What's the difference between mule and strap?

Mule


Definition:

  • (n.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
  • (n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
  • (n.) A very stubborn person.
  • (n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
  • (2) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
  • (3) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
  • (4) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
  • (5) Leucocytes from the blood of adult and young donkeys (Equus asinus L.), adult horses (Equus caballus L.), adult mules (Equus asinus x Equus caballus) and adult pigs (Sus scrofa L.) were obtained in a high degree of purity (99.9%) using Na2-EDTA-dextrans mixtures.
  • (6) Like domestic sheep and goats, mule deer may be highly susceptible to infection, and it is unlikely mule deer can survive infection with large numbers of F. magna.
  • (7) The problem now is to explain how mules and hinnies can occasionally produce spermatozoa or ova.
  • (8) A caravan comprising 300 yaks, 50 mules and 100 porters wound through the Himalayan valleys, carrying 900 boxes of food, all because 13 white men wanted to reach the summit.
  • (9) But she is in fact a semi-legal data mule in the country’s “offline internet”.
  • (10) Twenty mule deer fawns (Odocoileus hemionus) were removed from their dams 48 h after birth, and hand-reared.
  • (11) An Australian couple were unwittingly conned into becoming multi-million dollar drug mules after winning a dream trip to Canada with new luggage thrown in.
  • (12) Cafe Mule was overflowing with visitors in the opening hours of Leipzig's art weekend.
  • (13) While hoverboards have been around for only a few years, they are banned from pavements under a section of the 1835 Highways Act , which says people cannot use the footway to “lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine, or cattle or carriage of any description”.
  • (14) We report here the immunolocalization of scrapie amyloid (PrP27-30) in plaques observed in brain tissues of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) and hybrids of mule deer and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) naturally affected with CWD.
  • (15) The transferrin system indicated that the foal was not born to the mare mule but was the offspring of one of the Shetland mares.
  • (16) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
  • (17) Fifteen coyotes (Canis latrans) shed sporulated sporocysts in their feces after eating freshly ground skeletal muscles from a mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) infected with microscopic-sized cysts of Sarcocystis.
  • (18) Methoxyflurane inhalation was used a total of 58 times to anesthetize 23 hand-reared mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns ranging from 25 to 85 days of age.
  • (19) We captured 10 free-ranging desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus crooki) (five males and five females) by net-gun from a helicopter and immobilized them with xylazine hydrochloride (HCl) (100 mg) and ketamine HCl (300 to 400 mg) injected intramuscularly.
  • (20) Experiments were conducted to study the germ cell of testes in the domestic drake (Tsaiya drake) and the mule drake.

Strap


Definition:

  • (n.) A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
  • (n.) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.
  • (n.) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.
  • (n.) A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
  • (n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
  • (n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
  • (n.) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
  • (n.) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
  • (n.) A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.
  • (v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
  • (v. t.) To fasten or bind with a strap.
  • (v. t.) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
  • (2) The surest way for either side to capture the mood of a cash-strapped country would be to give ground on those of their demands which have least merit.
  • (3) Tragedy was averted because there was a little delay as the prayers did not commence in earnest and the bomb strapped to the body of the girl went off and killed her,” he added.
  • (4) The cell shape varied greatly and included dendritic, stellated and strap-shaped forms as well as multinucleated giant cells, similar to those of juvenile melanomatas.
  • (5) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (6) To be effective, strapping must adhere to the entire abdominal wall rather than to the edges of the incision; it must also be permeable to body fluids and well tolerated.
  • (7) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
  • (8) A single anatomic unit is rebuilt, transferring a strong new muscle strap with ideal supporting vectors and leaving scars in natural creases.
  • (9) Rare is the interview that concludes with the subject pinging one’s bra strap.
  • (10) The City is most focused on the investigation begun in April 2009 into the bank before it was rescued by the taxpayer following the takeover of ABN Amro, which left it crippled with bad debts and strapped for cash after paying too much for the bank just as the credit crunch began.
  • (11) The cash-strapped HMV retail chain clinched a deal on Friday to sell its Waterstone's bookshops to the Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53m.
  • (12) They believed the film strips strapped around his forearm, which they called a sleeve, would stimulate his muscles to make those movements a physical reality.
  • (13) It’s easy money for cash-strapped African treasuries.
  • (14) These eventrations are enormous in Africa because the post-partum women do not make active movements to develop again the abdominal strap.
  • (15) Two hundred consecutive patients with arthrographically verified rupture of one or both of the lateral ankle ligaments were allocated to treatment with either an operation and a walking cast, walking cast alone, or strapping with an inelastic tape - all for 5 weeks.
  • (16) The dermal-subdermal plexus is continuous across the midline and this contralateral pathway is supplied chiefly from branches of the superior thyroid artery, facial artery, and myocutaneous perforators of the strap muscles.
  • (17) He now faces an even harder task of selling his economic policies to a doubting and cash-strapped nation when his taxman in chief, the man responsible for fiscal "justice", was hiding a stack of cash from the tax authorities and brazenly lying about it.
  • (18) The extra cost of the deployment is estimated at $35bn, at a time when the US is strapped for cash because of the recession.
  • (19) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
  • (20) Ever since I first strapped a radio to my bag, people have been warning me that the cycle courier is an endangered species.