What's the difference between loir and lour?

Loir


Definition:

  • (n.) A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At its height, flows on the Loire, France’s longest river and home to many nuclear power plants, were reduced to a trickle.
  • (2) The stuff that sells at auction and that has collectors salivating into their silver spittoons invariably comes from Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône Valley or, at a pinch, the Loire or Champagne.
  • (3) Sadly, bureaucratic and political obstacles prevailed, and Loir was never granted permission to release his biological control agent.
  • (4) Somatic cells (interstitial cells and Sertoli cells) were prepared either as single cells or in clusters, from spermatogenic and mature trout testes, according to Loir (1988), and cultured for 10-14 days.
  • (5) The presence of various enteropathogens was examined in the feces of homebred dairy calves reared in a restricted geographical area of France (North West of County of Indre-et-Loire) during winter 1983-1984.
  • (6) the total number of renal tumours diagnosed in the Indre-et-Loire region between 1980 and 1987 inclusive.
  • (7) The immunity response to neuraminidase appears after the natural disease; this response is studied in two foci, one due to a virus belonging to the A equi I subtype (Loire 73 strain), the other to a virus of the A equi 2 subtype (SHN 73 strain).
  • (8) The fifth of six children, she grew up in Angers in the Loire valley.
  • (9) Liveried waiters served roast quail on Limoges china and poured Loire Valley wines, properly chilled against the equatorial heat.
  • (10) The functional properties of Hb Loire may be explained by a slight displacement of some key residues of the C-terminal region of the alpha chain destabilizing the T structure.
  • (11) • From £209 a night (minimum three-night stay) La Grande Maison, Loire Valley There is not much that the owners of this guesthouse don't know about wine.
  • (12) A survey was undertaken in 3 French departments of the Pays de Loire from January 1, 1986 to December 31, 1986.
  • (13) Using a research network of general practitioners (Resomed 44) representing the 20th of all GP's in the Loire Atlantique region and distributed at random according to district, age and sex made it possible to evaluate the respective prevalences of temporal arteritis (TA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) in all the systemic immune diseases listed.
  • (14) A study was undertaken to evaluate the use of self-administered medication in 895 patients with rheumatologic disorders by all of the 18 rheumatologists practicing in one region (the southern portion of the Loire Department and all of the Haute-Loire Department) over a six-day period.
  • (15) In October 1975, a specific immunization by means of a formalin inactivated hepatitis B vaccine has been introduced to protect patients and staff members of three haemodialysis units of the Loire Valley (Tours, Blois, Orléans).
  • (16) Now specialist providers such as La Grande Maison – a boutique hotel for lesbian (and all) wine lovers in France's Loire Valley – and The Out NYC – a hotel for gay people in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen – have been joined by a multitude of websites offering the sort of choices all holidaymakers desire.
  • (17) All these milks were invariably very polluted throughout the year, but there were however noted some qualitative differences according to the geographic position of the milk banks: South of the Loire river, the main polluting factor was hexachlorocyclohexane, whilst North of the Seine, fairly high values were found for heptachlor epoxide and dieldrin.
  • (18) The first recorded experience Australia had of the genus Yersinia was the arrival in 1889 of a French expedition led by Pasteur's nephew, Dr. Adrien Loir.
  • (19) The highest incidence rate of all the French departments, the drop in the rate of this growth curve in 1983 and the over representation of the employee category appear to be the most specific notions in the Indre-et-Loire department.
  • (20) The distribution of patients in terms of sex and ten year age groups is analysed, together with the various incidence rates for a year in Burgundy and in its four administrative units (Cote-d'Or, Nievre, Saone-et-Loire and Yonne).

Lour


Definition:

  • (n.) An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now’s the day and now’s the hour: See the front o’ battle lour, See approach proud Edward’s power – Chains and slaverie.
  • (2) Six alkaloids were isolated from Gynura segetum (Lour.)
  • (3) The activity of sulphatase C was correlated with the other lour, but the enzyme profile could not predict the evofution of the disease.
  • (4) Clausenacoumarine is a compound isolated from the leaves of Clausena lansium (Lour.)
  • (5) From the methanol extract of the roots of Liriope spicata Lour (Thunb) var.
  • (6) JMW Turner made high drama of it in 1812, a louring snowstorm sending the Carthaginians into wild disarray.
  • (7) Six chromone derivatives were isolated from the ether soluble fraction of the alcoholic extract of Aquilaria sinensis(Lour.)
  • (8) Clausenamide is a compound isolated from Clausena lansium (lour) with the structure similar to piracetam.
  • (9) These cells possessed interferon receptors, however, and responded to interferon modulation of other genes, including 2',5' oligoisoadenylate synthetase (M. G. Tovey, M. Dron, K. E. Mogensen, B. Lebleu, N. Metchi, and J. Begon-Lours, Guymarho, J. Gen.
  • (10) A new sesquiterpenoid, named isobaimuxinol, C15H26O2, mp 73-75 degrees C, [a]D12-68(0) (c 0.10, CHCl3), was isolated from the volatile oil of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour), Gilg.

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