What's the difference between lire and sire?

Lire


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Lira

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Animals exposed to chronic toluene inhalation also presented higher values of latency in both LIRE and LE when compared to non-exposed to toluene (controls) of the same age.
  • (2) In 1983 the load per machine was 400 patients and the cost per patient was 1 milion lire.
  • (3) As far as the latter is concerned a daily cost reduction of 70000-16000 lire is foreseeable.
  • (4) The mean cost was 48,000 lire in the manual, and 200,000 lire in the mechanical group.
  • (5) Adult rats both exposed to chronic toluene inhalation and non-exposed showed higher values of LIRE and LE with respect young rats.
  • (6) Convertibility risk This refers to the risk that you will buy bonds denominated in euros but could ultimately be paid back in lire or drachma (or deutschmarks) if the country taking out the debt leaves the eurozone before the end of the bond's life.
  • (7) It's such a fantastic figure that it can't be met in any currency unless they are expecting Turkish lire or [old] Italian money, which is a million-note job."
  • (8) every lira spent on vaccination has resulted in a direct saving of 12.98 lire with respect to cases prevented and the cost of their treatment and patient rehabilitation.
  • (9) The expenses for the amortization of the cost of the bunker, for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, for the employed staff and for the electric power respectively, represent the 22%, 5%, 43% and 2% of the total management cost (395 milions lire per year).
  • (10) « Voici venir votre rayon de soleil », peut-on lire sur une pancarte à l’entrée de la première centrale solaire d’envergure en Afrique de l’Est.
  • (11) After his appearance on La Ruota della Fortuna , Renzi went home with 48m lire (about £20,000) in his pocket.
  • (12) The average purchase cost of an accelerator was 1113 milions lire and the amortization cost is 111 milions lire per year.
  • (13) Latency of initial response to escape (LIRE) and latency of escape (LE) were measured in seconds.
  • (14) A new study of Keynes’s attempts to make money out of movements in the pound against five major currencies of his day – the dollar, French franc, German mark, Italian lire and Dutch guilder – comes to a stark conclusion.

Sire


Definition:

  • (n.) A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.
  • (n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.
  • (n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
  • (n.) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
  • (n.) The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
  • (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
  • (2) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
  • (3) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
  • (4) Simmental sires had significantly heavier calves at birth and S and H dams tended to have more calving difficulty and lower survival rates.
  • (5) Micromanipulation of sperm and ova has been suggested as a means to produce progeny of two sires instead of a sire and dam.
  • (6) Each sire family consisted of a sire, his foals, and the dams of those foals.
  • (7) Records of birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and condition score (CS) from 1,467 Brahman and Brahman X Angus crossbred calves from Brahman and crossbred Brahman sires and Brahman, crossbred Brahman and Angus dams were collected at the Subtropical Agricultural Research Station, Brooksville, Florida, from 1971 to 1982.
  • (8) Live BW, carcass data, and organ data taken at 34 days of age on approximately 1,000 quail of both sexes from 110 sires and 290 dams were utilized to estimate genetic parameters from the initial generation of a selection study.
  • (9) Weaning weight records of 44,357 Australian Angus calves produced by 1,020 sires in 90 herds were used to evaluate the importance of sire x herd interactions.
  • (10) Additive relationships among sires and maternal grandsires were included.
  • (11) The purebred animals represented progeny of 107 sires.
  • (12) Repeatabilities and heritabilities of days to first service, days open, and number of services per conception were estimated from 235,589 records on 80,333 Holstein cows, daughters of 306 sires obtained from the Quebec Dairy Herd Analysis Service, by REML.
  • (13) Calves of mature dams were all sired by Limousin bulls and slaughtered at 12 mo.
  • (14) In single purpose dairy populations, sire models gave biased estimates of genetic parameters even when all data were included in the analysis.
  • (15) By including an artificial sire and an artificial dam and choosing appropriate merit values for the artificial matings, this problem can be solved by efficient "transportation" algorithms.
  • (16) A study of 24 offspring from one sire, heterozygous for W10 and Eu28R, showed that offspring inheriting Eu28R from the sire were significantly more likely to have antibodies to BLV than offspring inheriting the opposing W10 haplotype.
  • (17) Forty-three Hampshire or Suffolk-sired ram lambs were weaned at 60 d of age (average 23.6 kg of BW) and assigned to a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments consisting of 1) basal diet (control = BAS), 2) BAS with 6% whole canola seed (CS), 3) BAS with 4.9% deoiled soy lecithin (SL), and 4) BAS with 6% CS and 4.8% SL (CSSL).
  • (18) The correlation between sire of fetus effect and sire of cow effect on three production traits - milk yield, fat yield, and protein yield - in first lactation cows was investigated.
  • (19) Corresponding numbers of sires were 298, 289, 305, and 313.
  • (20) A sire-maternal grandsire mixed model with relationships was used to analyze the data to yield BLUP for the sire and maternal grandsire effects.

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