What's the difference between cest and jest?

Cest


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Research conducted under norm theory (NT) has provided impressive evidence of an if only (IO) effect associated with postoutcome processing of aversive events that are highly consistent with formulations in CEST.
  • (2) According to cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST), individuals have 2 systems for processing information, a rational system and an experiential system.
  • (3) In the experiments performed in chick embryos, using the chick embryo screening test (CEST)-1 and CEST-2 technique, 100 various classes of chemical substances have been tested for teratogenic activity.
  • (4) We must now wait until 1.30pm BST, or 2.30pm CEST, to hear Mario Draghi's statement and the question & answer session to find out what has been agreed on the bond-buying programme....
  • (5) Three experiments (N = 1,331) demonstrated that research findings on suspiciousness about coincidences (Miller, Turnbull, & McFarland, 1989) can be accounted for in terms of subjective probability, as predicted by cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) but in contrast with the norm theory (NT) account offered by Miller et al.
  • (6) This exception includes danger to the life or health of the mother, risk of serious hereditary disease or other congenital abnormality, and pregnancy due to rape or in cest; in cases of serious need, in which social and economic damage to existing children may be expected, the presiding judge may dismiss the case.
  • (7) The prediction of minimum concentrations at steady state on the basis of these parameters corresponded well with actually obtained Cest f following repetitive administration of PB.
  • (8) As primary treatment cest-tube drainage was more effective than closed chest tubes.
  • (9) Responses across 4 conditions (2 probability levels x 2 outcome types) and across the 3 experiments supported predictions derived from CEST but not those derived from NT.
  • (10) The temporal course of Cest f obtained from Cs after an oral single dose of 50 mg PB in a healthy adult male volunteer was approximated as a triexponential equation.
  • (11) Two studies involving vignettes adapted from NT were conducted that tested 4 hypotheses and corollaries derived from CEST.
  • (12) The Bacteroides conjugal elements tested were six conjugal tetracycline resistance (Tcr) elements (which appear to be chromosomal), i.e., Tcr ERL, Tcr V479, Tcr Emr ERL, Tcr Emr 12256, Tcr Emr DOT, and Tcr Emr CEST, and the conjugal erythromycin resistance (Emr) plasmid pBF4.
  • (13) We'll also get an update on the German economy, with the monthly ZEW economic sentiment data published at 10am BST ( 11am CEST ).
  • (14) The ECB will announce its decision on interest rates at 12.45pm BST ( 1.45pm CEST ), followed by a press conference 45 minutes later.

Jest


Definition:

  • (n.) A deed; an action; a gest.
  • (n.) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
  • (n.) Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.
  • (v. i.) The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
  • (v. i.) To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.
  • (v. i.) To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dawn Powell: A Time to Be Born (1942) Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961) Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions (1973) David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (1996) The American comedy, generally speaking, is a scatological thing, or a repository of racial prejudice or gender stereotypes.
  • (2) Defining what constitutes merely a jest and what is of a "menacing character" has not been easy for the judges.
  • (3) In Hall’s farewell season of Shakespeare’s late romances in 1988, he led the company alongside Michael Bryant and Eileen Atkins , playing a clenched and possessed Leontes in The Winter’s Tale; an Italianate, jesting Iachimo in Cymbeline; and a gloriously drunken Trinculo in The Tempest (he played Prospero for Adrian Noble at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in 2012).
  • (4) The 2010 book was written by Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky, and is what it says on the tin: an account of a road trip with the author as he went across the US promoting his 1,100-page novel Infinite Jest, recalling the conversations the pair have and the fame that Foster Wallace is starting to experience.
  • (5) From Glasgow, Leeds , Bristol and Dublin , to New York , San Diego and Vancouver , to Perth , Melbourne and Sydney , groups of non-believers will be getting together to form their own monthly Sunday Assemblies, with the movement's founders – the standup comedians Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans – visiting the fledgling congregations in what they are calling, only partly in jest, a "global missionary tour".
  • (6) I did not say so, thank God, even in jest, otherwise our encounter could have been even worse than it was.
  • (7) "That was totally in jest," he added, saying he would "tone down my sense of humour until I become president, because America needs to get a sense of humour".
  • (8) Green's husband Wallace, best known for the novel Infinite Jest, committed suicide at home in 2008 , and was found by Green.
  • (9) "F alsehood flies," wrote Jonathan Swift 300 years ago, "and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect."
  • (10) ‘What is truth?” said jesting Pilate – in Bacon’s famous phrase.
  • (11) It was a jibe made in jest by a man who had much fondness for him.
  • (12) In comments that a source said were largely made in jest, Johnson – who is also the Conservative candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip – attacked the former prime minister over his speech in support of Labour’s current leader Ed Miliband.
  • (13) Although this article is presented in jest, I am not above anything that works to get contributions for my newsletter.
  • (14) I saw Brand's Messiah Complex show in London the other week, in which he – in jest, of course – compares himself to Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Christ.
  • (15) He likes winding people up, being controversial for the sake of it and more often than not what he says is in jest.
  • (16) In jest or in earnest, there is a rank hypocrisy here that sits uncomfortably with me.
  • (17) It was planned as the much-anticipated follow-up to Infinite Jest , the teeming 1,000-page bleakly comic masterpiece that had established Wallace, at 34, as the man most likely to redefine the scope and voice of the American novel.
  • (18) One 18th-century classicist is even said to have planned to write a scholarly edition of the best-known joke book of that period, Joe Miller's Jests , in order to show that every single joke in it was descended from the ancient Laughter Lover .
  • (19) Eurozone unlocks €10.3bn bailout loan for Greece Read more I jest of course.
  • (20) A number of edits, apparently made in jest, have been picked up by the automatic twitter bot Congress Edits , which monitors Wikipedia for changes to the site made by accounts with IP addresses coming from inside the US legislature.

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