What's the difference between bro and prattle?

Bro


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The permeability sequence for anions (SCN > I > NO(3) > Br > ClO(3) > Cl > BrO(3) > IO(3)) was different from the conductance sequence for anions (Br, Cl > ClO(3), NO(3) > SCN).
  • (2) The effects of perinatal treatments with bromopride (BRO), a dopaminergic blocking agent, on serum prolactin (PRL), striatal dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and homovanillic acid (HVA) levels, and active and inhibitory avoidance behavior of both sexes, were examined in adult Wistar rats.
  • (3) The bro-tastic PC Principal calls a post-election assembly in the gym and declares it’s time to end the divisions in the school, and introduces Bill Clinton.
  • (4) In contrast to BRO melanoma cells, none of the camptothecin derivatives had any effect on cultured human melanocytes, the normal counterparts of melanoma cells.
  • (5) Previous studies have presented evidence of shared idiotypic antigenic determinants located within the variable (VH) region of the heavy chains of monotypic IgMlambda and IgGkappa isolated from the serum of an individual patient, Bro, with Waldenström macroglobulinemia.
  • (6) Most of these enzymes are chromosomally mediated, but a plasmid-mediated beta-lactamase has been described (enzyme BRO-1).
  • (7) Surprised, as is only natural when singled out by a global megastar, Holmes tweeted: "Holy shit bro thx for following!".
  • (8) Different effects of chronic treatment with bromocriptine (BRO) on D-1 and D-2 receptors in the rat were studied through behavioral observation and DA receptor binding assays.
  • (9) The battle scene is 20 minutes of heads being ripped off, faces being kicked in and at one point, someone throws a baby on the fire and everyone else is all "good move, bro".
  • (10) BRO cells could be passaged in CyA-treated mice without alteration of isozymes or other properties tested.
  • (11) Immunocytochemical staining studies using 1C1 antibody on CDDP-treated BRO melanoma cells showed preferential staining of the cytosol compared with the nucleus.
  • (12) Chronic treatment of rotating rats with equipotent doses of the dopamine (DA) agonists apomorphine (APO), 3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-1-n-propylpyrrolidine hydrobromide (DPPP) and bromocriptine (BRO) for four weeks resulted in marked differences in rotational activity following acute administration of these agonists.
  • (13) The elements of hazard and risk assessment have been described by Bro-Rasmussen (In Risk Assessment of Chemicals in the Environment, M. L. Richardson, Ed., Chap.
  • (14) ELISA of the conjugate against target BRO human melanoma cells or non-target T-24 cells demonstrated specific binding only to target cells.
  • (15) In the intermediate lobe of the pituitary, BRO markedly depressed (30% of control values) and HAL increased by 50% the levels of POMC mRNA.
  • (16) Bromopride (BRO), a dopamine D2 blocker used in gastroenterology clinics, was tested acutely in rats for effects on general activity, measured in an open-field test, and on inhibitory avoidance behavior.
  • (17) The data suggest that BRO may have neuroleptic effects.
  • (18) He said ‘ I’m OK bro.’ so that was good – and I got a double fist [emoticon], so I was pretty pleased.” Kyrgios laughed to hear his mate’s response.
  • (19) In intact animals, a 14-day treatment with BRO increased by 67% the number of silver grains per neuron while HAL decreased by 31% the value of this parameter.
  • (20) Desmond is hoping he could lure Cheryl Cole into hosting Big Brother – an effort fuelled by this morning's Daily Star splash "Cheryl's New B Bro Babe" – but the star's camp totally dismissed the public overtures.

Prattle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
  • (v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
  • (n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
  • (2) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
  • (3) Comparisons between present-day China and the soulless, dreary totalitarian socialist state immortalised in Orwell's masterpiece are difficult to sustain after seeing clutch after clutch of Chinese teenagers, dressed in the latest quasi-Japanophile fashion, walk down a mobbed Beijing pedestrian shopping arcade nibbling at bouquets of candy floss and prattling on as if the phrase "commodity fetishism" had never crossed their young lips.
  • (4) The opening prattle this week is all about the seven deadly sins.
  • (5) I think they're about to escort me from the building for prattling on in an unGuardian manner.
  • (6) Melancholia itself would have been talking point enough without Von Trier's prattling.
  • (7) These days depression is the stuff of postprandial dinner-party prattle, but Plath explored the condition with no sense of its being a "condition" that others shared, no established therapeutic vocabulary, and no Prozac.
  • (8) The South Americans have played 25 games, and are guaranteed to play two more including tomorrow's match • Three of Diego Forlán's four goals in World Cup finals history have come from outside the box 7:10pm: As ITV's panel prattling on about how surprising it is to see harmony in the Dutch camp - exagerrating the divisions of the past and reinforcing the view that English society remains stubbornly anti-intellectual (and anti-male knitting), afraid of anyone who does not fear to speak his mind - let's see what's happening in Uruguay.
  • (9) Anyway, I won't prattle on for there is more live action to be found: San Jose Earthquakes vs LA Galaxy is about to kick off.
  • (10) Or it could be that the Sun loves me when I'm a prattling, giggling, Essex boy "Shagger of the Year", when I'm in my proper place, beneath vacuous headlines, herding their flock towards dumb lingo and crap bingo, when I'm being cheeky on MTV or even unwisely invading answerphones, in a way that many would argue, is less offensive than the manner that they are alleged to have done.
  • (11) Inexperienced MPs who prattle on about deeper UK involvement in Syria don’t yet grasp how merely symbolic much of it is nowadays.
  • (12) When I hear him prattle on inanely I can imagine how Neil Lennon felt when the Geordie dullard kicked him in the head."
  • (13) 2.30pm BST If you'd like to see me, Ian Prior, Barry Glendenning and Owen Gibson prattling on in front of a camera about Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement, then you're in luck!
  • (14) The forced cheerfulness of Nicholson's earlier scenes with the hotel manager are a sharp contrast to the sense of anger and tension as he drives and listens to his wife and son prattle on.