What's the difference between banging and great?

Banging


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bang
  • (a.) Huge; great in size.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
  • (2) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
  • (3) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
  • (4) Like the school friend who pops up on Facebook after 30 years, Barbie is banging on the door to come back into my life.
  • (5) They were banging on their shields and chasing these people up Regent Street.
  • (6) Eagles 17 - Cowboys 7 - 1:25 remaining 2nd quarter Bang bang!
  • (7) These changes will not arrive with an astronomical bang, of course, but will appear with stealth.
  • (8) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
  • (9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
  • (10) "They are wrong, we are bang on track, everything is on track," Howell said.
  • (11) The answer is not to be found at either financial extreme, but bang in the economic centre, where elections are won and lost.
  • (12) And the characters' creation of an avatar of a dead person based on their writings, in Jonze's film, is an idea that he's been banging on about for years.
  • (13) The man behind the Cillit Bang kitchen cleaner has shattered British records for executive pay after taking home more then £90m in cash and shares in one year.
  • (14) • Drinks about £12, Hornsgatan 82, Open Mon-Sat from 5pm, haktet.se Where to stay Facebook Twitter Pinterest HTL HTL HTL is a new and affordable boutique hotel and a perfect choice if location – it’s bang in the city centre – is more important to you than space.
  • (15) 5.38am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 11th Bang....just one bang.
  • (16) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
  • (17) The 6ft 5in striker Marc Janko bangs in the goals, often supplied by the all-Stuttgart right-sided combination of Florian Klein and Martin Harnik.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The trading floor of the London Stock Exchange as the Big Bang reforms took effect in 1986.
  • (19) He went with a bang not a whimper: two of his last contributions to the New Republic were a trenchant critique of the history of the six-day war by Michael Oren, now Israeli ambassador to Washington, and an evisceration of Koba the Dread, Martin Amis's purported book on Stalin.
  • (20) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.

Great


Definition:

  • (superl.) Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
  • (superl.) Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.
  • (superl.) Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.
  • (superl.) Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
  • (superl.) Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.
  • (superl.) Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc.
  • (superl.) Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.
  • (superl.) Pregnant; big (with young).
  • (superl.) More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
  • (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc.
  • (n.) The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
  • (2) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
  • (3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (4) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (5) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
  • (6) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
  • (7) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
  • (8) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
  • (9) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (10) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
  • (11) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
  • (12) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (13) It’s great to observe the beach from that perspective.
  • (14) The dose response effect in this tumor is steep and combinations which compromise the dose of adriamycin too greatly are showing inferior results.
  • (15) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
  • (16) = 19) with a very low, but statistically significant, correlation with the AUC, r = 0.35 (p less than 0.05), thus demonstrating a very great individual variation in sensitivity to cimetidine.
  • (17) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
  • (18) Transfection of the treated DNA into SOS-induced spheroplasts results in an increase in mutagenesis as great as 50-fold.
  • (19) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
  • (20) We conclude that inflammatory lesions at these sites are not uncommon and that CT scans are diagnostic in the great majority.