What's the difference between merkin and perkin?

Merkin


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Get in the formation, let’s start triangle jerkin’ Included in the list mostly because it rhymes “merkin” with “triangle jerkin”, this song began as a joke to be played only once in Australia (in Aussie slang, “map of Tasmania” is a euphemism for female pubic hair) and is Amanda’s statement for freedom of expression via pubic hair .
  • (2) Only 28.3% of the Salantai inhabitants and 25.5% of the Merkine inhabitants knew their arterial pressure, 74.8% and 79.3% respectively knew their height and body mass.
  • (3) How many more will die before we can stop it?” Jandali will be performing live at Merkin Concert Hall, Kauffman Center in New York City on Saturday 26 October.
  • (4) During examination of the adult population of two rural communities: 1558 inhabitants of a settlement of Salantai and 1713 inhabitants of a settlement of Merkine their arterial pressure was measured and they were interviewed.
  • (5) 8.47pm BST This is the hairy bit, says Glenn, affixing a large shredded wheat merkin to the front of his construction.
  • (6) While Diaz was making her new hairy allegiances public, clothing label American Apparel filled its New York shop windows with be-merkined mannequins in sheer undies.

Perkin


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of weak perry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) THE PERKINS FILE Born Susan Elizabeth Perkins, 22 September 1969 in Croydon, south London.
  • (2) This investigation was designed to determine the accuracy of a clinical system, which included 12 ICU bedside stations monitored by a medical mass spectrometer (Perkin-Elmer RMS III, Pomona, CA).
  • (3) Using the Perkin Elmer flame photometer sodium and potassium concentrations have been measured in muscle fibers from the m. ileofibularis of Rana temporaria.
  • (4) Averaged Pulsair measurements agreed well with Perkins applanation tonometry values under general anaesthesia.
  • (5) Perkins was spotted in a small elevator in the building, wearing blue overalls and surrounded by tools and building equipment, and smiling at a woman he came across.
  • (6) A selective ion monitor for the Perkin-Elmer Model 270 gas chromatograph mass spectrometer is described.
  • (7) Kleiner Perkins’ lawyer Lynne Hermle said in closing arguments that Pao’s claims were “meritless and frivolous”.
  • (8) Later that day, Collins, Perkins and Jones were observed meeting again at the Castle pub, moving on to the upmarket Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar in nearby Exmouth Market.
  • (9) Modification of a Perkin-Elmer 603 atomic absorption spectrophotometer by adding a high-intensity tungsten-halogen lamp for background correction significantly improved the detection limit for elements that have analytical wavelengths in the near-ultraviolet and visible regions.
  • (10) Calculations were performed by PE680 and SNGLE programs on data obtained using a Perkin-Elmer Model 3600 data station.
  • (11) Using a Perkin-Elmer 5000 Z instrument with HGA 500 and L'vov platform and by application of oxygen ashing at approx.
  • (12) Some, like Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures, have deep links to Google… This reminds many of the YouTube acquisition.
  • (13) However, the jury sided with Kleiner Perkins’ case that Pao was fired because she was bad at her job, and was divisive and not a team player.
  • (14) Belcher shot Perkins multiple times in their home on 1 December, and then drove to team headquarters, where he killed himself in front of his coach and general manager after telling them he "wasn't able to get enough help".
  • (15) Vaporizer-equipped machines were tested for inapparent contamination with halothane and enflurane using Perkin-Elmer mass spectrometer.
  • (16) Paul Hollywood rushed to the defence of the show, claiming the fuss would upset fellow judge Mary Berry: Paul Hollywood (@PaulHollywood) At the end of the day Mary & I need something to judge, it's not about melted ice cream but about what's presented to US... #bingate August 27, 2014 Paul Hollywood (@PaulHollywood) I'm glad Mary's not on twitter this would upset her.. #enoughnow August 27, 2014 Presenter Sue Perkins also tried to calm the controversy: Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) Iain's Alaska was out of the freezer for 40 secs.
  • (17) 6346 have been isolated free of each other after successive treatments of the walls with trichloroacetic acid and lysozyme: (a) a mucopeptide consisting of glucosamine, muramic acid, alphain-diaminopimelic acid, glutamic acid and alanine in the molar proportions 1.0:0.8:1.0:1.2:1.7; (b) an insoluble protein; (c) teichoic acid containing phosphorus and glucose in equimolar amounts; (d) teichuronic acid containing equimolar amounts of N-acetylgalactosamine and glucuronic acid, as found by Janczura, Perkins & Rogers (1961).
  • (18) Previous studies (Furneaux, H. M., Perkins, K. K., Freyer, G. A., Arenas, J., and Hurwitz, J.
  • (19) The trial has revealed alleged sexual discrimination not just at Kleiner Perkins but across the tech companies of Silicon Valley, roughly 40 miles south of San Francisco.
  • (20) "I haven't seen any bodies in the street," says social worker Prosper Perkins.

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