What's the difference between pelican and sandwich?
Pelican
Definition:
(n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.
(n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Sustainable tourism company Sumak Travel offers tailor-made journeys to Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico Los Islotes , Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico Steve Backshall , naturalist and TV presenter Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Just two hours from La Paz in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Los Islotes is a rocky California sea lion colony, peppered with resting blue-footed boobies, cormorants and pelicans.
(2) At its peak, the 2011 hunger strike, also led by Pelican Bay inmates, drew about 12,000 inmates in about 11 jails.
(3) At Pelican Island, a 2.5 mile strip in the Barataria Bay, crews used 2.5m cubic yards of sand and silt mined from the Gulf of Mexico to build dunes and marshes, and rolled out protective fences around newly planted grasses.
(4) Nearby are two wildlife refuges where flamingos and pelican nest.
(5) The media were not granted access to striking inmates but several in Pelican Bay wrote to the Guardian.
(6) Twenty-five-year old Elf Lyons, whose new show, Pelican, tackles the complex, combative relationship between mothers and daughters, agrees, adding that what we are seeing is the rise of a generation of standup lovers who want to see their own lives reflected on stage.
(7) One of the strike's organizers, Todd Ashker , who has been locked in a cell in the Pelican Bay SHU since 1990, declared at the outset that "this time there's a core group of us committed to taking this all the way to the death if necessary".
(8) Noel plummeted all the way to No 6, where he was picked up by the New Orleans Pelicans – who sadly robbed us of a classic tongue-twister, "New Orleans' Nerlens Noel", by trading him to the Philadelphia 76ers.
(9) It had to be reassuring for the Pelicans, having lost franchise center Anthony Davis for the time being, that Holiday, whom they acquired from the asset-shedding Philadelphia 76ers during the offseason, was able to step up in his absence.
(10) Inexpensive Penguins provided a crash course in world literature and the publisher's Pelicans told you everything you might need to know about history, politics, sociology and film.
(11) It's home to pelicans, cormorants, herons and dozens of other bird species, along with the carp, trout and eel that end up on the area's dinner plates.
(12) Anne Weills, a civil rights attorney who this week visited Pelican Bay state prison , which is at the heart of the protest, said the temperature at the prison had been deliberately lowered.
(13) It also serves pizza – for me, another very good thing about the Pelican.
(14) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
(15) The NWF report also says the eggs of many animals – from trout in the Gulf to pelicans nesting as far away as Minnesota – have been found to contain oil and the dispersant used by BP in the wake of the spill.
(16) Shells of brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) eggs collected in South Carolina from 1969 through 1973 were significantly thinner than shells of those collected before 1947.
(17) Total organochlorine residues were apparently magnified 23 times from fish to pelican eggs, but interpretation of biomagnification was complicated by the migratory habits of both the pelicans and their chief prey fish.
(18) The media have not been granted access to striking inmates but eight in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay state prison, an isolated, windswept facility outside Crescent City, and the protest's epicentre, have written to the Guardian shedding light on their motivations and states of mind.
(19) 14 Pan De Azúcar Lodge, Chañaral This campsite in the Pan de Azúcar national park looks directly on to the island home of about 2,000 Humboldt penguins, plus marine otters, sea lions and pelicans.
(20) Western Conference LaMarcus Aldridge, Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers); DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings); James Harden, Dwight Howard (Houston Rockets); Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks), Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs); Mike Conley (Memphis Grizzlies); Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans): Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors).
Sandwich
Definition:
(n.) Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
(v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the detection of this antigen, a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed.
(2) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(3) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(4) We have developed a reverse-type sandwich ELISA for measurement of IgG (+IgA) antibody to a major allergen of Sugi (Japanese cedar) pollens.
(5) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
(6) Therefore, a modified sandwich ELISA was developed to measure IL-1ra protein concentration in synovial fluids.
(7) We used a "sandwich"-type immunoenzymometric assay (IEMA) and a radioimmunoassay (RIA) to measure antibody against the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in serum from individuals with myasthenia gravis, with markedly different results for certain specimens, as measured by the two techniques.
(8) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(9) Monoclonal antibodies specific for two unique converting enzyme epitopes were utilized to develop a two-site sandwich enzyme immunoassay.
(10) There was a certain amount of atmosphere too, thanks mostly to the West Ham fans keeping up a persistent din and celebrating the 15th anniversary of Roy Keane’s prawn sandwich remarks by noting the reserve of the home support.
(11) A sandwich was formed with proinsulin by using a monoclonal antibody against C-peptide labeled with alkaline phosphatase.
(12) A $4 supermarket sandwich has to be pretty damn good for two adults to start fighting over it.
(13) In this paper we describe a new assay for diphtheria toxin in bacterial cultures, based on a sandwich-dot immunobinding method.
(14) Soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) in serum of cancer patients was measured by a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and the effect of sTfR for natural killer cytotoxicity was also studied.
(15) Patients with C2 disease are being controlled locally with the "sandwich" regimen, but it is not clear whether pre-op RT alone may be adequate in this group as well.
(16) The sandwiches served in selected Subway stores have contained halal meat since 2007, while all Pizza Express chicken is halal.
(17) One was a culture of isolated cells between floating double layers of collagen gel, designated the "floating sandwich method."
(18) Yet sandwiched between these states are tax havens bleeding them of cash for no other reason than to avoid paying a fair share of that welfare burden.
(19) A sandwich enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) for pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) using a microtiter plate was developed.
(20) The environmental changes are explained consistently by a movement of the Met-105 side chain sandwiched by two indole rings of Trp-28 and 111 in the direction from Trp-111 to Trp-28.