What's the difference between loin and lorn?

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%).

Lorn


Definition:

  • (a.) Lost; undone; ruined.
  • (a.) Forsaken; abandoned; solitary; bereft; as, a lone, lorn woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (2) But given that Che followed his fringe run with a year where he got hired first by Jon Stewart for The Daily Show, and then by Lorne Michaels to become a cast member on Saturday Night Live (he had originally been one of the show’s writers), it’s possible that those judges knew less about comedy than they thought.
  • (3) Louis (Herbert Lorn) is the dangerously unassimilated foreigner.
  • (4) Lorne Craner, president of IRI, said that Egyptian officials quizzed about the no-fly policy had told the institute that they were still completing their investigations following the December raids and that they might "go to trial soon".
  • (5) He has had access to Pete Cowan for coaching advice at home, moreover, and it was that link which provided him with his caddie for the week, Lorne Duncan, who has more than 30 years' experience on the European Tour.
  • (6) Lorne Campbell, artistic director, Northern Stage In 2005, when I was an assistant director at the Traverse, my fringe consisted of chewing my way through a very long list of shows that needed to be seen "just in case".
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lorning Cornish shouts after Baltimore authorities released a report on the death of Freddie Gray while police in riot gear stand guard.
  • (8) Angry citizens, for their part, must acknowledge the dangers police face on the job, the president said at an interfaith memorial service for Michael Smith, Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa and Brent Thompson, the officers killed by Micah Johnson at a rally against police violence on Thursday night .
  • (9) Easdale, off Seil Island, Argyll & Bute Size: 0.08sq miles In its mid-19th century heyday, this apparently inconsequential island in the Sound of Lorn had a population of around 450 and was exporting up to 19m roofing slates every year, laying the basis for the boast that Easdale's was "the slate that roofed the world".
  • (10) That brought them to the attention of legendary Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.
  • (11) Information was gathered from patients presenting to the surf club, hospital, surgery and pharmacy with injuries sustained on or around Lorne beach, Victoria.
  • (12) Having Trump not just make a guest appearance but actually host the show validates that SNL, executive producer Lorne Michaels, NBCUniversal and its sponsors don’t really care at all about “respect and dignity for all people”.
  • (13) He has found out the lines that seem to dignify his own love-lorn feelings.
  • (14) Michael Lorne, a Rastafarian lawyer, has vowed not to include Jamaican universities in plans for cultivation and research, for fear that middlemen will swipe the profits.
  • (15) The Congressional Hispanic Caucus calls upon NBCUniversal, Broadway Video, and SNL Executive Producer Lorne Michaels to disinvite Mr Trump from hosting Saturday Night Live because racism is not funny.” Representative Xavier Becerra, who is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, is among the politicians who have criticised Trump’s appearance.

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