What's the difference between sandwich and surname?

Sandwich


Definition:

  • (n.) Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
  • (v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the detection of this antigen, a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed.
  • (2) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
  • (3) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (4) We have developed a reverse-type sandwich ELISA for measurement of IgG (+IgA) antibody to a major allergen of Sugi (Japanese cedar) pollens.
  • (5) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
  • (6) Therefore, a modified sandwich ELISA was developed to measure IL-1ra protein concentration in synovial fluids.
  • (7) We used a "sandwich"-type immunoenzymometric assay (IEMA) and a radioimmunoassay (RIA) to measure antibody against the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in serum from individuals with myasthenia gravis, with markedly different results for certain specimens, as measured by the two techniques.
  • (8) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
  • (9) Monoclonal antibodies specific for two unique converting enzyme epitopes were utilized to develop a two-site sandwich enzyme immunoassay.
  • (10) There was a certain amount of atmosphere too, thanks mostly to the West Ham fans keeping up a persistent din and celebrating the 15th anniversary of Roy Keane’s prawn sandwich remarks by noting the reserve of the home support.
  • (11) A sandwich was formed with proinsulin by using a monoclonal antibody against C-peptide labeled with alkaline phosphatase.
  • (12) A $4 supermarket sandwich has to be pretty damn good for two adults to start fighting over it.
  • (13) In this paper we describe a new assay for diphtheria toxin in bacterial cultures, based on a sandwich-dot immunobinding method.
  • (14) Soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) in serum of cancer patients was measured by a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and the effect of sTfR for natural killer cytotoxicity was also studied.
  • (15) Patients with C2 disease are being controlled locally with the "sandwich" regimen, but it is not clear whether pre-op RT alone may be adequate in this group as well.
  • (16) The sandwiches served in selected Subway stores have contained halal meat since 2007, while all Pizza Express chicken is halal.
  • (17) One was a culture of isolated cells between floating double layers of collagen gel, designated the "floating sandwich method."
  • (18) Yet sandwiched between these states are tax havens bleeding them of cash for no other reason than to avoid paying a fair share of that welfare burden.
  • (19) A sandwich enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) for pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) using a microtiter plate was developed.
  • (20) The environmental changes are explained consistently by a movement of the Met-105 side chain sandwiched by two indole rings of Trp-28 and 111 in the direction from Trp-111 to Trp-28.

Surname


Definition:

  • (n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
  • (n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
  • (v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
  • (2) 7.20pm BST An email from Artie Prendergast-Smith This could be a long night of long surnames.
  • (3) However, the overall pattern of results for rare surnames showed a measure of agreement with what is already known of the genetics of twinning.
  • (4) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
  • (5) Both the father and mothers' surnames are passed on in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, but the father's name is more often used day-to-day.
  • (6) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
  • (7) Because many Southern California Indians have Spanish Surnames and most do not reside on an Indian reservation it is shown that the suicide statistics may represent an over-estimation of actual Mexican-American suicidal deaths while simultaneously representing an under-estimation of the suicides among American Indians of the region.
  • (8) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
  • (9) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
  • (10) There was a convergence of Spanish surname rates toward the other White rates for nearly all sites, regardless of whether other Whites showed increasing, decreasing, or stable rates.
  • (11) Great news for Arsenal fans, who, if the summer transfer of Mesut Özil was anything to go by, love nothing more than to pull people up on the internet for accidentally forgetting to add diacritics to people's surnames.
  • (12) The following March, it was ceremonially opened by none other than Tony Blair, who was presented with a Middlesbrough FC shirt bearing his surname.
  • (13) But it clashed with other things.” Asked what his reaction would be now, he said: “I’d jump at it.” Blessed – who is also fondly remembered for another sci-fi role, appearing as Prince Vultan in the movie Flash Gordon – appeared to be a little confused about the Doctor’s surname, inaccurately suggesting the “Who” of the title was actually the character.
  • (14) To some the disadvantages of having a famous surname can be almost as significant as the advantages.
  • (15) On the example of 7 populations of the regional level allowability of using surnames with frequencies exceeding 0.001 in adequate estimation of the population structure indices is shown.
  • (16) Since given names show none of the localisation seen in surnames, the surname geography is ascribable to genetic rather than cultural factors of personal naming.
  • (17) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
  • (18) This study examined the correlations between academic achievement and factor specific, as well as global, measures of self-concept for 314 fourth and sixth grade boys and girls divided into grade level groups with and without Spanish surnames.
  • (19) Valid contrast studies were possible in only one region within the city for all three groups and in six regions for white excluding Spanish-surnamed and nonwhite.
  • (20) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.