What's the difference between marine and winkle?

Marine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
  • (a.) Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits.
  • (a.) A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.
  • (a.) The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.
  • (a.) A picture representing some marine subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
  • (2) The marine vibrio alone is a powerful stimulus to mucus secretion but lethal for the host.
  • (3) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
  • (4) omega-Conotoxin GVIA is a peptide purified from the venom of the marine snail, Conus geographus, that specifically blocks voltage-sensitive calcium channels in neurons.
  • (5) The marine natural product lophotoxin has produced a non-reversible antagonism of parasympathetic and sympathetic functions that are known to be mediated by C6 sub-type nicotinic receptors.
  • (6) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
  • (7) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
  • (8) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (9) Resting plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels were 13.1 and 2.1 nmol liter-1 for the marine toad (Bufo marinus).
  • (10) The only inconsistency in the mariner gene phylogeny is in the placement of the Zaprionus mariner sequence, which clusters with mariner from Drosophila teissieri and Drosophila yakuba in the melanogaster species subgroup.
  • (11) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
  • (12) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
  • (13) Intramembrane faces were visualized in the marine dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra by the freeze-fracture technique, in order to test a prediction of a membrane model for circadian oscillations--i.e;, that membrane particle distribution and size change with time in the circadian cycle.
  • (14) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
  • (15) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
  • (16) Two new isomeric delta-lactones 2 and 3 have been isolated from the marine fungus Helicascus kanaloanus (ATCC 18591).
  • (17) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
  • (18) Greg Hunt , the environment minister, said he will use the existing Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority act to “put in place this ban in legislative form”.
  • (19) Modern lungfish are air-breathing nonmarine forms, yet their Devonian forebears were marine fish that did not breathe air.
  • (20) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.

Winkle


Definition:

  • (n.) Any periwinkle.
  • (n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Issues raised include the problem of labelling and the Rip Van Winkle situation of unanticipated recovery 14 years after this diagnosis was made.
  • (2) A Rip Van Winkle from 1979 would be astonished that earnings have all but evaporated from British politics, as if pay were as ineluctable as the weather.
  • (3) Tate, C. A., Bick, R. J., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W. B., and Entman, M. L. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (4) Revisiting some of the seats of power after 40 years, I have felt like a Rip Van Winkle waking up after a revolution.
  • (5) We investigated the reaction mechanism for GTP-dependent Ca2+ uptake by canine cardiac microsomes enriched in fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), because previous studies reported that GTP utilization in cardiac SR occurs via a pathway very different from that for ATP utilization (for a review, see "Entman, M.L., Bick, R., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W.B., & Tate, C.A.
  • (6) Previous equilibrium binding experiments (S.A. Winkle and T.R.
  • (7) "There's a story doing the rounds at my local that Blackpool once resorted to using a flamethrower to thaw out their frozen pitch," writes Bill Winkles.
  • (8) It has previously been reported that the presence of multiple B-Z conformational junctions in constructed DNA oligomers results in unusually enhanced electrophoretic gel mobilities of these oligomers [Winkle, S. A., & Sheardy, R. D. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 6514-6521].
  • (9) The changes would see "attrition through enforcement" – the state-level clampdown pioneered by Kobach in Arizona, Alabama and several other states – extended across the entire US in an attempt to winkle undocumented workers out of the country.
  • (10) Writers such as Washington Irving (in his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and James Fenimore Cooper (in The Last of the Mohicans ) had begun to pioneer American subjects in a distinctive American voice.
  • (11) Having failed to winkle Berezovsky out of London, the Kremlin pursued his money – going after his assets in Brazil, France (a stunning seaside villa in Cap D'Antibes), and other jurisdictions.
  • (12) And naturally the idea that a claimant could use closed material procedure to winkle out information from the intelligence services horrified the spies' lawyers.
  • (13) Strict guidelines indeed, but Olly Winkles is one of several readers to remember at least one hairy-faced winner.
  • (14) Rozanne Colchester is 89 and lives in a Mrs Tiggy-Winkle-style cottage in deepest Gloucestershire next to her grandchildren.
  • (15) Reed and S.A. Winkle, J. Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, in press (1992)) have indicated that a small number of locations on the plasmid pBR322 may be high affinity binding sites for the carcinogen N-acetoxy-N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (acetoxyAAF).
  • (16) Such a situation arises near the Sellafield nuclear-reprocessing plant where a high proportion of the radiocaesium (and plutonium) in the winkles collected locally and subsequently cooked is associated with inorganic particulate matter.
  • (17) Winkles (Littorina littorea) and mussels (Mytilus edulis) collected on the Cumbrian coast contain americium-241 and isotopes of plutonium discharged from the nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
  • (18) A reduction in number and size of digestive lysosomes in winkles acclimated to 75% of Sea Water evidences the functioning of regulatory mechanism of digestive cell volume.
  • (19) The restaurant's long beer list – and much-heralded barbecue – cannot be ignored, but the pride is the long list of bourbons, including Colorado brands and the sought-after Pappy Van Winkle, a Kentucky variety so rare a Wall Street Journal article referred to it as "unobtanium" .
  • (20) Far harder to winkle out illegal entrants and overstayers.