What's the difference between hector and turbulent?
Hector
Definition:
(n.) A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
(v. t.) To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.
(v. i.) To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete amino acid sequence (64 residues) of the AaH IV toxin from the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector was determined by automated Edman degradation and was compared with the sequences of other Androctonus toxins.
(2) And when the international community shouts selectively about human rights it encourages conservatives to feel that they are being hectored again by “ Little Satan ” Britain or “Great Satan” America.
(3) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
(4) The tour continued to the excellent Hector Pieterson memorial and museum and the Regina Mundi church, a rallying point during the struggle, now hosting a terrific photography exhibition.
(5) Financial Services Authority chief executive Hector Sants described bonuses as the "lightning rod" of the public's lack of trust in bankers.
(6) You can fill the spaces around clinics with unscientific anti-abortion hectoring of women patients while literally filling space by violating women with a trans-vaginal ultrasound wand.
(7) The City regulator faced further uncertainty this morning as chief executive Hector Sants announced his resignation just months before a general election that could result in the disbandment of the Financial Services Authority.
(8) "The United Kingdom lacks any right at all to pretend to alter the juridical status of these territories even with the disguise of a hypothetical referendum," said Argentina's foreign minister, Hector Timerman.
(9) David Cameron today promised he would raise human rights issues in his two days of talks with the Chinese leadership without hectoring or lecturing, but No 10 declined to go into details of which specific cases would be raised.
(10) Hector Sants, the current boss of the FSA, will take on the role of chief executive of the first overseeing agency, which will be called the Prudential Regulatory Authority.
(11) Here, Michael Holers, Taroh Kinoshita and Hector Molina compare and contrast the mouse and human RCA region products and conclude that the receptor and regulatory roles are conserved despite the structural variation.
(12) The effects of the mammal toxin II isolated from the venom of the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector (AaH II) were studied under current and voltage clamp conditions in frog (semitendinosus) and rat (fast e.d.l.
(13) Darren Fletcher had given the visitors the lead, before Paul McShane and then Michael Hector took turns to convert Oliver Norwood free-kicks with close-range headers that left Ben Foster hopelessly exposed and with little or no chance.
(14) Almost everyone else is fed up with this joyless, hectoring, endless campaign from Berlin.
(15) Radioimmunoassays were also used to detect toxin I of Buthus occitanus tunetanus and toxin II of Androctonus australis Hector and also antigenically homologous toxins in the venoms of several North African scorpions.
(16) He added: "Hector was an old City pro, with vast experience but too slow to spot the dangers of hedge funds and gambling banks.
(17) Two down for Hector Sanchez, and COKE STRIKES OUT THE SIDE!
(18) Ofcom described the interview as "persistently bullying and hectoring".
(19) Two mAb specific for the potent toxin II of the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector have been produced.
(20) In a characteristically hectoring broadcast, Galloway also addressed allegations made by the second woman against Assange, over which he is wanted for questioning.
Turbulent
Definition:
(a.) Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
(a.) Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.
(a.) Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.
Example Sentences:
(1) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
(2) The visualized turbulent flow was consistent with a ventriculoseptal defect but also appeared to extend posteriorly into the left atrium in a direct line with the septal communication.
(3) A Bernoulli 'free-fall' numerical model is shown to reproduce the principal features of such casting, with some evidence of viscosity limitation of the turbulent flow at long casting lengths.
(4) When there is turbulence in the vein lumen the volume of reflux becomes excessive and causes so much adjustment that constrictor tone is abolished.
(5) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(6) Shearer has long been expected to take the reins at St James' Park at some point but it is something of a surprise that he has chosen to do so amid such turbulence and uncertainty over the club's future.
(7) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
(8) Doppler and color flow Doppler examinations demonstrated nonpulsatile and turbulent blood flow within the lesion, consistent with a diagnosis of umbilical artery aneurysm.
(9) On the other hand, the device is more sensitive to the turbulences induced by the subject's own breathing.
(10) In 1 patient the clinical diagnosis of arteriovenous fistulae was confirmed by color Doppler which demonstrated a continuous turbulent flow within the femoral vein.
(11) We conclude that flow disturbance or turbulence is a major factor in the development of venous intimal-medial hyperplasia in arteriovenous loop grafts.
(12) "The external environment provides a testing backdrop for these results, and all our industries face some degree of turbulence," Scardino said.
(13) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
(14) The Brontes lived in stirring times and in a turbulent region.
(15) With the sample volume in the right ventricle a continuous turbulent flow was observed.
(16) Pathologic regurgitant jets were seen as high-velocity, systolic-retrograde turbulent flow across the prosthesis.
(17) Because maximum expiratory flow-volume rates in normal subjects are dependent on gas density, the resistance between alveoli and the point at which dynamic compression begins (R(us)) is mostly due to convective acceleration and turbulence.
(18) Clinical applications of this index suggest the possibility of using it further as a detection tool for diseases that generate turbulent noises.
(19) The usual high pressure injections also result in turbulent flow conditions.
(20) Steering the debate through these turbulent waters with more than his usual sense of mischief was David Dimbleby .