What's the difference between chase and pester?

Chase


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
  • (v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.
  • (v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
  • (v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
  • (v.) Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.
  • (v.) That which is pursued or hunted.
  • (v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.
  • (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.
  • (n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
  • (n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
  • (n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
  • (n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
  • (v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (2) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
  • (3) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
  • (4) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (5) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
  • (6) Pulse-chase experiments showed that the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor and the thiolase traveled from the cytosol to the mitochondria with half-lives of less than 5 min, whereas the three fusion proteins traveled with half-lives of 10-15 min.
  • (7) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
  • (8) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
  • (9) Pulse-chase analysis of the labelling of these lipids indicates that PI and lysoPI rapidly equilibrate after the initial slow synthesis of PI.
  • (10) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
  • (11) This result indicates that part of 5'-nucleotidase keeps one or two high-mannose or hybrid chains in the mature form, even after prolonged pulse-chase labeling.
  • (12) Conroy, out at the ovarian cancer event we’ve already touched on, was unrepentent as he was chased down the corridor by reporters.
  • (13) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
  • (14) Surfers chase the reliable swell here when it's flat further west.
  • (15) The mature molecular mass form of each of these proteins reaches its maximum specific radioactivity in a purified hepatocyte plasma membrane fraction after only 45 min of chase.
  • (16) In pulse-chase experiments, labelled proteins 26-34 kDa, appeared within 10 min and smaller forms co-migrated with surfactant-associated glycoprotein A from alveolar lavage.
  • (17) As a consequence of chasing funding, organisations shift their focus away from their areas of expertise into where the money is to sustain themselves.
  • (18) The secretion kinetics of nine proteins by Hep G2 cells in culture was investigated using pulse-chase techniques and immunoisolation of proteins with monospecific antibodies.
  • (19) Pulse-chase and long-term labeling experiments revealed different half-lives for the two c-myc-encoded proteins.
  • (20) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.

Pester


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.
  • (v. t.) To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The creation of Albion’s second goal was more artful, even if it started with Özil being pestered into surrendering possession near halfway.
  • (2) It was Tim, an archivist from Warners whom I had been pestering for years about trying to track down some long-lost film footage.
  • (3) They should not pressure children or pester parents to buy products, and promotional offers should be used with a "due sense of responsibility".
  • (4) The allegations are sure to concern many parents whose children are pestering them to buy the extensive range of Cars 2 toys launched to coincide with the movie, which hit UK cinema screens in July.
  • (5) Professional irritant Kenny Miller wins a corner down the right, with some incessant pestering.
  • (6) For a year I have been pestered with: "X has got Facebook.
  • (7) He kept pestering her, phoning and phoning and phoning her."
  • (8) But while the Christians are still pestering God, the end-of-daysers awaiting Armageddon, and the Aryan brothers proving the least convincing imaginable argument for the superiority of their race, things have changed quite drastically in porn, which has been even more vulnerable than cinema, TV or music to the predations of the internet.
  • (9) Kala-azar (KA), an enigmatic disease has resurged in India since 1970's after about a lull of 20 years, displaying its pestering nature.
  • (10) The band became pally with him and pestered for a support slot when his Black Pus project (another great name) came to town.
  • (11) After a bit of good-natured pestering, she agrees to sell all of us one drink so we can discuss the heady topic of race in America while slightly intoxicated.
  • (12) Artists don't stand next to their artwork in galleries pestering the public to part with their pound coins.
  • (13) For now he is determined to stick with his work in the building industry, despite his workmates pestering him for the odd Victoria sponge or carrot cake.
  • (14) Nine hours working as an exterminator takes a physical toll on the 45-year-old , who didn’t go to college, makes $33,000 a year, and relies on a steady swarm of pests to pester people in his 90% rural county.
  • (15) The new boss, Paul Pester, whose £1.6m outstanding bonuses from Lloyds are to be transferred to TSB, is also aiming for growth in current accounts, where it has only 4.2% market share despite having some 6% of high street branches.
  • (16) There are some innovative ideas about, he says, on ways of teaching children in school to wash their hands – in the hope that they will then go home and pester their parents to do the same.
  • (17) Joleon Lescott, who endured a torrid debut for Villa, and Micah Richards were pestered into errors in the opening minutes and the latter was especially relieved that Danny Drinkwater’s shot from 25 yards flew over the bar.
  • (18) Paul Pester, chief executive of TSB, said the branches that were closing were within 500 metres of another TSB branch and were part of the estate it inherited when it was carved out of Lloyds Banking Group last year.
  • (19) Pester said the bank had achieved its target of winning more than 6% of all new current accounts and those being switched between banks.
  • (20) Pester added that, of the 631 branches TSB started with, there were 15 locations where two or three branches were “within spitting distance of each other”.