What's the difference between earring and erring?

Earring


Definition:

  • (n.) An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) "Learning from school is useful for everybody, but making earrings is not that useful for everything."
  • (3) Patients' failure to use the recommended pressure earring and alteration in endocrine balance were noted in three of the four patients with recurrent keloids.
  • (4) Meyers said: “That’s the face you make when your wife snatches away your newspaper and screams: ‘Whose earrings are these?’” Trump’s presidency is still in its early days: extremely early for a special prosecutor to be involved.
  • (5) Only one patient (who underwent earlobe keloid excision) has greatly improved keloids after only 9 months follow-up, but this patient needs to wear pressure earrings continuously.
  • (6) We report an unusual cause of localized cutaneous argyria, due to the cutaneous implantation of a silver earring back.
  • (7) The patient is instructed to wear the earring for 4 to 6 months.
  • (8) A simple method of repairing a complete or incomplete cleft of the earlobe with preservation of a hole for an earring is described.
  • (9) (An early profile described his secretary as "a busty hippy in a skintight, purple mini-dress, with filigreed white stockings, lace-up boots and funkily mismatched earrings".
  • (10) Chandelier earrings Sparkly, gobstopper styles worn by celebrities ranging from Kim Kardashian to Keira Knightley.
  • (11) Films financed by Ingenious include Avatar, Die Hard 4 and Die Hard 5 and Girl with the Pearl Earring.
  • (12) So I started wearing big hoop earrings and scraping my hair back and dressing like they did.
  • (13) Several roentgenologic examinations revealed a small, closed earring in the stomach.
  • (14) "They compliment your earrings," cooed the reporter, who also noticed a "thin, shaggy-haired employee … skipping as he worked".
  • (15) At the same time, 62% of 735 young schoolgirls were found to have dermatitis of their earlobes and all regularly wore cheap earrings.
  • (16) He wears only a little ochre-coloured cloth and small hooped earrings, and smears his body in ashes.
  • (17) The three Alexander McQueen outfits that made the most front pages from the Duchess of Cambridge's recent tour wardrobe were: a sky blue belted knee-length coat, accessorised with navy round-toe suede shoes and a matching clutch bag; a demure dove grey coat with a jaunty grey hat; and a ballet-shoe pink peplum top and skirt, which the duchess wore with LK Bennett courts and pearl drop earrings.
  • (18) Gold hoop earrings, a black and white colour palette, cropped tops and red lipstick are becoming signatures .
  • (19) Earrings from the ACHICA Downton Abbey jewellery collection.
  • (20) We report here an 9-month-old boy who swallowed an earring.

Erring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Err

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (2) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
  • (3) Expression of AR was compared with that of ER and PR as well as with tumour grade and age.
  • (4) Furthermore, we did not observe correlation between the concentrations of ER and of antiestrogen binding sites (AEBS) in the tumors.
  • (5) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
  • (6) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
  • (7) It was found that the number of ER in the patients was significantly decreased.
  • (8) In human breast cancer the proliferating cells appear to differ from those containing estrogen receptors (ER) as shown by studies on isolated cellular subpopulations.
  • (9) Evidence for Golgi apparatus-associated processing of oligosaccharides in the ER was obtained by lectin-gold cytochemistry revealing the presence of the galactose (beta 1----4)N-acetylglucosamine sequence and sialic acid residues.
  • (10) Tissues were processed for indirect immunocytochemical localization with specific monoclonal antibodies against estrogen receptor (ER; H222) and progestin receptor (PR; JZB39).
  • (11) AR and ER mRNA-containing neurons were widely distributed in the rat brain, with the greatest densities of cells in the hypothalamus, and in regions of the telencephalon that provide strong inputs in the medial preoptic and ventromedial nuclei, each of which is thought to play a key role in mediating the hormonal control of copulatory behavior, as well as in the lateral septal nucleus, the medial and cortical nuclei of the amygdala, the amygdalohippocampal area, and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
  • (12) At saturating concentrations of ER, plasmids bearing one, two, and four EREs in tandem bound approximately one, two, and four dimeric ER molecules, respectively.
  • (13) Such data provide strong evidence that in this concentration range the growth inhibitory effects of nonsteroidal antioestrogens are mediated by the intracellular ER.
  • (14) The expression of the ER cDNA in HeLa cells produces a protein that has the same relative molecular mass and binds oestradiol with the same affinity as the MCF-7 ER.
  • (15) Both methods, which are applicable to paraffin sections, were developed and validated in breast carcinomas with known ER content.
  • (16) Our results suggest that the synthesis of ER in cervical epithelium can be influenced by underlying stroma.
  • (17) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
  • (18) We have performed a quantitative analysis of steady-state levels of ER-mRNA for 88 untreated, primary breast carcinomas.
  • (19) Under these conditions, it was shown that resident enzymes of the cis-, medial, and trans-Golgi return to the ER.
  • (20) In freeze-fracture replicas the ER was seen to consist of both short and long tubules, some of the latter forming anastomoses with each other.

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