What's the difference between gobbet and lump?

Gobbet


Definition:

  • (n.) A mouthful; a lump; a small piece.
  • (v. t.) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) September 6, 2013 8.19am BST One more gobbet of economic news -- UK house prices are rising at their fastest rate since 2010.
  • (2) Keystone laboratories came up with McNuggets, little gobbets of minced, reconstituted chicken, battered and breaded.
  • (3) The British National party chairman, Nick Griffin, seemed to agree, elegantly tweeting that the speech was "patently insecure bullshit"– as well as illustrating the elevated heights to which social media have taken political debate, when one or two impulsive lefties re-tweeted another of his gobbets, about the Labour leader acting as a "recruiting sergeant" for the BNP.
  • (4) In reply, he spat a gobbet of sickly racism inspired by the African spirit of the show.
  • (5) Updated at 2.49pm BST 2.38pm BST ECB buys no bonds, looks to OMT A small gobbet of news from the European Central Bank – it bought precisely zero government bonds last week via its SMP scheme.
  • (6) To conclude the tour she curls up on a sofa, tosses gobbets of popcorn into her mouth and relaxes with a film from Trump’s on-board cinémathèque of a thousand movies.
  • (7) Ultimately, if you're going to pebbledash your drama with walloping great gobbets of cartoon gore, it's probably best to make sure that it is, at the very least, scary.

Lump


Definition:

  • (n.) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.
  • (n.) A mass or aggregation of things.
  • (n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
  • (v. i.) To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
  • (v. i.) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.
  • (v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although distributed models yielded improved fits of the data, the distributed and lumped models produced similar estimates of membrane parameters.
  • (2) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (4) In agreement with the predictions based on a simple lumped-parameters model, we found that Z reached very low values, especially at the frequencies where H had a resonance peak.
  • (5) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
  • (6) Examination of the patient revealed 2 lumps detected in the right hemi-scrotum which felt like small testes and did not permit transillumination.
  • (7) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
  • (8) If the abnormal sensation, such as a lump or choking, in the throat was mainly caused by inflammatory changes in the palatine tonsils or their surrounding tissues and conveyed via vagal nerve branches distributing there, the sensation might be reduced by topically injected Impletol (Procaine and caffeine in saline solution), i.e.
  • (9) Combination with IP degrees increases polyhead formation when head formation is not blocked at a more defective stage but results in a qualitative shift to lump formation in association with gene 22 mutants.
  • (10) "It really gets my goat when commentators (literally all British ones especially Townsend) complain that Spain don't play with a striker as they 'lack a focal point' or 'don't have any direction', presumably because these commentators would lump it up to the 'big man'.
  • (11) The degree of observer variation in recording 11 186 items of clinical data from 242 woman who presented complaining of a lump in the breast to a group of 10 surgeons was studied.
  • (12) It is therefore felt that (1) a cautious attitude is necessary when commenting on FNAC samples until more specific criteria are forthcoming for the diagnosis of this neoplasm; and (2) if cellular atypias are seen in FNAC samples, these should be reported with a recommendation for removal of the breast lump and a detailed tissue examination.
  • (13) Our analysis of 1051 breast biopsies in West Indian women under the age of 30 y revealed that 99% of the breast lumps were benign.
  • (14) Kadyrov also gave the happy couple an unusual wedding present – "a five kilo lump of gold".
  • (15) A female patient presented with a lump in the right parotedeal region.
  • (16) GCPP includes standardization of both experimental factors (lumped constant, arterialization, purity of tracer, regions of interest, relative rates) and clinical factors (state of the subject, wakefulness, anxiety, gender, course of the disease) in PET performance.
  • (17) There are clearly lots of nice, benign, kind nuns who'd be a bit miffed to be lumped in with all the others."
  • (18) The rest of ICD-10, either on the three- or on the four-digit level, has to be grouped into combinations of classes (lumping) to allow compatible conversion to the remaining rubrics of ICPC.
  • (19) His BBC television career famously came to an end when he thrust a lump of cheese in his commissioning editor's face .
  • (20) A 39-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of large breast lump (11.5 X 8.0 cm) and an abnormal nipple discharge.

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