What's the difference between maund and mun?

Maund


Definition:

  • (n.) A hand basket.
  • (n.) An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Maunder

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ratan Miah's farm has yielded 17 maunds (traditional baskets) of the vegetable since the beginning of May – and he says the crops sold well at market.
  • (2) Aaron Maund may have been sent off just before half-time (denying Vicente Sánchez a goalscoring opportunity), but thanks to the likes of Nat Borchers and Kyle Beckerman RSL were able to deliver Nick Rimando a record-tying 112th career shutout.
  • (3) Days later, Mercy's mother Mwandida Maunde, Lucy's daughter, died, bleeding out from complications after the birth.
  • (4) The other farm in the region, owned by Babul Khan, has yielded only three maunds and more than half of his crops have died.

Mun


Definition:

  • (n.) The mouth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whereas reversibility was demonstrated when the shearing stresses exceeded the elastic resistance [0.17 dyne cm-2 (1.7 muN CM-2)], thorough mixing usually resulted in a normal behavior of the solutions thereafter.
  • (2) The intervals between the transcripts are highly variable ranging from 0.1 mum to more than 3 mun.
  • (3) Mr. Hublot Possessions Room on the Broom Best short Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything) Helium Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa?
  • (4) Values in the order of 10(8) dyn cm-2 (1 dyn=10 muN) were found.
  • (5) Chromatid abnormalities were observed in MUN and ENU-treated cells from each of four cell lines.
  • (6) Moon was born Yong Myung Mun in the impoverished village of Sangsa in what is now North Korea , but was then a Japanese colony.
  • (7) Best live action short: Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything) Helium Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa?
  • (8) The level and pattern of contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were investigated in tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters), sediment, and water from the Shing Mun River.
  • (9) With this model, it is possible to study the influence of the blood flow and the thermal conductivity lambda of the skin on the steady-state temperature and the decay constants mun.
  • (10) B. Ra, and Z. H. Cho, "Proceedings, Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1988," p. 958; W. S. Kim, C. W. Mun, D. J. Kim, and Z. H. Cho, Magn.
  • (11) By the application of shearing stresses on the order of 10(-3) dyne cm-2 (10(-2) muN cm-2), via the magnetic viscodensimeter, extremely high relative viscosities (greater than 500) were observed when turnip yellow mosaic virus was degraded in alkali into its capsid and RNA.
  • (12) They were joined by Drew Sherman of the Cook Islands and Brunei’s Mike Wong Mun Heng.
  • (13) The former dean of HKU’s law faculty, Johannes Chan Man-mun, was critical of the government during last year’s protests.
  • (14) Values for the modulus of rigidity at 20 degrees for about 1% virus concentration was less than 2 X 10(-2) dyne cm-2 rad-1 (0.2 muN cm-2 rad-1), which, while extremely small, was reproducible.
  • (15) But three senior officers, general manager of logistics Derek Osborn, chief executive of operations Kate Munnings and commercial strategy director Angela Margaret-Williams were unable to answer a series of questions about the serious allegations raised at the centre, instead opting to take most questions on notice.
  • (16) Korea DPR: Myong-Guk Ri, Cha, Chol-Jin Pak, Nam-Chol Pak, Kwang-Chon Ri, Mun, Jun-Il Ri, Ji, Hong, Ahn, Jong.
  • (17) Munnings said: “You’ve asked for a lot of detail and information and we will provide it on notice.

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