What's the difference between ilk and wilk?

Ilk


Definition:

  • (a.) Same; each; every.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We show that preservation of the correct PE carboxyl-terminal amino acid sequence, REDLK, allows the toxins containing TGF alpha carboxyl inserts to retain significant cytotoxicity against target cells, since another molecule (PE4E-TGF alpha-ILK) containing a nonfunctional carboxyl-terminal sequence was over 100-fold less active.
  • (2) We need to get back something of that ilk – where each team has three or four players from the home countries at the start of every match."
  • (3) Fashion's current preoccupation with art is effectively the death knell of the minimalist look – most art (Donald Judd and his ilk aside) is about getting messy.
  • (4) It is as honest as the report that emerged the same day from the world’s climate scientists, which demonstrated that if Exxon Mobil and its ilk keep their promise to dig up their reserves and burn them, then the planet will no longer function effectively.
  • (5) It's harder to romanticise living in such a dwelling in NYC – a Londoner can live in a bedsit and be reminded of Fleur and her ilk, but a New Yorker might be apt to think of SROs – but not impossible; in order to survive here, you have to develop the ability to romanticise just about anything.
  • (6) It's a little sweetly, wishy-washy in the body, but, for a beer of its ilk, it has a real thirst-quenching bitterness to it.
  • (7) It is a much more natural creed for rightists, like Charles, who dream of an ancient pastoral world where material goods were the prerogative of his ilk.
  • (8) Never mind that it was the overwhelmingly Tory shire votes of Jacob Rees-Mogg ’s ilk that swung the referendum, while two thirds of Labour voters were remainers.
  • (9) Some of us enjoyed it so much that we were all for Griffin and his ilk appearing on television all the time, purely in the spirit of political fair play, you understand.
  • (10) The trouble is that these supposed victims are very, very able to defend themselves and their ilk.
  • (11) You go to an amazing venue, there are influential people in the room of all ilks, people you wouldn’t normally meet in your day job.
  • (12) But it's clear that Chimpanzee and its ilk have strayed from the evolutionary path of nature documentary film-making.
  • (13) Forbes and his ilk have reached a sort of quantum theory of food: the more they look, the more they see.
  • (14) Democracy forgets you, no one cares what you think, and governments will spend a lot less on you and your ilk.
  • (15) Perhaps what Claire Alexander at the University of Manchester calls the “jovial bigotry” of Farage and his ilk has helped channel their rage.
  • (16) "If our critical culture handled films of this ilk with something other than kid gloves, we might not have to continually address these same, tired questions.
  • (17) But there is no need to apologise to somebody of that ilk.” Leicester are on an 11-game winless run and are bottom of the Premier League going into Saturday’s match at West Ham United, who are fourth.
  • (18) He told the Guardian: “I am delighted that Eddie Redmayne won [a Golden Globe for best actor], but we can’t just have a culture dominated by Eddie Redmayne and James Blunt and their ilk.
  • (19) A Mail Online columnist declared : “Next time you hear someone say we are safer IN the EU – remember Brussels.” And in an astonishing removal of guilt from the terrorist murderers, added: “Merkel – and her ilk – blew up Brussels.” I will vote to remain within the European Union, even though I am critical of its current incarnation and want to change it.
  • (20) Though frequently labelled super-injunctions, they are not of the same ilk as the case that prompted the original coining of the term, because it referred to the fact that the very existence of the injunction must remain secret.

Wilk


Definition:

