What's the difference between sedge and serge?

Sedge


Definition:

  • (n.) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
  • (n.) A flock of herons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
  • (2) This factor would have been 1200 if lead aerosols had not collected on sedge leaves and circtumvented the tendency by sedge to exclude lead from the nutritive metals it absorbed from soil moisture.
  • (3) This ratio decreased by an overall factor of 200 in proceeding from rock, to soil moisture, to sedge, to vole.
  • (4) The plant compound, 6-methoxy-2-benzoxazolinone (6-MBOA), is present in vegetatively growing grasses and sedges and acts to trigger reproduction in other rodent species exposed to short days.
  • (5) A sedge, Mariscus congestus (Vahl) C.B.Cl., was a useful indicator of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) juppi McIntosh oviposition areas.
  • (6) B. globosus shows a clear predilection for the sedge Cyperus exaltatus as support for oviposition.
  • (7) In a market study male turkeys were raised on floor pens containing peat or wood shavings and fed 0, 5, or 10% reed-sedge peat as a diluent of a typical corn-soybean meal mash diet.
  • (8) Lesser pollens are sorrel, willow, pine, juniper, sedge, lamb's-quarters, wormwood, plantain, and others.
  • (9) parasitic on four species of wild cereals and two species of sedge.
  • (10) Larvae were most numerous in areas dominated by arrow-arum (Peltandra virginica) and maidencane (Panicum hemitomon), less so in areas dominated by sedges (Carex spp.)
  • (11) While gathering sedges or tamarinds, adult males sat in one place longer than others and obtained more food per sitting.
  • (12) Most of the lead contained in sedge and voles (mountain meadow mice) within one of the most pristine, remote valleys in the United States is not natural but came from smelter fumes and gasoline exhausts.
  • (13) This finding is consistent with one of the two principal views of grass phylogeny in suggesting that Poaceae and Cyperaceae (sedges) are not closest relatives.
  • (14) The upper levels, and the shape of the roofs thatched with straw or sedge, are conjecture, so several different styles are being tried out, included thatching over steeper ridges and shallow curved hazel hoops.
  • (15) Wombats consume grasses and sedges which are often highly fibrous.
  • (16) The finding, gathering, and preparing of sedge corms and of seeds of tamarind fruit were described in detail.
  • (17) Clavicipitaceous endophytes (Ascomycetes) are distributed worldwide in many grasses and sedges forming a perennial and often mutualistic association with their hosts.
  • (18) It was a watery anomaly, a pond in dunes, surrounded by thick tussocks of sand sedge many, many miles from the sea.
  • (19) The authors feel that friction with clothing or with scrub pads made of sedge (a very common practice amongst mexicans in the bath room) against clavicular protuberances is fundamental in its pathogenesis.
  • (20) injuring sedge have the haploid number of chromosomes n=18.

Serge


Definition:

  • (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.
  • (n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
  • (2) City’s equaliser came from the failure of Serge Aurier and Thiago Silva to clear a Bacary Sagna cross as Fernandinho drove the ball home after 72 minutes.
  • (3) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
  • (4) The tribunal's prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, will give a statement on Wednesday, and Mladic is expected to appear before judges by Friday to hear his indictment for the worst crimes committed in Europe since the Nazi era.
  • (5) Villa had already lost Nathan Baker by that point, having been knocked out after taking a shot from Serge Gnabry flush in the face, and Wenger finished the night with his own injury worries.
  • (6) "I don't have to tell you how important it is that finally this trial can start, 17 years after the first indictment was issued [against Mladic]," said the court's chief prosecutor, Serge Brammertz.
  • (7) Serge Durand, director of the protection of unaccompanied children with Terre d’Asile, said the organisation had been working with minors in Calais since 2012 and had seen a sharp rise in the number of children, the youngest of whom was a 12-year-old from Afghanistan.
  • (8) Real Madrid cruise past Malmo and Cristiano Ronaldo moves level with Raúl Read more Serge Aurier had a dream Champions League debut on Wednesday, scoring one goal and setting up another to help PSG win 3-0 at Shakhtar Donetsk .
  • (9) A Belgian journalist – Maurice Sarfatti, who uses the byline Serge Dumont – was reportedly beaten, arrested and accused of spying.
  • (10) Serge Ibaka added 20 points and Westbrook had 13 assists for the Thunder in a game that neither team ever led by double digits.
  • (11) But in the game he gets two opportunities and puts them in the back of the net and that’s why everybody wants him.” West Brom have confirmed Serge Gnabry’s loan has been terminated and the midfielder has returned to Arsenal.
  • (12) Bovine neurophysin-I (bNP-I) is the first neurophysin protein which contains histidine and possesses an acidic COOH-terminal segment for which the complete amino acid sequence is presented: NH2-Ala-Val-Leu-Asp-Leu-Asp-Val-Arg-Thr-Cys-Leu-Pro-Cys-Gly-Pro-Gly-Gly-Lys-Gly-Arg-Cys-Phe-Gly-Pro-Ser-Ile-Cys-Cys-Gly-Asp-Glu-Leu-Gly-Cys-Phe-Val-Gly-Thr-Ala-Glu-Ala-Leu-Arg- Cys-Gln-Glu-Glu-Asn-Tyr-Leu-Pro-Ser-Pro-Cys-Gln-SerGly-Gln-Lys-Pro-Cys-Gly-Ser- Gly-Gly-Arg-Cys-Ala-Ala-Ala-Gly-Ile-Cys-Cys-Ser-Pro-Asp-Gly-Cys-His-Glu-Asp-Pro-Ala-Cys-Asp-Pro-Glu-Ala-Ala-Phe-Ser-Leu-COOH.
  • (13) Throughout, the chief prosecutor of the court who has arranged the case against Mladic, Belgian lawyer Serge Brammertz, looked on impassively.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last year, Moroder noted that Je T'Aime , Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's heavy-breathing 1969 smash, was selling again in England, and Summer jokingly suggested that they do their own "love song".
  • (15) Interview with Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of the Institute of Physics on the 2012 Nobel prize in physics winners Serge Haroche and David Wineland (mp3) Some highlights from Prof Knight's interview are below.
  • (16) We have to play somebody with almost no experience [in central defence] or somebody who is not used to playing in the position.” Wenger is also without Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, Mesut Özil, Mikel Arteta, Abou Diaby, Tomas Rosicky, David Ospina and Serge Gnabry.
  • (17) Serge Aurier went across to take the Ivory Coast corner but it was a dismal effort, truth be told, hit low to the first man.
  • (18) These distinct areas or foci of SER and presumptive glycogen (SERGE) were most numerous during initial periods of glycogen synthesis.
  • (19) In particular Cameroon’s decision not to place Touré in the top five has been criticised, although the presence of his Ivory Coast team-mate Serge Aurier as coach Alexandre Belinga’s first choice makes it difficult to stand up that theory.
  • (20) In the film, former textile workers Jocelyne and Serge Klur not only take on Arnault after he “ruined their lives” by delocalising their jobs to Poland – they also make him pay.