What's the difference between loin and loon?

Loin


Definition:

  • (n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
  • (2) However, trimmed hams and loins from the 20-ppm RAC treatment represented a greater (P less than .05) percentage of carcass weight than did those from control animals.
  • (3) Stimulation increased the tenderness of loin steaks as determined by both panel scores and shear values, and of bottom round steaks (shear-force values).
  • (4) More than half of the symptoms were located to the head-neck or back-thorax-loin.
  • (5) Platelet life span was shortened and the index of renal platelet localization increased when patients with the loin pain and haematuria syndrome received oestrogens.
  • (6) He was admitted on August 14, 1991, because of right loin pain.
  • (7) Almost all patients complained of loin pain and 48% had lower urinary tract symptoms.
  • (8) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
  • (9) One is for loin of pork spiced with green peppercorns.
  • (10) These results suggest that specific gravity or indicators from the carcass, ham or loin section can be employed to predict percentage of protein in pork carcasses.
  • (11) Two neonates, with a palpable mass in the loin, turned out to have adrenal haemorrhage.
  • (12) The larvae were expressed by pressure from 2 lesions, on the neck and the loin, and the pockets were disinfected with alcohol.
  • (13) In 44.3% of cases the disease started from the general cerebral symptomatology and consciousness disturbance; in 13.6% it started in a brain stroke-like manner followed by the development of the comatose status; in 13.6% of cases from memory disorder and unmotivated actions; in the same percentage of cases, the disease onset was marked by the dominance of dizziness, diplopia, ataxia and central hemiplegia ; in 15.9% the disease started from pains in the stomach, loin and lower limbs.
  • (14) Coefficients were positive (P greater than .10) for individual pig and litter weights at birth and weaning and for the carcass traits of length, longissimus muscle area and percentage of ham and loin.
  • (15) It is interesting that in our group not only membranous but also minimal change as well as mesangium proliferative glomerulonephritis had high incidence of RVT (47%, 45% and 36% respectively) Only 6 cases (26%) had a typical acute presentation with severe loin pain, significant increase of urinary protein, enlargement of involved kidney.
  • (16) Breakpoint analysis indicated that 1.11% lysine maximized longissimus muscle area, whereas trimmed ham and loin weights were maximized at .91 and .98% lysine, respectively.
  • (17) Loin muscle characteristics indicated that differences in tenderness between breed groups were not attributed to cold shortening effects or differences in amount or integrity of connective tissue.
  • (18) Contrast-enhanced CT and MR imaging of the kidney were performed in two patients with acute renal failure and severe loin pain following a track race.
  • (19) We describe four patients who presented with either a marked systemic illness or a loin mass due to pyonephrosis.
  • (20) For older children, loin or abdominal pain was the chief presenting symptom (68%).

Loon


Definition:

  • (n.) A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.
  • (n.) Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus Urinator (formerly Colymbus), noted for their expertness in diving and swimming under water. The common loon, or great northern diver (Urinator imber, or Colymbus torquatus), and the red-throated loon or diver (U. septentrionalis), are the best known species. See Diver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That's slightly different from what Feldman said earlier this year after the Times and the Telegraph reported that a senior figure had said that Conservative associations "are all mad, swivel-eyed loons."
  • (2) This presequence transports attached subunit IV of cytochrome c oxidase into the intermembrane space (van Loon et al.
  • (3) Historically, our masters have always imagined we lowly peasants will digest information more easily if it is written, for example, in a speech bubble coming out of the mouth of an imaginary squirrel pedestrian in yellow loon pants.
  • (4) In addition, isolates of S. Saint paul from loons were found resistant to tetracycline and streptomycin, while 2 of 7 isolates of S. infantis were resistant to tetracycline only.
  • (5) It is the raging rows over Ukip, gay marriage, Europe and swivel-eyed loons that have given these people a political presence.
  • (6) It comes as a shock then to discover that in one crucial and fundamental area of social care the SNP resembles the "swivel-eyed loons" of the Tory shires.
  • (7) Mike Cassidy, head of the project dubbed Project Loon , said in a blogpost : "We believe that it might actually be possible to build a ring of balloons, flying around the globe on the stratospheric winds, that provides internet access to the earth below.
  • (8) Entamoeba histolytica cysts were recovered from dog faeces at Loon Lake, Saskatchewan.
  • (9) An epizootic of type E botulism (Clostridium botulinum) occurred among common loons (Gavia immer) along the Lake Michigan shore of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (USA) during October and November 1983.
  • (10) Salmonella spp (representing 8 serotypes) were isolated from 27 (14%) of the loons, and lesions typical of those produced by Aspergillus fumigatus were found in 34 (18%) of the loons.
  • (11) The fact is, no one becomes this successful, this far-reachingly influential, by behaving like a loon.
  • (12) Renal coccidiosis was diagnosed in a common loon (Gavia immer).
  • (13) were found in double-crested cormorants and common loons in Florida.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Common loon ( Gavia immer ) with downy young riding on back, in a Matanuska Valley lake, Alaska.
  • (15) Amino acid analyses of the two proteins are also in reasonable agreement when based on the exact monomer molecular weight of beef eye lens protein obtained by the van Loon group ((1982) J. Biol.
  • (16) The latest "moonshot" innovation from Google X follows hot on the heels of Google's Project Loon, its experimentation with solar-panelled balloons to bring Wi-Fi to remote regions of Africa and the Asia Pacific.
  • (17) Which spurs them on to demand expensive tests, investigations, and treatments and (egged on by ranting loons on forums) refuse to be "fobbed off".
  • (18) Type E botulinal toxin was demonstrated in blood samples and stomach contents of dead loons, and in samples of three species of dead fish found on the Lake Michigan shore.
  • (19) Other studies have demonstrated that cAMP enhanced junctional conductance in intact heart and isolated heart cells (De Mello, 1986; De Mello and van Loon, 1987; Burt and Spray, 1988).
  • (20) Google is also exploring the idea of using a network of high-tech balloons – Project Loon – to provide internet access to "rural, remote and underserved areas", although the scheme recently drew criticism from former Microsoft chief Bill Gates .

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