What's the difference between lino and linoleum?

Lino


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine labelled with 14C linoleic (lino-PE, lino-PC) and arachidonic acid (ara-PE, ara-PC) at the 2-position were used as substrates.
  • (2) You climb the crumbling concrete steps, where dried weeds still poke through the cracks, to enter a small room with a lino floor and low suspended ceiling.
  • (3) Raffaele Claudio Carbosiero, known as Lino, has styled the hair of the rich and famous for decades and is known for cutting the prime minister's hair with a left, rather than right-hand, parting in 2010.
  • (4) • The picture caption was amended on 13 January 2014 because the original said Lino Carbosiero was now a CBE.
  • (5) Lino-PE was hydrolysed most strongly by homogenates of the distal cauda epididymis but the testis, vas deferens and caput and corpus epididymis also contained hydrolytic activity.
  • (6) The H1 (now renamed fliC; lino et al., 1988) alleles specifying antigenically different Salmonella flagellins are identical at their ends but differ greatly towards the middle, where there are two hypervariable segments (regions IV and VI).
  • (7) Her own designs are handprinted in the UK and retain the texture of lino block prints, resulting in an intentionally uneven effect.
  • (8) "This is by far the biggest group of Greek cases," says the court's Greek judge, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos.
  • (9) "I've made lino prints throughout my career, so it felt like the right direction for me to explore," she says.
  • (10) The only disadvantage is that the larger prostheses require large amounts of Lino-type metal which is very heavy.
  • (11) Thus, the order of effectiveness is MgCl(2) > LiCl > NaCl > KCl > NH(4)Cl, and LiCl > LiNO(3) > Li(2)SO(4).
  • (12) If that should give any woman reluctant to describe herself as a feminist pause for thought, the naff exchanges between Gray and the reporter Andy Burton about whether the "lino" was "a looker" suggests discrimination in Sky's football department may have spread way beyond two middle-aged dinosaurs.
  • (13) Chromatofocusing of testis homogenate resulted in the appearance of two active forms of PLA2 with different pl-values (6.5 and 5.6) when lino-PE was used as substrate.
  • (14) Unfortunately for him the referee and lino were incompetent, decided the tackle was in the box.
  • (15) Burton said "apparently, a female lino today, bit of a looker", with Gray responding: "A female linesman?"
  • (16) The actor Amanda Holden kicks off the list of testimonials on his website : "A day without Lino, is like a good meal without wine.
  • (17) "As a 'showbiz' stylist, Lino's renowned skills of celebrity hair-cutting and styling are recognised throughout the world," his website says.
  • (18) Ara-PC and lino-PC were hydrolysed by homogenates of the cauda epididymis and testis.
  • (19) Ian Phillip's lino prints of coastlines are also wonderful, I think.
  • (20) Sessions, attended by up to 20 participants at a time, have included silk painting, lino printing, glass painting, sketching and clay work.

Linoleum


Definition:

  • (n.) Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.
  • (n.) A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dust and mites were significantly less in dormitories with linoleum than those with carpets (P less than .05 and .01, respectively).
  • (2) Following previous experiments on postmortem skull fractures of infants, falls from 82-cm heights onto stone (A), carpet (B) and foam-backed linoleum (C), 35 further falling tests were carried out onto softly cushioned ground.
  • (3) Many of the cells were dirty, with ripped linoleum floors and dirty toilets without seats, the report said.
  • (4) Ismail lies on green linoleum sheets, his black eyes too large for his gaunt face.
  • (5) The town was then entering a period of industrial decline - Brown recalls people coming to the door begging when the linoleum factory closed down.
  • (6) For Booth, Northland is still downtown, and the linoleum jungle is home.
  • (7) His behaviour was similarly unremarkable: he brought diamonds for jewellers to examine and, much like any dealer, he would frequently enter the grand stone doorway of 88-90 Hatton Garden and disappear down the dark green linoleum staircase to the basement, home to the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Ltd, where he would visit the four strongboxes he had hired there in a vault measuring 15 feet square.
  • (8) Dust samples from fitted-carpets and linoleum floors in 12 schools in Norway were collected by vacuum cleaning.
  • (9) Sometimes you even manage to get out of the shop before the carefully assembled pyramid of shiraz hits the linoleum.

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