What's the difference between faster and fester?

Faster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who abstains from food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (3) This is interpreted to mean that the release of fructose from the central complex is faster than the isomerization of the E-NADH complex.
  • (4) The data show that whenever the two half components correspond to different RTs, the resulting RT equates that of the faster component.
  • (5) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
  • (6) Formula fed infants retained more nitrogen and gained weight faster.
  • (7) The junctional currents were already constant 1 ms after step changes in the junctional voltage; this was three orders of magnitude faster than the other known examples of voltage-controlled gap junctions between embryonic cells.
  • (8) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
  • (9) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
  • (10) After cessation of exposures, HEVal was lost faster than predicted by the normal erythrocyte life span alone.
  • (11) Between-group responsivity differences suggest developmental retardation in term (38-42 weeks) SGA newborns, but the faster SGA latencies may reflect 'induced' acceleration in auditory neurophysiologic function.
  • (12) When approximately 80% of the myosin light chain was thiophosphorylated, the nucleoside diphosphate exchange occurred at a much faster rate and was almost complete in 2 min.
  • (13) The more resistant cell lines (D0 greater than 1.8 Gy) had faster growth rates and larger proportions of cells in S phase in asynchronous cultures.
  • (14) In conclusion results from this study indicate a positive effect of Venoruton in SVT in determining a faster decrease of hyperthermic areas probably by decreasing local inflammation.
  • (15) Fatigue developed significantly faster with contractions of short duration, and the energy cost was higher.
  • (16) With the faster rate of proliferation there was a corresponding increase in virulence.
  • (17) An analysis of 54 protein sequences from humans and rodents (mice or rats), with the chicken as an outgroup, indicates that, from the common ancestor of primates and rodents, 35 of the proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to mouse or rat (rodent lineage) whereas only 12 proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to humans (human lineage).
  • (18) Forty percent of newly synthesized chains eluted on gel filtration as a lower molecular weight (LMW) shoulder and in vivo turned over faster than the larger species.
  • (19) Intramuscular immunisation produced a faster but less sustained response than subcutaneous injections.
  • (20) The faster oxidation of the photoreduced cytochrome after NADPH-Fd reduction of heme ba indicates that the oxidation of ba and bp may be cooperative.

Fester


Definition:

  • (n.) To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
  • (n.) To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
  • (v. t.) To cause to fester or rankle.
  • (n.) A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
  • (n.) A festering or rankling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
  • (2) Such a commission should begin work immediately, so that anger and suspicion does not fester while Libyans wait 18 months for a constitutionally elected government.
  • (3) We are in our prime, still strong, living full and interesting lives, not stuck at home festering in a candlewick dressing gown (OK, sometimes, but only when it’s cold and dark outside).
  • (4) Yet just because Mr Hague’s ideas have exploded on the launchpad, it does not mean that the issues they address can be left to fester.
  • (5) So there should be no lifting of sanctions as long as the conflict in Ukraine festers on.
  • (6) Few of these plans have yet been agreed, allowing rumours and fears to fester – and when they do emerge, the government can expect no backing, not even from their own MPs and councillors.
  • (7) These approaches enable the children to find ways to externalise the trauma, rather than letting it fester like an internal time bomb.
  • (8) Depression and anxiety fester when children are not supported.
  • (9) A sense of victimhood festers among even relatively advantaged white men, as the rancorously popular candidacy of Donald Trump confirms.
  • (10) Politically, authorities don't have much reason to; it just reopens a big, festering wound."
  • (11) Resist the urge to stroke her brows as her doubts about him begin to fester.
  • (12) It seems that "festering" is OK if there is a political motivation.
  • (13) It remains one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints, driving away trade and allowing distrust to fester in its place.
  • (14) He noted the ambivalence of the world towards US military actions, but argued that failed states such as Somalia and Afghanistan could not be left to fester.
  • (15) The sectarian enmity that festered during the war years has been reignited by the war in Syria, which pitches a Sunni majority against an Alawite minority with links to Shia Islam .
  • (16) This festering resentment came to a head on 23 January 1974, when the two men ended up wrestling on the floor of an ABC studio in New York, five days before their second fight at Madison Square Garden.
  • (17) It festered after Blair resiled from an understanding that he would step down during a second term.
  • (18) There is festering local anger about culture secretary Andy Burnham's refusal to intervene, and things look increasingly grim, though the proposals' outraged opponents have one last hope: allegations that the obligatory consultation was so half-cocked that it should be subject to judicial review.
  • (19) One politician labelled Yau a “cancer cell” while a pro-China scholar referred to her as a “festering pustule” .
  • (20) But behind all the headlines about the €85bn bailout, there was another festering sore – the banks themselves were nearly bust.