What's the difference between happen and sprout?

Happen


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
  • (v. i.) To take place; to occur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (3) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (4) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
  • (5) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
  • (6) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (7) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
  • (8) "David Cameron has lost control of what's happening in the NHS.
  • (9) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
  • (10) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (11) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (12) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (13) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (14) At present, fewer than 20% do so, with more than half of all deaths happening in hospital and the rest in hospices or care homes.
  • (15) It mostly happens to strong men whose biceps muscle are contracted and overstretched unexpectedly.
  • (16) However, I’m behaving as if it’s all going to happen as planned.” It has certainly been a long road to production.
  • (17) There is no evidence to support the move to seven-day services, there is no evidence of what is going to happen if we divert our resources away from the week to weekends.
  • (18) Some factors of resistance (such as side benefits) happen in reactive and neurotic depressions and are independent of the pharmacological action.
  • (19) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
  • (20) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?

Sprout


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
  • (v. t.) To shoot into ramifications.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
  • (v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
  • (v. i.) Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
  • (2) Cell Biol., 101:1990-1998), the fetal antigen is specifically associated with regions of neuronal sprouting and, therefore, can be used as a molecular marker of neurite growth.
  • (3) Histological examination showed that in many cases these terminal sprouts appeared to reinnervate abandoned junctional sites on adjacent denervated fibers.
  • (4) Cytokines may be involved in stimulation of dystrophic neuritic sprouting, neuronal death, and amyloid deposition noted in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.
  • (5) This finding suggested that in addition to growing within the host, xenogeneic transplants may also stimulate a compensatory sprouting response from the host.
  • (6) These results suggest that purified laminin can facilitate and guide process outgrowth of 5-HT, DA and NE neurons during early developmental stage, but does not induce sprouting on these same fiber types in the adult brain.
  • (7) The vascular system develops during embryonic development by at least two distinct processes; vasculogenesis is the development of blood vessels from in situ differentiating angioblasts and angiogenesis is the sprouting of capillaries from pre-existing vessels.
  • (8) Finally, using a newly developed paradigm for examining the composition of regenerating axons by axonal transport, we determined that significant amounts of the 57 kDa neuronal IF protein were conveyed into the regrowing axonal sprouts of DRG neurons.
  • (9) mRNA was prepared from muscle at different times after denervation: a maximal increase was obtained already after 1 day, consistent with an involvement in sprouting.
  • (10) Thus vascular sprouting and proliferation of viable tumor cells is confined to basal regions of the tumor.
  • (11) The bean sprout enzyme catalyzed ferredoxin-dependent electron transfer from NADPH to equine cytochrome c at a high rate but, unlike the spinach enzyme, exhibited little NADPH to 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol diaphorase activity.
  • (12) Three days following implantation of 2 x 10(5) tumor cells onto the striated skin muscle, capillary sprouts were noted in the tumor cell mass.
  • (13) Virtually no B-50 immunoreactivity was seen in control nerves, but bright immunofluorescence appeared in regenerating sprouts.
  • (14) The nucleoside phosphotransferase from malt sprouts contains one Mg2 per dimeric enzyme molecule.
  • (15) The contrasting effects on sprouting and the eventual quality of repair of mechanically lesioned nerves have suggested a mechanism whereby sprouting may regulate perikaryal adjustments to injury.
  • (16) Neurotoxin lesioning of 5-HT fibers selectively induced the homotypic collateral sprouting of spared 5-HT fibers in the hippocampus.
  • (17) In control rats, a similar sprouting reaction occurred, but the maximal distance of elongation rarely exceeded 1 mm.
  • (18) After differentiation, both Ewing's and neural lines developed neuritic processes with varicosities and little arborization, except for the initially undifferentiated Ewing's line (A4573) which displayed extensive lateral sprouting from neuritic processes after differentiation.
  • (19) Preterminal, intranodal, and intraterminal sprouting were found to significantly increase from 1 to 6 months following partial denervation.
  • (20) In the cerebellum a progressive regeneration and apparent sprouting of NE fibers was observed.