What's the difference between mead and mear?

Mead


Definition:

  • (n.) A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel.
  • (n.) A drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. It is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
  • (n.) A meadow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ed Mead, a director of estate agency Douglas & Gordon, says the recent pace of price rises has been deterring some homeowners from selling up in case they miss out on more growth.
  • (2) Con A and two serine proteases also raised both cAMP and 1-MeAde production.
  • (3) "I just wanted to go out there and enjoy it," said Dujardin, who is only the second British rider to win double gold at one Games, following the eventer Richard Meade 40 years ago.
  • (4) Wendy Mead, who chairs the corporation’s environment committee, said: “Diesel was sold as an environmental solution but it is in fact an invisible killer.
  • (5) It is hypothesized that the increase of reactance in these patients can be explained by an increase of capacitance due to an increase of airway compliance or a decrease of peripheral resistance according to Mead's analogon of the lungs.
  • (6) Surprisingly high levels of the Mead acid (20:3 n-9) were found, with the highest appearing in the artery from the baby with the lowest birth weight.
  • (7) Mead (5,8,11-icosatrienoic) acid was found to be metabolized by the cyclooxygenase enzyme system of ram seminal vesicle microsomes in a calcium-dependent manner.
  • (8) Production of 1-MeAde by GSS was inhibited by ethionine and selenoethionine, competitive inhibitors of methionine.
  • (9) Wyndham Mead , an American who has lived in Berlin for the past three years, joined because he was looking for an alternative to "impersonal gay dating sites".
  • (10) With respect to 1-MeAde production, the effect of GSS on follicle cells results in the receptor-mediated formation of cyclic AMP (cAMP).
  • (11) George H. Mead's conception of though as internal dialogue between the "I" and "me" aspects of the self and his notion of the "generalized other" were foreshadowed by some of the Scottish moralists, particularly Adam Smith.
  • (12) Thus, in repair-proficient cells, 3-MeAde is efficiently removed from DNA and does not contribute in a major way to mutagenesis.
  • (13) Ed Mead, executive director of realtor Douglas & Gordon in London, said his firm had seen two buyers from China looking to buy whole blocks of flats.
  • (14) Nothing gets a publisher’s chequebook out faster than a memoir, to the point that nonfiction books that are ostensibly about a specific subject (butchery, say, or George Eliot) are now styled and sold as memoirs (respectively Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell; and The Road to Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead.)
  • (15) Compared with method 1 the TLCO and related indices by method 2 were lower using the procedure of Jones and Meade and higher using the procedure of Ogilvie et al.
  • (16) The absence of this "anti-atelectasis" factor was proposed by Avery and Mead in 1959 to be the cause of hyaline membrane disease of premature infants.
  • (17) The N(6)-methyladenine (MeAde) and 5-methylcytosine (MeC) contents in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of bacteriophage lambda has been analyzed as a function of host specificity.
  • (18) Use of [methyl-14C]methionine showed that a radiolabel was incorporated into 1-MeAde during incubation with GSS and IBMX, but not with 1-MeAde-R.
  • (19) As a final show of support ahead of the court martial, pro-Manning activists staged a demonstration at the gates of Fort Meade near Baltimore over the weekend.
  • (20) We compared Konno-Mead diagrams derived from isovolume calibrated magnetometers and RIP in the DC-mode during room air and CO2 rebreathing in the sitting and supine positions.

Mear


Definition:

  • (n.) A boundary. See Mere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the 3 cases of non-bacterial prostatitis on Meares & Stamey's method was diagnosed as non-bacterial prostatitis, but the other two cases were diagnosed as urethritis.
  • (2) As director, he used his business associate Vladimir Oplanchuk, then nominee director Edward Petre-Mears in Nevis.
  • (3) Mear, who is chief executive of the Walton centre NHS foundation trust in Liverpool says: "I had been thinking about becoming a chief executive and I think that the diagnostic element of the programme gave me the clarity I was after.
  • (4) Ray Mears is working with LateRooms.com to host a Destination Inspiration event ( inspiration.laterooms.com ) The Amazon, Peru, Ed Stafford Ed Stafford In early 2008 I set off to try to become the first man to walk the length of the Amazon.
  • (5) I think it was called Ray Mears ’s World of Interiors, or something.
  • (6) So begins the final shootout between Pendleton and her one-time nemesis Anna Meares of Australia, usually unfairly billed as the Bad to Pendleton's Good, (the role of the Ugly would be played by the UCI commissaires).
  • (7) He told us: "Sarah Petre-Mears has acted as nominee for BVI [British Virgin islands] companies which this company has formed … As far as we are concerned, she has acted as a genuine nominee."
  • (8) Forty-four per cent of patients referred with symptoms of prostatitis did not have any aerobic bacteria at the prostatic level in sufficient number for the diagnosis bacterial prostatitis according to Meares and Stamey and form thus a third group.
  • (9) Mears said temperatures would reach close to 30C in the south-east, with 29C predicted on Sunday, compared to a July average of 19.4C.
  • (10) The most popular programme on BBC2 was Ray Mears: Northern Wildness, about Canada, which drew 2 million viewers and a 7% share, at 8pm.
  • (11) Mears said the high pressure was a result of "the jet stream [being] where it's supposed to be at this time of year.
  • (12) Both prostate catheter and Meares & Stamey's method were performed by crossover method in 11 patients who were highly suspected of chronic prostatitis based on symptoms and physical findings.
  • (13) Mears bought Care UK’s homecare business in 2015.
  • (14) The council has signed a partnership with Mears Group to “regenerate” seven of MK’s 1970s estates over the next 15 years.
  • (15) Meanwhile, care firm Mears Care, which made a loss last year and received an inter-company credit of around £27m in 2015, has paid out £15.8m to its parent company Mears Group over the last five years.
  • (16) (Meares 1971) A simple method of treatment under local anaesthesia is described.
  • (17) Salem's Lot as proxy for EveryTown USA (twinned with Hidden Darkness); Mark as the overly bright kid we all wish we'd been at his age; and, biggest of all, Ben Mears as the hampered writer, ruined by life, trying to write but faced with a reality that's more dangerous than anything in his mind.
  • (18) Pendleton has looked untroubled throughout the tournament so far and could well face Anna Meares in the final after the Australian made it through to the final four as well.
  • (19) Survival with Ray Mears, in which the former BBC presenter tracked leopards in Namibia, had 2.355 million (10.8%) in the 7pm hour on ITV1.
  • (20) Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Burnout and Survival, hosted by Ray Mears, complete the quartet of shows hoping to bask in the reflected glow.

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