What's the difference between headband and horseshoe?
Headband
Definition:
(n.) A fillet; a band for the head.
(n.) The band at each end of the back of a book.
Example Sentences:
(1) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(2) Hamas members with black face masks and green headbands handed him over earlier today to Egyptian mediators before he was taken by helicopter to Tel Nof airbase in central Israel and re-united with his family.
(3) In order to study how the efficiency of the halo vest is affected by different lengths of the vest, an experimental headband was devised that allowed the head of a normal person to be held securely in the halo attachment.
(4) Yvonne Robertson, who had travelled from Glasgow with her district lodge, spoke of "an absolutely amazing day" as her red, white and blue glitter headband sparkled in the sunshine.
(5) A comparison between counting rates under the derived time-activity curves showed significantly lower values on headband application (p less than 0.01).
(6) Static scintigrams consisting of the first 300,000 counts recorded after bolus release with and without headband application show a clear delineation of the headband position with prevention of "halo" appearance about the cranial cavity.
(7) They talked of sleeves that would slide over paralysed limbs, headbands that would do the work of a brain chip, smartphones that would do what the computer did now.
(8) This research investigated the influence of the user's work-related movement and variations in headband compression force and earcup cushion material (liquid- or foam-filled) on the frequency-specific noise attenuation achieved with earmuffs.
(9) She has gloss-coated lips, and her yellow headband, holding back long hair, glows in the lamplight along Juscelino Kubitschek Avenue, which connects the city to the Castelão arena, one of the venues for the 2014 World Cup .
(10) An implantable magnet is now available for patients who have received the standard Nucleus 22-channel cochlear implant and who are not able to wear the headband satisfactorily.
(11) Theoretical aspects of headband force as well as the implications of attenuation measurements for test room recommendations are discussed.
(12) Six men wearing jackets, despite the wet heat, and red headbands.
(13) Probably the happening of most moment during that 1973 midsummer fortnight was the raucous overture of something rare and special when every day some hundred or so shrieking schoolgirls began following around the concourse and demanding autographs from a slim, blond, bemused Swede with a headband and an ice-blue faraway gaze, just 17 but, perforce, seeded No6.
(14) RunPhones integrate a set of headphones into a comfy headband that won’t move or come lose when you’re really going for it.
(15) Clothing that will get you noticed by street photographers is the name of the game, so expect an eclectic high-low mix of neon sweaters from Scott and couture headbands from Maison Michele .
(16) Dressed in a pink headband and a black jacket, she clutched a white plastic bag containing cash the family had collected to bury her brother, who died in a local hospital on Sunday.
(17) As a simple aid for exact localization of such processes a "rod headband" is presented, which consists of a leather strap with exchangeable plastic rods and can be put on the patient's forehead for a CT examination.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Young women wear headbands with Joaquín Guzmán’s name, during a march to call for his freedom in his home state in the north-west of Mexico.
(19) This year we'll be selling socks, headbands, handbags and hats with bells on."
(20) Right out of the gate she was getting slammed for the pantsuits, the hair, the headbands, her appearance, her life choices, and everything she said was so heavily scrutinized.
Horseshoe
Definition:
(n.) A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
(n.) Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.
(n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.
Example Sentences:
(1) Computerized tomography before anticipated percutaneous stone extraction revealed the colon to be positioned posterior to the left portion of the horseshoe kidney.
(2) In association with a horseshoe lung it is extremely uncommon.
(3) A clottable protein, named coagulogen, was highly purified from the amoebocyte lysate of Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) by a method similar to that used for the lysate of Limulus polyphemus amoebocytes.
(4) Eight other additional cases of horseshoe lung without scimitar syndrome are mentioned here.
(5) If this sequence is followed, the unanticipated combination of abdominal aneurysm and horseshoe kidney should be rare.
(6) The amino acid sequence of troponin C obtained from horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, striated muscle was determined by sequence analysis and alignments of chemically and enzymatically cleaved peptides.
(7) This study may reveal abnormalities which will allow the diagnosis of horseshoe kidney to be made or suspected.
(8) In addition, she had a horseshoe kidney abnormality.
(9) More liberal use of the seton in the treatment of horseshoe abscesses and fistulas is advocated.
(10) Furthermore, the authors report on the complications and treatment in special cases; i. e., patients with horseshoe kidneys, solitary kidneys, spinal cord lesions, radiolucent calculi, hemophilia, and staghorn stones.
(11) Clots were allowed to form in samples of whole blood taken from the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in the absence and presence of dansylcadaverine (16), and were analyzed for their contents of N epsilon(gamma-glutamyl)lysine and gamma-glutamyl-dansylcadaverine.
(12) This is the first case where it is found associated to horseshoe kidney.
(13) The retinal projections in the horseshoe bat were studied with anterograde transport of wheat germ agglutinin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase.
(14) Chromosome analysis of blood cells from a 42-year-old white male with mental retardation, colon carcinoma, horseshoe kidney, absence of left lobe of the liver, agenesis of the gallbladder, and possible Gardner syndrome revealed a constitutional marker chromosome due to del(5)(q13q15) or del(5)(q15q22).
(15) Only 35 cases of horseshoe kidney with a renal tumor have been reported in the Japanese literature.
(16) In horseshoe kidney, anatomical features and impaired drainage of urine, make stone treatment by ESWL technically difficult and fragments output unsuccessfully.
(17) On Friday morning the 30 men and women were joined by a few hundred others on Horseshoe beach at Newcastle, as well as a police presence on land and water.
(18) A 91-year-old man had a symptomatic, enlarging abdominal aortic aneurysm in association with horseshoe kidney.
(19) These tension forces at right angles to each other explain the development of (1) concave retinal detachment or retinal folds off short limbal-parallel buckles, (2) retinal folds on long limbal-parallel buckles, and (3) fishmouthing of horseshoe tears overlying a limbal-parallel buckle.
(20) The present report is concerned with two cases of the horseshoe kidney.