What's the difference between loach and poach?

Loach


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That, roughly, was the theme of the Wednesday Play, Cathy Come Home, (BBC1) directed by Kenneth Loach, produced by Tony Garnett.
  • (2) Some of the fishes had six-banded electrophoretic patterns not observed in other loach species (e.g.
  • (3) Two distinct coding sequences (A and B) were elucidated for rainbow trout metallothioneins but single isoforms were encoded by genes isolated from the stone loach and pike.
  • (4) The original Wednesday Play, succeeded by the long-running Play for Today, is fondly remembered by many of today's best-known writers and directors as the experimental breeding ground for the likes of Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, Mike Leigh and Alan Bleasdale.
  • (5) The quantitative and qualitative composition of DNA-bound lipids of loach spermatozoa changes during the transition from the superhelical to the relaxed conformation of DNA.
  • (6) But there was much applause for Ken Loach , another surprise victor, this year of the Jury Prize (which ranks just below the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix).
  • (7) Obviously the film is a specific critique about the recent changes in the welfare system, I get that, but I think Loach could have made an almost identical movie 20 years ago, prior to Iain Duncan Smith ’s reforms.
  • (8) The dynamics of protein synthesis in the loach embryos has been studied by means of autoradiography at the stages of cleavage, blastula and gastrula.
  • (9) So in that sense I prefer the days of Cathy.” In the 60s and 70s, Loach belonged to small leftist groups: the Socialist Labour League (forerunner of the Workers Revolutionary Party ), the International Socialists , the International Marxist Group, all critical of both western capitalism and the Stalinism of the Soviet Union.
  • (10) The gradual change of enzymes of glycogen metabolism proceeds during the skeletal muscle differentiation in the loach.
  • (11) The effects of LHRH-A and sGnRH-A alone and in combination with the dopamine receptor antagonists pimozide (PIM) and domperidone (DOM) on stimulation of gonadotropin (GtH) secretion and ovulation in Chinese loach (Paramisgurnus dabryanus) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) were studied.
  • (12) This film, though, doesn't tell it, nor (quite properly) will Loach allow that the earlier sufferings of British soldiers can mitigate their role in Ireland.
  • (13) The tunica muscularis of the proximal intestine of the loach consisted of intermingling striated and smooth muscle cells without forming any distinct sublayers.
  • (14) Eventually, he says he wants Loach to enjoy his time however he chooses.
  • (15) Loach has spent his career depicting ordinary people, telling working-class stories as truthfully as possible, and he works distinctively – filming each scene in order, often using non-professional actors, encouraging improvisation.
  • (16) The cytosol aspartate aminotransferase is represented by one protein with the same mobility at all developmental stages both in the loach and in the hybrids.
  • (17) Political decisions are allowing this to happen and this needs to change.” Supporters of the march include the Labour MPs Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Loach, the film director, who made the 1966 TV play Cathy Come Home, about a family who lose their home and face a life of poverty.
  • (18) Histopathological investigations of taste organs of loaches (Noemacheilus barbatulus, L.) taken from creeks with differing grades of pollution demonstrate variable degrees of damage to taste bud structures.
  • (19) Loach says: "There's a very interesting story to be told from the point of view of working-class lads who were supposedly coming back to a land fit for heroes, but who were offered money to go to Ireland and pursue the only trade they knew, which was soldiering."
  • (20) When I ask whether Loach would describe his politics as socialist, he says it's a difficult word, because it's much devalued, and you can't "make sense of it without Marx – but if you say you're a Marxist, then the rightwing press just uses it as a brick to hang around your neck."

Poach


Definition:

  • (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
  • (v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
  • (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
  • (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
  • (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
  • (v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling
  • (v. t.) To begin and not complete.
  • (v. i.) To become soft or muddy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No association was detected between the overall frequency of fish for dinner and breast cancer risk (chi 2 trend = 1.39, p = 0.24), but there was an inverse relation with the frequency of main meals containing fish in poached form.
  • (2) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
  • (3) People talk about poaching, but in the long-term it’s also about securing space for habitat.
  • (4) Defensively we made a lot of mistakes.” It was not the prettiest goal, but it was a strike that showed just how valuable poaching reflexes can still be in a game that has largely moved away from the sniffer type of forward (although Bacca is far more rounded than that).
  • (5) Even if Morgan is caught, people fear that his powerful backers in the army will find another militia to continue poaching and stealing gold.
  • (6) Fishing news Barcelona chairman Sandro Rosell says Arsenal were "immoral" to poach their youth player Jon Toral: "We don't like it that clubs come in with offers of money just before boys turn 16.
  • (7) Poaching has gradually reduced since then but remains well above sustainable levels.
  • (8) New head of the UK operations Jackie Hunt, who was poached from Standard Life last year, received £3.5m despite having joined the board only in September – including a "one-off relocation payment" of £188,679.
  • (9) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
  • (10) But Scanlon said there were some encouraging signs, including in parts of eastern Africa , such as in Kenya, where the poaching trend has declined.
  • (11) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
  • (12) Civil unrest has also led to the illegal poaching of mountain gorillas.
  • (13) Some 558 rhino have been killed in South Africa already this year, setting the country on course for a gruesome new record number of poaching deaths, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
  • (14) Game rangers have had their arms upgraded to take on the poaching gangs, and the military, operating under an unofficial shoot-to-kill policy, has been brought into Kruger National Park, where hundreds of rhino have been lost.
  • (15) To stop poached horn from entering the legal market, suppliers can fit legal horns with traceable transponders and DNA signatures for less than 200 dollars per horn, he says.
  • (16) Edna Molewa, South Africa's minister of water and environmental affairs, told an anti-poaching street parade on Sunday that the trade was also a threat to the country's tourism industry.
  • (17) On the other hand big universities will be able to establish significant funds, which will be used to poach students from other universities rather than helping the disadvantaged.
  • (18) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
  • (19) The delegates are expected to consider on Friday a more controversial topic: a call to resume the legal ivory trade as a way to stop the recent rise in elephant poaching in Africa .
  • (20) I asked her what she thought of the freezing weather here and she said she was used to it.” At lunch, Kate dined on herb-infused vegetable terrine, poached salmon with dill hollandaise sauce, lemon pearl barley risotto and sautéed vegetables.

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