What's the difference between hock and hough?

Hock


Definition:

  • (n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
  • (n.) Alt. of Hough
  • (v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the one hand, he has used it as an opportunity to paint Ukip as demonised by a media in hock to the politically correct establishment.
  • (2) Skin sensation was absent distal to the mid tibial or hock level.
  • (3) Direct arterial pressures were measured via cannulation of the dorsal pedal artery and were correlated with indirect measurements through an inflatable cuff placed over the dorsal pedal artery below the hock joint of the contralateral limb.
  • (4) "Management – ie me – are not in hock to Chris.
  • (5) We find Hocking sitting in her tiny, sparsely furnished apartment in Austin, Minnesota.
  • (6) A stick, 5 to 6 cm long, made of a glass capillary tube, or, aluminium foil, with ends bended as a hock, are weighted up to 0.001 g. Introduce one stick previously weighted in diluted plasma.
  • (7) Osteochondritis dissecans was often found bilaterally in the knee and hock joint and this was interpreted as an indication that osteochondritis dissecans is a manifestation of a generalized condition called osteochondrosis.
  • (8) Here Paul Gleeson and Ban-Hock Toh discuss how the identification of these gastric parietal cell autoantigens and the development of a mouse model of autoimmune gastritis have paved the way for an understanding of the pathogenesis of the gastric lesion.
  • (9) Trauma to the hock was known to have occurred in half the cases and was suspected in the others.
  • (10) Synovial fluids collected from hock joints of arthritic birds and peripheral blood leukocytes obtained from the birds with respiratory problems were used for virus isolation in embryonated chicken eggs, and Vero and BGM-70 cell cultures.
  • (11) The diagnosis, aetiology, pathogenesis and treatment of osteochondritis dissecans in the shoulder, elbow, stifle and hock joints of the dog is reviewed.
  • (12) An increased incidence of lesions of the navel, hocks, and nares was observed, but regression analyses showed them to be relatively unimportant in the determination of body weights.
  • (13) Results showed that in healed clinically and histologically noninflamed gingiva, the vascular morphology was established as a series of looped vessels which could readily be distinguished from the regular network of vessels described by Hock (1975) in marginal gingiva that had neither been inflamed nor resected.
  • (14) For him, "a world in which we are no longer burdened by debt, credit, hock, mortgage, HP, might not be a grievous loss but a deliverance … a more modest and more prudent way of living".
  • (15) Cartilage glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) were measured by a spectrophotometric assay in synovial fluid obtained from 30 normal bovine hock joints and 15 osteoarthritic human knee joints.
  • (16) Mladic is yet to appoint a defence lawyer and will spend the coming days meeting court officials and deciding how he wants to proceed, Hocking said.
  • (17) Cellulitis which extended from the coronet to above the carpus or hock was more severe and had a poorer prognosis than cellulitis distal to these joints.
  • (18) Seven lambs treated with one hindlimb bound to the body, with the hip fully flexed and the stifle and hock fully extended, were reared from the day after birth to about three months old, together with two untreated controls.
  • (19) The anatomy of the dorsal pouch of the proximal intertarsal joint (PIJ) and its communication with the tarsocrural joint (TCJ) was studied in 15 pairs of hocks from young and mature horses.
  • (20) The government dropped plans for legislation in the summer, prompting accusations that David Cameron was in hock to the tobacco lobby.

Hough


Definition:

  • (n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.
  • (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
  • (n.) The popliteal space; the ham.
  • (n.) Same as Hock, a joint.
  • (v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring.
  • (n.) An adz; a hoe.
  • (v. t.) To cut with a hoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the 100-day mark approached, Hough said: “I think the support remains.” “The economy improved elsewhere,” she said.
  • (2) Newborns were studied at district hospital, Chinsurah, in Houghly district (West Bengal) from September 1977-August 1978.
  • (3) There have since been several workshops offered by Xomed and Dr. Hough, who developed the device, to train otolaryngologists how to implant this device.
  • (4) Professor Mike Hough, who was in the team that started the Home Office's then British crime survey in the early 1980s, says the fact that both the key yardsticks – the official crime survey and the police statistics – point in the same direction suggests there has been a "real and welcome fall" in crime.
  • (5) The literature thus far is limited to the experience of Hough and others involved with his initial trials.
  • (6) Camra's pubs director, Julian Hough, said the pub's success was hard earned against some tough competition: "The Swan with Two Necks really is the best of the best, having beaten rival pubs at every step, in a process which starts at a local level and takes a full 12 months to complete.
  • (7) A subtle curved line due to pneumothorax is then detected by means of the Hough transform.
  • (8) Perry Boys Abroad, by Ian Hough, has been released by Pennant Publishing
  • (9) If he can’t produce, then he’ll be as bad as Hillary.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Melissa Hough, president of the board of trustees of the Slate Belt Heritage Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
  • (10) The algorithm is based on the Hough transformation and can determine the parameters describing an ellipse even in low signal-to-noise ratio images and when the contour is only partially visualized such as in non-perfused regions of the left ventricular myocardium.
  • (11) A) There are 2 types of bone conduction implant: the "Audiant Bone Conduction" system of Hough-Vernon (Xomed), where an outside electromagnetic coil sends signals transcutaneously to a magnetic screw embedded on the temporal bone.
  • (12) Case study Julia Hough, a 39-year-old emergency services call handler in Dorset, was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2002.
  • (13) EGK Red carpet host Ryan Seacrest and actor Julianne Hough arrive at the Golden Globes with matching bouffants.
  • (14) In this paper we present you our clinical experience of 2 cases in which we implanted the Audiant Bone Conductor (by J. Hough).
  • (15) We report a case of an adrenal lipoma, a very rare lesion first described in 1899 and of which a total of six cases have previously been reported (Lange 1966, Page, De Lellis & Hough 1986).
  • (16) This group was tentatively assigned to His 14 on the basis of the results on X-ray crystallographic and chemical modification studies [Hough et al.
  • (17) PopCap Games , whose highly entertaining and child-friendly game Plants vs Zombies was nominated for a Bafta last year, feature "player profiles" on their website, including "Barbara Simpson, 36 – Connecticut mom plays Bejeweled Blitz with a baby on her lap" and "Ann Hough, 48 – Mother, daughter bond over Plants vs Zombies".
  • (18) EGK Actress Julianne Hough arrives at the Golden Globes.
  • (19) The stenotic change was detected on the basis of the reference diameter estimated by Hough transformation.
  • (20) Four of 33 tumors were classified as benign according to the Weiss, van Slooten, or Hough systems (tumor tissue was unavailable for seven patients).