What's the difference between weakling and weanling?
Weakling
Definition:
(n.) A weak or feeble creature.
(a.) Weak; feeble.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have to admit that I, too, had always thought of Smith, culture secretary in the first Blair government and largely remembered for being a bit too gushing about Cool Britannia, as a seven-stone political weakling.
(2) He never confessed and came over as a bewildered weakling rather than a psychopath.
(3) Guardian reporters are characterised as "weaklings with a crush" rather than "men of action and principle", and on one occasion are described as "lily-livered gits in glass offices".
(4) "Let someone come and kill me, I am not a weakling."
(5) The major defect of that arthritic art was "illustrationism" - weak work by weaklings for weaklings.
(6) "Those on the Tory side who think of him as a political seven-stone weakling are sorely mistaken.
(7) The other half, the party bigwigs roll up their sleeves and bruise in, weaklings following Ukip thugs.
(8) Institutional medical care of newborn infants including premature 'weaklings', had its roots in Europe about 100 years ago.
(9) A nother day, another opportunity to whack the bonds of the weaklings of the eurozone.
(10) Basically, I’m an easily led mental weakling who’s a slave to the series link button.
(11) Like geological strata, they reveal the imprint of a prime minister translated by Falklands victory from beleaguered weakling to political colossus, a chancellor seizing bleak economic projections to promote a welfare reform agenda that he had mapped out as a young man 20 years before, and the fossilised remains of the first campaign in the long war to reverse Labour's 1945 vision of welfare that now, 30 years later, is on the brink of fulfilment.
(12) But, in its implication that David Cameron's Tories were a bunch of weaklings, it was also unfair.
(13) Christie called the president a “feckless weakling”, Bush named Trump a “chaos candidate”, Carson demanded we “get rid of all this PC stuff”, and Cruz claimed “political correctness is killing people”.
Weanling
Definition:
() a. & n. from Wean, v.
(n.) A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.
(a.) Recently weaned.
Example Sentences:
(1) Male weanling Sprague Dawley rats were depleted on a low AIN-76A formulated basal diet for 21 days.
(2) The interaction between malnutrition and exposure to a mucosal damaging agent, difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), was examined by monitoring the small-intestinal changes in weanling rats.
(3) A state of net secretory fluid flux was induced in isolated jejunal loops in weanling pigs by adding theophylline or cholera toxin to the lumen of the isolated loops.
(4) The relationship between changes in blood plasma amino acids and the quantity of protein and energy self-selected by the weanling rat, simultaneously offered two diets varying only in protein concentration, was examined.
(5) Weanling male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to one of three groups following a week of adaptation.
(6) Excess supplemental choline (2,000 ppm) fed throughout the weanling, growing and finishing (121 to 126 d) phases of growth reduced (P less than .08) daily gain but it did not affect (P greater than .10) feed utilization.
(7) (ii) In young sucklings (10 days old), SC was virtually absent in both villus and crypt cells, but its concentration progressively increased in weanling rats and reached adult levels by day 40 postpartum.
(8) Six variant viruses of the JHMV strain of murine coronavirus with large (cl-2, CNSV, DL and DS) or small (sp-4 and JHM-X) S proteins were compared in terms of their relative neurovirulence in weanling Lewis rats.
(9) In contrast, only 28.5% of infected weanling and 33.3% of infected adult dogs died after receiving inoculations of R252-CDV.
(10) The pathogenesis of persistent measles virus infection of the CNS has been studied by comparing viral protein expression in suckling or weanling hamsters infected with the HBS strain of measles virus.
(11) The CAD multidomain protein, which includes active sites of carbamyl phosphate synthetase II (CPS II, glutamine-dependent), aspartate transcarbamylase, and dihydroorotase, was immunostained in normal rat brains, the gliotic brains of myelin-deficient mutant rats, and brains from normal weanling hamsters.
(12) Weanling male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed diets containing 20% by weight corn, soybean or low erucic acid rapeseed oils or mixtures of the latter two with cocoa butter or triolein for 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks.
(13) An additional six weanling rats fed each diet for 4 wk were killed for assay of hepatic carcinogen metabolizing enzymes at the time corresponding to DMBA administration in the initiation experiment.
(14) Hepatic reduced glutathione (GSH) decreased and plasma glutamic-pyruvic transaminase activity increased in an ACAP dose-dependent manner in weanling mice fed 0.5% methionine.
(15) A marked and rapid decrease in free serum TRP level occurred before weanling, while a small decrease in total serum TRP level was found after weanling.
(16) To evaluate the role of small intestinal tissue, detailed analysis of PG processing in vitro of small intestinal segments of suckling and weanling rats using everted sacs was performed.
(17) Although this provirus appears to be nondefective by genomic restriction enzyme mapping, weanling mice do not produce virus and only about one-third of adult mice ever express virus.
(18) When TLPC was fed to weanling wistar albino rats to supplement 25% of the dietary protein, the growth of the animals was found to be comparable to control animals.
(19) Both adult and weanling rats are able to control their dietary intake of protein.
(20) Of them each of thirty-eight groups had an adult female "nurse" monkey, who had no kinship with any of the 4 weanlings.