What's the difference between lance and mold?

Lance


Definition:

  • (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • (n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
  • (v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.17pm BST Meanwhile... Lance Lynn is having a bad day over at Busch Stadium.
  • (2) They revealed that Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died in searing temperatures on the Brecon Beacons, had been about to begin a new post in the office of the education secretary.
  • (3) Lance Sergeant Darren Shaw, whose daughter was two weeks old when he left for Afghanistan, said the parade would bring closure to the Afghan tour "then we can get ready and move on to what our next tasks are".
  • (4) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
  • (5) Six years and three months on, it was Landis's predecessor, Lance Armstrong in the eye of the storm as speculation built over what he might or might not have revealed to Oprah Winfrey.
  • (6) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
  • (7) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
  • (8) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
  • (9) He said the "blue on blue" death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard in Sangin during their tour in the winter of 2009-10 was symptomatic of the problems British soldiers faced in tackling the Taliban.
  • (10) Cardinals 6 Brewers 4 Top 3rd: Lance Berkman follows Pujols with a ground out to second.
  • (11) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
  • (12) It is a major blow to the image of a team that commissioned anti-doping consultant Nicki Vance to conduct an independent review of their operations and staff in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lance Stephenson has become unstuck in time.
  • (14) And it worked by finally lancing the boil that had been swelling ugly all week.
  • (15) In the chaos that followed, and believing he was firing at an insurgent, a sniper, Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham, took aim.
  • (16) In the wake of the Lance Armstrong case , the revelations emerging from the Operation Puerto trial in Spain and the dire picture painted by the Australian Crime Commission investigation into organised crime and drugs, the Wada director general David Howman has admitted the problem is getting "bigger and more serious" and is "getting too big for sport to manage".
  • (17) This is the first reference in the medical literature of the unilateral localization in the Lance-Adams syndrome.
  • (18) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
  • (19) Previous experiments had shown that motoneurons are specified to project to their appropriate target muscles prior to axon outgrowth and that they respond to cues in the limb in order to grow to those targets (C. Lance-Jones and L. Landmesser, 1980, J. Physiol.
  • (20) I got Lance’s number from one of the boys at St Helens.

Mold


Definition:

  • (n.) A spot; a blemish; a mole.
  • (v.) Alt. of Mould
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Mould
  • (n.) Alt. of Mould
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Mould
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Mould
  • (n.) Alt. of Mould
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Mould

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
  • (2) Results showed no consistent difference in either the total viable fungal content or the number of different mold species encountered between the labeled and unlabeled foods.
  • (3) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
  • (4) The amoeba, however, could not use yeasts, molds, or a green alga as a nutritional source.
  • (5) The control flaps consisted of intact muscle without any evidence of tissue transformation, whereas the flaps treated with osteogenin and demineralized bone matrix were entirely transformed into cancellous bone that matched the exact shape of the mold.
  • (6) With the proper choice of packaging, molded nitroglycerin tablets stabilized with povidone maintained acceptable potency for up to 2 years at 26 degrees when strip packaged in unit doses.
  • (7) Reality television molded Trump into the ratings and polls-obsessed performer that we know today, and created a new generation of Americans ready to be entertained by him.
  • (8) The ear canal molds were analyzed in terms of tortuosity, caliber, and degree of funneling.
  • (9) The feeding test indicated a relatively low toxicity of molded bread.
  • (10) In all cases, an increase in mold population was concomitant with elevated carbon dioxide concentrations, which indicated the sensitivity of this parameter for measuring fungal activity.
  • (11) Electron microscopic evidence demonstrated that dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) induces formation of giant intranuclear microfilament bundles in the interphase nucleus of a cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium.
  • (12) These flaws were controlled by cooling the metal mold assembly and the cast immediately after the pouring of the molten cerrobend alloy, evenly with water.
  • (13) Several lines of experimental evidence suggest that an anterior-posterior gradient of cyclic AMP exists in migrating pseudoplasmodia of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, and that this gradient may be responsible for control of the proportions of stalk and spore cells that form during culmination.
  • (14) The Werner syndrome should not, therefore, be forced into the mold of premature aging but should be studied on its own merits as a condition which may provide us with clues to the pathogenesis of many important problems.
  • (15) The nucleoproteins resulting from digestion of the nuclei of the true slime mold Pysarum polycephalum with micrococcal nuclease have been resolved according to the size classes in linear sucrose gradients containg 0.5 M NaCl, and analysed for DNA, RNA and protein content.
  • (16) A molded rubber sleeve connecting the prosthesis and the thigh was found to enhance this effect so that suction suspension occurred during the entire swing phase.
  • (17) The biological test systems utilized here include humans and other mammals, bacteria, Drosophila, yeasts, molds, and plants.
  • (18) Some responses of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum to ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation were investigated by analyzing two aspects of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) excision repair in the vegetative cells: (i) the fate of thymine-containing dimers and (ii) the production and rejoining of single-strand breaks.
  • (19) Structures resembling red blood cells have been seen in mummies, but have been considered by some to be artifacts or molds.
  • (20) The procedure involved the transfer of heavy mold-form inocula to flasks that contained small volumes of brain heart infusion broth.

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