What's the difference between drooping and flagging?
Drooping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Droop
Example Sentences:
(1) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
(2) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
(3) One side of my face was drooped, I had hearing loss, and just having the worst headache of my life.
(4) The patient has a typical saddle nose and drooping auricles.
(5) The local minimum tumour temperature is explicitly estimated from the power required to maintain each member of an array of electrically heated catheters at a known temperature, in conjunction with a new bioheat equation-based algorithm to predict the 'droop' or fractional decline in tissue temperature between heated catheters.
(6) Your knees creak, your back aches and your fleshy bits droop more than they used to.
(7) They ranged from tail droop to complete lower limb paralysis.
(8) Shoulder droop may induce thoracic outlet syndrome and may simulate scoliosis in the athlete.
(9) In laterally recumbent dogs the lower kidney glides craniad, whereas the upper kidney tends to droop, yielding radiographs in which the upper kidney is often clearer and more bean-shaped than the lower.
(10) A decay that continues rapidly spreads downwards throughout the stalk and the affected plants soon droop.
(11) The pqp mutants display zygotic (spread and drooping wings, cross-vein defects, extra bristles) and maternal (embryonic lethality) recessive phenotypes.
(12) Get with the programme or your ratings will continue to droop like the sad features of a basset hound.
(13) The nose tip should be prevented from drooping by means of columellar supporting grafts.
(14) The author stresses the importance of columellar sensation, nasal tip sensation, and the role of the nasalis muscles in determining the postoperative results of corrective rhinoplasty, especially as these have an influence on the "drooping tip" and the columellar base.
(15) I mean, I don't think I ever wore a bra to prevent droop (ain't got nothing to droop, honey) or backache.
(16) Five normal and 12 droop-winged fledglings were captured, killed, and examined.
(17) The excretory urogram showed a left hydronephrotic lower pole with a "drooping flower" and no opacification of the upper pole.
(18) The clinical signs were characterised by ear drooping, lip commissural paralysis, sialosis, and collection of food on the paralysed side of the mouth.
(19) Symptoms of intoxication in the form of convulsions and tendency of circling in one direction with drooping ears were observed alongwith corneal opacity 40 weeks after the experiment.
(20) Complications included oral wound dehiscence (3 dogs), shifting of the mandible toward the operated side (6 dogs), and drooping of the tongue (2 dogs).
Flagging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flag
(n.) A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
(a.) Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(2) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(3) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
(4) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(5) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(6) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
(7) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(8) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
(9) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(10) Perhaps you'd like to know how she felt holding the Olympic flag alongside Ban Ki-moon at the 2012 opening ceremony .
(11) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(12) On Wednesday, managing director Mike Devereux also flagged that the company's future in the country was not certain if government funding was not locked in over a long period.
(13) And when you said the pledge of allegiance in the morning, you had to look at those flags.
(14) For a while North Korea refused to play, but after delicate negotiations the players were persuaded back on to the pitch and the correct flag was displayed alongside the team photos.
(15) Photograph: ICAEW A separate report puts UK business confidence at a two-year low amid flagging economic growth.
(16) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
(17) But Ofcom said the quizzes, aired on October 29 2006 and November 25 2006 respectively, were too difficult, featuring alterations to the signs and flags which could not reasonably have been detected by viewers.
(18) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(19) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(20) 1.08pm BST Lap 2: Sergio Perez is out after an incident at Mirabeau, which is what brought out the yellow flags and safety car.