What's the difference between soda and sofa?

Soda


Definition:

  • (n.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
  • (n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aerobically, the gyrase inhibitors increased the expression of sodA::lacZ in the presence or absence of either paraquat or the iron chelator 2,2'-dipyridyl.
  • (2) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
  • (3) It is hard to determine the impact on obesity and disease, in part because so few sugar taxes have been passed The World Health Organisation calls soda taxes the most effective strategy for improving diet (along with subsidising fruit and vegetables).
  • (4) Beliefs best differentiating among the three groups were: (1) superiority of taste of their "own" sodas, (2) perceived efficiency to quench thirst, and (3) perceived compatibility with other menu items.
  • (5) An Australian walked into a bar in Edinburgh and asked for a scotch and soda.
  • (6) The precise location of the rhaT gene, encoding rhamnose permease, has been established between sodA and rhaC at 3605-3607 kb of Kohara's physical map, which corresponds to 88.4 min on the Escherichia coli chromosomal map.
  • (7) This procedure employed a column chromatography on DE-52, followed by three steps of HPLC procedures with threonine-Sepharose (prepared as described in this report), TSK gel Phenyl-5PW (Toyo Soda), and TSK gel G3000SW (Toyo Soda) columns.
  • (8) DNA minor components were not found in haloalkalophilic microorganisms from soda saline soils in contrast to those from soda lakes.
  • (9) The soda lime capacity is 25 litres (approximately 20 kg).
  • (10) As obesity and diabetes rates soar around the world, a soda tax is one of the top recommendations of global health experts.
  • (11) In Mexico, the soda industry responded with more than arguments about exercise – it responded with money.
  • (12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
  • (13) The proper name of this panel is "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Plastic Water Bottles, Fracking, Genetically Modified Food, & Big Gulp Sodas."
  • (14) Fast "inactivation" of the potassium current is seen with patch pipettes fabricated from soft glass (soda glass or potash lead glass), and is probably caused by block of the potassium channels by di- or multivalent cations released from the glass.
  • (15) Serves 2 100ml bourbon or whisky 250ml soda water 2 lemon slices 2 sprigs of rosemary For the syrup (makes about 250ml) 225ml lemon juice (5-6 lemons) 120g sugar 4-6 sprigs of rosemary 1 Combine all the syrup ingredients in a medium saucepan, then heat until just boiling.
  • (16) Annie's soda bread Photograph: Pai9arhonalcna for the Guardian Easy peasy and very tasty.
  • (17) Detection limits of 0.063 ng of As(III), 0.037 ng of As(v), 0.032 ng of DMA and 0.080 ng of MMA in club soda were achieved using the He-Ar plasma source.
  • (18) People no longer huddled together where they worked but had to drive out of town to the oil and gas fields and the mine that extracted trona (a mineral used to make baking soda, glass, detergents and textiles).
  • (19) Mechanical homogenization of sputa before making the smear, carried out by shaking the sputum with glass beads, had a significant effect on the number of detected mycobacteria while homogenization using soda lye did not influence the positivity in any direction.
  • (20) Consumption of 0% mustard meal and 15% soybean meal, 7.5% mustard meal and 7.5% soybean meal, or 15% mustard meal and 0% soybean meal rations did not differ in palatability studies with 10 group-fed lactating cows when the mustard meal was treated with 3% caustic soda.

Sofa


Definition:

  • (n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (2) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
  • (3) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
  • (4) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
  • (5) Today The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), inspired – for no special reason – by Gogglebox, which seems to have two new sofa critics.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.
  • (7) When my wife Mia finally gets home, I hand the baby over and drop exhausted on to the sofa.
  • (8) Since furanoses in the envelope form are analogous (in some ways) to half-chair or sofa conformations and since lactones with six-membered rings probably have half-chair or sofa conformations, the results indicate that beta-galactosidase probably destabilizes its substrate into a planar conformation of some type and that the galactose in the transition state may, therefore, also be quite planar.
  • (9) Many iPad users see the device as a more relaxed device than a computer: something to be kept close at hand on the sofa or even in bed, with its instant-on nature.
  • (10) "I've ended up with everything I could want – a pool table, a table football table, dining table and chairs, sofas, carpets.
  • (11) Christine Bleakley, Chiles's co-presenter on The One Show, had been linked with a possible move to ITV to join Chiles on the GMTV sofa.
  • (12) The couple, who are Polish nationals, claimed he had fallen off a sofa.
  • (13) I arrive at my hotel, a friendly, functional place with a crackling fire and big sofas.
  • (14) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
  • (15) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
  • (16) Clash of the sofas: BBC v ITV An age-old rivalry with plenty of previous, gone are the days where you'd sigh when you found out a match was on ITV not BBC.
  • (17) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.
  • (18) After all, who needs private detectives to follow Tom Watson when you can find out about his office playlist and Portal 2 marathons from the comfort of your own sofa?
  • (19) The online auction service has been redesigned with a focus on bigger images and a touchscreen interface, making it the perfect way to browse from the sofa.
  • (20) He then took aim at the viral picture of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway sitting in the Oval Office in a strange, overly comfortable manner, shoes on the sofa.