What's the difference between lang and lank?

Lang


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Long.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several investigators have attempted to correlate chromosomal abnormalities with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CLS), but none of them have been conclusive.
  • (2) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (3) We spent a lot of time there and would bar hop all around Camden, ending up at Marathon for a kebab as it was always the last place open.’ Photograph: Robert Lang Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘This is Loraine, when late one night we ended up at a friend’s house who had been given a lifesize medical skeleton.
  • (4) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
  • (5) It was through Lange’s vision and determination, along with that of many others, that this became possible.
  • (6) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Tim Lang , professor of food policy at London's City University, said there were deeper structural issues to global food market price rises that politicians were not taking seriously and which were hurting the poor disproportionately.
  • (7) Lang was scheduled to give evidence later on Thursday.
  • (8) An Arabic version of the 108 item Wolpe-Lang Fear Survey Schedule (FSS III) was administered to four Egyptian groups of undergraduates, in order to estimate test reliability.
  • (9) Some have speculated that it may be a clever trap because, if the children are liable for capital gains tax and are forced to sell their shares, the only person they can sell to is a lineal descendent of Lang Hancock – that is, Gina Rinehart.
  • (10) Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy revealed that insertion of 20 alpha-hydroxycholesterol into human erythrocyte membranes (10% of total membrane sterol) immobilized the lipid acyl chains to a degree equivalent to enriching total membrane cholesterol by 50% (Rooney, M.W., Lange, Y. and Kauffman, J.W.
  • (11) "It is mostly women who live in isolated and mountainous areas who are being trafficked across the border, because there is no information for us," said 18-year-old Lang, from the Tay ethnic minority, who walked across the border illegally and was sold to a Chinese family by a friend.
  • (12) The predicted sigma 2 polypeptides of the Lang and Dearing strains display 98 percent homology at the amino acid level.
  • (13) Dhu was seen and discharged in under an hour; the recorded diagnosis, from Dr Anne Lang, was of “behavioural gain”, although Lang told the court her actual diagnosis was musculoskeletal pain.
  • (14) We present a mother and child affected with Cornelia de Lange syndrome and raise the possibility of autosomal dominant inheritance.
  • (15) I accepted that she did have pain but my clinical impression was that she was a normal young lady,” Lang said, adding that her notes, which have been criticised as brief, reflected both the business of the emergency department that night and her believe that Dhu was generally well.
  • (16) Cornelia de Lange syndrome is a collection of congenital anomalies.
  • (17) I had absolutely no idea that she was as sick as she was.” Lang said she was told by police that Dhu had been fine when arrested, and that, “after she found out that she would have to spend time incarcerated there was a directly proportional increase with her pain and anxiety”.
  • (18) The "De Lange" curves measured in this way can be described by a first-order high-pass filter in combination with a fourth-order low-pass filter.
  • (19) Trudie Lang, professor of global health research at Oxford University, said it was important that the response from the research community was faster than with Ebola.
  • (20) The author then contrasts the approach described with positions taken by Langs, Gill and Sandler, and discusses why Freud's recommendations may have been neglected.

Lank


Definition:

  • (superl.) Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  • (superl.) Languid; drooping.
  • (v. i. & t.) To become lank; to make lank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
  • (2) Comparison with the data of Swenander-Lanke (1957) [Acta odont.
  • (3) A handsome, lank-haired South American striker moving to Manchester United from a high profile Ligue 1 club?
  • (4) Plastic-adherent lymphokine-activated natural killer (LANK) cells were generated from nylon wool-nonadherent murine splenocytes cultured in recombinant interleukin-2 (IL-2).
  • (5) But that morning we see afresh the lank, lost squalor in which he is choosing to live, the wilful self-destructiveness, and finally we understand the inevitable flow of cannabis from him to his younger siblings.
  • (6) She describes her insecurities: her high forehead (as a teenager, she longed to look like Doris Day, but everyone said she looked like Amelia Earhart, who she thought looked like Dwight Eisenhower); the bump in her nose, which she tried to fix by sleeping with a clothes peg on it; her sunken eyes; and, her greatest bugbear, her hair – thin, lank, flyaway.
  • (7) Adherent LANK cells proliferated rapidly and closely resembled NK cells in their morphology, cytotoxic reactivity, and surface marker expression.
  • (8) The present study extends our previous observation (Kasambalides and Lanks, J.
  • (9) Mice with severe combined immunodeficiency (scid) were used to generate adherent LANK cells to define the role of T cells in LANK cell development.
  • (10) If some greasy, lank-haired French lad called Didier came and stayed in your house when you were 11, wearing his rucksack on his front, you are pretty much guaranteed to vote "non" on the big day.
  • (11) Anything that can make a superstar of a lank-haired, slighly gauche enthusiast such as Moore has to have some cultural interest.
  • (12) The image-analyzing system described in the companion paper (Thorén and Lanke, 1989) is considered from a statistical point of view.
  • (13) Scid lymphocytes responded to IL-2 by becoming adherent LANK cells with potent NK-like activity, suggesting that soluble lymphokines other than IL-2 that may have been produced by T cells were not required for the generation of LANK cell activity in mice.
  • (14) The once-imposing spin doctor looks terrible – cheeks hollowed, jeans unfilled, hair lank, a tube inserted into his stomach to feed him – but is talking with such tenderness, such love and hope.
  • (15) This is a rather surprising turn of events, considering that Boyd, a lank-haired midfielder, was reported to be in talks with Crystal Palace this time yesterday after the two clubs had agreed terms over the transfer.
  • (16) The rice flour and salt packet together cost Sri Lanka Rs 1.50 (US$0.06), which is significantly less than the glucose based ORS, which costs Sri Lanks Rs 5.00 (US$0.20).
  • (17) A cartoon published in 1904 , during the height of a contentious campaign to eradicate smallpox, shows the celebrated Brazilian public health pioneer Oswaldo Cruz combing degenerate slum dwellers out of the lank hair of an ugly head labelled “ favella ”.
  • (18) This is the second report of listeriosis in Sri Lanke.

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