What's the difference between keck and seck?

Keck


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit.
  • (n.) An effort to vomit; queasiness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An analysis of the results obtained with the use of the Keck and Kelly osteotomy in conjunction with resection of the osseous prominence is then performed on 18 such procedures.
  • (2) The enzymes have been purified and have been shown to differ in some of their molecular properties [Mett, H., Keck, W., Funk, A.
  • (3) Activation of vaccinia virus late gene transcription is dependent on DNA replication and the expression of three genes: A1L, A2L, and G8R (J. G. Keck, C. J. Baldick, Jr., and B. Moss, Cell 61:801-809, 1990).
  • (4) Finkelstein used the Mosfire (Multi-Object Spectrometer for Infra-red Exploration) instrument on the Keck telescope to survey 43 distant galaxies that had been glimpsed by the Hubble Space Telescope but never confirmed.
  • (5) When combined the two domains catalyze mannitol phosphorylation at the expense of phospho-HPr (van Weeghel, R. P., Meyer, G. H., Pas, H. H., Keck, W. H., and Robillard, G. T., Biochemistry in press).
  • (6) James Gauderman , professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) and his team, who have run the Children’s Health Study for two decades and who first identified a link between air pollution and impaired children’s lung function, report that as a result of the clean-up, today’s children can breathe more easily.
  • (7) Keck first drew attention to this entity in 1962, and was followed by Lam in the same year.
  • (8) The astronomers used the Keck and Gemini telescopes on the island, according to a study in the journal Science.
  • (9) Since Keck described the tarsal tunnel syndrome (TTS) in 1962, it has been one of the most frequently diagnosed of the entrapment neuropathies.
  • (10) The assignments were based on coupling constants taken from Keck et al.
  • (11) These two newly discovered supermassive black holes were found by analysing data from the Hubble Space Telescope and two of the biggest ground-based telescopes in the world, the Gemini North and Keck 2 facilities in Hawaii.
  • (12) Researchers detected the galaxy with a new infrared instrument that was fitted last year to the Keck telescope that sits on the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

Seck


Definition:

  • (a.) Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is what enabled them to break the taboo, to break the silence.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An exhibition depicting the years Chad was ruled by Habré, at the Douta Secke Cultural Centre in Dakar.
  • (2) Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Senegal's health minister, told the Women Deliver conference on Wednesday that her country had committed to providing family planning services nationwide in an effort to increase coverage from 12%.
  • (3) They were identified as Freddy Budiman, an Indonesian citizen; Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke and Michael Titus Igweh, from Nigeria; and Seck Osmane, from Senegal.
  • (4) Senegal’s minister of health, Awa Marie Coll Seck, said: “The world community must realise that to make progress faster, countries need to follow their own plans, which may be different from plans drawn by donors; the one-size-fits-all does not work.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, speaks at the opening of the international conference on family planning in Bali.
  • (5) We have involved religious leaders, who are now saying, 'We need to protect women'; this is very important," Coll-Seck said.
  • (6) The most important proposed direct microscopic method for the detection of moulds were critically compared in 9 different nonfluid foods, of which 7 were naturally and 2 were artifically moulded.--Neither the Rot fragment test, nor the Howard Mould count or the NaOH treatment method proposed by Mossel (1975) were satisfying with non-fluid foods.--A significant improvement of the direct microscopic detection in the Breed-smear could be achieved by selective product specific staining of the fungi elements.--For low protein foods, a modified Pianese staining, and for low polysaccharide foods the Perjod-Schiff reaction proved to be appropriate and easy to carry out.--The slides of the selectively stained Breed-smears also allow a microscopic examination with high magnifications, so that a differenciation of fungus spores and hyphaes is possible.--Fungus spores, yeast cells and hyphal fragments can be counted by the method of Seck (1976).

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