What's the difference between footle and linger?

Footle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 463 breeches are analyzed by age and parity of the mother, type of breech presentation (frank or footling) and type of delivery (vaginal or abdominal).
  • (2) The catastrophe of death and anarchy that failed drug suppression has brought to Mexico and to other narco-states makes the west's obsessive war on terror seem like a footling sideshow.
  • (3) She presented at term with spontaneous rupture of the membranes and a double footling breech presentation.
  • (4) The incidence of CDH was 0.7 per cent in cephalic presentation, 2 per cent in footling presentation and 20 per cent in single-breech presentation.
  • (5) Women (8.8%) with twin pregnancy, fetus in breech, footling and transverse lie, or having an elective cesarean section were analysed separately.
  • (6) The absurdity of a hotline to complain about motorway cones did for John Major largely because it came towards the end of a long period of Tory rule: it seemed to encapsulate a government that, re-elected for a fourth term, was running out of ideas, reduced to fiddling with footling policies about not very much.
  • (7) At approximately 36 weeks gestation a healthy make infant 2600 grams was delivered by double footling breech spontaneous delivery.
  • (8) When you're a 14-year-old virgin, the widespread assumption that you're getting lots of action provides some footling compensation for the fact that you're not.
  • (9) A male neonate, the product of a precipitious, instrumented, footling breech delivery, exhibited seizures at the age of 18 hours.
  • (10) A modest challenge Central to the 10:10 campaign is an acknowledgement that the kind of action we are typically urged to take to combat climate change is all too often either footling or forbiddingly hair-shirted.
  • (11) The good doctor expressed his dismay, but also bafflement that "a high proportion of the population are prepared to cry aloud about footling matters of uncleanliness such as a tomato sauce stain on a restaurant tablecloth, whilst they luxuriate on a plush seat in their faeces-stained pants."
  • (12) The incidence of cord prolapse was increased especially with the footling breech.
  • (13) footling, extended arms or difficulty in descent of the fetal head.
  • (14) When Apgar scores, perinatal mortality rates, cord prolapse, and entrapment of the aftercoming head are considered, cesarean section is probably the safer course of management for the patient with a footling breech infant, especially when the infant weighs 1500 g or less.
  • (15) Delivery was carried out spontaneously with double footling presentation.
  • (16) One hour later she gave birth spontaneously to a preterm infant in footling breech delivery.
  • (17) The benefit of cesarean delivery was greater for nulliparae than multiparae, greater for footlings than for frank or complete breeches, and greater for larger babies than smaller ones.
  • (18) To be sure, eurozone GDP in the second quarter of 2013 grew by only a relatively footling 0.3% , concealing all sorts of continuing crises and sufferings behind strong performances from Germany and France.
  • (19) The indications for the 13 cesarean sections after vaginal delivery of twin A were fetal distress, cord prolapse, high presenting part, and footling breech.

Linger


Definition:

  • (a.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
  • (v. t.) To protract; to draw out.
  • (v. t.) To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Play Video 6:52 Prime minister Theresa May calls general election for 8 June – full video statement If May wins a large Commons majority, the lingering hope that Britain will change its mind will be dashed.
  • (2) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
  • (3) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
  • (4) But in the minds of many Israelis, they continue to linger.
  • (5) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.
  • (6) So our lingering affection for the cross is entirely symbolic.
  • (7) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
  • (8) And that has more lingering, long-term consequences for the public finances.
  • (9) The exception actually lies with those who have had Ebola and recovered: studies suggest the virus can linger in semen for up to three months after recovery – so you may wish to think twice before having sex.
  • (10) Despite a lingering belief that they could have "gone in" with Labour if they had wanted to, the Lib Dems decided to abide responsibly by the logic of FPTP, and form a government that nobody had voted for at all.
  • (11) Olivier Blanchard, IMF director of research, said: “New factors supporting growth – lower oil prices, but also depreciation of euro and yen – are more than offset by persistent negative forces, including the lingering legacies of the crisis and lower potential growth in many countries”.
  • (12) But he will surely need help from elsewhere if Argentina are to linger deep into this competition.
  • (13) Our method of testing detects no lingering or permanent change after a single concussion.
  • (14) The study, aimed at examining lingering problems of veterans returning from both conflicts, also called into question a Defense Department policy which bans restricting access to private weapons "even if a service member is at risk from suicide".
  • (15) Between the 10-year projection of a half million FTE nursing shortage, astronomical medical care costs and a lingering recession, nursing administrators have no option but to make difficult choices in resource allocation.
  • (16) There may be lingering doubts over whether Meryl Streep , Viola Davis or outside bet Rooney Mara will claim the Academy Award for best actress later this month, and no-one is absolutely certain if Jean Dujardin , George Clooney or Gary Oldman will be picking up the equivalent male gong at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
  • (17) Her wonderful shop will remain open, and her presence will linger there as long as it does.
  • (18) Photograph: Courtesy of the family It’s been over a month since Fátima Avelica watched Ice agents, wearing uniforms stamped “POLICE”, handcuff and arrest her father, and the pain of that moment still lingers.
  • (19) Numbers showing weak wage growth as inflation edges up will provide traction for Labour's election campaign around lingering cost-of-living crisis.
  • (20) Writing in the Guardian , Mikhail Prokhorov, 46, said Russia was "undergoing a true awakening" – while warning of a lingering threat of violence as opposition leaders plan a new mass demonstration against the rule of Putin, the prime minister, on 4 February.