What's the difference between tarn and yarn?

Tarn


Definition:

  • (n.) A mountain lake or pool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similarly, increases in HK activity were seen in sADN-tARN rats in all the above structures except MS, Nc, and DMH, where no changes were observed, and dArc, where an increase in HK activity was noted.
  • (2) This unexpected result was followed by the more surprising finding that the incidence of resistance was even higher in the bacterial populations of two remote upland tarns.
  • (3) Sticking to low levels, you meander along tracks, paths and across pretty bridges while admiring the peaks and scattering of mountain lakes, known as tarns.
  • (4) It is hoped the animals will recolonise the tarn and its surrounding streams, and play an important part in the ecosystem, grazing and burrowing into areas of the riverbank and allowing rare plants to grow, including mosses and liverworts that need patches of open habitat.
  • (5) This study was based on the examination of 26,374 salaried adult patients during a 12 months period in the Tarn-et-Garonne Regional Industrial Medecine Service.
  • (6) Little Molas Lake Campground, San Juan national forest People flock to Little Molas ostensibly for its proximity to Andrews Lake, a high-altitude tarn stocked with rainbow and brook trout.
  • (7) +33 4 6743 8734, lesdemoisellesdupuy.fr brightsue Les Chalets du Tarn, Réquista Before you've pitched your tent at this campsite, the friendly owner invites you to dine.
  • (8) Britain’s endangered water voles will reach new heights when they are returned to Yorkshire’s Malham tarn for the first time in 50 years.
  • (9) As a child, my parents would often take me on treks among the ethereal alpine forests of Tasmania’s central highlands; where ragged pencil pines sit beside bogs and tarns.
  • (10) Roisin Black, a National Trust ranger at Malham tarn, said: “In the rest of Europe, water voles are common.
  • (11) Protesters opposed to the Sivens dam project in the Tarn region say it will destroy a reservoir of biodiversity and will benefit only a small number of farmers.
  • (12) According to the property website seloger.com, Albi in the south-west Tarn region takes the prize for France's biggest price drop – a massive 18%.
  • (13) The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis was observed to have a significant decrease in hexokinase activity in the tARN groups, as were the caudal and medial aspects of the nucleus of the solitary tract.
  • (14) In contrast, the increased HK activity after either tADN or tARN alone was returned to levels not different from sADN-sARN rats in all structures in the tADN-tARN rats, except MnPO, mpPVH, and dArc, where the level of HK activity was only attenuated, and MS, POA, and vArc, where it remained elevated.
  • (15) The incidence of antibiotic resistance in aquatic bacteria isolated from Windermere was, however, lower than in those isolated from two remote upland tarns.
  • (16) The upland tarns were not totally isolated from man and other animals but did not receive any sewage or other effluents and therefore the results were surprising.
  • (17) Here is a section from his exploration of the streams and lakes of the Rhinogs, a remote mountain group in North Wales: Searching the map, I had seen some promising upland streams, a waterfall, and a tarn, so I hiked off uphill through the bracken.
  • (18) Scales Fell was the popular Boxing Day choice, the splendid ridge that soars to the 2,848ft summit above its tarn, deep in the bosom of Blencathra.
  • (19) In the 3-day tARN group only, a significant decrease in hexokinase activity was observed in the region of the brainstem containing the A5 cell group, compared with sARN animals.
  • (20) The design of the Millau Viaduct, the superb new motorway bridge across the Tarn Gorge in the south of France, is credited to Norman Foster.

Yarn


Definition:

  • (n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
  • (n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.
  • (n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
  • (2) The 66 patients were subdivided into four groups according to the type of conduit harvested (single left internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein) and the type of material used for the sternal closure (steel wires or nylon yarns).
  • (3) Facts were mutable, and didn’t need to displace a good yarn.
  • (4) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
  • (5) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
  • (6) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (7) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
  • (8) Grafts were woven from polypropylene yarn into conduits 4 mm I.D.
  • (9) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).
  • (10) Yarn preparation areas (opening through fine spinning) were studied at two cotton textile mills which had been studied 5 years previously in Shanghai.
  • (11) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
  • (12) Also, interleaved between the numbered chapters of Shadow's adventures, are unnumbered chapters headed "Coming to America", in which we get yarns of how travellers to America might have brought their own peculiar spirits and legends to this new land.
  • (13) After decortication of the graft, posterior arches of C1 and 2, and microsurgical excision of the cartilage of the C1-2 lateral joints, the graft was imbedded into the entire C1-2 space, fixed, and tightened using a braid of "nylacap" yarn.
  • (14) Limited environmental sampling, performed using a vertical elutriator in yarn preparation and weaving areas, indicated that exposures were similar to those reported in other parts of the developing world.
  • (15) Risk increased significantly with duration of employment in: production of synthetic yarns, plastic packaging, and miscellaneous chemical compounds; fabricating structural metal and stationary tanks; body factories; electrical plants; and retail sale of paint and wallpaper.
  • (16) On Friday the hunt for these precious treats kicked off again – with a yarn explaining how this year’s production might be disrupted by 200 striking Cadbury workers.
  • (17) Complications such as thromboses, infections and false aneurysms appear to occur randomly after different lengths of implantation, thicker fibrous tissue capsules are associated with velour grafts with highly textured yarns, the incidence of mineralized tissue and of endothelialized luminal surfaces is rare, weft knitted textile prostheses appear less mechanically stable and more sensitive to iatrogenic trauma than warp knitted, and the incidences of lipid and cholesterol adsorption, bacterial colonization and sterile fluid loss need further investigation.
  • (18) An influenza-like illness appeared recently among workers in a plant processing synthetic yarn.
  • (19) You might prefer the story about rights to social security, or you might prefer a yarn about the duty to contribute to social insurance.
  • (20) It was a yarn worthy of Robert Louis Stevenson , an epic befitting of Homer, but the Italian immigration officer who deported him had no interest in the tale.