What's the difference between rowel and trowel?

Rowel


Definition:

  • (n.) The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.
  • (n.) A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
  • (n.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
  • (v. t.) To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gareth P Rowell, who submitted the petition, said: “This will severely reduce the income of such individuals but confer none of the rights and benefits of a staff employee.” Neil Lupin, managing partner of Green Park, a recruitment agency providing interim managers across the public sector, said: “There is no doubt that the unintended consequences of these changes will be profound for local authorities and other public sector bodies.
  • (2) Alexis Rowel, a Camden councillor said the campaign is gaining real momentum among councils.
  • (3) Rowasa (mesalamine) rectal suspension enema, a new product by Reid-Rowell, represents a major breakthrough in the treatment of distal ulcerative colitis.
  • (4) That is what a Performance Oversight Management Group, comprising of the former sprinter Jason Gardener, the sports scientist Dr Sarah Rowell and the former Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike will investigate in the coming weeks.
  • (5) The contested IPCC statement reads: "Up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000)."
  • (6) Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell of Spinwatch reckon just 1% of lobbying is even remotely “regulated”.
  • (7) In a statement it said: “The performance oversight group, comprising Jason Gardener MBE, Dr Sarah Rowell and Anne Wafula-Strike have begun work on their review, and will aim to conclude their report no later than the first week of August.” Ed Warner, the chair of UK Athletics, said: “This review is a serious response to the questions raised in recent days.
  • (8) The patient also had circulating anti-Ro(SS-A) antibodies whose similarity to the anti-Sj-T antibodies found in the original Rowell's syndrome cases has been recently claimed.
  • (9) We demonstrate here the advantages of the OEG procedure by comparing it with two silver techniques, Rowell's and Holmes's.
  • (10) A review of the literature suggests that most of the cases of Rowell's syndrome described thus far in fact may be cases of coincidental association of lupus erythematosus and erythema multiforme.
  • (11) Changes in the normal behavior patterns seen during lactation in the female golden hamster have received relatively little attention in the past (Rowell 1961; Daly 1972).
  • (12) We describe a patient with discoid lupus erythematosus who developed annular lesions of the thigh and chilblainlike lesions of the fingers matching those described in the original reports of Rowell's syndrome.
  • (13) The three bishops who voted no were also from the Anglo-Catholic wing of the church: John Goddard, the bishop of Burnley, Geoffrey Rowell, the bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, and Martin Warner, the bishop of Chichester.
  • (14) Andy Rowell, co-author of a new book A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain , said: "This is exactly how lobbying works.
  • (15) The other active component is 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA); the only 5-ASA enema preparation currently available in the U.S. is mesalamine (Rowasa, Reid-Rowell) containing 5-ASA 4 g in 60 mL.
  • (16) A Quiet Word: Lobbying , Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell is published by The Bodley Head at £18.99.
  • (17) Leake's problem is with the Rowell and Moore reference, a WWF report.
  • (18) Such shifts in the control of behavior by non-nest and nest-related, conspecific stimuli correspond well with the first occurrence of nest exits at P11-12 (e.g., Dieterlen, 1959) coupled with the persistent return of hamster pups to the maternal nest for as long as it is maintained (Rowell, 1961).
  • (19) Within UK Athletics, the Corporate Governance responsibility for our performance programme, overseeing these systems and reporting back to the board, rests with the Performance Oversight Management Group, comprising Jason Gardener MBE, Dr Sarah Rowell and Anne Wafula-Strike.

Trowel


Definition:

  • (n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
  • (n.) A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.
  • (n.) A tool used for smoothing a mold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In organ culture systems using the Trowell setup, morphogenetic differentiation (which largely mimics the development reached in vivo within 2--3 days) can be obtained in limb buds of mouse embryos during a culture period of 6 days.
  • (2) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
  • (3) Anything, really, to trowel vaseline over the lens for a soft ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown segment.
  • (4) Molar tooth germs from 17-d-old mouse embryos were cultivated in a Trowell-type culture, and different culture media were tested for their ability to support enamel formation.
  • (5) Based on the morphologic and physiologic findings, it became evident that this organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium at 25 degrees C can be successfully used as an in vitro experimental model for as long as 24 h. The organ culture system could be a useful tool, from the structural integrity of ceca observed in this study, in investigating mucosal function and mucosal response to drugs, carcinogens, trophic factors, and pathogens.
  • (6) Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian Not that he wants to harp back to the days when he went to work with a trowel.
  • (7) We incubated mouse calvaria explants in Trowell-type organ culture dishes for one h and then added [14C]-glycine for two h. We dissected the interparietal sutural tissues for collagen solubilization by limited pepsin digestion.
  • (8) This rate is similar to that reported for Trowell's-type cultures with IMEM:F12 medium and 1% FBS.
  • (9) Colons from chickens, four weeks old, can best be maintained for 48 hours in a serum-free organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium-agar sheet at 25 degrees C. As determined by light microscopy as well as scanning and transmission electron microscopies, mucosal architecture involving classical ultrastructure of chicken colonic mucosa was preserved.
  • (10) Both series were incubated in BGJb medium according to the Trowell method.
  • (11) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
  • (12) Finance minister Mathias Cormann lays it on with a trowel.
  • (13) Pancreatic explants from perinatal or 1-week-old rat circumfusion organ cultured with an insulin-free variant of Trowell's Medium T8 survive functionally, as judged from tissue amylase content, for about 3 days.
  • (14) We used Trowell's T8 medium and conventional Hank's balanced salt solution to obtain high yields of islets with morphologically-intact cells.
  • (15) This study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of cyclosporine to prolong islets isolated by collagenase in Trowell's T8 medium and Ficoll gradient separation.
  • (16) In this study, explants from 19 canine prostate glands were cultivated for a minimum of 9 days in Trowell's T-8 medium.
  • (17) The blood drips off Netanyahu's trowel and oozes between the laid bricks, like wet concrete.
  • (18) The six concrete floor test pads with different surface treatments (fine and coarse sand, fine and coarse broom, wood float and steel trowel) were evaluated for friction coefficient (skid resistance value) using a British pendulum tester both before and after pig tests.
  • (19) Results reveal that the islets isolated by Trowells T8 medium were less fragmented and had better fine-structural integrity than those isolated by the conventional medium.
  • (20) He wasn't even sure the bone was human until he carefully scraped away with his trowel, found a second, parallel bone, and knew he had a pair of buried legs.