  • (n.) See Whelk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By a comparison with the published infrared spectra of the water in model systems [Mohr, S.C., Wilk, W.D., & Barrow, G.M.
  • (2) Campaign director Alex Wilks said: "This deal may sound great in London, but could be lethal in Kabul.
  • (3) Crowley, the chief political correspondent at CNN, was variously accused of having "committed an act of journalistic terror" (Rush Limbaugh) to having committed an act similar to John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln (the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson) when she fact-checked Romney in Tuesday's debate.
  • (4) Multivariate ANOVA (3 Conditions x 5 Trials) with repeated measures revealed a significant main effect for trials (Wilks' Lambda = .80; F = 2.5; df = 4.42; p = .05) for eyeblink rate.
  • (5) "The benefits of an offshore supergrid are not simply to allow offshore wind farms to connect; if you have additional capacity, which you will do within these lines, it will allow power trading between countries and that improves EU competitiveness," said Wilkes.
  • (6) This would allow Europe to replace fossil fuel imports with a thriving European wind energy industry generating large amounts of zero-emissions renewable power and technology exports," said Justin Wilkes, director of policy at the trade body.
  • (7) After Wilkes's battle, wrote the historian Robert Hargreaves, "it gradually became accepted that the public had a constitutional right to know what their elected representatives were up to".
  • (8) Rupert and I will have an ongoing dialogue in the weeks to come See the email 10 Nov 2010 James Murdoch has a telephone conversation with Hunt 15 Nov 2010 James and Michel arrange to meet Hunt, while Michel tries again to arrange a meeting with Vince Cable's adviser Giles Wilkes 11.23am Frederic Michel to Matthew Anderson: Hunt is calling JRM [James] re tonight – problem 11.32am Michel to James: Hunt meeting –urgent.
  • (9) The breakdown of beta-casein (caseinolytic activity) by the bovine pituitary multicatalytic proteinase complex (MPC) is initiated by a fourth active site different from the previously described chymotrypsin-like activity (cleavage of Cbz-Gly-Gly-Leu-p-nitroanilide, where Cbz is benzyloxycarbonyl), trypsin-like activity (cleavage of Cbz-D-Ala-Leu-Arg-2-naphthylamide), and peptidylglutamyl peptide bond-hydrolyzing (PGP) activity (cleavage of Cbz-Leu-Leu-Glu-2-naphthylamide) (Yu, B., Pereira, M. E., and Wilk, S. (1991) J. Biol.
  • (10) Out of the many regional data only the values of the mean amplitude and the standard deviation of the mean phase shift showed high discriminative power for separating the three groups, with an average squared canonic correlation of 0.5 and a Wilks lambda of 0.22, respectively.
  • (11) Statistically significant independent predictors of mortality included leukocytosis, concurrent major diseases, intravenous drug abuse, transfusion of 5 or more units of packed erythrocytes, and the presence of a bloody nasogastric aspirate or hematemesis (Wilk's lambda statistic = 0.369, p less than 0.0001).
  • (12) A modification of Wilke boot casting was utilized for four patients following reduction of a dislocated hip prosthesis.
  • (13) Wilkes McDermid, another blogger , said that he first noticed the trend a few years ago.
  • (14) Among the changes that could stem or reverse the democratic drift would be stronger powers for MPs to hold ministers to account, and a written constitution to ensure institutions such as the Electoral Commission were not vulnerable to being abolished by future governments, said Wilks-Heeg.
  • (15) Photograph: Ania Wilk-Lawton for the Observer John Adams is a stay-at-home dad and blogs at dadbloguk.com .
  • (16) There's an exhibition at Tate Liverpool by someone called Piet Mondrian, who we're pretty sure sat on the bench for Holland at Uruguay '30 (Mondrian and his Studios, 6 June-5 October), and also some concerts by Robbie Williams (various UK locations, 13 June to 12 July; football fan Robbie will be free for the final on 13 July) who in the early 2000s formed a useful partnership down the left side with Jonathan Wilkes.
  • (17) However, Barnes-Dacey was sceptical about whether Wilks would be able to find anyone in Istanbul who could be accurately be described as the political arm of the FSA.
  • (18) The basis of the method was to describe the EEG signals by autoregressive models and to test the normality of the regression residuals with the Shapiro-Wilk statistic.
  • (19) The results were compared with an earlier analysis by Johnston, Johnston, Wilkes, Burns & Thorpe (1984) of ratings of the same situations and with the Fear Questionnaire of Marks & Mathews (1979).
  • (20) In this short essay on the LSE website , Stuary Wilks-Heeg says the term "hung parliament" only came in in the 1970s.

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