What's the difference between rube and ruby?

Rube


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only with follicular walls and capsules of corpora lutea was the step linear dose-response relationship similar to that shown by the uterine rube obtained by alternating current stimulation.
  • (2) The coin lesions of 361 patients who were at our diagnostic ward from 1968 to 1970 were defined according to Rube [1967].
  • (3) This conclusion, however, is opposite to that derived from experiments with partial neuromuscular blockade which demonstrated the importance of central command in determining the cardiovascular response to static exercise (Leonard, Mitchell, Mizuno, Rube, Saltin & Secher, 1985).
  • (4) In deciding not to hand control of his business to outside executives, Trump had created a “Rube Goldberg” device – an unnecessarily complicated machine for solving a simple problem – that was unlikely to serve its purpose, said Henning.
  • (5) From a total of 73 cultures isolated from glucose-1-phosphate roll rubes, only 15.1% were presumptively identified as Bacteroides species.
  • (6) That whole ‘trust me’ thing can be very debilitating, when you go, ‘I think I know how this can play.’ And also when you get a piece of material like [Gone Girl], it’s a lot of faith on the part of Ben Affleck to come in and go ‘Okay, I’m the rube.’” There’s no decision yet on his next feature.
  • (7) Small movies that will be great Listen up, you rubes.
  • (8) It’s some of the best stuff she’s done since the 2008 RNC (before she devolved into speeches composed of a miscellany of punchlines and red-meat-for-the-rubes bumper stickering).
  • (9) We felt part of the momentum, rather than a parasite or a rube.
  • (10) By bringing them face to face, Gibson was addressing the tendency of any given generation to assume that “the inhabitants of the past are hicks and rubes, and the inhabitants of the future are effete, overcomplicated beings with big brains and weak figures.

Ruby


Definition:

  • (n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
  • (n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
  • (n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
  • (n.) See Agate, n., 2.
  • (n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
  • (a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
  • (v. t.) To make red; to redden.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
  • (2) 8.59pm BST Mary and Paul would have received death threats if Ruby had won, I think.
  • (3) Other lasers that are in clinical use, such as the red ruby and near-infrared Nd-YAG lasers, can provide selective treatment only when the epidermis is cooled concurrently.
  • (4) But Ruby Tweedie, another local resident, said: "There have been so many doubts about his guilt that it's only fair that the man, who has only a few months to live, should be shown mercy."
  • (5) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
  • (6) No recombinants were detected among 410 offspring produced from a backcross mating segregating for Ldh-1 and ru-2 (ruby-eye-2).
  • (7) NWR may be celebrating its ruby anniversary but will an organisation born to alleviate the lot of the housewife survive to drink to its golden when, politically and personally, she is apparently dead and buried?
  • (8) Ruby Tandoh faced online abuse during her appearances on The Great British Bake Off – and now the 21-year-old philosophy student has been set up for a fresh mauling by the Daily Mail .
  • (9) The argon laser and the ruby laser have been used to open the pigment layer in three cases of surgically incomplete peripheral iridectomy.
  • (10) 8.16pm BST Ruby's look so attractive but it's Mary who says this, not Paul.
  • (11) Louise Brock was keen for her daughter Ruby, who has Down's syndrome, to go to a mainstream school.
  • (12) Ruby confirmed several points: arthrosis is inevitable after a variable delay (10 years for the most optimistic).
  • (13) A 19-year-old man sustained a bilateral coagulation of the macula caused accidentally by a ruby laser rangefinder mounted on a tank.
  • (14) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
  • (15) Then the final thickness of the sections is exactly adjusted by screwing three rubies out of the holder's bottom.
  • (16) 8.57pm BST Ruby is in floods, Mel and Sue are administering hugs.
  • (17) Ruby-eye (ru) is an autosomal recessive in linkage group 2.
  • (18) The reason, according to former federal agents and experts on rightwing extremism, is a vivid institutional memory of the bloodshed that marked standoffs with radical rightwingers in Ruby Ridge , Idaho, in 1992 and at Waco , Texas, the following year.
  • (19) The intensity-dependent transmission of primary leaves of Triticum aestivum seedlings at lambda = 694 nm was measured with single pulses of a Q-switch ruby laser.
  • (20) Five genetically distinct mutants with increased bleeding times and abnormal dense granules were used: maroon (ru-2mr), light ear (le), ruby eye (ru), beige (bg1), and pale ear (ep).

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