What's the difference between pine and pint?

Pine


Definition:

  • (n.) Woe; torment; pain.
  • (v.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
  • (v.) To grieve or mourn for.
  • (v. i.) To suffer; to be afflicted.
  • (v. i.) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away.
  • (v. i.) To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.
  • (n.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.
  • (n.) The wood of the pine tree.
  • (n.) A pineapple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
  • (2) Hiddleston, who played spy Jonathan Pine in the Night Manager, has played down speculation that he would take on the role, recently telling the BBC’s Graham Norton Show: “The position isn’t vacant as far as I’m aware.
  • (3) Might pine martens suppress other predators that affect capercaillies?
  • (4) Workers exposed to pine and fibre dust have more respiratory symptoms and a greater risk of airflow obstruction.
  • (5) In areas where there are lots of pine martens, there are lots of red squirrels," she said.
  • (6) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (7) We first developed a method for isolating from pine tissue the very high molecular weight DNA necessary for the preparation of libraries requiring large inserts.
  • (8) Teflon and Lucite were used to represent synthetic materials, and dry pine was chosen as a type of organic material.
  • (9) The American has not secured a major title since Torrey Pines for the 2008 US Open and, while overhauling Jack Nicklaus's record total of 18 majors was once a matter of "when", it is now very much a case of "if".
  • (10) I think we all pine for the good old days when politicians actually wrote bills, and bills actually became laws and can I rub your arms a little?
  • (11) This team may have limped to the 50-point mark with their draw against the champions, but they have been pining for the end of this campaign for months.
  • (12) Unlike aspiration pneumonitis, which follows petroleum distillate ingestion, chemical pneumonitis from pine oil cleaner may occur from gastrointestinal absorption of pine oil and deposition in lung tissue.
  • (13) Four hundred eighty-five Native American students in grades 7-12 from two remote sites--Pine Ridge, SD, and Many Farms, AZ--and one nonremote site--Lapwai, ID--were scored for the DAI.
  • (14) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
  • (15) In 2012, Europe made €12m available to save threatened pine trees in Portugal and Spain.
  • (16) The serosurvey was performed shortly after a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Pine Ridge reservation in 1983-84, and immediately before a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Rosebud reservation in 1985-86.
  • (17) The psbA gene, encoding the D1 protein of photosystem II, was found to be duplicated in the chloroplast genome of two pine species, Pinus contorta and P. banksiana.
  • (18) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
  • (19) Bratwurst grilled by use of pine-cones, spruce-cones and hard wood contained on average 28 ppb BaP.
  • (20) My undergraduate essays were handwritten, but in my third year I sent my first email using a green interface called Pine.

Pint


Definition:

  • (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.
  • (n.) The laughing gull.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (2) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
  • (3) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (4) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
  • (5) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
  • (6) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
  • (7) Hoping a few pints will finish off head and see heart triumph.
  • (8) I still have a few pints of gin and tonic before I go onstage but nothing stupid."
  • (9) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
  • (10) If you get a group of people together who wouldn't dream of drinking three quarters of a pint of viscous fatty liquid, and you got them to drink a mug of Horlicks, it would actually disrupt their sleep.
  • (11) In the vast majority of studies the documented daily intake levels have been over 150 g of ethanol (the equivalent of one pint of 80-proof spirits), often in the range of 250-300 g. Other potential risk factors such as malnutrition are rarely considered, and little information is available on the effects of more moderate daily intake.
  • (12) The maximum catalytic activities of PFK (PPi) in apex, stele and cortex of the root of pea (Pisum sativum) and in the developing and the thermogenic club of the spadix of cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum) were measured and compared with those of phosphofructokinase, and to estimates of the rates of carbohydrate oxidation.
  • (13) Cameron took his jacket off and sipped from the half pint glasses of water – gin?
  • (14) Pint from £3.20 Brigantes Bar & Brasserie Brigantes Bar and Brasserie, York This bare, plain drinking space – stripped wooden floor, blue and cream colour scheme, Celtic cross logo – looks a bit like an O'Neill's, but the beer range is worlds away from the Oirish chain.
  • (15) But buyers rarely occupy the properties, leaving parts of prime central London empty of residents and any remaining local shops bereft of customers popping out to buy a paper or pint of milk.
  • (16) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (17) One unit is 10ml of pure alcohol, equivalent to a measure of whisky, just over a third of a pint of beer or half a glass of wine.
  • (18) As with group 1, graded increases in left ventricular end diastolic pressure caused a rightward shift of the pressure-flow relation, with a direct relation between left ventricular end diastolic pressure and zero flow intercept (Pint = 0.93 X LVEDP + 3.9 mmHg, r = 0.89).
  • (19) He was the kind of bloke you’d book the morning cutting session with and have a pint with him at lunchtime – you wouldn’t book the afternoon one because that’d be after his pint!” Porky also encouraged bands to scratch in their own messages.
  • (20) You're as likely to see the entire brass section of the Halle Orchestra running across the road at the interval for a swift pint as you are a room full of drunken retired policemen.

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