What's the difference between rabbi and rabbit?

Rabbi


Definition:

  • (n.) Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Miliband said he had been "right" to raise the past record of MEP Michał Kamiński despite the insistence of Poland's chief rabbi that his countryman was not antisemitic, despite his "problematic" past.
  • (2) Zwiebel says he is aware some rabbis still conceal allegations, but insists the large majority are now fully engaged with law enforcement.
  • (3) "Because," Noah says in a midrash, speaking as the rabbis need him to, "nobody likes you.
  • (4) "The rabbis are wonderful spiritual leaders and they should be doing what they do best, spiritual guidance," says Mark Meyer Appel, whose group Voice of Justice gives emotional support to victims and their families.
  • (5) "If the civil authorities are going to come into the community like gangbusters and say we don't care about your rabbis and we don't care about your customs and we don't care about your culture and none of this matters to us, they'll get far less cooperation from the community … I think [Hynes] is working within a reality.
  • (6) Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) Good for UK Chief Rabbi Sacks!
  • (7) It does remind us of the 1930s.” Heisler said he agreed with his colleague, Rabbi Zoltán Radnóti, who argued that the rights of refugees should not be up for discussion in a post-Holocaust context.
  • (8) As one rabbi noted, to heed Netanyahu would be to give in to the terrorists .
  • (9) A great read, and a delightful puzzle, but as the contradictory and whimsical interpretations of the rabbis show, hardly a reliable basis for justifying real-world land grabs.
  • (10) Anti-semitism is rampant in much of the 'hypocritical' Middle East, the editor wrote, with Jewish rabbis depicted on prime-time Syrian TV as cannibals.
  • (11) Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) HEARTBREAKING: Rosh Yeshiva Kollel Toras Moshe Rabbi Moshe Twersky HY"D killed in todays Jerusalem terror attack.
  • (12) Originally from Boston, Twersky was a father of five and was the grandson of the renowned rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik, credited with being a key figure in the Modern Orthodox movement.
  • (13) According to Rabbis for Human Rights, an Israeli NGO which has been supporting the village in its efforts to get planning permission: “The village of Palestinian Susiya has existed for centuries, long before the establishment of the [Jewish settlement of Susiya in 1983.
  • (14) With echoes of the Catholic priest scandal, for decades rabbis have hushed up child sex crimes and fomented a culture in which victims are further victimised and abusers protected.
  • (15) Even the rabbis, though, fail to squeeze much in the way of laughs out of the coda to Noah's story.
  • (16) After San Francisco, she travelled to India and Nepal before winding up in Jerusalem, where she lived with her then girlfriend, who was considering becoming a rabbi.
  • (17) A highly-educated, socially aware group of persons presented themselves for Tay-Sachs screening having learned about it mainly from friends, newspapers, radio, and television but not from physicians or rabbis.
  • (18) The opening salvo in what became a heated and often surreal religious war of words arrived on August 19 from Rabbi Abraham Hecht, president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America, who claimed to speak for half a million Jews.
  • (19) Kagan swiftly rebutted the argument, pointing out that “there are many rabbis that will not conduct marriages between Jews and non­Jews, notwithstanding that we have a constitutional prohibition against religious discrimination.” Even if the court rules that states cannot ban same-sex marriage, this will not mean that religious leaders will be compelled to perform marriages that contravene their religious traditions.
  • (20) It ran from January 1981 (Sir Ralph Richardson) to July 1996 (Rabbi Jonathan Black) and covered a great swathe of British life.

Rabbit


Definition:

  • (n.) Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
  • (2) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
  • (3) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
  • (4) The influence of the hexylsalicylic acid (2) on the pharmacokinetic of the quinine (1), was studied using rabbits.
  • (5) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
  • (6) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
  • (7) The distribution of gelsolin, a calcium-dependent actin-severing and capping protein, in the retina of the developing and adult rabbit was studied.
  • (8) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
  • (9) To identify the NHE-1 protein and to establish its cellular and subcellular localization in the rabbit kidney, we prepared antibodies to a NHE-1 fusion protein.
  • (10) The 0.1 M phosphate buffer eluant was electrophoretically heterogeneous and did not elicit the production of bactericidal antibodies in rabbits.
  • (11) Changes in renal renin levels after the administration of glycerol were not significant, although lower renal renin values were consistently found in rabbits with more severe impairment of renal function.
  • (12) The effect of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and the combination of both on acute and chronic myocardial ischemia were evaluated in a total of 30 male rabbits.
  • (13) All of the rabbits immunized with FCA developed sterile subcutaneous abscesses.
  • (14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
  • (15) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
  • (16) In all immunized rabbits the antisera obtained with the 7 alpha-derivative had a higher affinity and a narrower specificity than the antiserum obtained with the 7 beta-derivative.
  • (17) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
  • (18) Plasma membranes were obtained from a homogeneous population of rabbit red blood cells at different maturation periods.
  • (19) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
  • (20) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.