What's the difference between perkinism and tractor?
Perkinism
Definition:
(n.) A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.
Example Sentences:
(1) THE PERKINS FILE Born Susan Elizabeth Perkins, 22 September 1969 in Croydon, south London.
(2) This investigation was designed to determine the accuracy of a clinical system, which included 12 ICU bedside stations monitored by a medical mass spectrometer (Perkin-Elmer RMS III, Pomona, CA).
(3) Using the Perkin Elmer flame photometer sodium and potassium concentrations have been measured in muscle fibers from the m. ileofibularis of Rana temporaria.
(4) Averaged Pulsair measurements agreed well with Perkins applanation tonometry values under general anaesthesia.
(5) Perkins was spotted in a small elevator in the building, wearing blue overalls and surrounded by tools and building equipment, and smiling at a woman he came across.
(6) A selective ion monitor for the Perkin-Elmer Model 270 gas chromatograph mass spectrometer is described.
(7) Kleiner Perkins’ lawyer Lynne Hermle said in closing arguments that Pao’s claims were “meritless and frivolous”.
(8) Later that day, Collins, Perkins and Jones were observed meeting again at the Castle pub, moving on to the upmarket Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar in nearby Exmouth Market.
(9) Modification of a Perkin-Elmer 603 atomic absorption spectrophotometer by adding a high-intensity tungsten-halogen lamp for background correction significantly improved the detection limit for elements that have analytical wavelengths in the near-ultraviolet and visible regions.
(10) Calculations were performed by PE680 and SNGLE programs on data obtained using a Perkin-Elmer Model 3600 data station.
(11) Using a Perkin-Elmer 5000 Z instrument with HGA 500 and L'vov platform and by application of oxygen ashing at approx.
(12) Some, like Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures, have deep links to Google… This reminds many of the YouTube acquisition.
(13) However, the jury sided with Kleiner Perkins’ case that Pao was fired because she was bad at her job, and was divisive and not a team player.
(14) Belcher shot Perkins multiple times in their home on 1 December, and then drove to team headquarters, where he killed himself in front of his coach and general manager after telling them he "wasn't able to get enough help".
(15) Vaporizer-equipped machines were tested for inapparent contamination with halothane and enflurane using Perkin-Elmer mass spectrometer.
(16) Paul Hollywood rushed to the defence of the show, claiming the fuss would upset fellow judge Mary Berry: Paul Hollywood (@PaulHollywood) At the end of the day Mary & I need something to judge, it's not about melted ice cream but about what's presented to US... #bingate August 27, 2014 Paul Hollywood (@PaulHollywood) I'm glad Mary's not on twitter this would upset her.. #enoughnow August 27, 2014 Presenter Sue Perkins also tried to calm the controversy: Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) Iain's Alaska was out of the freezer for 40 secs.
(17) 6346 have been isolated free of each other after successive treatments of the walls with trichloroacetic acid and lysozyme: (a) a mucopeptide consisting of glucosamine, muramic acid, alphain-diaminopimelic acid, glutamic acid and alanine in the molar proportions 1.0:0.8:1.0:1.2:1.7; (b) an insoluble protein; (c) teichoic acid containing phosphorus and glucose in equimolar amounts; (d) teichuronic acid containing equimolar amounts of N-acetylgalactosamine and glucuronic acid, as found by Janczura, Perkins & Rogers (1961).
(18) Previous studies (Furneaux, H. M., Perkins, K. K., Freyer, G. A., Arenas, J., and Hurwitz, J.
(19) The trial has revealed alleged sexual discrimination not just at Kleiner Perkins but across the tech companies of Silicon Valley, roughly 40 miles south of San Francisco.
(20) "I haven't seen any bodies in the street," says social worker Prosper Perkins.
Tractor
Definition:
(n.) That which draws, or is used for drawing.
(n.) Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(2) Potential dermal exposure from tractor-powered sprayers fitted with conventional hydraulic nozzles was lower than from knapsack sprayers, with exposure from a tractor-powered sprayer fitted with controlled-droplet application equipment intermediate in this regard.
(3) Optical tweezers are the 'tractor beams' of today's technology.
(4) Sales of tractors and other farm machinery are down by 70%, said Dave Dorsett of Reynolds farm equipment in Martinville.
(5) Potential dermal exposure was higher during mixing and loading all tractor-powered sprayers than during spraying.
(6) It is recommended that the government require all tractors sold to be equipped with ROPS as is currently the case in England and Sweden.
(7) On the second anniversary of their optimistic opening coalition press conference in the rose garden at Downing Street, Cameron and Clegg chose the stark symbolism of a tractor factory floor in Basildon to rededicate the coalition to its central painstaking work of rebalancing the economy and tackling the deficit.
(8) The night before the hearing, Patten sat down in front of the box to watch Mud Sweat and Tractors: the Story of Agriculture on BBC4.
(9) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
(10) 2) Many items on the checklist received a poor evaluations, indicating that there are many ergonomic problems with freight-container tractors.
(11) The latter are grown in fields on which oil-based fertilisers have been sprayed and which are ploughed by tractors that burn diesel.
(12) Eight people died in a traffic accident involving a tractor-trailer and ten autos.
(13) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
(14) Save a few tractors for dragging boats up the beach, there are no motor vehicles on Culatra.
(15) Tractors were involved in eight of these deaths, falls in four, power take-offs in three, and farm machinery in one.
(16) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
(17) These findings were considered to originate from the fact that the freight-container tractors had many ergonomic problems and the daily driving hours of many drivers were estimated to exceed the allowable vibration exposure time of the ISO.
(18) It is the equivalent of allowing a fleet of tractors to drag 30 tonnes of gear over a 150-metre wide swath of land for most days of the year.
(19) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
(20) The hands were the most highly exposed part of the body during mixing and loading operations for all sprayers, and during spraying with tractor-powered sprayers.