What's the difference between lob and low?

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.

Low


Definition:

  • () strong imp. of Laugh.
  • (v. i.) To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.
  • (n.) The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.
  • (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
  • (n.) Fire; a flame; a light.
  • (v. i.) To burn; to blaze.
  • (superl.) Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.
  • (superl.) Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.
  • (superl.) Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.
  • (superl.) Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.
  • (superl.) Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.
  • (superl.) Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.
  • (superl.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.
  • (superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, / (/m), / (all). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 10, 11.
  • (superl.) Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.
  • (superl.) Numerically small; as, a low number.
  • (superl.) Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.
  • (superl.) Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes.
  • (superl.) Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.
  • (superl.) Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison.
  • (superl.) Submissive; humble.
  • (superl.) Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.
  • (superl.) Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.
  • (superl.) Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate.
  • (superl.) Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.
  • (n.) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
  • (adv.) In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.
  • (adv.) Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.
  • (adv.) In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
  • (adv.) In time approaching our own.
  • (adv.) With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low.
  • (adv.) With a low musical pitch or tone.
  • (adv.) In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice.
  • (adv.) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
  • (v. t.) To depress; to lower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
  • (2) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
  • (3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (4) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
  • (5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (6) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
  • (7) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (8) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
  • (9) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (10) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
  • (11) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
  • (12) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
  • (13) The level of gadd45 mRNA increased rapidly after X rays at doses as low as 2 Gy.
  • (14) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
  • (15) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
  • (16) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (17) The extreme quenching of the dioxetane chemiluminescence by both microsomes and phosphatidylcholine, as a model phospholipid, implies that despite the low quantum yield (approx.
  • (18) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
  • (19) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (20) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.

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