What's the difference between bung and sharper?

Bung


Definition:

  • (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
  • (n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  • (n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
  • (v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (2) "I said it's got nothing to do with a bung," he explained.
  • (3) The femoral medullary cavity is plugged with a bone core taken from the excised femoral head or with a polyethylene bung.
  • (4) Dawn raids However, as Redknapp's successful 2008 challenge to the legality of the search warrant later revealed, Operation Apprentice was not related to bungs at all.
  • (5) In fact, the City of London police investigation centred not on bungs but on what the force has said was alleged money-laundering.
  • (6) Bung enough money at a sufficiently ingenious lawyer and you’re in the club.
  • (7) A document showing that former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks personally authorised a cash payment for a story was not disclosed to police investigating whether staff at her paper were paying bungs to public officials for tipoffs, a jury has heard.
  • (8) (lacovitti, L., M. I. Johnson, T. H. Joh, and R. P. Bunge (1982) Neuroscience 7:2225-2239).
  • (9) It is argued that Bunge's dialectic is developed from a dualistic universe and is, therefore, incompatible with Rogers's views on the unitary nature of phenomena.
  • (10) E. sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge, E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey., E. qrzewaskiistaqs E. monosperma Gmel.
  • (11) Stellate astrocytes might therefore represent mature astrocytes in vivo (Ard and Bunge: J. Neurosci.
  • (12) The claims had credence, because even before the billions from Sky TV and the Premier League's commercial revolution, bungs were indeed proved to have been paid.
  • (13) For example, bonuses of 200% have become routine; but why do so many companies use such rough and ready round numbers – hardly a sign that anybody has thought carefully about what is needed to produce performance and much more like a pure bung – and then accompany them with requirements for their eligibility that are far from demanding and transparent?
  • (14) Anyway, if there is a good time to get caught paying bungs, this wasn’t it, what with US president Donald Trump already hinting that he may have pharmaceuticals companies in his sights over drug pricing.
  • (15) In addition to new impulses initiated by Paracelsus, the author emphasizes the clinical and experimental studies pursued, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, by such scientists as Thomas Sydenham, Justus von Liebig, Carl von Voit and Gustav von Bunge.
  • (16) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
  • (17) An original bank The problem with “challenger” banks, it is often said, is that they attract the most challenging customers – ie those who are happy to switch their current accounts for a year for £100, then depart in search of the next bung.
  • (18) Or are the terrestrial services bunged up with clowns like in the UK, and you're giving them the bodyswerve?
  • (19) It is not as if his windfall had come from secretly manipulating the Libor rate or getting a bung for fixing a Fifa vote.
  • (20) When these date were compared to RGC survival and axon growth on SC (Baehr and Bunge: Exp.

Sharper


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
  • (2) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
  • (3) Parties seek a sharper definition and a clearer purpose: voters rightly demand a reason to rule beyond Cameron’s laconic “because I thought I’d be good at it”.
  • (4) Text is said to appear sharper, while a "control centre" on the phone allows users to adjust settings with just one swipe from the bottom of the screen.
  • (5) It's no coincidence that both novels are about how easily children can be warped or damaged, but of the two it is the shorter, sharper Great Expectations that has aged better.
  • (6) In 6-d and older myotubes, A bands became increasingly more aligned, their edges sharper, and the separation between them (I bands) wider.
  • (7) (iii) Shrunken gels give sharper photographic images and provide better interlane protein band comparisons.
  • (8) At low percentages of Hb-F, the sharper zone of the Tris method is more easily visible than that of the Bis-tris method, but the latter is a somewhat more rapid procedure.
  • (9) During the hyperglycemic clamp pubertal children showed enhanced insulin responses and in turn a sharper fall in amino acids (P less than 0.05 vs. prepubertals).
  • (10) The positivity may be related to the effort needed to inhibit associated movements in order to perform a sharper and more discrete response.
  • (11) Although the female preponderance of human thyroid cancer was not seen in dogs, females showed a much sharper increase in risk with advancing age than did males.
  • (12) SC and EGB subfractions showed a considerable decrease in the enzyme activity of dogs aged 3 months; this peculiarity persisted up to the 6-month age in the above formations, especially in the subfractions B, C, D and E. Dogs aged 1 year exhibited a sharper decrease in the general activity of the enzyme of formations C, D, E in EGB and SC.
  • (13) Six months after treatment the sample as a whole showed good maintenance of treatment effects, but the differences between groups had become somewhat sharper, with the special behavior therapy group faring best, the regular behavior therapy group intermediate, and the psychotherapy group worst.
  • (14) The clinical correlate is "sharper bronchoalveolar respiration".
  • (15) The visitors had started looking significantly sharper and took a surprise lead after 91 seconds through Tomas Malec, although Ahmed Elmohamady equalised with a header to send the teams in level at half-time.
  • (16) The potential role of nonlinearities in the magnetic field gradient in magnetic resonance imaging for producing sharper boundaries for the excited spin slice region is investigated.
  • (17) "The review of public procurement is examining whether the UK is making best use of the application of EU procurement rules, as well as the degree to which the government can set out requirements and evaluation criteria with a sharper focus on the UK's strategic interest and how the government can support businesses and ensure that when they compete for work they are doing it on an equal footing with their competitors."
  • (18) The contrast with the treatment of the 2014 crash of Malaysian airlines MH17 in eastern Ukraine could hardly be sharper.
  • (19) In the mouse PBL system, after administration by gavage, B[l]A was more cytotoxic and produced a sharper elevation in SCE frequency than B[a]P.
  • (20) Lippi's spectre came into sharper focus after the Fiorentina defeat, with whispers across the pages of the football press and furious blogging to and fro on Juve's website - echoing Ranieri's Chelsea days, actually, with most fans urging support for Il Mister and concentration on the matter in hand, whatever the long term.