What's the difference between dangling and mangling?
Dangling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dangle
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumbbells were formed by the association of two hairpins with self-complementary dangling 5'-ends.
(2) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
(3) This paper describes a new method of reconstructing acquired complete and incomplete cleft earlobes which are elongated and have lost their normal bulk due to the wearing of heavy, dangling earrings.
(4) In contrast, d(GGGGTTTCCCCTTTGGGG) and the three corresponding 18-mers containing one G and two C tracts each forms a single hairpin duplex with a dangling single strand.
(5) In the first image , his brother looks like a cool New Yorker in a leather jacket, cigarette dangling from his mouth.
(6) A cigarette dangled from my lips as I rasped away at the audience.
(7) (2) For both core duplexes, 5' dangling T residues induce a greater increase in the optical tm's than 3' dangling T residues.
(8) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
(9) Upon an increase in the temperature, two cooperative transitions were observed: formation of a double-stranded structure with a dangling x-(dT)12 extremity, then formation of a single-stranded coil structure.
(10) Photograph: Pasona Group At the Tokyo headquarters of the Pasona Group , a staffing company, tomatoes dangle from the ceiling, herbs grow fragrantly in meeting rooms and a rice paddy is the lobby centerpiece.
(11) Changing the conditions allows the same oligonucleotide in a duplex form with a (dT)12 dangling arm.
(12) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.
(13) As they attempted to free themselves, a sudden pull swept up her colleague, who was left dangling in the air between the whaler’s bow and a 10-tonne corpse.
(14) It's the second world war and your targets are the Nazis, so these are Nazi testicles housing billions of Nazi sperm: ovoid-shaped mass-produced bastard factories dangling in a funny pink skin sack with nut hairs all over it.
(15) The hierarchy of the hairpin transition temperatures is dictated by the identity of the first base of the dangling end adjoining the duplex in the order: purine greater than T greater than C. Calculated melting curves of every hairpin were fit to experimental curves by adjustment of a single parameter in the numerically exact theoretical algorithm.
(16) Perhaps it was the searing heat , or perhaps it was the American magician dangling outside Tower Bridge in a box.
(17) Still, there are pockets of cuteness to be found: tiny yuru-kyara charms dangling off backpacks or peeking from posters or construction barriers in the form of baby ducks.
(18) With his little legs dangling and a look of intense concentration as he slowly writes new words for a homework exercise, it is a scene to inspire hope that the last UN millennium development goal (MDG) is making progress.
(19) • Calle de la Palma 76, no website Sala de Despiece Sala de Despiece The ceiling is a jigsaw of polystyrene fish crates; meat hooks dangle above your head; the bartenders dress as butchers and the menu is a delivery slip.
(20) Neville Thurlbeck claimed Colin Myler, the former News of the World editor, and Tom Crone, the former head of legal at the newspaper, had left him "to dangle as a suspect for the next two years" after he first told them in July 2009 that he had "final proof" that phone-hacking at the paper went beyond a single "rogue reporter".
Mangling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mangle
Example Sentences:
(1) Against all sense, their goals all came in a six-minute spell as they mangled a defence billed as the world's best.
(2) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
(3) What so often poisoned their dealings and repeatedly mangled New Labour's effectiveness in its early, popular years was the personal dimension.
(4) This is bad news for aggregators whose digital serfs cut, paste, compile and mangle abstracts of news stories that real media outlets produce at great expense.
(5) Retrospective data suggest that a Mangled Extremity Syndrome Index (M.E.S.I.)
(6) It will now be unfairly blamed on the bill and a bill that is not only mangled and bureaucratic, but also unnecessary."
(7) While all my other questions have been answered, albeit halfheartedly, this one was not fudged or spun or mangled, but simply ignored.
(8) Inside were the mangled seats where two of the pilots had sat.
(9) And a programme on the Northern Ireland hunger strikes that had a rather vivid contribution from Ian Paisley was mangled for fear of it projecting a nasty image of Britain.
(10) It is in the patient's best interest if the emergency department staff assumes that a mangled extremity will be replanted or revascularized.
(11) As the sun set over the cratered fields around Debaltseve, a group of pro-Russia Cossack fighters were retrieving boxes of anti-tank artillery rounds and two armoured vehicles left by Kiev’s forces on the side of the Rostov-Kharkiv highway, which was littered with mangled cars and turret-less tanks.
(12) It was a mangled, distorted reflection of the will of the people perhaps, but that's what it says on the FPTP tin.
(13) The House of Representatives today votes on the Waxman-Markey bill to establish a carbon cap-and-trade system, which shows all the signs of having been through the congressional mangle.
(14) Seventeen patients fit the category of Mangled Extremity Syndrome (M.E.S.).
(15) Graphic photos of Said's mangled face have spread across the internet, prompting protests in Cairo and Alexandria, which have been broken up by the police.
(16) Areas that were once a mass of shattered houses and mangled cars, and boats dragged in by the waves, are now flat, vacant spaces.
(17) The opening points passed in a blizzard of high quality baseline slugging as Murray attacked the Djokovic serve and after 22 brain-manglingly intense minutes the British No1 got his first little nudge in front, breaking serve to go 2-1 up.
(18) "It would seem more logical for the prime minister to refine her vocabulary than for the Macquarie Dictionary to keep changing its definitions every time a politician mangles the English language," Fiona Nash, a senator in Abbott's coalition, said.
(19) A haunting photograph of the pair lying on the ground, the mother’s body badly mangled but one arm still cradling the corpse of her child, was shared on social media and led to another round of both sides loudly blaming the other for the atrocity.
(20) Standing by a mangled corpse of an Isis militant on Wednesday, Jaffar said the Isis Humvees had advanced despite a hail of rocket-propelled grenades fired by the peshmerga.