bean meal and rations of wheat+extracted gound nut meal.
  • (5) This approach facilitates the conceptualization of a complex psychiatric illness and makes it more appealing to primary care physicians by demonstrating common gound between medicine and psychiatry.
  • (6) The bile salt media is shown to increase the sensitivity and dynamic range of fluorescence measurements relative to simple ethanolic solutions, without promoting gound-state and excited-state interactions that occur in the detergent micellar media.
  • (7) Dried gound potato sprout preparations from seven varieties produced congenital deformities in one strain of hamsters.
  • (8) R. orientalis can persist subclinically for a certain period in the spleen and liver of chickens placed on the gound endemic of scrub typhus.
  • (9) The feeding of finely gound straw produced a higher level of FFS production (by 10%) than that of straw pellets.
  • (10) This pattern of results parallels that found in patients suffering from Hungtington's chorea, thus strengthening the parallels between the kainic acid animal model and the human disease state initially suggested on biochemical gounds.

Gourd


Definition:

  • (n.) A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
  • (n.) A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.
  • (n.) A false die. See Gord.
  • (n.) Alt. of Gourde

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gourd seed inhibitors were purified in the following manner: gourd seeds were ground and extracted with 10 mM ammonium carbonate, pH 7.8.
  • (2) Three serine proteinase inhibitors, MCTI-I, MCTI-II, and MCEI-I, were isolated from bitter gourd (Momordica charantia LINN.)
  • (3) 1. beta-Momorcharin, a glycoprotein isolated from seeds of the bitter gourd, inhibited incorporation of [3H]leucine, [3H]uridine and [3H]thymidine into trichloroacetic acid-precipitable radioactivity in peri-implantation mouse embryos, mouse splenocytes with or without activation by concanavalin A, and human squamous carcinoma of the tongue and larynx, but did not affect incorporation of the aforementioned radioisotopes into mouse liver cells.
  • (4) Age composition, seasonal abundance and diel patterns of landing activity of the sylvan vector of yellow fever Haemagogus janthinomys Dyar were monitored weekly during 1981-82 by human collectors on the ground at Point Gourde in Chaguaramas Forest, 16 km west of Port of Spain, Trinidad.
  • (5) And, if one is not at the zenith of adulation of the Pacific islanders who believe the Prince to be the penis-gourd-sporting Melanesian Messiah, then, at the very least, the example of Britain's longest-serving monarchal consort is deserving of our – and, more specifically, the Duchess of Cambridge's – interest.
  • (6) Many had a longer cell body and were cylindrical or gourd-like in shape, but some short hair cells were also present in the caudal saccule.
  • (7) Seven trypsin inhibitors were isolated from the seeds of Cucurbitaceae plants: two from cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and red bryony (Bryonia diotica) and one from figleaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia), spaghetti squash (Cucurbita pepo var.
  • (8) She spent an hour preparing a huge spread of dishes, using her own curry powder: jackfruit curry, crispy chewy aubergine, bitter gourd salad, fish balls, mango chutney and ambulthiyal – chunks of yellowfin tuna steeped in spices.
  • (9) The complete amino acid sequence of ribonuclease (RNase MC) from the seeds of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) has been determined.
  • (10) Three new proteins which inhibit protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocyte lysates were isolated from an extract of sponge gourd (Luffa cylindrica) seeds by chromatography on a AF-Blue Toyopearl column followed by FPLC with a Mono S column.
  • (11) Experimental evidence indicated that the snake-gourd proteinases are similar in their properties to cucumisin, which is isolated from the sarcocarp of melon fruit.
  • (12) Correlations between ragweed and gourd-specific IgE levels were significant (p less than 0.001), and correlation coefficients between any two gourds exceeded 0.79.
  • (13) Gourde Forest, Trinidad, were monitored weekly for 53 consecutive weeks using conventional ovitraps.
  • (14) Luffin-a, a ribosome-inactivating protein from the seeds of sponge gourd (Luffa cylindrica), was modified with 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS) at pH 8.0 and 20 degrees C. The inhibitory activity of the modified luffin-a on protein synthesis using rabbit reticulocyte lysate was lost rapidly at a rate compatible with that of the modification of a single highly reactive amino group in the initial stage of the reaction.
  • (15) Urinary tract roentgenograms show a high, gourd-shaped bladder with the surrounding radiolucency of fatty tissues.
  • (16) Southern hybridization studies using french bean highly repetitive DNA as a probe indicated more homology with repeats of pigeon pea and less homology with red gourd, snake gourd and cucumber repeats.
  • (17) A galactose binding lectin was isolated from the seeds of the bitter gourd Momordica charantia by delipidation with petroleum ether, extraction with phosphate buffered saline, ammonium sulfate precipitation and affinity chromatography on lactogel.
  • (18) Digestion of nuclear DNAs of five plants, namely Cucurbita maxima (red gourd), Trichosanthes anguina (snake gourd), Cucumis sativus (cucumber), Cajanus cajan (pigeon pea) and Phaseolus vulgaris (french bean) with the restriction endonuclease MboI yielded discrete size classes with molecular weights in the range of 0.5 to 5 kbp.
  • (19) A lectin specific for chito-oligosaccharides from the exudate of ridge gourd (Luffa acutangula) fruits has been purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography.
  • (20) And in one corner of the garden, a group of nondescript lidded boxes contains a project for the future: the Garden of Bangladesh, an exercise in growing the ingredients used in Bangladeshi cooking, such as gourds and coriander, suggested by some of the Bangladeshis who work in the store.