What's the difference between shearer and wool?

Shearer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who shears.
  • (n.) A reaper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
  • (2) Shearer has long been expected to take the reins at St James' Park at some point but it is something of a surprise that he has chosen to do so amid such turbulence and uncertainty over the club's future.
  • (3) Everything happens for Alan Shearer - he's a lucky lad like that.
  • (4) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
  • (5) It had little effect on GvHR-induced splenomegaly observed 2 weeks after the inoculation, but significantly delayed the subsidence of splenomegaly as revealed 8 weeks later, suggesting that suppression of CTL converts immunosuppressive GvHR to immunostimulative one as reported by G. M. Shearer.
  • (6) • Alan Shearer is part of the BBC's World Cup lineup.
  • (7) Matt Le Tissier Alan Shearer Ian Wright Andy Cole Cole scored 34 goals for newly promoted Newcastle United, helping them earn an impressive third-place finish.
  • (8) Shearer's appointment has been greeted with almost unanimous praise on Tyneside , but, with the club sitting precariously in the bottom three of the Premier League and a tricky fixture list to end the season, he could become the first manager to guide Newcastle to relegation since Jim Smith did so in 1988-89.
  • (9) It reminds me of that time Alan Shearer tried to “push” Neil Lennon’s head away with his foot.
  • (10) As part of a special launch event, Newcastle are planning to raise funds for the Alan Shearer Foundation, courtesy of a special charity auction of exclusive items to benefit the charity's work in supporting children, adults and families with disability across the north-east.
  • (11) "I'm staggered just like the rest of Newcastle fans," Shearer told BBC Five Live: "I am surprised at how quickly it came along and it's an astonishing amount for a young guy with huge potential.
  • (12) Dennis Bergkamp, Michael Owen and Alan Shearer Dion Dublin, Michael Owen and Chris Sutton They scored 18 goals for their clubs, but none of them won the league.
  • (13) Alan Shearer, Phil Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Gary Lineker, Thierry Henry, Gabby Logan, Alan Hansen.
  • (14) Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dion Dublin and Michael Owen Chris Sutton, Dennis Bergkamp and Alan Shearer Who were the joint top scorers in the 1998-99 season?
  • (15) Rooney’s 187th Premier League goal, a tally bettered only by Alan Shearer, came when he breached the offside trap.
  • (16) 7-0 was mentioned by Redknapp, a hat trick for Messi from Hansen and Shearer was almost overcome in his reverence for Messi's abilities.
  • (17) My criticism yesterday was aimed at fair-weather supporters however the fever also seemed to have gripped so called experts like Lawrenson, Hansen, Shearer and Keegan.
  • (18) As Tony Shearer, boss of Abbey Protection, boldly remarked on Monday's BBC Newsnight, a normal person should regard being offered "an incentive bonus" as an insult.
  • (19) Alan Shearer is to take over as Newcastle United's manager until the end of the season in a sensational move which will see the club's former captain, who has no coaching experience, charged with the task of avoiding relegation.
  • (20) He was part of the side that won the title in 1992 and he went on to captain Everton and then joined Newcastle for six seasons where he played alongside Alan Shearer.

Wool


Definition:

  • (n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
  • (n.) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  • (n.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
  • (2) Populations of lymphocytes were separated using glass and nylon wool.
  • (3) Removal of accessory cells adherent to nylon wool column abolished MAS reactivity, whereas it has little effect on lymphoproliferation induced by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA).
  • (4) Somatic changes included reduced wool growth, delayed osseous development in the limbs (X-ray assessment) a reduced heart weight (39.1%) and an increased pituitary weight (48.1%).
  • (5) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
  • (6) Immunoreactivity was restricted to the periderm and intermediate layers of fetal epidermis at 55 d of gestation, when the first wave of wool follicles are initiated.
  • (7) Data obtained with cells separated by adherence, nylon wool columns, and positive and negative sorting with monoclonal antibodies that define B, monocyte, T helper and T cytotoxic cells show that several different cell types have the ability to produce GH mRNA.
  • (8) A case is presented of a patient who was arrested along several developmental lines and had suffered from a wool fetish.
  • (9) Removal of nylon wool adherent cells or cells with histamine receptors by column chromatography similarly caused reduced production of type II interferon.
  • (10) The activity of uremic spleen cells can be enhanced (restored) by removal of the sub-population of cells adherent to glass wool.
  • (11) All skirted lots of wool evaluated in this study had improved processing characteristics for all processing traits evaluated.
  • (12) The in vitro generation of allospecific CTL by human PBMC was enhanced 4- to 16-fold by sequential plastic and nylon wool adherence, which depleted the PBMC of macrophages and B cells.
  • (13) In parallel experiments, macrophages infected with the mycobacteria were co-cultured with syngeneic in vivo M. kansasii sensitized non-adherent, nylon-wool purified lymph node cells, and lymphoproliferation was measured by [3H]thymidine incorporation.
  • (14) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
  • (15) In general, IEL of satisfactory yield and of good viability were obtained with EDTA treatment of the gut tissues, followed by rapid passages of the resultant cells through nylon-wool columns and centrifugation on two-step Percoll density gradients (45% and 80%).
  • (16) There was a definite glove and stocking type of hypesthesia to pinprick and cotton wool.
  • (17) Since young nude mice could be rendered as unpermissive as older nude mice by pretreatment with either PNA-agglutinable thymus cells or nylon-wool passed spleen cells, it is suggested that an increased number of precursor T cells in older nude mice might induce this effect.
  • (18) Differences in wool production between ewes weaning one or two lambs were small.
  • (19) The effects of flumethasone on some aspects of wool growth revealed interactions between the routes of administration, the period of dosage and the rate of wool growth in the recipients.
  • (20) Streptococcus pyogenes survives poorly on plain cotton-wool swabs, whereas serum-dipped swabs permit its survival but also allow overgrouth by other bacteria and are likely to contain virus inhibitors.

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