What's the difference between policeman and rubber?

Policeman


Definition:

  • (n.) A member of a body of police; a constable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It seems like an awfully long way from the ground.” He added: “When I was younger, I dreamed of being an astronaut, but I also wanted to be a policeman or a firebreather.
  • (2) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
  • (3) A fifth victim - an Israeli policeman - succumbed to his injuries late on Tuesday night.
  • (4) Barack Obama today phoned the white policeman he said had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor in his own home and invited the officer to visit the White House as the president attempted to defuse a growing race row over the incident.
  • (5) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
  • (6) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
  • (7) Further up the scale, the median teacher pension was £10,275, although retired policeman are on average picking up £15,636 and the average retired judge is on £53,876.
  • (8) Russian officials said the diplomat had attacked the policeman.
  • (9) When Michael is naughty she threatens to hand him over to "the policeman" and she sends grumpy Jane to exile inside a cracked Doulton bowl.
  • (10) He was speaking shortly before the arrival at RAF Lyneham, in Wiltshire, of the bodies of six British troops, including five shot dead by a "rogue" Afghan policeman they were training.
  • (11) In fact, though, it’s the policeman who appears ill at ease.
  • (12) The tissue flask adherent population was removed with the aid of a rubber policeman.
  • (13) O’Driscoll was cleared of knowing about Quinn, but faced two other charges – that he was part of the Chelsea policeman conspiracy and the alleged conspiracy to pay Neave for information on high profiles prisoners such as the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
  • (14) "These are crucial elections that we hope will make things better in Iraq," said one voter, policeman Hatef Yidam.
  • (15) A policeman holds up his hand to stop the protesters.
  • (16) No policeman had taken part in torture and the killings of thousands of activists.
  • (17) The idea was conceived by Ryan Coogler , whose 2013 Cannes award-winning drama Fruitvale Station told the real-life story of a young black man shot dead by a white transport policeman in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009.
  • (18) A policeman who used an anonymous blog to post personal opinions on the force and criticise government ministers has received a written warning but is unlikely to face further disciplinary action.
  • (19) A Swiss special policeman patrols on a roof before the start of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum 2014 in Davos.
  • (20) In Womme, a local policeman said villagers believe that Ebola is nothing more than an invention of white people, to kill black people.

Rubber


Definition:

  • (n.) India rubber; caoutchouc.
  • (n.) An overshoe made of India rubber.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, rubs.
  • (n.) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.
  • (n.) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.
  • (n.) A whetstone; a rubstone.
  • (n.) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.
  • (n.) The cushion of an electrical machine.
  • (n.) One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath.
  • (n.) Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.
  • (n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
  • (2) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
  • (3) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
  • (4) Dynamics in the changes was established among the workers from the production of "Synthetic rubber and latex", associated with the duration of occupational exposure to styrene and divinyl.
  • (5) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
  • (6) There were 45 deaths from lung cancer among curing workers compared to 24.6 expected based on the age- and calendar period-specific rates of other rubber workers.
  • (7) A preparation in a special triple bath was drawn through two rubber membranes dividing the strip into three segments.
  • (8) Porous polyethylene was thus better incorporated into the soft tissues than silicone rubber as long as the overlying soft tissues were not stressed by an oversized implant or inadequate soft tissue coverage.
  • (9) Neither pH nor composition of liner collection cone had an effect on postthaw acrosomal scores, but the time required for a 50% increase in severely damaged acrosomes was greater for spermatozoa collected in polyethylene than in rubber liner collection cones.
  • (10) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
  • (11) Two types are present, a crystalline (clear) form and a white, opaque form with pigmentation resulting from a diene rubber.
  • (12) Another man who is not moving fast enough is shot with a rubber bullet.
  • (13) "There is no debate over the conclusion that Abir was injured by a rubber bullet shot by border guards, which in turn leads to the conclusion that the shooting of Abir occurred out of negligence, or in violation of the rules of engagement," said Judge Orit Efal-Gabai.
  • (14) Mortality and morbidity from cancer among a cohort of 13,570 white male rubber workers were examined.
  • (15) An air chamber attached to a Hg-manometer has in an upper wall a round window 8 mm in diameter, closed by a 0.05 mm-thick rubber membrane.
  • (16) It consisted of a conventional precordial or esophageal probe connected to a microphone by a rubber adapter.
  • (17) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
  • (18) The angiomas of the skin may occur in 3 forms: large cavernous angiomas; blood sac looking like a blue rubber nipple, they can be emptied; irregular blue mark, sometimes with puncted blackish spots, they may not blanch on pressure.
  • (19) Linear distortion of the mercaptan (polysulfide) rubber base that takes place during setting is a cause of this problem.
  • (20) Herein we report a case occurring as pustulosis palmaris, that has been identified as an occupational allergic contact dermatitis to black rubber.