Flog vs Flox - What's the difference?
flog | flox |
To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
To use something to extreme; to abuse.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=VL idles rough when warm...
, group=aus.cars
, author=Chris Wardrop
, date=October 30
, year=2002
, passage=I did seven laps of Fyshwick with the mechanic today. I was turning lots of heads on the last few, people must of thought I was nuts, flogging' the car then stopping, then driving slow then ' flogging it again.
(UK) To sell something.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Optus $5/month 5110, T10 and 2288 only 4 days
, group=aus.comms.mobile
, author=Paul Edwards
, date=January 26
, year=2001
, passage=And then there's my part time job at Telstra Bigpond flogging' their cable network for just $67.55/month long term cost, a BARGAIN, and the other part time job ' flogging Foxtel at something like $50/month.
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Nothing to Crow About
, group=rec.sport.football.australian
, author=Mr Ripper
, date=August 16
, year=1999
, passage=The Swannies got on a real roll over rounds 16/17 & 18 of 1987. In consecutive SCG matches, they flogged the Eags 30.21 to 10.11, followed that with a 36.20 to 11.7 demolition of the Dons and finally a 31.12 to 15.17 thrashing of Richmond.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Eng v Aus 1977
, group=aus.sport.cricket
, author=Cas.
, date=June 9
, year=2001
, passage=Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=POLISER- Roosters v Bulldogs
, group=aus.sport.rugby-league
, author=Greg Vincent }:c{
, date=June 5
, year=2004
, passage=It'll make the Raiders look good. Getting flogged' by a team that got '''flogged''' by a team that got ' flogged by the Bulldogs.
(agriculture) To exploit.
*
(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
, 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
, passage= Technically, the main problems encountered are in floxing the target gene.}}
(FLOX)
(astronautics, dated) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel
* {{quote-book, 1965, Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on the Space Sciences
, passage= It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel.}}
As a verb flog
is (flyga).As an acronym flox is
(medicine) fluorouracil, leucovorin and oxaliplatin when used as a chemotherapy regimen against colon cancer.flog
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* (to whip or scourge) whipDerived terms
* flog a dead horse * flogger * flog the logSee also
* flail * flay * vapulateAnagrams
* golf ----flox
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Abbreviation of "flanked by loxP"Verb
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* (Floxed)Etymology 2
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