What's the difference between err and erring?

Err


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.
  • (v. i.) To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
  • (v. i.) To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
  • (v. i.) To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
  • (v. i.) To offend, as by erring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But isn't it better to err on the side of caution and start emoting more?
  • (2) We take the health of our performers very seriously and felt that it was better to err on the side of caution while we determine whether anyone else may have been exposed."
  • (3) A given diver was reasonably consistent in the direction of his error from one trial to another and from one maneuver to another, although about half the divers tended to err to the right and half to the left.
  • (4) Antony Altbeker, author of Fruit of a Poisoned Tree, about a miscarriage of justice, said: "Society should err on the side of giving bail to the accused.
  • (5) But O'Cathain and colleagues say it is perhaps inevitable that call handlers without medical training will err on the side of caution and send people to seek emergency care.
  • (6) "Err on the side of the [New York] Times, not xoJane ."
  • (7) All submammalian vertebrates have extraretinal photoreceptors (ERR) that can mediate entrainment of circadian rhythms to 24-h light-dark (LD) cycles.
  • (8) So this review of the Keynote news will err on the side of optimism.
  • (9) When localizing tones, however, the barn owl errs in a manner that suggests that it is confused by phantom targets.
  • (10) to rats for 5 days, indole-3-carbinol was a potent inducer of hepatic ERR deethylation and cytochrome P-450 activity, but had much less effect in the intestine.
  • (11) The PRC for ONX lizards (only ERRs present) shows a threefold increase in the amplitude of both the advance and delay portions of the PRC compared with a PRC previously generated for sighted S. occidentalis.
  • (12) This synchronizing system is functionally coupled with the olfactory generator of electrographic respiratory response (ERR), which is brought into activity by nasal air flow.
  • (13) Thus, immunosuppressive regimens used in cardiac transplant programs tend to err (if they err) on the side of heavier suppression and accept the consequences of this choice.
  • (14) Unexpectedly, the majority of in vivo ermA transcripts detected were only 245 nt long, suggesting that expression of ErR may be regulated post-transcriptionally.
  • (15) Humans consistently err in their percepts of rotational motion viewed through an aperture.
  • (16) While both adults and children err on the 'place of articulation' feature most often, and 'nasality' least often, children produce 'voicing' feature errors less often than adults do, indicating that voicing may be a more important organizing principle for young children than for adults.
  • (17) "Err no, every right thinking person wants their own team to win, not the best team to win, weirdo.
  • (18) In my judgment, the Court errs egregiously by overriding Congress’ decision.
  • (19) Scanning electron microscopy morphometric analysis found major evidence of ERR in the tooth-borne jackscrew appliance, in the long-term group, in the maxillary premolars, on the buccal and furcation root surfaces, on the mesiobuccal root, and in the apical zone.
  • (20) Concomitantly with splenomegaly, ERR gene expression in spleen cells increases dramatically.

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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