What's the difference between lob and pollock?

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.

Pollock


Definition:

  • (n.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The content of unsaturated fatty acids in walleye pollock PRM is 1.4 times greater than in frog PRM.
  • (2) "She's presumably in there now doing all the news programmes by herself," said Ian Pollock, chair of the NUJ London branch at the BBC.
  • (3) Body composition was evaluated using anthropometric methods (according to Garrow Webster, Durnin-Womersley, modified Durnin-Womersley and Jackson-Pollock) and impedance measurement in which resistive bioelectric impedance is measured using a tetrapolar technique.
  • (4) According to a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, large and bottom-dwelling species carry most risk, which means cod, flounder, halibut, pollock, skate and sole from the waters in question could be off limits for years, .
  • (5) It comprises 13% of the pollock nuclear DNA with a copy number of 5 x 10(5) per haploid genome.
  • (6) Margaret Pollock, a retired dentist who organises the local yes campaign, said that 20 shops in the town were lying empty.
  • (7) But most of the collection, including works by Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and many others, remains in the vaults and basement.
  • (8) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
  • (9) His-96 is therefore one of several neighboring amino acids of the kringle portion of fragment 1 that displays highly unusual chemistry (see also Asn-101 [Welsch, D.J., & Nelsestuen, G. L. (1988) Biochemistry 27 4946-4952] and Lys-97 [Pollock, J.S., Zapata, G.A., Weber, D.J., Berkowitz, P., Deerfield, D.W., II, Olson, D.L., Koehler, K.A., Pedersen, L.G., & Hiskey, R.G.
  • (10) It’s important we get our heads around these impacts, so we can make the right decisions,” Pollock said.
  • (11) Body density and percent body fatness were determined after weight loss according to four commonly used skinfold equations: Pollock (P); Durnin-Rahaman (D-R); Durnin-Womersley (D-W); and, Jackson-Pollock (J-P).
  • (12) Fragmentation of wall-eyed pollock and bovine rhodopsins by papain in the photoreceptor membrane was studied by sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis.
  • (13) Tested equations were those reported for body density by Sloan, Wilmore, Jackson and Pollock, Durnin and Womersley, Lohman, and Pollock et al.
  • (14) She reads: “The look in his eyes was as much as we could take…” Pollock sighs: “Oh, that’s really desperate.” There was also the case of 10-year-old Curtis Elton, a talented pianist whose hands have been insured.
  • (15) Pollock is the first to note the limitations of her study and the sample size it analysed.
  • (16) And we had a massive amount of support from parents for our decision.” Pollock stops short of calling for rugby to be banned, but she does believe that every parent whose child plays rugby should be in no doubt of the risks they face.
  • (17) The initial rate of lipid peroxidation (LPO) in photoreceptor membranes (PRM) of walleye pollock is 1.8--2.3 times higher than in frog PRM.
  • (18) As the job description for the post made clear, whoever was appointed was going to have to report to the chief executive, Cressida Pollock, who by her own admission knows very little about opera, and presumably would have to get their artistic plans approved by her.
  • (19) Pollock say the DA is sensitive to the concerns of the community – not least its resistance to long custodial sentences.
  • (20) Only later did I read Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander that begins: "On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood..." Twombly came of agein the America of Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists.

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