What's the difference between jerkin and perkin?

Jerkin


Definition:

  • (n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
  • (n.) A male gyrfalcon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
  • (2) The degree of protection afforded by three jerkin G-suit systems (British, Canadian and Swedish) using different pressures against the adverse physiological effects produced by high levels (50 mm Hg and 70 mm Hg) of positive pressure breathing (PPB) was investigated at ground level in 10 male subjects.
  • (3) Get in the formation, let’s start triangle jerkin’ Included in the list mostly because it rhymes “merkin” with “triangle jerkin”, this song began as a joke to be played only once in Australia (in Aussie slang, “map of Tasmania” is a euphemism for female pubic hair) and is Amanda’s statement for freedom of expression via pubic hair .
  • (4) January 14, 2016 Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) The Oscars are gonna be so white that Chris Rock is gonna have to walk through the back door of the venue, like the olden days.
  • (5) Respiration was recorded using a jerkin plethysmograph.
  • (6) Like a children's story, all the Drax staff had to wear bright red jerkins.
  • (7) R&B isn't quite as staggeringly strange and futuristic as it seemed at the start of the noughties: in perhaps the decade's solitary example of genuinely odd and innovative music that wasn't by Radiohead finding a mass audience, producers Timbaland, the Neptunes and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins competed to see who could make the weirdest-sounding No 1 single.
  • (8) Black women on magazine covers in September showcase our greatness | Morgan Jerkins Read more Take Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg, who published a video on cultural appropriation that went viral and has pushed back against racist stereotypes .

Perkin


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of weak perry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) THE PERKINS FILE Born Susan Elizabeth Perkins, 22 September 1969 in Croydon, south London.
  • (2) This investigation was designed to determine the accuracy of a clinical system, which included 12 ICU bedside stations monitored by a medical mass spectrometer (Perkin-Elmer RMS III, Pomona, CA).
  • (3) Using the Perkin Elmer flame photometer sodium and potassium concentrations have been measured in muscle fibers from the m. ileofibularis of Rana temporaria.
  • (4) Averaged Pulsair measurements agreed well with Perkins applanation tonometry values under general anaesthesia.
  • (5) Perkins was spotted in a small elevator in the building, wearing blue overalls and surrounded by tools and building equipment, and smiling at a woman he came across.
  • (6) A selective ion monitor for the Perkin-Elmer Model 270 gas chromatograph mass spectrometer is described.
  • (7) Kleiner Perkins’ lawyer Lynne Hermle said in closing arguments that Pao’s claims were “meritless and frivolous”.
  • (8) Later that day, Collins, Perkins and Jones were observed meeting again at the Castle pub, moving on to the upmarket Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar in nearby Exmouth Market.
  • (9) Modification of a Perkin-Elmer 603 atomic absorption spectrophotometer by adding a high-intensity tungsten-halogen lamp for background correction significantly improved the detection limit for elements that have analytical wavelengths in the near-ultraviolet and visible regions.
  • (10) Calculations were performed by PE680 and SNGLE programs on data obtained using a Perkin-Elmer Model 3600 data station.
  • (11) Using a Perkin-Elmer 5000 Z instrument with HGA 500 and L'vov platform and by application of oxygen ashing at approx.
  • (12) Some, like Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures, have deep links to Google… This reminds many of the YouTube acquisition.
  • (13) However, the jury sided with Kleiner Perkins’ case that Pao was fired because she was bad at her job, and was divisive and not a team player.
  • (14) Belcher shot Perkins multiple times in their home on 1 December, and then drove to team headquarters, where he killed himself in front of his coach and general manager after telling them he "wasn't able to get enough help".
  • (15) Vaporizer-equipped machines were tested for inapparent contamination with halothane and enflurane using Perkin-Elmer mass spectrometer.
  • (16) Paul Hollywood rushed to the defence of the show, claiming the fuss would upset fellow judge Mary Berry: Paul Hollywood (@PaulHollywood) At the end of the day Mary & I need something to judge, it's not about melted ice cream but about what's presented to US... #bingate August 27, 2014 Paul Hollywood (@PaulHollywood) I'm glad Mary's not on twitter this would upset her.. #enoughnow August 27, 2014 Presenter Sue Perkins also tried to calm the controversy: Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) Iain's Alaska was out of the freezer for 40 secs.
  • (17) 6346 have been isolated free of each other after successive treatments of the walls with trichloroacetic acid and lysozyme: (a) a mucopeptide consisting of glucosamine, muramic acid, alphain-diaminopimelic acid, glutamic acid and alanine in the molar proportions 1.0:0.8:1.0:1.2:1.7; (b) an insoluble protein; (c) teichoic acid containing phosphorus and glucose in equimolar amounts; (d) teichuronic acid containing equimolar amounts of N-acetylgalactosamine and glucuronic acid, as found by Janczura, Perkins & Rogers (1961).
  • (18) Previous studies (Furneaux, H. M., Perkins, K. K., Freyer, G. A., Arenas, J., and Hurwitz, J.
  • (19) The trial has revealed alleged sexual discrimination not just at Kleiner Perkins but across the tech companies of Silicon Valley, roughly 40 miles south of San Francisco.
  • (20) "I haven't seen any bodies in the street," says social worker Prosper Perkins.

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