What's the difference between gum and tractor?

Gum


Definition:

  • (n.) The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
  • (v. t.) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
  • (n.) A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.
  • (n.) See Gum tree, below.
  • (n.) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.
  • (n.) A rubber overshoe.
  • (v. t.) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.
  • (v. i.) To exude or from gum; to become gummy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
  • (2) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
  • (3) The addition of sodium bicarbonate to gum containing sorbitol markedly enhanced its capacity to cause and maintain an elevation of interproximal plaque pH previously lowered by exposure to fermentable carbohydrate.
  • (4) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
  • (5) There were hemorrhages in sclera, gums and left tonsillar area and a grayish exudate on right tonsil.
  • (6) The median time to intubation with the gum elastic bougie while simulating an 'epiglottis only' view was only 10 s longer than the time taken during conventional intubation with an optimum view.
  • (7) The clinical and histological aspects of hypertrophic and hyperplastic gum diseases were examined in order to clarify the aetiopathogenesis of such conditions and facilitate their diagnosis.
  • (8) On the other hand, wheat bran, pectin, guar gum, and degraded carageenan all stimulate large bowel cell proliferation, the greatest growth response tending to occur in the cecum or proximal colon.
  • (9) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
  • (10) The acid gums are present in the small intestine in the form of their sodium salts.
  • (11) A cooperative multicenter study was performed to evaluate two salivary secretion methods-the chewing gum test and the Saxon test by a crossover method.
  • (12) This result suggests that physical dependence (ie, withdrawal) may be a cause of behavioral dependence on nicotine gum (ie, use of gum beyond the recommended period) and physicians should emphasize the need for gradual reduction of nicotine gum.
  • (13) Gastrointestinal transit time, frequency of defecation, stool weight, and stool consistency were studied in 12 subjects who were each given fiber supplements containing wheat bran, psyllium gum, a combination of wheat bran and psyllium gum, or a low-fiber control for 2 weeks.
  • (14) Cadbury became the world's largest confectionery company in 2003 after buying up a number of gum brands, including Trident and Stride, but ceded the number one spot to Mars when it took over gum maker Wrigley last year.
  • (15) Compared to fiber-free, feeding corn bran increased binding in the duodenum 30% and ileum 50% but decreased binding in the jejunum 44%, and feeding guar gum increased binding in the colon 73% but decreased binding in the jejunum 40%.
  • (16) Concerning combinaisons of ethylene oxide with any gums.
  • (17) In a new policy paper on how to respond to their growing popularity the RSPH says: "Electronic cigarettes are significantly less harmful than smoked tobacco, and despite some products being visually similar to cigarettes, they are essentially nicotine containing products, or NCPs, like patches and gum".
  • (18) The second study found that prescribing nicotine gum as an adjunct to counseling would cost only $4,113-6,465 per year of life saved for males and $6,880-9,473 per year of life saved for females.
  • (19) Nitrogen conversion factors for gum arabic (Acacia senegal (L.) Willd.
  • (20) There are many "smoking cessation therapies" – gums, patches and sprays – that reduce cravings for cigarettes, while allowing the smoker to avoid the adverse effects of tobacco.

Tractor


Definition:

  • (n.) That which draws, or is used for drawing.
  • (n.) Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (2) Potential dermal exposure from tractor-powered sprayers fitted with conventional hydraulic nozzles was lower than from knapsack sprayers, with exposure from a tractor-powered sprayer fitted with controlled-droplet application equipment intermediate in this regard.
  • (3) Optical tweezers are the 'tractor beams' of today's technology.
  • (4) Sales of tractors and other farm machinery are down by 70%, said Dave Dorsett of Reynolds farm equipment in Martinville.
  • (5) Potential dermal exposure was higher during mixing and loading all tractor-powered sprayers than during spraying.
  • (6) It is recommended that the government require all tractors sold to be equipped with ROPS as is currently the case in England and Sweden.
  • (7) On the second anniversary of their optimistic opening coalition press conference in the rose garden at Downing Street, Cameron and Clegg chose the stark symbolism of a tractor factory floor in Basildon to rededicate the coalition to its central painstaking work of rebalancing the economy and tackling the deficit.
  • (8) The night before the hearing, Patten sat down in front of the box to watch Mud Sweat and Tractors: the Story of Agriculture on BBC4.
  • (9) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
  • (10) 2) Many items on the checklist received a poor evaluations, indicating that there are many ergonomic problems with freight-container tractors.
  • (11) The latter are grown in fields on which oil-based fertilisers have been sprayed and which are ploughed by tractors that burn diesel.
  • (12) Eight people died in a traffic accident involving a tractor-trailer and ten autos.
  • (13) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
  • (14) Save a few tractors for dragging boats up the beach, there are no motor vehicles on Culatra.
  • (15) Tractors were involved in eight of these deaths, falls in four, power take-offs in three, and farm machinery in one.
  • (16) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
  • (17) These findings were considered to originate from the fact that the freight-container tractors had many ergonomic problems and the daily driving hours of many drivers were estimated to exceed the allowable vibration exposure time of the ISO.
  • (18) It is the equivalent of allowing a fleet of tractors to drag 30 tonnes of gear over a 150-metre wide swath of land for most days of the year.
  • (19) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
  • (20) The hands were the most highly exposed part of the body during mixing and loading operations for all sprayers, and during spraying with tractor-powered sprayers.

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