What's the difference between mule and yule?

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.

Yule


Definition:

  • (n.) Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An overdetermined set of Yule-Walker equations was created to determine the autoregressive (AR) parameters of the original data with the model order established by the singular value decomposition.
  • (2) Kappa values and their 95% confidence intervals, and Yule's Y values are reported.
  • (3) The statistical method here employed, which permitted the analysis of the effects of birth order on the prevalence of schizophrenia, was that of Greenwood-Yule.
  • (4) Since in Brazil no population data are available, the Greenwood-Yule method seems useful and valid for the purpose, with the aid provided by Halperin's chi square modification.
  • (5) David Bowie: five of his best North American concerts Read more Bowie first travelled to New York in 1970, and though he saw the Velvet Underground perform, it was with Doug Yule fronting them rather than Lou Reed (Bowie spoke to Yule for an hour thinking that he was Reed).
  • (6) An essential aspect of the corresponding double barrier quantal model is its nonstationarity, resulting from combined application of binomial and Yule-Furry statistics.
  • (7) Lou Reed Remembered, produced and directed by Chris Rodley, features contributions by Boy George, Blondie's Debbie Harry, Thurston Moore and Velvet Underground members Moe Tucker and Doug Yule.
  • (8) A number of differences between the findings of Rutter and Yule and the present results were noted.
  • (9) These children's profiles of scores on the BAS were also entered into a cluster analysis which provided some confirmation of the validity of the Rutter & Yule classification.
  • (10) It is shown that the steady-state probability distribution of immunoglobulin variable-region frequencies is the Yule distribution.
  • (11) Reliability data will be presented which show sufficiently high kappa and Yule coefficients for a selected set of diagnostic criteria for depressive, manic and psychotic disorders.
  • (12) Cluster analysis using Yule's similarity coefficient produced a series of near neighbours which, when combined with relevant history details produced four diagnostic groupings which seem to have clinical relevance to referrals to an adolescent psychiatric clinic.
  • (13) The degree of agreement was calculated in the different sections of the instrument by Pearson's product-moment correlation, Kappa statistic and Yule's "Y" coefficient.
  • (14) By the Greenwood-Yule analysis, a small deficit of cases in the earlier birth order in the tuberculoid form was observed.
  • (15) The Yule measurement number (.54) indicated a medium stochastical link.
  • (16) A very high degree of association (0.88) has been found between DNA marker MetH and CF (as measured by the Yule's association coefficient) in our population.
  • (17) A method based on Yule's Q coefficient describing the degree of association between two dichotomous variables was applied.
  • (18) In 1975 Rutter and Yule distinguished between 'specific reading retardation' and 'general reading backwardness'.
  • (19) Both experiments yielded the same result: The dependency between the first and second tests, indexed by Yule's Q statistic, was greater for recognition and cued recall than it was for recognition and fragment completion.
  • (20) Our results indicate that both the AR(Yule-Walker) and ARMA(singular value decomposition) models of orders (8) and (4,4), respectively, show good agreement with the theoretical spectrum, and yield estimates with variances considerably less than the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).