What's the difference between loaf and loam?

Loaf


Definition:

  • (n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
  • (v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
  • (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meat loaf systems were also employed to determine the effects of protein additives to meat under actual meat loaf conditions.
  • (2) 8.04pm BST First challenge for the remaining seven is the tea loaf.
  • (3) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
  • (4) However when given the choice, they preferred to reduce the weight of a loaf rather than increasing the price.
  • (5) "So 44% of workers in South Africa are working for a loaf of bread a day," he said.
  • (6) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
  • (7) Vavi cited a 2010 report showing that 44% of workers in South Africa live on less than 10 rand a day, which only just pays for a loaf of brown bread.
  • (8) Premier was hit by soaring wheat prices following a Russian export ban and has warned the wheat shortage could raise the price of bread by at least 5p a loaf.
  • (9) Parkinson says: “Walking up the Sugar Loaf with him was amazing.
  • (10) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
  • (11) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
  • (12) The third major unique property of wheat flour doughs is their ability to set in the oven during baking, and thereby to produce a rigid loaf of bread.
  • (13) So, from one basic bread dough, you can make the family loaf and have a bit of fun in the kitchen too.
  • (14) Previous research has suggested that people tend to engage in social loafing when working collectively.
  • (15) Here it’s called pljeskavica and a bun is not a typical bun, but a tiny round loaf of bread called lepinja .
  • (16) He described how, during the trip back home in the taxi with his wife, he kept on crying.” Fred Ballinger, the composer he plays, loafs around a high-tone Swiss spa hotel with his old pal Mick, a veteran Hollywood film director played by Harvey Keitel , and casts a wearied eye over human frailties – both his own and those of people around him.
  • (17) Ceilings are higher, for better air; passageways are wider, for more loafing room and socialising.
  • (18) But when it emerged a huge fanzone was planned outside the hotel, the FA turned its attentions to the Royal Tulip hotel in the shadow of Sugar Loaf mountain on São Conrado beach.
  • (19) When he was young, his father would leave a loaf for him in the oven.
  • (20) Researchers have calculated that white medium-sliced bread has a carbon footprint of 1,244g of CO 2 equivalent per loaf.

Loam


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
  • (n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.
  • (v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
  • (2) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
  • (3) Only a few Oncomelania snails and patients were observed in areas covered with red loam.
  • (4) Touch the soil, as Dughan did, and as his daughter did too at the sight of him, and it felt greasy, heavy, as if someone had poured cream onto loam.
  • (5) Auxotrophic recipient cells (thr- leu- thi- rpsL) were incubated in a sandy and a silty clay loam soil, and the transducing phage lysates from prototrophic strains carrying transposon 10(Tn10) in either purE or aroL regions were added.
  • (6) The two soil specimens are similar in that they differ from a typical clay loam in high content of carbon, hydrogen, and organic nitrogen and low levels of sodium, potassium, and titanium.
  • (7) on nodulation, growth, and grain yield was undertaken in red sandy loam of Bangalore, having a pH of 4.0.
  • (8) The rate of oxidation increased with the clay content of the soils from sandy loam to clay loam.
  • (9) To determine whether aflatoxin was bound to the silty clay loam soil, aflatoxin B1 was added to this soil and incubated for 20 days.
  • (10) Vertical soil microcosms flushed with groundwater were used to study the influence of water movement on survival and transport of a genetically engineered Pseudomonas fluorescens C5t strain through a loamy sand and a loam soil.
  • (11) An enzyme which catalyzed the hydrolysis of crotoxyphos ((E)-1-phenylethyl 3-[(dimethoxyphosphinyl)oxy]-2-butenoate) was isolated from nonsterile and radiation-sterilized Chehalis clay loam with 1.5M Tris (2-(hydroxymethyl)-2-nitro-1,3-propanediol) and partially purified with lead acetate treatment.
  • (12) Equilibrium adsorption coefficient (K) values measured using a batch-slurry technique follows the order clay loam greater than silt loam soil.
  • (13) Parathion mixed with 100-mesh sieved dust resulted in increasing "ppm" levels with decreasing particle size; extent of parathion conversion to paraoxon was independent of particle size for the sandy loam dust used.
  • (14) Aflatoxin decomposition proceeded most slowly in the silty clay loam soil.
  • (15) When applied to autoclayed Chehalis clay loam, purified enzyme lost 75% of its activity after one week and the remainder within two weeks.
  • (16) The enrichment procedures often lead to a falsely positive determination of the factors; Testing of ABO groups was most unfavourably influenced by loam, that of Gm by clay and chalk soils.
  • (17) Both methods utilized beef extract solutions to achieve desorption and recovery of viruses from representative soils: a fine sand soil, an organic muck soil, a sandy loam soil, and a clay loam soil.
  • (18) The experiments were confined to the effects of the addition of different sources of carbon (glucose, wheat straw, and sawdust) on the microbial activities in soils: loamy sand, loam and saline clay were used.
  • (19) The influence of composted peat on the effectiveness of different doses of mineral fertilizers was studied in model greenhouse experiments with barley of the Pirkka variety cultivated in sand and poorly cultivated sandy-loam soil.
  • (20) Leaching through silt clay loam (0-18 cm) columns from Ullensaker was very fast.