What's the difference between pollock and splatter?

Pollock


Definition:

  • (n.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The content of unsaturated fatty acids in walleye pollock PRM is 1.4 times greater than in frog PRM.
  • (2) "She's presumably in there now doing all the news programmes by herself," said Ian Pollock, chair of the NUJ London branch at the BBC.
  • (3) Body composition was evaluated using anthropometric methods (according to Garrow Webster, Durnin-Womersley, modified Durnin-Womersley and Jackson-Pollock) and impedance measurement in which resistive bioelectric impedance is measured using a tetrapolar technique.
  • (4) According to a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, large and bottom-dwelling species carry most risk, which means cod, flounder, halibut, pollock, skate and sole from the waters in question could be off limits for years, .
  • (5) It comprises 13% of the pollock nuclear DNA with a copy number of 5 x 10(5) per haploid genome.
  • (6) Margaret Pollock, a retired dentist who organises the local yes campaign, said that 20 shops in the town were lying empty.
  • (7) But most of the collection, including works by Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and many others, remains in the vaults and basement.
  • (8) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
  • (9) His-96 is therefore one of several neighboring amino acids of the kringle portion of fragment 1 that displays highly unusual chemistry (see also Asn-101 [Welsch, D.J., & Nelsestuen, G. L. (1988) Biochemistry 27 4946-4952] and Lys-97 [Pollock, J.S., Zapata, G.A., Weber, D.J., Berkowitz, P., Deerfield, D.W., II, Olson, D.L., Koehler, K.A., Pedersen, L.G., & Hiskey, R.G.
  • (10) It’s important we get our heads around these impacts, so we can make the right decisions,” Pollock said.
  • (11) Body density and percent body fatness were determined after weight loss according to four commonly used skinfold equations: Pollock (P); Durnin-Rahaman (D-R); Durnin-Womersley (D-W); and, Jackson-Pollock (J-P).
  • (12) Fragmentation of wall-eyed pollock and bovine rhodopsins by papain in the photoreceptor membrane was studied by sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis.
  • (13) Tested equations were those reported for body density by Sloan, Wilmore, Jackson and Pollock, Durnin and Womersley, Lohman, and Pollock et al.
  • (14) She reads: “The look in his eyes was as much as we could take…” Pollock sighs: “Oh, that’s really desperate.” There was also the case of 10-year-old Curtis Elton, a talented pianist whose hands have been insured.
  • (15) Pollock is the first to note the limitations of her study and the sample size it analysed.
  • (16) And we had a massive amount of support from parents for our decision.” Pollock stops short of calling for rugby to be banned, but she does believe that every parent whose child plays rugby should be in no doubt of the risks they face.
  • (17) The initial rate of lipid peroxidation (LPO) in photoreceptor membranes (PRM) of walleye pollock is 1.8--2.3 times higher than in frog PRM.
  • (18) As the job description for the post made clear, whoever was appointed was going to have to report to the chief executive, Cressida Pollock, who by her own admission knows very little about opera, and presumably would have to get their artistic plans approved by her.
  • (19) Pollock say the DA is sensitive to the concerns of the community – not least its resistance to long custodial sentences.
  • (20) Only later did I read Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander that begins: "On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood..." Twombly came of agein the America of Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists.

Splatter


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gucci showed jeans, too, splattered and distressed; at Prada they were tailored with visible white stitching.
  • (2) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.
  • (3) Decreasing r&d time has the same effect on TCs generated from both noise and tonal stimuli, even when it only measurably increases the acoustic splatter of the latter.
  • (4) In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.
  • (5) Sit the steamer on the surface of your milk, slightly off centre so the milk starts to flow around it in a circular motion, rather than splattering uncontrollably.
  • (6) 92% of obligate heterozygotes had a mud-splattered appearance of the fundus with hyperpigmented streaks and in 74% this was associated with marked iris translucency.
  • (7) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
  • (8) The very steep stimulus slopes required to produce an offset CAP are likely to generate much more acoustic splatter than the more gradual slopes required to produce an onset CAP, and this may be related to the different shapes of the onset and offset simultaneous MTCs.
  • (9) J Crew and studio chic J Crew pays homage to painters with its splattered trousers.
  • (10) "I remember kissing his head, his face held between two blocks, completely splattered in dry blood.
  • (11) The house where his blood and brains were splattered yesterday.
  • (12) I see a cascade of shit pirouetting from your penthouse office, caking each layer of management, splattering all in between.
  • (13) Clutching Squire-customised Jackson Pollock-style paint-splattered guitars, they launched into Elephant Stone , an instantly infectious collision of melody and house-influenced rhythms delivered in a psychedelic haze.
  • (14) Nor has the RAF (with apologies to the Royal Air Force) featured in the Mail Online's sidebar of shame whereas BRF has already become almost as much of a regular feature there as drool-splattered photos of 14-year-old girls looking "grown up for their years".
  • (15) With an old North Face down jacket, MacPac rucksack and mud-splattered Berghaus boots – the kit that saw him through the mountains of central Afghanistan in midwinter – he looks more ­uppercrust eco-warrior than county Tory.
  • (16) The latter, splattered with hammers and sickles, runs close to the shores of the Saronic Gulf.
  • (17) Freud is pictured in his laceless, paint-splattered boots.
  • (18) Junior doctors are not looking for a last-minute “concession” splattered across the papers.
  • (19) Movie monsters have been steadily slinking back to the B-list depths from whence they came, hence the popularity of CGI splatter such as Sharknado , where we can be sure no real animals were harmed, because it’s clear none were used.
  • (20) The floor is splattered with globules and rivulets of dried paint; you could almost be standing on an enormous Jackson Pollock.