What's the difference between lib and nib?

Lib


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To castrate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
  • (3) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
  • (4) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
  • (5) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
  • (6) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
  • (7) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
  • (8) On the mothers' internet forum Mumsnet, 44% of women who voted in a post-debate survey said they were now thinking of voting Lib Dem, compared with 23% three weeks ago.
  • (9) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
  • (10) In order to clarify the development of mandibular movements associated with growth and development of the stomatognathic system, we compared the mandibular movements of children with normal occlusion at different Hellman's dental age between IIA and IIIB, during tooth tapping movements using the following 7 different kinds of frequency; ad lib.
  • (11) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
  • (12) The Conservatives have held back the development of garden cities on the scale necessary, but if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government, we will ensure at least 10 get under way – with up to five along this new garden cities railway, bringing new homes and jobs to the brainbelt of south-east England.” The Lib Dems insist they are planning to act in the national interest and are not motivated by electoral considerations.
  • (13) Liverpool's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party-political – it was passed from a Labour council to the Lib Dems and now back to Labour – nor is it unique to Toxteth.
  • (14) Nick Clegg sounded exasperated, but it is Lib Dem convention to let members make the party’s policies by democratic vote.
  • (15) Rather than challenging the Lib Dem policy on Trident, Miliband chose to criticise Cameron's comments about the renewal of Trident in last Thursday's leadership debate.
  • (16) Labour and, sotto voce, some Lib Dems, counter that Clegg did not need to cede this much ground – there is no clear evidence that the markets will impose higher interest rates if the deficit is not tackled more quickly than Labour planned.
  • (17) You have got the trade unions, Greens, the Lib Dems, Labour, a Conservative government.
  • (18) James, who is an MEP for south-east England, was responsible for one of Ukip’s great near-misses, coming within 2,000 votes of unseating the Lib Dems at the Eastleigh by-election in 2013 in a result that shocked political observers.
  • (19) We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.
  • (20) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.

Nib


Definition:

  • (n.) A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
  • (n.) The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
  • (n.) The points of a pen; also, the pointed part of a pen; a short pen adapted for insertion in a holder.
  • (n.) One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a nib; to point; to mend the point of; as, to nib a pen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) GL-AIa reacted strongly with beta-glucosyl-Yariv antigen, GL-NIa reacted weakly, whereas GL-NIb and GL-AIb showed no reaction with the antigen.
  • (2) Barbitone and NIB raised the concentration of noradrenaline in two of the regions examined whereas the O2-substituted derivative had a smaller effect; the dopamine concentration was slightly raised by NIB and O2IB.
  • (3) One of the best staining methods to demonstrate NIB, for example, is to exhibit it as a reddish body stained by Luna, with a contrast of HBsAg counterstained purple in color by aldehyde fuchsin after thiosulfation.
  • (4) Earlier manuscripts are written with different ink and wooden nibs.
  • (5) Recall antigen skin testing indicated anergy in the IB group, while the NIB group showed moderately diminished reaction (p less than 0.001).
  • (6) There were 40 nucleotides different in the coding region, which resulted in four amino acid changes in the NIb gene and six in the CP gene, and seven nucleotides different in the 3'-untranslated region.
  • (7) In contrast with the high efficiency of proteolytic processing at the NIb-capsid protein cleavage site, processing at the ends of the PPV protease was not complete, suggesting that the PPV polyprotein, like that of other potyviruses, contains cleavage sites with different properties.
  • (8) The nib 1 allele of yeast confers a sensitivity to an endogenous plasmid, 2 mu DNA, in that nib 1 strains bearing 2 mu DNA (cir+) exhibit a reduction in division potential.
  • (9) Experimental solubilities are reported for anthracene and carbazole in binary dibutyl ether plus n-hexadecane and dibutyl ether plus squalane solvent mixtures at 25 degrees C. Results of these measurements, used in conjunction with the extended nearly ideal binary solvent (NIBS) model, enabled calculation of the carbazole-dibutyl ether association constant.
  • (10) Amino acid sequences of the cytoplasmic cylindrical inclusion protein (CIP), large nuclear inclusion protein (NIb), and coat protein (CP) of potyviruses were re-examined in light of reported serological relationships, and correlated with known and deduced biological functions.
  • (11) Two napins (nIa and nIb), isolated from Brassica napus (rapeseed) seeds, have been sequenced.
  • (12) Furthermore, in nib 1 strains, an uncharacterized extrachromosomal element can cause a less severe reduction of division potential in the absence of intact 2 mu DNA.
  • (13) The genetic organization of PRSV RNA is tentatively proposed to be VPg-5' leader-63K NT-52K HC-Pro-46K-72K CI-6K-48K NIa-59K NIb-35K coat protein-3' non-coding region-poly(A) tract.
  • (14) 2-Phenylethylamine was extracted from cocoa nibs and chocolates and analysed by coupled gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy.
  • (15) A close relation between NIB and NANBV is highly suspected because of much similarities in histology, histochemistry, age distribution, and electron microscopy.
  • (16) The sequences of cDNA clones encoding most of the NIb protein, the coat protein and the 3' untranslated region of papaya ringspot virus (PRV) strains W and P have been determined.
  • (17) During the finishing period, there were no differences in C concentrations between NIB and IB; however, IS had lower levels (P less than .05) than both bull treatments.
  • (18) NWY-NIBS: Origin: A strain III of New zealand white rabbits imported from the Jakson Laboratory in USA.
  • (19) These results are consistent with the view that NIB are a good marker for type II pneumocytes in so-called sclerosing hemangioma, and that the two characteristic types of spaces were formed in different ways, thus favoring the theory that S cells are an immature form of type II pneumocytes.
  • (20) Four anti-complementary neutral (GL-NIa and GL-NIb) and acidic (GL-AIa and GL-AIb) polysaccharides were purified from the leaves of Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer.

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