What's the difference between dure and duse?

Dure


Definition:

  • (a.) Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.
  • (a.) To last; to continue; to endure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such anomalies can only be explained by a longue duree.
  • (2) Decorum prevents me from revealing the punchline," says Beau Dure.
  • (3) The wheat cDNA clone codes for a protein with ten tandem repeats of an 11 amino acid sequence and has homology to other Group 3 LEAs reported in barley, carrot, cotton and rape (L. Dure et al., Plant Mol Biol 12: 475-486, 1989).
  • (4) The deduced amino acid sequence shows a high degree (62.2%) of similarity to that of a protein that is abundant during late embryogenesis of cotton (LEA D34; Baker JC, Steele C, Dure III (1988) Plant Mol Biol 11: 227-291).
  • (5) Durings 18 months, clinical signs of the disease were noted in 2 animals only.
  • (6) The other 26 awoke and recovered spontaneous breathing within 1-4 h following the type of anaesthesia and operating procedure they had submitted, which dured from 15 to 330 min.
  • (7) This reacherys point out that nitriding plasma a durings increase and cutis greater capacity establish.

Duse


Definition:

  • (n.) A demon or spirit. See Deuce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She grew up expecting a career in regional theatre, spent eight years at college studying the stage – only leaving at the age of 26 – named her dog after 19th-century Italian actor Eleanora Duse, and once said her father's profession meant that, when it came to the theatre, she "was like a homing pigeon.
  • (2) For them, Guillem descends straight from the stage divinities of the 19th century, "sacred monsters" such as Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora Duse, after whom her latest project is named.
  • (3) B cell line GM 2606 (Akeson, A. L., D. A. Wiginton, M. R. Dusing, J. C. States, and J. J. Hutton.

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