What's the difference between orc and ord?

Orc


Definition:

  • (n.) The grampus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Genes play an important etiological role in ORC-related psychiatric side effects.
  • (2) Electron-microscopic studies of 2 of the Mabs in this class showed that they recognize antigens associated with the cell membrane and that the immunoreactive ORC axons are bundled together in fascicles in the antennal nerve.
  • (3) To investigate the etiological role of genetic factors in ORC-related symptoms, we studied questionnaire responses in 715 monozygotic and 416 dizygotic volunteer twin pairs concordant for ORC usage.
  • (4) A poll late last week, by CNN and ORC International , revealed that only 34% of Americans now support the war, one percentage point down on the previous all-time low.
  • (5) CNN, together with the market research company ORC, conducted a poll with a more robust methodology, although they only managed to speak to 537 registered voters in total (only 27% of whom identified as Republican).
  • (6) Stableflex (ORC) is a PMMA anterior chamber intraocular lens with closed and flexible loops permitting the philosophy of "one size fits all" in 90% of the eyes.
  • (7) Pyloric and cardiac glands were stained faintly with ox-orc but not with ox-HID or ox-AB.
  • (8) Multivariate genetic analysis indicated that both the genetic and the individual-specific environmental factors that influenced the liability to ORC-related depression and irritability were largely distinct from those that influence baseline levels of psychiatric symptoms.
  • (9) The protection in situ is similar to that generated by the origin recognition complex (ORC) protein.
  • (10) The authors report on their experience with UV-absorbent posterior chamber IOLs (ORC) implanted between April 1, 1984 and April 1, 1985 (n = 125).
  • (11) One group had the area of the aorta with the patch wrapped with oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC); the other group served as a control.
  • (12) P. putida ORC, on the other hand, possesses individual hydroxylases for orcinol and resorcinol, which are specifically induced by growth on their respective substrates.
  • (13) In the control group, rabbits were fed commercial chow (ORC 4).
  • (14) Results demonstrate that ORC produced graded reduction in adhesion formation and significantly prevented adhesion reformation.
  • (15) In the investigation reported here, we examined the expression of the antigens during postembryonic development in order to correlate the presence of particular antigens with the status of differentiation of the ORCs or with their acquisition of particular functions.
  • (16) Immediately after this period of mitoses, the OSA immunoreactivity reappears exclusively in the ORCs, which begin to elaborate axons as an early event in their differentiation.
  • (17) In films featuring Dracula, Tony Montana, Orcs or even Achilles, the parameters are more clearly drawn.
  • (18) He’s been shot, stabbed, pulled apart by horses, chased off a cliff by cows, thrown off a giant satellite dish, blown up, beheaded and turned into a human pin-cushion by Orc arrows.
  • (19) Then everyone files out and goes into the next demo room – and you do this for the three days that the event runs, like being strapped to a conveyor belt of hype, until you don’t know where you are any more and all the games have merged into one narrative about a spec-ops warrior slaughtering orcs on Saturn.
  • (20) This antibody demonstrates that male-specific ORCs are molecularly distinct from other types of ORCs.

Ord


Definition:

  • (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ORD titrations of ApAp(3') and CpCp(3'), which were made by measuring the ORD curves at closely spaced pH intervals, exhibit a maximum at approx.
  • (2) Sir Hugh Orde, Acpo's president, said on Friday the introduction of police commissioners would create "inevitable tension" with chief constables over local and national policing priorities.
  • (3) Ironically, Hogan-Howe in part owes the job to Orde, who managed to persuade the home secretary to oppose Downing Street's plan to bring in Bill Bratton, the former US police chief, to run the Met.
  • (4) The absolute configuration of a novel chiral neuroleptic agent SU 23397 (I) was determined by ORD comparison of (+)-5-methoxy dihydro coumarilic acid (VIII), a synthetic precursor of SU 23397 (I), with (+)-dihydro coumarilic acid, whose absolute configuration is known.
  • (5) Although the Acpo statement today was more measured, its president, Sir Hugh Orde, has warned in recent months that low turnouts would risk returning BNP candidates and even "lunatics" as police commissioners.
  • (6) Experimental differences in the curves of the optic rotation dispersion (ORD) of cystrans-heptaenic antibiotics were found.
  • (7) After a brief introduction of the ORD and CD methods, the advantages and drawbacks of the application of the two methods have been described, and compared, and the calibration of ORD and CD instruments have been given.
  • (8) ORD spectra of hybrid viruses, reconstituted from RNA of one virus and coat protein of another, proved to be identical to the ORD of the virus, whose protein was used in reconstitution.
  • (9) The ORD and CD spectra of the analogs are similar to those of the natural oligonucleotides.
  • (10) We have a problem already and, to my mind, if we allow access to countless millions without any means or ability of checking who they are, we’re adding to a problem that already exists within our countries.” But Orde, one of the most respected figures in policing, says the anti-EU campaigners have “misused the horrific events in Paris to try to support their failing cause.
  • (11) In ORD measurements, the rotatory behaviors of lysozyme and its derivative were identical at the 233 nm negative minimum and the 199 nm positive extremum.
  • (12) Gel chromatography and ORD measurements show no strong conformational change.
  • (13) $200m will be set aside for a water infrastructure fund and a further $20m on the feasibility of dams and infrastructure projects in northern Australia, including the third stage of the Ord river venture.
  • (14) In addition, one of them was found to have approximately 15% alpha-helical conformation by the Moffitt-Yang analysis of ORD data.
  • (15) Analysis of the ORD and CD spectra of various glycosaminoglycans, as well as those of oversulphated and desulphated preparations allowed the following conclusions concerning the secondary structure.
  • (16) Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, last week played down allegations of a cover-up.
  • (17) Although simple nearest-neighbour calculations based on the ORD data of IpIp(3') and 5'-IMP account for the observed ORD spectrum of polyinosinic acid at low salt concentration, there were large discrepancies between calculated and experimental results of the polyguanylic acid ORD even at low ionic strength.
  • (18) A model is developed which shows that studies of the effect of radiation on ORD properties may be useful in providing information on possible intermediate steps in protein denaturation.
  • (19) The study shows that the stereochemical configuration of lipids isolated from biological material can be assessed by ORD and CD.
  • (20) It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that Kevin Rudd has promised to “unlock” the Northern Territory, including by expanding stage three of the Ord River irrigation scheme.

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