What's the difference between nob and nobleman?

Nob


Definition:

  • (n.) The head.
  • (n.) A person in a superior position in life; a nobleman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Interaction of PUFA and 2-NOF or NOB yielded MDA, the amounts of which were significantly greater when 24-h anaerobic preceded 1-6-h aerobic incubation.
  • (2) The NOB-1 assay is probably more specific with respect to IL-1 measurement, although, with a high intra-assay variance.
  • (3) Anaerobic incubation of NOB or 2-NOF with linolenic acid at the molar ratio of 1:1 for 24 h yielded approximately 5.5-13% of the PUFA as conjugated diene which appeared stable upon exposure to air.
  • (4) We examined fasting lipid, lipoprotein, sex hormone and insulin levels in 38 women (21 obese (ob), 17 non-obese (nob] with HA and anovulation (PCO) and 38 normal ovulatory women (21 obese, 17 non-obese), matched for age and weight.
  • (5) Nitrosobenzene (NOB) formed acid labile conjugates with reduced glutathione (GSH) and hemoglobin within red cells.
  • (6) To evaluate the efficacy and safety of NOB in ragweed seasonal allergic rhinitis, 250 eligible patients were randomized to one of four parallel, double-blind treatment groups: NOB, 10, 20, and 30 mg, or placebo, each administered once daily for 3 weeks.
  • (7) On the other hand, glycophorin A had essentially no effect on IL-1-mediated stimulation of the IL-1-sensitive thymocyte cell line EL-4 NOB-1.
  • (8) NOB-1 is not responsive to tumour necrosis factor alpha, tumour necrosis factor beta, interferon gamma and lipopolysaccharide.
  • (9) He told me sadly of two youths who had said they did not go to the theatre because: “That’s not for us, it’s for the nobs.” The Labour party and the unions had emancipated the working class economically, but what had they done to show the worker that he ought to take his share of the nation’s cultural life, that everyone was a “nob” in the theatre?
  • (10) Receptor-bound 125I-IL 1 alpha was displaced with equal efficiency by both unlabelled forms from 3T3 cells, but a 20-fold lower affinity for p1L1 beta was observed using NOB-1.
  • (11) This reaction was reversible because nearly all NOB could be extracted with ether from the labile intermediate.
  • (12) NOB treatment did not appear to cause weight gain or sedation.
  • (13) Daft Punk themselves are in a separate DJ booth twiddling with nobs that surely don't do anything.
  • (14) As I hob-nobbed with friends, family and the invited guests of the RI at the drinks reception beforehand, my mind kept flitting back to my notes.
  • (15) The neutralizing capacity and the specificity of the IL-1 antisera were tested by the use of the thymoma EL-4 NOB-1 cell line.
  • (16) Photograph: The Guardian Before marching, the protesters gathered for a potluck on a warm afternoon in Huntington Park, at the top of the tony Nob Hill neighborhood and the epicenter of old town San Francisco.
  • (17) rIL-1 beta induced the production of IL-2 and IL-6 from EL-4-NOB-1 cells in a dose-related manner.
  • (18) Furthermore, the differences in the amounts of MDA resulting from 24- and 0-h anaerobic incubations were significantly greater when the molar ratio of 2-NOF (or NOB) to PUFA was increased (2.0 greater than 1.0 greater than 0.5).
  • (19) Once-daily NOB, 10, 20, and 30 mg, is equally and highly effective and safe in the symptomatic management of seasonal allergic rhinitis compared to placebo.
  • (20) Using the murine T-lymphocyte line NOB-1, human thyrocytes and human foreskin fibroblasts, the antibodies competitively inhibited the biological activity of human recombinant IL-1 alpha (rIL-1 alpha).

Nobleman


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This finished with a concert performance of the finale from Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which tells the story of a nobleman, Florestan, who is rescued from prison by his wife dressed as a prison guard, Fidelio.
  • (2) A new allele (C3*F0.35) was detected in a Chinese individual and in a nobleman from Bali.
  • (3) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
  • (4) This paper presents and explains an early clinical discussion of the case of a young nobleman who had developed a severe speech impediment associated with anxiety.
  • (5) This note concerns the analysis of a work written in the early years of the century by a discredited Polish nobleman.
  • (6) There is the terrible gaffe he makes which sets the whole terrible train of events in motion (it's a small train, admittedly, but big enough to cause havoc); there is his initial impression that Kekesfalva is a genuine venerable Hungarian nobleman, that Condor is a bumpkin and a fool; and, in one splendidly subtle piece of writing, in which an interior state of mind is beautifully translated into memorable yet familiar imagery, he imagines himself to be better put together than Condor, when they walk out in bright moonlight on the night of their first meeting: And as we walked down the apparently snow-covered gravel drive, suddenly we were not two but four, for our shadows went ahead of us, clear-cut in the bright moonlight.
  • (7) "They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
  • (8) The head of a once noble house, which he inherited from a great nobleman.
  • (9) The pool is spring-fed and there’s lots of local mystery surrounding it.” A woodcutter’s daughter, for example, is said to have met a tragic fate after being so scared by a nobleman on a horse that she swam into deeper water and drowned.
  • (10) Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor will play the sorcerous nobleman Baron Mordo opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel Studios’ forthcoming superhero epic Doctor Strange, reports Deadline .
  • (11) This was more like a scene in a Shakespeare play where a nobleman switches places with his servant.
  • (12) Ultimately, she ditches Severin for a hot-headed Greek nobleman.
  • (13) Olof af Acrel, the father of Swedish Surgery, operated in 1768 upon a young nobleman who had experienced an increasing swelling on the skull, due to a tumour which also turned out to be growing deep into the brain parenchyma.
  • (14) A married woman with a 12-year-old son is bored of her life and succumbs to a fling with a predatory nobleman; another woman is terrorised into blackmail by someone she assumes is the other "kept woman" of her lover; a doctor asks for sexual favours from the woman who has come to him for a secret abortion.
  • (15) In the second book of the Essais towards the end of the twelfth chapter Montaigne mentions a nobleman who does not take note of his blindness.
  • (16) So Mason could be lord and nobleman, a very upper-class fellow - he did that from his Flaubert in the silly MGM production of Madame Bovary to Brutus in the same studio's Julius Caesar, from Mr Jordan in Heaven Can Wait to the "prince of darkness" lawyer, Ed Concannon, in The Verdict.
  • (17) Goodwin Wharton (1653-1704) was a nobleman's son and a Whig MP who played no small part in English public life.
  • (18) Born in 1745 in the town of Como in what is now northern Italy, Volta was the son of a nobleman.

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