What's the difference between guzzling and muzzling?
Guzzling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guzzle
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost half of those tested so far have received an energy efficiency rating of E, F or G, the lowest possible and the equivalent of a gas guzzling car.
(2) The near-freebie prices amount to an especially generous giveaway to Venezuelans fond of large SUVs and gas-guzzling jalopies from the 1970s and 80s.
(3) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
(4) There are legitimate reasons around the world for this – one is to stop the guzzling of a scarce resource.
(5) Peruse the aisles of manga, play PlayStation and online games, charge your mobile, sleep, and guzzle as much free fizzy melon soda as you like.
(6) Convincing viewers that Don and his colleagues aren't actually guzzling back booze might be the hardest sell of all.
(7) But in the face of the first oil shock – and in an age where shared wartime sacrifices for the common good were recalled more vividly than today – by banning gas-guzzling speeds, Washington put the security of supply to the collective ahead of individuals' desire to push the pedal to the metal.
(8) We’d also need to build exercise into daily living, and curtail out of town supermarkets which can only be reached by gas-guzzling obesity-inducing car culture.
(9) In Guzzle Hole cave, the sharp-eared will catch the sound of an underground river.
(10) A new generation of technologies designed to reduce our carbon footprints, energy monitoring takes our electricity usage into the light via wireless handheld displays, web pages and electronic flowers that wilt as we guzzle power.
(11) The firms warned in a statement that calm winter days with no wind could result in "large-scale supply disruptions", particularly in Germany's affluent and industry-heavy south, which guzzles much of the country's electricity.
(12) The military accounts for nearly 80% of the US government's energy consumption and the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have made strategists acutely conscious of both the massive cost and serious security risks of the gas-guzzling ways of the past.
(13) John Alker, public affairs manager of the UK Green Building Council, said: "Many of our public sector offices, schools and hospitals are the building equivalent of gas-guzzling cars.
(14) Stop the car’s battery recharging, perhaps, to save energy; test at unrealistically high temperatures and on super-slick test-tracks; switch off all the energy-guzzling accessories like heated seats, and air-conditioning, navigation and media systems; test cars at altitude.
(15) As a fast-food option, which is how people treat them in countries such as Thailand , insects are greatly preferable to the water-guzzling, rainforest-destroying, methane-spewing beefburger.
(16) Waiting at the hotel, we watched a minister guzzling champagne at the bar before being told we must meet the prime minister, Ignacio Milam Tang, first.
(17) As the Guardian has reported, new measures were pitched to put an electric car charging point in every new home , to redesign some energy-guzzling products and to remove new wind and solar power plants from the EU’s priority dispatch system .
(18) A child guzzles thirstily from a jerrycan lid before darting back into the crowd.
(19) Additional cuts also come from changes in their behaviour; shopping locally, holidaying in the UK and travelling by train, only putting the washing machine on when the wind is blowing and Postlethwaite forsaking his beloved gas-guzzling Saab convertible in favour of the their more fuel efficient VW Touran.
(20) Growth is not the answer to inequality Read more In this narrative, the biggest change you might have to make is to buy British lamb chops, not ones from New Zealand, exchange your gas-guzzling car for a Prius and, above all, remember to do your recycling.
Muzzling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muzzle
Example Sentences:
(1) Using two monoclonal antibodies described in the preceding paper we determined by immunofluorescence microscopy the distribution of an integral membrane protein of the desmosomal domain, the major glycopolypeptide of Mr 165,000 (bovine muzzle epidermal desmosome band 3; desmoglein) in various normal tissues, tumors and cultured cell lines from several mammalian species.
(2) Money is pouring into Conservative campaign headquarters, new electoral themes are being framed and tested, and previously muzzled ministers are being actively encouraged by No 10 to tear into Labour.
(3) By contrast, noxious mechanical (pinches) and chemical (subcutaneous formalin injection) stimulations and deep cooling (by immersion in water at 0 degrees C) of the muzzle did not alter the spinal release of calcitonin gene-related peptide-like material.
(4) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
(5) He brooks no dissent or opposition and muzzles media outlets that dare question the wisdom of his rule.
(6) In 25 cases of muzzle and nasal septum injuries operative treatment was performed by different methods.
(7) Now Muslim Brotherhood supporters are being killed, arrested or muzzled; the former president is detained; and the army has issued an arrest warrant for the Brotherhood's spiritual leader .
(8) Seven of 8 female mice exhibited swollen muzzles and footpads 8 days after inoculation.
(9) Treatment with carbaphethiol, a parenterally-active aminopeptidase inhibitor, markedly increased YGG levels and lengthened the duration of the increase produced by pinching the muzzle.
(10) A study of change in muzzle velocity due to freezing and water immersion of .22, long rifle, K. F. cartridges has been presented.
(11) From this position, with the forelimbs and muzzle engaged in the cervical canal, delivery was quickly effected.
(12) Desmosomal fractions from bovine muzzle epidermis contain, in addition, a major polypeptide of Mr approximately 75,000 ("band 6 protein") which differs from all other desmosomal proteins so far identified by its positive charge (isoelectric at pH approximately 8.5 in the denatured state) and its avidity to bind certain type I cytokeratins under stringent conditions.
(13) The incident blast waves simulated artillery muzzle blast.
(14) The distribution of glycoconjugates in the muzzle of young adult Holstein cows has been studied by means of selected light-microscopic histochemical methods, including lectin histochemistry.
(15) A committee established by the master of the rolls, Lord Neuberger, to examine the use of injunctions and super-injunctions to muzzle press reporting is due to report next month.
(16) In C. aethiops, the contribution of IMW and CL is less in the first component (52.7% of total variance), suggesting that the biochemical forces of mastication are more complex to adapt the mandible to a shorter muzzle and a particular diet.
(17) Authentic black-powder muzzle-loader weapons and replicas are used today primarily for hunting game such as deer and hogs.
(18) This is somebody, the former head of the KGB, who is responsible for crushing democracy in Russia, muzzling the press, throwing political dissidents in jail, countering American efforts to expand freedom at every turn; is currently making decisions that’s leading to a slaughter in Syria ,” the outgoing president said.
(19) These military injuries are characterized by either very high mass, low-velocity shrapnel wounds or by high muzzle velocity missiles causing extensive destruction of tissue.
(20) (2) A study of the effect of simulating gun muzzle blast wave on sheep indicated that in the single explosion, the threshold overpressure values inflicting the injury of internal organs were: Lung-37.27 kPa, G-I tract-41.0 kPa; the upper respiratory tract-negative until 73 kPa, while in the multiple (20 times) explosions, they were 23.7, 23.7 and 41.4 kPa, respectively.