What's the difference between gobbing and gobbling?

Gobbing


Definition:

  • (n.) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff.
  • (n.) The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He questioned the point of spending "huge gobs of money" on the media expansion without addressing issues such as China's human rights record.
  • (2) It wasn’t yet purely about moronic ugliness, uniformity and gobbing.
  • (3) The cDNAs encoding two forms of mammalian G(o) alpha were also isolated and designated GoA alpha and GoB alpha.
  • (4) Both GoA and GoB were found in such cloned cells as PC12, NG108-15, C6, GA-1, G8, and 3T3-L1 cells.
  • (5) On the other hand, relatively high concentrations of GoB alpha were present in the brain, pituitary gland, adipose tissue, lung, and testis.
  • (6) Picking up seven years after the last episodes of season three, still stuck in the same rut, Michael's promising to spend more time with his son (George Michael, played by Michael Cera), Gob is begging for money, and Lindsay is trying to find herself while stuck in the world's weirdest marriage with Dr Tobias Funke (David Cross).
  • (7) These results indicate that the major species of G(o) alpha is encoded by GoA alpha cDNA and G(o)*alpha is encoded by GoB alpha cDNA.
  • (8) It is possible that GoA alpha and GoB alpha have different functions.
  • (9) (Incidentally, Jeb is not short for Jebediah, as you might have reasonably assumed – it’s an acronym for John Ellis Bush, like Arrested Development ’s Gob Bluth is an acronym for George Oscar Bluth.)
  • (10) According to University of California-Berkeley's Debt & Society project , rising higher education spending is in large part driven by factors that have little to do with the quality of instruction or academic resources: schools are pouring gobs of capital into material amenities like student lounges and sports arenas, and this spending in turn raises the cost of the debts schools incur to finance these projects.
  • (11) These two forms, which we call GoA alpha and GoB alpha, appear to be the products of alternative splicing.
  • (12) To recognize two forms of G(o) type G proteins, we raised antibodies in rabbits against two peptides with sequences found only in the respective proteins of murine GoA alpha (SNTYEDAAAYIQTQF) and GoB alpha (TEAVAHIQGQYWSK).
  • (13) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
  • (14) OK, you write something, and I’ll see if I feel like drawing something to fit it.” “The cartoonists have shut their gobs?” came one reaction, along with another bottle of Côtes du Rhône.
  • (15) I told him, proudly proffering my bolus of veg and gob.
  • (16) Of the brain G proteins, GoA, GoB, and Gi1 contain the same set of three gamma subunits, but Gi2 contains only two of these subunits.
  • (17) Portia de Rossi plays the third Bluth sibling, Lindsay (who's just as self-centred as Gob, but with a much better wardrobe).
  • (18) The GoB alpha transcript is expressed at highest levels in brain and testis.
  • (19) "Each time this claim is raised, we ask the GOB (government of Bahrain) to share its evidence," the US embassy reported in a secret dispatch in August 2008 .
  • (20) This is gob-smackingly untenable and there should be an uproar about it.

Gobbling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gobble

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
  • (2) At a time when British brands such as Weetabix are being gobbled up by Chinese companies, a growing number of UK businesses hope to grab their own slice of the booming Chinese grocery market.
  • (3) Rafa holds too after his opponent plops a forehand short and Nadal gobbles the chance.
  • (4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
  • (5) Many landowners have been in financial limbo for years as the authority weighs different paths, leaving farmers wary of planting crops or buying new equipment in case their land gets gobbled up.
  • (6) Deep thought That sense of responsibility was put on show earlier this year when Cadbury turned Dairy Milk into a Fairtrade product and so transforming gobbling down a big bar of the purple stuff into snacking with a social conscience.
  • (7) The competition regulator is examining whether gobbling up one of Poundland’s few single-price rivals will give the retailer more freedom to reduce the offers shoppers get for their £1 – like those two-for-a-pound Aloe Vera drinks.
  • (8) Arsenal came to resemble the chicken feed from the lower reaches of the Bundesliga that Bayern routinely gobble up, although there is no shame in being beaten by them – and badly at that.
  • (9) But the new research does suggest that the reasons for long-term endemic joblessness are much more complicated than the story crafted by government and eagerly gobbled up by irresponsible programme makers and scrounger-seeking tabloids.
  • (10) Big two-litre engine, short slope, oh dear: it took an enormous high-revving, fuel-gobbling wheelspin to heave the S-Max up the hill.
  • (11) Saints 0-3 Seahawks, 10:19, 1st quarter Still a strong defensive stand for the Saints, who gobble up a pair of Lynch runs before dragging down receiver Doug Baldwin after a short gain on third-and-nine.
  • (12) 9.28pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st Yadier Molina hits a ball that seems likely to sneak into the outfield but Nick Punto, in the game only because Hanley Ramirez is hurt, gobbles it up to make the third out of the inning and keep the Cardinals off the board.
  • (13) The man is a picture of confidence, gobbling up Pedroia's roller to shortstop.
  • (14) Instead of savouring, we gobble – not just words, but everything.
  • (15) One has to admire Hilary's ferocity, much like Muldoon in Jurassic Park really has to admire the escaped raptor's speed before it gobbles him as a pre-lunch amuse-bouche.
  • (16) Jones, who admitted to eating Weetabix for breakfast every other day – alternating with porridge – said he had "no problem" with China gobbling up great British brands, but just wished that they would be "similarly open to British investment in China".
  • (17) By the end of this process, Americans had gobbled up more than 85 per cent of Chile's hard-currency earning industries.
  • (18) Fledgling publicist Max persuaded Kelvin MacKenzie, the then Sun editor, to run a story about how Starr put his friend Lea La Salle's hamster, Supersonic, between two pieces of bread and gobbled it up.
  • (19) Snake, obviously Sure, now the greatest Electronic Arts and Rockstar games are available at the tap of an app, gobbling up phone space and hours of time.
  • (20) B efore I met her I’d never really had a salad,” Callum Wilson says, thinking back to the moment that accelerated his development from a promising but fragile youngster into the lean and muscular striker who is gobbling up chances for Bournemouth in the same way he once devoured fast food.

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