What's the difference between blase and bored?

Blase


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anger is also being expressed in different genres and forms these days, add Blase and O'Brien.
  • (2) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
  • (3) The recombinant BLase was expressed in Bacillus subtilis and purified to homogeneity.
  • (4) The HFPA are altogether blase about The Master , previously tipped as an awards frontrunner, which now crucially misses out on a best film or director nod.
  • (5) Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Huppert was starring in Elle, an audacious masterpiece whose hot-potato plot (woman is relatively blase about sexual assault) masks an empowering and radical core.
  • (6) "People have had enough of the government's blase attitude towards civilian deaths when the perpetrators are the Taliban or al-Qaida," he said.
  • (7) To a nation of travellers already blase about Paris to Marseille in three hours, the line offers Paris to Luxembourg in two, Frankfurt in four, and Munich in six hours.
  • (8) Emily Phillips, a professional songwriter and mother to two daughters, Scarlett, seven, and Celeste, three, worked for three years trying to get Conway primary school up and running when she became concerned by a lack of primary school places in her area, and Hammersmith and Fulham council's blase assumption that this would be dealt with by "bulging" classes.
  • (9) I really love it.” He is blase about the attention, but a bit baffled by it.
  • (10) I covered much of their early rise for the NME and, unlike their peers who tried to act blase, the Kaisers were never able to hide how much they enjoyed success.
  • (11) South Koreans have had the barking hound on their doorstep for 60 years now, and have grown blase.
  • (12) But after a while you almost get blase at having Lucas or Zlatan around the place.
  • (13) He had an incredibly blase attitude to controlling birds of prey,” said Jones.
  • (14) Using human parathyroid hormone (13-34) and p-nitroanilides of peptidyl glutamic acid and aspartic acid, we found a marked difference between BLase and V8 protease, EC 3.4.21.9, although both proteases showed higher reactivity for glutamyl bonds than for aspartyl bonds.
  • (15) Blase cyclists can be seen negotiating the high-speed free-for-all that is the Place de la Concorde while puffing a cigarette and calling a friend.
  • (16) The main effect observed was limb paresis, which in some sheep was body side blased.
  • (17) Stories of industry racism are now so well known it's easy to become blase about them, and many come from the few successful black models in the business.
  • (18) You can’t become blase because you just have to look at the teams that have gone down this year and look at what we have done,” he said.
  • (19) This protease, which we propose to call BLase (glutamic acid-specific protease from B. licheniformis ATCC 14580), was characterized enzymatically.
  • (20) The findings clearly indicate that BLase can be classified as a serine protease.

Bored


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bore

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The scaphoid silicone implant bore significant, although less, load than the normal scaphoid.
  • (2) Paparella type II tubes had a prolonged period of intubation and a decreased reintubation rate when compared with the smaller bore tubes.
  • (3) He says the next step will be moving to bore water, which will require people to boil water to drink.
  • (4) By the time the bud was half the diameter of the mother cell, it almost always bore a vacuole.
  • (5) Rather, there is evidence that students find these courses 'waffly' and boring.
  • (6) (2) E. granulosus, which includes two geographical groups: (a) Northern group, with two sub-species E. g borelis and E. g. canadensis, the life-cycle of which is sylvatic and that are agents of a pulmonary hydatidosis which may affect Man.
  • (7) Adult mongrel dogs were instrumented and placed in the bore of a Bruker Biospec 1.89 tesla superconducting magnet system.
  • (8) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
  • (9) It was shown by double staining that most of the Ia-bearing T cells also bore the T8 marker.
  • (10) Neither the peak serum E2 level attained nor the number of days of stimulation required bore a relationship to the BMI or the total body weight of these women.
  • (11) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
  • (12) The selectivity, efficiency and lifetime of normal- and narrow-bore columns for high-performance liquid chromatography were investigated for the separation and quantification of amino acids and the amino acid-like antibiotics phosphinothricin and phosphinothricylalanylalanine in biological samples.
  • (13) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
  • (14) On 1 January 1832, he reports that: "The new year to my jaundiced senses bore a most gloomy appearance.
  • (15) The use of soft catheter materials in large-bore veins has allowed safe long-term venous access in human patients.
  • (16) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
  • (17) While Cropley talked to a member of staff, her daughter got a bit bored.
  • (18) Sometimes my press conferences are boring because I’m very polite or political.
  • (19) It was found that the emphasis in the reporting of adolescence bore little relationship to the importance or relevance of each area of study.
  • (20) And until recently, they bore children for foreigners who never even saw this place.

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