What's the difference between much and muck?

Much


Definition:

  • (Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by) Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.
  • (Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by) Many in number.
  • (Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by) High in rank or position.
  • (n.) A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I.
  • (n.) A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable.
  • (a.) To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (2) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (3) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
  • (4) The amount of stearic acid liberated was much larger than that of arachidonic acid between 30 s and 1 min of ischemia.
  • (5) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (6) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
  • (7) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (8) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
  • (9) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
  • (10) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
  • (11) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
  • (12) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (13) Much information has accumulated on the isolation and characterization of a heterogeneous group of molecules that inhibit one or more of the bioactivities of interleukin 1.
  • (14) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (15) Osteoporosis and its treatment have attracted much attention in recent years, especially since the widespread recognition of its association with the menopause.
  • (16) "It has done so much to educate people about low emissions cars.
  • (17) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (18) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
  • (19) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (20) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.

Muck


Definition:

  • () abbreviation of Amuck.
  • (n.) Dung in a moist state; manure.
  • (n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
  • (n.) Anything filthy or vile.
  • (n.) Money; -- in contempt.
  • (a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
  • (v. t.) To manure with muck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
  • (2) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
  • (3) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
  • (4) As we picked our way along stream-side bushes, pulling off hard little rosehips and stripping elders of their berries, the scent of September filled the air; the smell after muck-spreaders had been out in the fields.
  • (5) He's not mucked it up today – he's not really been given the opportunity.
  • (6) It goes from being a load of muck to being made into a household object.
  • (7) Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in.
  • (8) Billy Ivory (Common as Muck) Okay, well, the BBC drama department still produces, consistently the best drama on TV: Criminal Justice, Occupation, Freefall, All the Small Things, Doctor Who, Revelations, Life on Mars.
  • (9) Metal-contaminated muck soil (5700 micrograms g-1 Ni, 650 micrograms g-1 Cu and 90 micrograms g-1 Co) was obtained from a farm adjacent to a nickel refinery in southern Ontario and was placed on a field test plot at Brampton, Ontario, during the summer of 1984.
  • (10) We have previously described a visual area situated in the cortex surrounding the deep infolding of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat (Mucke et al.
  • (11) We are in power and therefore we have got a bit of muck on our hands.
  • (12) And one of the things I had wanted to do for ages was get stuck into a bunch of things that I had been mucking around with that didn't fit into the Radiohead zone.'
  • (13) Local villagers came out to see them, and Joe, as always was mucking around.
  • (14) I will leave you in the hands of Gregg Bakowski (gregg.bakowski@theguardian.com if you want to get in touch), and with this video of me and Gregg mucking about outside Guardian Towers earlier.
  • (15) He got his sleeves rolled up and mucked in like everyone else.
  • (16) His philosophy of journalism coincided closely with that of guiding Eye spirit, legendary muck-raking reporter Claud Cockburn who dismissed the popular assumption that "facts" lay around like gold in the Yukon waiting to be picked up by a reporter.
  • (17) "In reality, it gets reported but only as part of the generally muck and mire of grease-blotter journalism."
  • (18) A real tiny twitch of a balk that Buck and Muck Carver don't spot or understand October 31, 2013 We've got a few more innings to go here so.... 2.01am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 5th Kevin Siegrist, whom you may remember from that game one Ortiz homer, starts the inning for St Louis.
  • (19) We had five sets of contestants and we got it down to four, so one fewer round in the show, which meant there was much more time for us to muck about.
  • (20) But under all the scars and muck, there's a soulfulness to McCann's performance.