What's the difference between keech and ketch?

Keech


Definition:

  • (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The observation of occasional triangular and dual-intensity projections and the interconversion of all three projection forms in tilting studies indicates that this tetrameric enzyme has a structure very similar to the tetrahedron-like configuration previously proposed for pyruvate carboxylases from vertebrate sources [Mayer, F., Wallace, J. C. and Keech, D. B.
  • (2) Eleven of nineteen residues in the region of biotin attachment, when compared to pyruvate carboxylase from avian liver (Rylatt, D. B., Keech, D. B., and Wallace, J. C. (1977) Arch.
  • (3) The effects of Mg2+ on the reaction kinetics of the enzyme-[14C]carboxybiotin complex with 2-oxobutyrate were similar to those observed with the sheep enzyme by Goodall, Baldwin, Wallace & Keech [(1981) Biochem.

Ketch


Definition:

  • (n.) An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
  • (n.) A hangman. See Jack Ketch.
  • (v. t.) To catch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bedroom at JP Ketch cottage, St John’s Point.
  • (2) Photograph: Alamy There are whales and dolphins just off the coast, and it is possible to avoid the more commercial whale-watching trips; I sailed with skipper João Vieira on the Ilhéu , an elegant 1946 ketch.
  • (3) They were refused passports, but Mosley stood by his rights under Magna Carta and bought a 60-ton ketch to sail to Lisbon in 1949 (the day before departure, passports arrived in the post).

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