What's the difference between raisin and snapdragon?
Raisin
Definition:
(n.) A grape, or a bunch of grapes.
(n.) A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) A rare childhood phytobezoar is reported in a two-and-one-half-year-old male infant with bowel obstruction, following raisin ingestion.
(2) A study was conducted to determine the accuracy and precision of 3 AOAC methods, secs 26.026-26.031 (CB), secs 26.032-26.036 (BF), and secs 26.052-26.060 (cottonseed), and the Romer quantitative method for the thin-layer chromatographic (TLC) determination of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, and G2 in raisins.
(3) According to a CIA cable released in the report, his “‘lunch tray’ consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts and raisins was ‘pureed and rectally infused’”.
(4) Fine motor performance was assessed by timing retrieval of raisins from recessed grids.
(5) Those eating grapes and raisins had a 12% reduced risk and apples and pears cut the chances by 7%.
(6) It was found in the first experiment that monkeys with total removal of the inferotemporal visual area (TIT monkeys) showed a significant elevation of the discrimination limen for visual patterns of reduced sizes even when compared to monkeys with removal of lateral striate cortex (LS monkeys); yet in a food-morsel (raisin) detection test the TIT monkeys performed as well as normal monkeys, although the LS monkeys showed significant deficits.
(7) He claimed that A Raisin in the Sun, written while Hansberry made a living as a waitress and cashier, "put more of the truth of black people's lives on the stage than any other play in the entire history of theatre".
(8) Late cycles of apple and raisin mastication are long and exhibit large gapes but almost no anterior movement.
(9) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan, Cardiff, veggischmooze.blogspot.com Makes 10 blintzes 200g plain flour A pinch of salt 50g butter or margarine, melted 25ml olive oil 400ml milk 2 organic free-range eggs A little oil, to fry Icing sugar and sour cream, to serve For the filling 300g soft cheese 15g vanilla sugar Grated zest of ½ lemon 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, to taste Pinch of salt 50g chopped raisins or dried fruit (optional) Icing sugar and sour cream to serve 1 Put all the pancake ingredients apart from the oil and filling in a food processor and whizz.
(10) Ten years earlier Hansberry, who herself coined that beautiful phrase, had become an overnight celebrity with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun .
(11) Two snacks were based on sugary, manufactured products (chocolate-coated candy bar; cola drink with crisps) and two on whole foods (raisins and peanuts; bananas and peanuts).
(12) Photograph: Khaled Taher Inside the legendary old city of Sana’a, the historical market known as Souq al-Melh is where you will find all that is unique and beautiful in the city, Its small streets retain their traditional character and are divided into several sections, in which you will find all sorts – from gold and silver to raisins and spices to a wide range of crafts and ornaments.
(13) Cookies, crackers, and potato chips were most retentive, whereas caramels, jelly beans, raisins, and milk chocolate bars were among those poorly retained.
(14) Obstipation is a common problem which is often treated with prunes, raisins or sweetened laxatives.
(15) After the all-black domestic drama of Raisin, The Sign in Sydney Brustein's Window turned out to be a sprawling multiracial play of ideas.
(16) • Raisin gravy In a pan add the juice of ½ lemon, plus ½ lemon, a knob of ginger and ¼ apple all thinly sliced.
(17) In Experiment 1, 3 mother-child pairs of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) were given simultaneous choice tests between raisins and popcorn.
(18) Interproximal wire-telemetric plaque pH data were obtained from five volunteers after they ate milk chocolate bars, raisins, chocolate wafer cookies with cream filling, cupcakes with icing and cream filling, and cherry pies.
(19) Sophie Okenedo (A Raisin in the Sun): I work with proper, proper actors and they hold and carry me and love me on stage every night.
(20) Experimental foods were smoked cuttlefish (sectile food), raisins (food flattened under pressure), and peanuts (crushable food).
Snapdragon
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.
(n.) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
(n.) A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dihydroflavonol reductases of barley, maize, petunia and snapdragon are highly polymorphic in the NH2- and C-terminal parts of the polypeptide chain while a central region of 324 residues contains 51% identical amino acids.
(2) The G3 will also have metal body and use Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, which other flagship phones from Samsung, Sony and HTC have used to produce fast smartphones with at least one full day's battery life.
(3) The bladderwort ( utricularia ), incognito like a snapdragon, has an ingenious underground lair, vacuum-sucking insects to chambers where they are acidified; pitchers are outwardly passive, but inside their cavernous depths float a mass of drowned flies.
(4) The Xperia Z1 Compact features a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 – currently the most powerful ARM-based mobile processor available in smartphones and tablets – a 20.7-megapixel camera, NFC, 4G LTE and a solid, waterproof build that makes it feel every bit a premium Android smartphone, but smaller than the trend.
(5) The Desire has a large 3.7 inch AMOLED screen, like the Nexus One, and contains the 1GHz Snapdragon processor which is also found on the Nexus One.
(6) Six genes that contain sequence encoding the DNA binding domain of the Myb oncoproteins have been isolated from a cDNA library prepared from Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon) flowers using oligonucleotide probes directed against part of this domain.
(7) Rates of DNA synthesis in root tip cells of diploid and autotetraploid snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) seedlings and in diploid and tetraploid (mononucleate and bidiploid-nucleate) regenerating mouse-liver cells have been studied.
(8) HTC Desire is powered by a one gigahertz Snapdragon processor and is Adobe Flash 10.1 ready.
(9) The 2959 bp HFL1 sequence predicts a 2.0 kb open reading frame (ORF1) with substantial amino acid similarity to the transposases of Activator (Ac) from maize (Zea mays) and Tam3 from snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus).
(10) Tam3, a transposon from the Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus), is highly active in the generation of such rearrangements.
(11) FireTV comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8064 quad core 1.7Ghz chipset, 2GB RAM and 8GB storage, and a Bluetooth remote with built-in microphones for voice control.
(12) Top-flight specifications The Lumia 2520 also features top-of-the-range components, including a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB of RAM, which should handle multi-tasking and gaming well.
(13) In the chalcone synthase gene of Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon), 150 base pairs of the 5' flanking region contain cis-acting signals for UV light-induced expression.
(14) The quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor struggles to respond, battery life sputters out quicker than I'd like, and the phone also throws off enough heat to melt a pat of butter.
(15) Based on the underlying hardware of one of LG’s current Android smartphones, the LG G2, the Nexus 5 features, a top-of-the-line 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM and 16 or 32GB of built-in storage, which should perform well for both multi-tasking and graphically intensive gaming.