What's the difference between abase and scorn?

Abase


Definition:

  • (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
  • (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And then, proving that in the celebrity world of self-abasement there really is no such thing as "bottoming out", Shane started tweeting Ping Pong, otherwise known as Elizabeth Hurley's parrot Why has Australia not staged an intervention?
  • (2) These studies establish that the exocyclic ring of the 1,N2-propanodeoxyguanosine adduct fits into the cavity generated by the abasic site.
  • (3) Covalently closed circular DNA containing a synthetic analog of an abasic site at a unique position was used as a substrate to study DNA repair.
  • (4) In this study, we present structural and dynamic properties of duplex oligodeoxynucleotides containing G, C and T opposite a model abasic site studied by one and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
  • (5) By this assay, we first identified the formation of C-4'-hydroxy abasic sites in calf thymus DNA by neocarzinostatin.
  • (6) Abasic lesions in the template had relatively little effect on the polymerase incorporation reaction at sites proximal to the lesion.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A composite handout of CCTV pictures from the Metropolitan police showing British teenagers (L-R) Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum passing through security barriers at Gatwick Airport en route to Syria.
  • (8) Proton and phosphorus NMR studies are reported for two complementary nonanucleotide duplexes containing acyclic abasic sites.
  • (9) Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abase, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, left their homes in east London last month to join the extremist group.
  • (10) However, incorporation opposite an abasic site was undetectable relative to that which occurred opposite a normal template nucleotide.
  • (11) But with the People's Daily writing that progress had only been possible because of David Cameron's admission that he had mishandled Tibet (where, since 2009, 100 monks and nuns have set fire to themselves in protest against Chinese rule), Britain's abasement was complete.
  • (12) Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, fled in February from Britain after deceiving their parents and siblings.
  • (13) The long pilgrimage of pregnancy with its wonders and abasements, the apotheosis of childbirth, the sacking and slow rebuilding of every last corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed – all unmentioned, wilfully or casually forgotten as time has passed.
  • (14) Before and after training they were low in need for order, endurance, abasement, and deference and high in need for autonomy and aggression.
  • (15) All the sequenced mutants correspond to single base-pair substitutions targeted at the abasic site.
  • (16) These results indicate that dTMP, and not dAMP, was mainly incorporated into the sites opposite to the abasic site analogue, and that incorrect deoxynucleotides were incorporated in the position adjacent to the abasic site analogue.
  • (17) Our results in human cells contrast markedly with those published previously for the mutational specificity of AP sites in Escherichia coli, in which a large majority of the mutants resulted from insertion of an A opposite the abasic site.
  • (18) The repair-related DNA synthesis was localized within 3 or 4 nucleotides surrounding the abasic site.
  • (19) The enzyme is able to incorporate nucleotides efficiently opposite the abasic template lesion and to continue DNA synthesis.
  • (20) The Met statement did appear to show some contrition stating: “With the benefit of hindsight, we acknowledge that the letters could have been delivered direct to the parents.” The disappearance of the 15-year-old girl in December led to a counter-terrorism investigation that saw Begum, Sultana and Abase identified as friends of the missing girl and being spoken to by detectives.

Scorn


Definition:

  • (n.) Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
  • (n.) An act or expression of extreme contempt.
  • (n.) An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
  • (n.) To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
  • (n.) To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
  • (v. i.) To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bannon scorns media in rare public appearance at CPAC Some observers suggested the move to block some organisations from the Friday briefing was an attempt to distract the public from controversial stories.
  • (2) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
  • (3) Tayyab Mahmood Jafri, part of the large team of prosecution lawyers, heaped scorn on yet another discovery of explosives.
  • (4) She won’t apologize for whatever makes the New York Times treat her with middle-school levels of petty scorn .
  • (5) Ranjana Kumari, one of India's best known women's rights activists and director of the Centre for Social Research in Delhi, was scornful of Raghuvanshi's suggestion.
  • (6) And at the same time, speaking to black America, he branded Frazier an Uncle Tom, turning him into an object of derision and scorn.
  • (7) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
  • (8) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
  • (9) And also leave aside the fact that the vast majority of so-called "national security professionals" have been disastrously wrong about virtually everything of significance over the last decade at least, including when most of them used their platforms and influence not only to persuade others to support the greatest crime of our generation - the aggressive attack on Iraq - but also to scorn war opponents as too Unserious to merit attention.
  • (10) Asking Alexander how genuine Hunt’s commitment to the NHS is, given his always having an NHS badge in his left lapel and regular praise of its staff, draws a scornful response: “I was quite struck by Dr Clare Gerada’s tweet about the junior doctors dispute, where she said: ‘Jeremy Hunt wears his NHS badge on his lapel, but junior doctors wear the NHS in their hearts.’ ” Plans to dissolve south London NHS trust anger neighbouring hospital Read more Hunt is one of the few senior figures in parliament who already knows what an effective opponent Alexander can be.
  • (11) Simpson, Semmelweis, Lister, and Ogston all found their ideas scorned by members of the profession, which may have feared being held responsible for deaths.
  • (12) When President Obama stands up and says - as he did when he addressed the nation in February 2011 about Libya - that "the United States will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people", it should trigger nothing but a scornful fit of laughter, not credulous support (by the way, not that anyone much cares any more, but here's what is happening after the Grand Success of the Libya Intervention: "Tribal and historical loyalties still run deep in Libya, which is struggling to maintain central government control in a country where armed militia wield real power and meaningful systems of law and justice are lacking after the crumbling of Gaddafi's eccentric personal rule").
  • (13) I called for a ban after San Bernardino, and was met with great scorn and anger but now, many are saying I was right to do so,” he boasted.
  • (14) I’m certain he, Ben Stiller and Alexander Payne were all justified in their scorn.
  • (15) Indeed, it may never be possible to establish beyond reasonable doubt who really created bitcoin.” Techcrunch.com reported the tech community was “pouring scorn” on reports that Wright is Nakamoto.
  • (16) Sceptics pour scorn on what this third Scotland stands for, but its political agenda is clear.
  • (17) We are probably more of an oil company today than we were [when Lord Browne ran the company until 2007],” Morrell said, adding that Browne had received “a lot of scorn from our colleagues” for his acceptance of climate science.
  • (18) This is why my Twitter and Facebook feeds – which consist mostly of people who brew, sell or drink beer – are scornful when I announce I'm working a one-off shift in the Rose and Crown, in Stoke Newington, north London.
  • (19) American right-wingers were sceptical and scornful.
  • (20) However, this evidence may have appeared stronger to the City of London police, HMRC and the Crown Prosecution Service when they first brought the charges than it did during the case, coming after revelations of phone-hacking and News Corporation's closure of the News of the World, which allowed Redknapp to continually express scorn and retort that he "did not have to tell the truth" to "that newspaper".