What's the difference between dregs and scum?

Dregs


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Receptors known as DREG adhesion molecules on human neutrophils and monocytes provide for homing of these phagocytic leukocytes to sites of inflammation.
  • (2) Finally, all five DREG mAbs specifically stain COS cells transfected with LAM-1 cDNA, a putative human homologue of mouse MEL-14 antigen.
  • (3) Perhaps set smaller goals to begin with, for instance "Don't drink the dregs of strangers' drinks" or "No drinking on your own in the morning in a toilet cubicle at work", and see where you go from there.
  • (4) We studied its expression on eosinophils using flow cytometry and the MAb Dreg-56 and Leu-8.
  • (5) While the fourth seeded Bulls’ 35-29 record is something of a mirage, as they have faced the dregs of the Eastern Conference, that doesn’t take away from the fact this team was expected to be one of those dregs after Rose injured himself and Deng was traded.
  • (6) Accumulation of DREG-negative monocytes in association with sepsis may be sufficient to impair their recruitment to inflammatory sites and limit their contribution to host defense against infection and tissue repair.
  • (7) From the depraved dregs of humanity; the glorious blossoming of hope, a tangible act of togetherness; the salvation of pop.
  • (8) "If you think that in this country another person can be found who would create such a structure, who would drag into this work all the dregs of the provincial towns, who would make provincial shits into princesses of the capital, then fuck off.
  • (9) 5.15pm, and I'm harbouring serious reservations about the mental well-being of Guardian Unlimited Football's readership: "I am sitting alone in my serviced apartment in Singapore, wearing a Scotland top and boxer shorts like a Caledonian David Mellor, nursing the dregs of my one and only can of Tiger," writes Neil Cocker, in what can only be a cry for help.
  • (10) It's important to remember that Clearing isn't the dregs of the barrel," says Claire Chalmers, student recruitment officer at Goldsmiths, University of London.
  • (11) The DREG antibodies offer powerful tools for analyzing the role of homing receptors in human neutrophil-endothelial cell interactions, and also may prove valuable in the clinical assessment of neutrophil activation.
  • (12) The US, Canadian and Australian governments have chased the CCS dream with zeal, often using its compressed CO2 byproduct to prise away tar sands and eke out the dregs of depleted fossil fuel reserves.
  • (13) Moreover, mAb DREG-56 significantly diminished adhesion of healthy adult but not cord blood suspensions in the presence or absence of the anti-CD18 mAb R15.7.
  • (14) The DREG-56 mAb specifically inhibits greater than 90% of binding of human lymphocytes to HEVs within frozen sections of peripheral but not mucosal lymphoid tissue.
  • (15) These results demonstrate that the DREG mAbs define a human lymphocyte homing receptor for PLN HEVs and indicate that this human antigen is homologous to the MEL-14-defined murine lymphocyte homing receptor.
  • (16) That’s the only thing they understand.” Donald Trump’s presidential campaign energized and reanimated various pockets of far-rightwing America, from the dregs of the Ku Klux Klan represented by David Duke to the seemingly ascendant “alt-right”, members of which gathered in Washington DC after the election at a “thinktank” conference that saw audience members participate in Nazi salutes.
  • (17) These results suggest that monocytes are more affected than neutrophils in vivo by conditions expected to stimulate shedding of DREG and that sepsis promotes shedding of these adherence receptors.
  • (18) To test this hypothesis, we have analyzed the expression of DREG receptors on neutrophils and monocytes from 25 patients admitted to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.
  • (19) For 14 nonseptic patients, mean monocyte positivity for DREG was reduced from 64% to 40%.
  • (20) One Love Manchester: pop's healing power rises from the dregs of depravity | Hannah Jane Parkinson Read more Some of the victims’ families had bristled at Grande hosting the concert so soon after the suicide bombing that killed 22 people , but her earnestness and emotional acuity meant that for thousands of people, this was an event that soothed and uplifted.

Scum


Definition:

  • (v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross.
  • (v.) refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.
  • (v. t.) To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.
  • (v. t.) To sweep or range over the surface of.
  • (v. i.) To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There, they learn that African Americans are the scum of the earth - then they are sent here.'
  • (2) The future is defined by the same old atavistic carnage as ever – which is, as Rosenbaum says, “an ingenious form of doublethink echoed in the very premise of a fantasy of the future beginning with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...” Star Wars cast feel the Force after watching new trailer Read more I don’t hate Star Wars – I love the puppetry, just for starters, and all those beautifully dirty, scum-caked robots.
  • (3) I mean, these people have been described as evil, as scum of the earth, and if we’re paying them, bribing them, to turn back the boats, I mean that’s almost a crime.” Abbott: “Well Neil, the important thing is to stop the boats, that’s the important thing, and I think the Australian people are extremely pleased that that’s what happened.
  • (4) Though waterbirds, including moorhens and gulls, live on the margins, and a thin scum of litter is visible at the shore, the reservoir is not intended as a home to wildlife, and any fish living here are accidental visitors.
  • (5) Anyone who doubts or questions … will be relentlessly pursued by denouncers – “disgusting” is a modest term to describe this scum.
  • (6) Other Greeks with similar experiences said the far-rightists, catapulted into parliament on a ticket of tackling "immigrant scum" were simply doing the job of a defunct state that had left a growing number feeling overwhelmed by a "sense of powerlessness".
  • (7) The debate was interrupted after 20 minutes when about 30 student demonstrators walked into the hall and began to barrack Hunt, chanting "Minister of culture, Tory vulture" and "Tory scum".
  • (8) She was in my face saying, ‘You’re scum, you’re scum.’” That’s not accepted by Jordan.
  • (9) Liz Kendall, the former leadership contender, received a tweet calling for “a final solution to purge Blairite scum” like her from the party.
  • (10) The chants so far are the same as those at Millbank, and cries of "Tory scum" echo around the campus.
  • (11) When asked about Eddie Obeid's comments directed at her over the years, which included the allegations she had been " mixing with scum for so long that she no longer knows who is good and who is bad , what is real and what is made up," she said " It's not very nice, is it? "
  • (12) In the opening round of the tournament he shouted “dirty scum” during the third set of a comfortable victory over Diego Schwartzman.
  • (13) Half the class believed they represented “elitist scum”, but other prisoners defended their purpose, saying although they couldn’t attend one themselves, they now put their own children through private education.
  • (14) Liz Kendall, the former leadership contender, who is still undecided, received a tweet calling for “a final solution to purge Blairite scum” like her from the party.
  • (15) There were accusations of sexism when he gave a female candidate on The Apprentice the third degree about how she intended to organise her childcare and he prompted more outrage with an attack on professional footballers, which he described as "he biggest scum that walk on this planet".
  • (16) I will do everything it takes until we win full victory to free Ukraine from this scum, from this corrupt dirt which is capitalising on the blood of our soldiers and the victims of Maidan, and which has betrayed the ideas of the Ukrainian revolution,” said Saakashvili.
  • (17) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
  • (18) We were just scared.” Witness reports describe protesters throwing snowballs at the bus and shouting “Let’s see what kind of vermin will get off here” and “asylum scum”.
  • (19) I'm just an ordinary person, I'm not scum, I'm not a thief or a junkie, but when you are desperate you end up resorting to desperate means.
  • (20) I salute them for that.” Class War, originally an eponymous newspaper as well as a movement, somewhat fizzled out during the 1990s but has been recently revived, standing six candidates in this year’s general election under the slogan: “Because all the other candidates are scum.” Class War is organising a protest this Sunday at a museum originally billed as celebrating the role of women in London but which ended up focusing on the crimes of Jack the Ripper .