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Flob vs Flox - What's the difference?

flob | flox |

As a noun flob

is (uk|slang) spittle, especially a piece of spittle that has been spat out.

As a verb flob

is (uk|slang) to spit or to gob.

As an acronym flox is

(medicine) fluorouracil, leucovorin and oxaliplatin when used as a chemotherapy regimen against colon cancer.

flob

English

Noun

(-)
  • (UK, slang) spittle, especially a piece of spittle that has been spat out

    • Verb

  • (UK, slang) To spit or to gob.
  • *2010 , Charlie Brooker, The Guardian , 27 Sep 2010:
  • *:I pointed out that they both looked equally unhappy, and that he was essentially kicking himself. He contemplated this for a moment, then flobbed at me and kicked the weakling slightly harder.

    • References

    *OED 2006

    flox

    English

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviation of "flanked by loxP"

    Verb

    (es)
  • (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP"
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Louis-Marie Houdebine, Animal Transgenesis and Cloning citation
    • , passage=In order to do this, the gene to knock out must first be floxed by homologous recombination.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Curt D. Sigmund & David E. Stec, Angiotensin Protocols, chapter=Genetic Manipulation of the Renin-Angiotensin System Using Cre-loxP-Recombinase, editor=Donna H. Wang citation
    • , passage= Technically, the main problems encountered are in floxing the target gene.}}
    See also
    * (Floxed)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (FLOX)

    • Verb

    (es)
  • (astronautics, dated) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel
  • * {{quote-book, 1965, Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on the Space Sciences citation
    • , passage= It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel.}}

    See also

    * lox * (FLOX) ----