What's the difference between botts and gadfly?

Botts


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) See Bots.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Integration of pCIS7 into the wild-type (Tcs) B. subtilis chromosome and amplification of the plasmid sequences generated a Tcr phenotype, even though the DNA on pCIS7 was cloned from Tcs B. subtilis KS162 (Ives and Bott, J. Bacteriol.
  • (2) A factor analysis was used to determine whether induced loudness adaptation (Botte, Canevet, & Scharf, 1982; Scharf, 1983) and adaptation measured by Hood's (1950) classic Simultaneous Dichotic Loudness Balance technique (SDLB) would cluster on the same factors.
  • (3) Five years ago the school was "crazy and unsafe", said principal Andrew Bott, who was tasked with turning it around.
  • (4) An intermittent tone in one ear may induce a large decline in the loudness of a continuous tone in the contralateral ear [Botte et al., J. Acoust.
  • (5) Over the weekend at the Techcrunch Disrupt hackathon in San Francisco, Australian duo Jethro Botts and David Boulton jumped on stage to present Titstare, an app that lets you "stare at tits".
  • (6) Gove asked Bott how he swiftly reformed the school.
  • (7) Bott, K. F. (The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.), and R. Davidoff-Abelson.
  • (8) Three roller-bottes were seeded with venous, and another three with arterial derived endothelial cells for each of three "oxygen saturations" 5, 20 and 50% O2 respectively, and incubated for seven days and then counted.
  • (9) Examination of residual King-Altman patterns for the general modifier model of Botts & Morales [(1953) Trans.
  • (10) Since its Km for actin is similar to that of tryptic SF1(A2), it may be concluded that changes in the affinity of SF1 for actin induced by trypsin [Botts, J., Muhlrad, A., Takashi, R., & Morales, M. F. (1982) Biochemistry 21, 6903-6905] are not dependent on the presence of the associated alkali light chain.
  • (11) One of the boldest things Bott did was cut spending on security and funnel the funds into arts.
  • (12) Keith Bott, who runs Titanic Brewery with his brother Dave, operating eight pubs in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, said: “To make that extra £1,000 that we now won’t have to pay, we would have had to sell £2,000 worth of beer.
  • (13) I cannot find mention of Botts, Boulton or Titstare, which would suggest that not only did the organisers allow a breach in process, they have tried to hide the details by removing any reference to the pair.
  • (14) David Bott, director of innovation programmes at the Technology Strategy Board , which will work with Nesta to develop the prizes, said: "If you set the challenge in the right way, you unlock the creativity of the community rather than limiting it with our own lack of it."
  • (15) Bott, Thomas L. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Janet S. Deffner, Elizabeth McCoy, and E. M. Foster.
  • (16) Bott and Ultsch (1986) observed that the subtilisin BPN' structure is very tolerant of single mutations, and this tolerance may have been necessary for survival of the enzyme during the course of evolution.
  • (17) Howevever, David Bott, director of innovation programmes at the Technology Strategy Board , has previously told the Guardian he was sceptical that such charging lanes would be practical: "It's scientifically feasible, but it's whether it's scalable and feasible is another matter."
  • (18) Kinetic analysis of the extended Botts-Morales mechanism describing irreversible enzyme inactivation has demonstrated that analytical expressions describing the time-course of product formation may be derived for a stable modifier by retaining the usual steady-state assumptions regarding the fluxes around ES and EXS provided quasi-equilibrium modifier binding to E and ES is assumed, but for unstable modifiers all of the binding steps must be assumed to be at quasi-equilibrium in the steady-state, except under restrictive circumstances.
  • (19) It should be looked into in a transparent way,” Bott said.
  • (20) Analytical expressions describing the time-dependence of product formation have been derived in coefficient form amenable to non-linear regression analysis for two operationally distinct types of reaction mechanism dependent on whether the reaction of the unstable modifier (X) with either or both the free enzyme (E) and enzyme-substrate complex (ES) occurs as a simple bimolecular process, or proceeds through the intermediacy of either or both adsorptive enzyme-modifier (EX) and enzyme-modifier-substrate (EXS) complexes in what may be considered as an extension of the Botts-Morales general modifier mechanism for (stable) reversible enzyme inhibitors and activators.

Gadfly


Definition:

  • (n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over successive failed presidential campaigns Ron Paul turned from laughable outsider to respected gadfly to the head of an enthusiastic grassroots conservative movement whose overwhelmingly young followers have a major impact on the Republican party.
  • (2) The erstwhile MP and professional gadfly has published a blogpost decrying "privilege checking", and longing to return to a species of "reality-based" feminism where everyone would stop bothering her about class, race and money.
  • (3) If you are being slightly less generous, you might agree with the verdict of an internal Tory document that called them "cranks, gadflies and extremists" .
  • (4) Twain's cult of personality – as lecturer and novelist, commentator and social critic, travel and humour writer, gadfly and avuncular curmudgeon – was carefully judged, his folksy humour natural, but strategically deployed.
  • (5) For the German media Samaras is the fly in the ointment, the gadfly who has put personal ambition before national interest.
  • (6) The prevalence of talent show products has contributed to this gadfly pop existence, even if they did produce acts with the staying power of Girls Aloud and Leona Lewis.
  • (7) This article traces Codman's career as an innovator and political gadfly at the Massachusetts General Hospital during the first three decades of this century, and examines the development and demise of his end-result system.
  • (8) Then Cruz was considered a conservative gadfly who would have to claw and fight rivals to be the favorite among even his Tea Party base but Cruz fended off rival after rival to win the Iowa caucuses and become the conservative standard-bearer in the field.
  • (9) Let's count some of the more vocal opponents – Oumar Mariko, Mali's perpetual gadfly; former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin, who argues that it would be better to wait for the lions to lie down with the lambs; Paris-based Camerounian novelist Calixthe Beyala, who argues that those Malians who would prefer not to live under a crude faux-Islamic vigilantism suffer from a plantation mentality; and some truly reprehensible protesters at the French embassy in London, who refuse to believe that most Malians are Muslims and don't need religious instruction from Salafists.
  • (10) The Buk, known to the US military as an SA-11 Gadfly, can reach targets up to altitudes of 46,000 feet.
  • (11) Ukip, a party once dismissed as being filled with " cranks and gadflies ", poses a real threat to the main parties at the forthcoming elections.
  • (12) I said it far less succinctly than Greene did, though, in a long, digressive blog post in which I echoed concerns raised by a piece that had recently run in the magazine n+1: that Gawker, once a useful gadfly that irritated the powerful, had become a bully more powerful than the institutions it mocked.
  • (13) They sound a bit like those American gadflies the Bravery, and that is not good at all.
  • (14) "We are big enough and ugly enough to put up with being called fruitcakes or loonies or gadflies.
  • (15) Dempster, whose gossip column appeared in the Daily Mail from 1971 to 2003, a remarkable innings, knew his core market: Middle England moralists who loved a lord, panted over a princess, doted on a duchess and became horny over an heiress - especially when any of these social gadflies flattered the readers' own lives by having disastrous affairs, getting divorced, taking drugs, fighting in nightclubs, going to jail, and generally provoking self-satisfied tut-tuts.
  • (16) From political unknown he has become the gadfly tormenting the big players in the EU.
  • (17) A giant picture of a fetus was displayed onstage for a few minutes and rightwing gadfly Frank Gaffney warned of the dangers of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States.
  • (18) His remarks prompted an angry response from Mr Kilroy-Silk, the UKIP candidate in the east Midlands, who was infuriated by an internal Tory document which described UKIP members as "little Englanders", "cranks and political gadflies".

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