What's the difference between liken and rubber?

Liken


Definition:

  • (a.) To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
  • (a.) To make or cause to be like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
  • (2) A Liberal Democrat MP who likened the atrocities against Palestinians by "the Jews" to the Holocaust has made a public apology in the face of widespread anger.
  • (3) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
  • (4) But Micheline Mwendike, 29, likened the concert to getting drunk to escape problems.
  • (5) A Republican conservation group in Utah likened it at the time to “selling the house to pay the light bill ”.
  • (6) Tuvalu prime minister Enele Sopoaga even likened climate change to “a weapon of mass destruction”.
  • (7) Myners – a non-executive director of Co-op group – was also scathing in his assessment of the board members after asking them a simple retail question and likening their inability to answer to that of Paul Flowers, former chairman of the Co-op bank, who had stumbled over basic questions posed by the Treasury select committee last year.
  • (8) She likened the outside prayers to an occupation and added: "For those who like to talk about world war two, to talk about occupation, we could talk about, for once, the occupation of our territory.
  • (9) For many Jews, the unique horror of the Holocaust makes any such attempt to liken the Nazis to the communists highly offensive.
  • (10) Instead, it can be likened to the febrile state in which an initial and brief activation of both nonshivering thermogenesis in BAT and shivering thermogenesis in muscles occurs only during the rising phase of the fever and is suppressed as soon as a stable hyperthermic state is reached.
  • (11) Stay (sung primarily by Detroit) became a mutant No 1 hit, a pop culture flashpoint parodied by both French & Saunders and Newman & Baddiel, who likened Fahey's voice to a foghorn.
  • (12) However, human rights groups claim too little progress has been made on sweeping away the kafala system that bonds labourers to their employer and has been likened to modern slavery.
  • (13) Outrage has been voiced by politicians across the spectrum amid concerns that the attack, which lasted 10 seconds and was captured on CCTV, will intensify what has been likened to a civil war between radical factions on the left and right.
  • (14) Another likened the NHS reforms to the poll tax," says Montgomerie in his article.
  • (15) The report, Dying Waiting for Treatment , likened the Republican response to the opioid crisis to “using a piece of chewing gum to patch a cracked dam”.
  • (16) Richard Corliss of Time magazine called her performance one of the top 10 of the year; Roger Ebert said it made her a star; John Griffiths from Us Weekly praised her "husky voice and fiery hair" and likened her to Lindsay Lohan.
  • (17) Fresh details have emerged of the police operation against the terrorists who stormed the Bataclan concert hall in Paris , with one officer likening the scene on the ground floor to “something from Dante’s hell”.
  • (18) Hence his fondness for placing the camera far away from its subjects: Hidden coolly watches as a child's small world falls apart, his cries muffled by the intervening space; and Code Unknown concludes by showing how life, likened by Haneke to a flea circus, indifferently unravels on a Paris boulevard.
  • (19) These growths are likened to those observed by Japanese neurosurgeons since 1960.
  • (20) He quoted the Israeli writer Amos Oz, likening the deal as "a fitting Chekhovian end".

Rubber


Definition:

  • (n.) India rubber; caoutchouc.
  • (n.) An overshoe made of India rubber.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, rubs.
  • (n.) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.
  • (n.) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.
  • (n.) A whetstone; a rubstone.
  • (n.) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.
  • (n.) The cushion of an electrical machine.
  • (n.) One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath.
  • (n.) Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.
  • (n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
  • (2) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
  • (3) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
  • (4) Dynamics in the changes was established among the workers from the production of "Synthetic rubber and latex", associated with the duration of occupational exposure to styrene and divinyl.
  • (5) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
  • (6) There were 45 deaths from lung cancer among curing workers compared to 24.6 expected based on the age- and calendar period-specific rates of other rubber workers.
  • (7) A preparation in a special triple bath was drawn through two rubber membranes dividing the strip into three segments.
  • (8) Porous polyethylene was thus better incorporated into the soft tissues than silicone rubber as long as the overlying soft tissues were not stressed by an oversized implant or inadequate soft tissue coverage.
  • (9) Neither pH nor composition of liner collection cone had an effect on postthaw acrosomal scores, but the time required for a 50% increase in severely damaged acrosomes was greater for spermatozoa collected in polyethylene than in rubber liner collection cones.
  • (10) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
  • (11) Two types are present, a crystalline (clear) form and a white, opaque form with pigmentation resulting from a diene rubber.
  • (12) Another man who is not moving fast enough is shot with a rubber bullet.
  • (13) "There is no debate over the conclusion that Abir was injured by a rubber bullet shot by border guards, which in turn leads to the conclusion that the shooting of Abir occurred out of negligence, or in violation of the rules of engagement," said Judge Orit Efal-Gabai.
  • (14) Mortality and morbidity from cancer among a cohort of 13,570 white male rubber workers were examined.
  • (15) An air chamber attached to a Hg-manometer has in an upper wall a round window 8 mm in diameter, closed by a 0.05 mm-thick rubber membrane.
  • (16) It consisted of a conventional precordial or esophageal probe connected to a microphone by a rubber adapter.
  • (17) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
  • (18) The angiomas of the skin may occur in 3 forms: large cavernous angiomas; blood sac looking like a blue rubber nipple, they can be emptied; irregular blue mark, sometimes with puncted blackish spots, they may not blanch on pressure.
  • (19) Linear distortion of the mercaptan (polysulfide) rubber base that takes place during setting is a cause of this problem.
  • (20) Herein we report a case occurring as pustulosis palmaris, that has been identified as an occupational allergic contact dermatitis to black rubber.