What's the difference between bum and incompetent?

Bum


Definition:

  • (n.) The buttock.
  • (v. i.,) To make murmuring or humming sound.
  • (n.) A humming noise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
  • (2) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (3) Even more graphically than Picasso’s Women of Algiers with their multiple breasts and bums, Nu couché is a sensual masterpiece – and far more conventionally so than anything Picasso painted.
  • (4) "There's this mistaken idea we were just prancing about in platform shoes and bare bums to go against the grain.
  • (5) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (6) "All those vuvuzuelas must be interfering with Cha Bum-Kun's ability to remote control his robot creation - er, son - Cha Du-ri," suggests Angela K, a South Korean expat in the US.
  • (7) Little Baby Bum is also exploring the potential of getting its content onto connected televisions.
  • (8) Fact is they are fooling the fans fighting all these bums on the back of my name to hype his fights and profile saying I’m running scared.” Eddie Hearn (@EddieHearn) made but enough of the insults.
  • (9) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
  • (10) But non-gaming children’s channels are also popular: the biggest channel on YouTube in October was toy-unboxing channel DC Toys Collector , with nursery-rhyme channel Little Baby Bum also in the top five on YouTube that month.
  • (11) Further cleavage of Bum fragments with Hpa-1 also revealed inversions of the terminal sequences that contained unique sequences.
  • (12) If you’ve got one video that’s 50 or 60 minutes long, you can just press play and leave your child to watch it while you get something done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest However, he says that feedback from parents suggests Little Baby Bum is far more than just a digital distraction for their children.
  • (13) Such as the time I was walking down Oxford Street in central London and passed a man who thought it perfectly OK to pat my bum as he went by.
  • (14) Awaiting his razor-sharp skills are four Cambridge lads sporting varying degrees of bum fluff.
  • (15) The flame is never extinguished.” Olympic flame extinguished by Rio protesters Seeking comfort in drivel Alexis Petridis considers Khloe Kardashian’s thoughts on vitamin E vaginal oil, topless model Katie Price’s “double-bum selfie”, or the news that Kris Jenner refused to visit Cuba with the Kardashian brood.
  • (16) So how did a former punk rocker, DJ and self-confessed party animal who became a chef almost by accident (while bumming around Europe he applied to do a cooking course in Belgium so he could get a visa), and from a country with little reputation on the world food scene, change the way people think about Brazilian food?
  • (17) Fury is short, enthusiastic and turns a memorable phrase: the south, he contends, gets a bum rap.
  • (18) And yet, against the odds, Rocky Balboa has been both a critical and commercial success in the US, precisely because it taps into what made the first Rocky film so powerful 30 years earlier: when Rocky ran the steps all those years ago his goal was not to win but to go the distance, to prove to himself that he was somebody and not "just another bum from the neighbourhood".
  • (19) The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen Roger Mann and Kevin Eldon’s “Australian clowns” dialogue in Simon Munnery’s live show Cluub Zarathustra, from 25 years ago, in which the duo described the clowning process in painful detail in stoned Australian beach-bum voices.
  • (20) If somebody’s taken the bother to email – they’ve gone off YouTube to our website, found the contact page and written an email – they deserve to get something back.” Children’s videos are huge on YouTube, with six of its top 10 channels in January aimed at kids: toy-unboxing channels Funtoys Collector and Blu Toys ; Minecraft gamer Stampy ; Little Baby Bum; and two Russian animation channels, Masha and the Bear and GetMovies .

Incompetent


Definition:

  • (a.) Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.
  • (a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.
  • (a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
  • (2) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
  • (3) All but one patient had clinical evidence of pulmonary incompetence.
  • (4) Mutant polypeptides have been characterized that are competent and incompetent for association with GRP78-BiP.
  • (5) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
  • (6) A differentiation incompetent QM cell derivative was also isolated (QM5DI).
  • (7) Secondary valvular incompetence occurs from deep venous obstruction or increased venous distensibility (usually secondary to circulating estrogens).
  • (8) Valvular incompetence developed in 13 patients during the study period.
  • (9) This implies that degradation of sIgM does not result from the incompetence of 38C cells to polymerize.
  • (10) (vii) Two deletions within the EBNA-2 gene which rendered EBV transformation incompetent did not transactivate LMP1, whereas a transformation-competent EBNA-2 deletion mutant did transactivate LMP1.
  • (11) In a randomized placebo controlled parallel double blind study on 40 patients suffering from venous edema in chronic deep vein incompetence, the edema-reducing effect of horse chestnut seed extract vs. placebo, being the main test variable, was demonstrated by hydroplethysmography to be statistically significant.
  • (12) The etiology of acute severe mitral incompetence resulting from rupture of the chordae is presented and is illustrated by four case reports.
  • (13) Without the addition of the sRNA, the 7-8-8.5-10 particles were incompetent while the 7-8-8.5-10-RNA particles were competent in DNA packaging.
  • (14) It is the bonus culture – not high pay, recklessness or incompetence – that has polluted banking's public image.
  • (15) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
  • (16) Incidence of isolated mitral incompetence and combined heart injuries, valve damage mechanics, and frequent causes of blunt chest trauma are discussed.
  • (17) Among the special cases considered are: the competent adult patient who refuses treatment on religious or privacy grounds; the incompetent patient whose own wishes were never expressed, but whose family refuses treatment; the incompetent patient who expressed the wish not to be treated before becoming incompetent; and parents who refuse treatment on behalf of their child.
  • (18) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
  • (19) The device was implanted around 11 completely incompetent and seven partially incompetent valves in 18 veins of 11 sheep.
  • (20) It is clear that they are either incompetent or corrupt, and I don’t believe that they are incompetent.

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