What's the difference between lob and log?

Lob


Definition:

  • (n.) A dull, heavy person.
  • (n.) Something thick and heavy.
  • (v. t.) To let fall heavily or lazily.
  • (v. t.) See Cob, v. t.
  • (n.) The European pollock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Real are not giving them a chink to exploit so, eventually, Neymar lobs a ball into the box.
  • (2) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
  • (3) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
  • (4) But Murray drags it back to deuce, a lob from him and a missed slice from Federer making it so.
  • (5) Before placing further questions on the notice paper, he lobs this at Bill Shorten.
  • (6) Italy crashed out, though Fabio Quagliarella’s valedictory lob from distance deep into injury time ensured they at least departed South Africa with a flourish.
  • (7) "I think his genius is to make people feel comfortable, and then lob in the incendiary."
  • (8) Before he left, Peter had one more grenade to lob at both of us.
  • (9) Stoke's Glenn Whelan was sent off for a very silly second yellow card, Hughes found himself banished from the bench for protesting – lobbing his managerial anorak over the dugout roof in disgust en route – and Marc Wilson was also dismissed after conceding a penalty.
  • (10) First, Álvaro Negredo, once of this parish, came close to lobbing Bravo as the goalkeeper back-pedalled to tip over.
  • (11) No wonder that Ed Miliband has found it so easy to lob verbal grenades.
  • (12) He’s not in power yet, so he still gets to blunder around lobbing out daft policies willy-nilly in the hope that one of them will scan.
  • (13) The assistants – old garage heads who clearly loathed this racket the kids were making – dismissively lobbed a pile of white labels on to the counter.
  • (14) "So is that hairdo," he lobs back, "but I figure that's your business."
  • (15) So the idea of a benevolent dictator is not my cup of tea Rand Paul Paul said polls became part of “a self-reinforcing news cycle because of the celebrity nature that goes on, on and on”, though he accepted that voters might “at a superficial level be attracted to bombast, insults, junior high sort of lobbing of verbal bombs that kind of stuff”.
  • (16) An officer suggested tear gas would quieten them down and a gas canister was lobbed into the transport.
  • (17) Those guys played some unbelievable lobs and angles.
  • (18) In another largely Muslim neighbourhood, PK12, families camp out in grass and mud with buckets, carpets, mattresses, discarded rubbish, cooking pots over charcoal fires and a constant fear of lobbed grenades.
  • (19) She agreed to this interview to discuss Labour's plans to draft landmark legislation on women's safety , but that was before the inquiry into child abuse was announced, and before deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman lobbed a bomb into the party hierarchy, insisting that the Gordon Brown era was marked by sexism and inequality.
  • (20) Leicester had nothing in response and United had the chances to put a more emphatic slant on the scoreline, with Rashford testing Schmeichel and Mata blowing a one-on-one with a fluffed attempted lob.

Log


Definition:

  • (n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
  • (n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
  • (n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
  • (n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
  • (n.) A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.
  • (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
  • (v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
  • (v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
  • (v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
  • (2) The ED50 and ED95 of mivacurium in each group were estimated from linear regression plots of log dose vs probit of maximum percentage depression of neuromuscular function.
  • (3) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
  • (4) Each line exhibited 1-4 log differences in sensitivities to the two toxins.
  • (5) At a concentration of 10 microM, tetraamine 4 did not affect histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors of guinea pig ileum or alpha-adrenoreceptors of guinea pig atria whereas it inhibited postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors of rat vas deferens with a -log K value of 5.23 and nicotinic receptors of frog rectus abdominis with an IC50 value of 0.23 microM.
  • (6) The best compound was trans-alpha-[[(4-bromotetrahydro-2H-pyran-3-yl) amino]methyl]-2-nitro-1H-imidazole-1-ethanol (18), which, due to its activity and log P value, is a candidate for additional in vivo studies.
  • (7) The final approved log contained 72 problems, 64 of which received importance ratings greater than or equal to 2 on the three-point scale.
  • (8) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
  • (9) The results clearly demonstrate local separability in this log frequency and orientation discrimination domain.
  • (10) Positive correlations were observed between mean log fasting insulin concentration and all parameters of obesity except log triceps skinfold thickness in men.
  • (11) Cocaine, 3 microM, shifted the noradrenaline concentration response curve to the left about 0.4 log units in all renal vessel groups, thus renal vascular smooth muscle sensitivity to noradrenaline was significantly greater in vessels from rats receiving CyA than in vessels from control rats.
  • (12) Details of sexual activity and experience were followed by the use of daily logs.
  • (13) The results should be analysed by the Kaplan-Meier estimator, and patency rates should be compared by the log-rank test or Gehan's test.
  • (14) There was a significant negative correlation between propranolol level (log-transformed) and glycemic responses, suggesting that propranolol has direct effect on the latter.
  • (15) Evaluation of lymphocyte phenotype frequencies, functional responses, serum immunoglobulin levels, and autoantibodies was completed for 38 individuals (i.e., 10 families) who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) in manufacturer-treated log houses.
  • (16) Spatial summation was found to decrease by 30-50% as the cell was light-adapted to a threshold some 4 log units above the dark-adapted one.
  • (17) The difference in binding capacity was of the same order of magnitude as the difference in sodium content, indicating that the excess sodium in the thoracic aortas from the hypertensive rats was osmotically inactive and thus unable to cause water logging.
  • (18) The equations of best fit of log(wax esters) vs age suggested that sebum secretion declines about 23% per decade in men and 32% per decade in women.
  • (19) Challenge studies using the standard National Veterinary Services Laboratory laryngotracheitis (LT) challenge virus (Log 10(6.7) EID50 per ml) were conducted to assess the presence of maternal protection in chicks of various ages (1, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days).
  • (20) In lymph node-positive patients a trend between high TA1 reactivity and a worse overall survival was also noted (log rank P = 0.128; Wilcoxon P = 0.054), with a 6-year survival of 42% in the strongly reactive tumors (n = 16) and 65% in the negative to weakly reactive carcinomas (n = 105).

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