What's the difference between hobble and wobble?

Hobble


Definition:

  • (n. i.) To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
  • (n. i.) To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.
  • (v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.
  • (v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass.
  • (n.) An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.
  • (n.) Same as Hopple.
  • (n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 12.55pm GMT 37 min: Doyle is trying to carry on but hobbling around like a car-park attendant (they always hobble don’t they?
  • (2) The US dabbled ineffectually in helping the rebel cause, hobbled by uncertainty over the groups it was dealing with.
  • (3) Come the time, I will gladly hobble down the road with a trolley, nurse half a bitter for two hours, and spend whole days in front of the TV.
  • (4) Liverpool running more under Jürgen Klopp than with Brendan Rodgers Read more With Kolo Touré hobbling at the end of the 1-0 win, albeit with cramp according to the former Ivory Coast international, Klopp could be without all four of his established central defenders at Exeter City on Friday in the FA Cup third round.
  • (5) Trapattoni raised hopes that Simon Cox would be fine despite hobbling off with an ankle injury in added time.
  • (6) Despite the spat between Apple and Adobe, which means that the iPad is hobbled by its inability to play Flash content, it's still a wonderful device for consuming media.
  • (7) "I've had a lot more fun watching and arguing about the Twilight movies than I ever had with the Star Wars saga, that lumbering, narratively hobbled space opera," he blasphemed recently .
  • (8) Gathering more support – or hobbling the opposition – for marriage equality because you've shamed critics into silence, or over-spent them into irrelevance may not be the prettiest way to win a human right, but save your concerns about looking good for the wedding.
  • (9) Their effort to amend the Fisa Amendments Act was ultimately unsuccessful – something they warned would hobble Congress' oversight functions.
  • (10) Updated at 8.20pm GMT 8.15pm GMT 28 min: Pablo Zabaleta is still hobbling in the wake of that enthusiastic challenge for which Danny Welbeck was booked earlier.
  • (11) Mention a pre-1914 designer like Poiret, of hobble-skirt fame, and he smiles: "Fashion was a little naive in those days, both the clothes and the way people talked about them.
  • (12) A Walcott cross came to Giroud and he smacked home and then, after Ramsey hobbled off, the England man made it comfortable, finishing a neat pass from the thus far muted Joel Campbell.
  • (13) But my love for you is full of guilt and regret, sometimes heavy enough to hobble my steps.
  • (14) Zidane hobbled back against Denmark, who were too strong against 10 and a half men, and won 2-0.
  • (15) The visitors had another goal ruled out for the substitute striker Stefano Okaka who then had to hobble off injured in injury time.
  • (16) Republicans and White House officials fear that the currency issue is a “poison pill” designed to hobble trade negotiations in a way that would prove unacceptable to other countries negotiating the giant Pacific trade bill.
  • (17) Operation Inherent Resolve, as the US-led anti-Isis campaign was clunkily named, has demonstrated how so many Middle Eastern problems are inherently unresolved, in the words of a recent study by the Rusi thinktank , and are hobbling collective efforts.
  • (18) Lakers fans can take solace in the fact that the Spurs really didn't blow out the Lakers, they merely put an end to a hobbled, lurching mockery of what their team was supposed to be.
  • (19) I always remember this guy running because we are all running and he was hobbling and I thought he'd hurt his leg … We were running to the fence, thinking they couldn't get past this bollard, and this guy just went that way and, well, the [police vehicle] just flattened him, and went right over him.
  • (20) Taylor will appeal and that is the right thing for him to do," the smartly-dressed Collins said, as amputees – some hobbling on crutches – streamed past him.

Wobble


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Wabble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data presented indicate that 6-TG-induced differentiation of HL-60 cells is a tRNA-facilitated event and that the tRNA wobble base queuine is capable of maintaining both the proliferative and pluripotent potential of the cells.
  • (2) The new base-pairings involved G.C and A.U, and the A.C wobble pair at certain positions in the tRNA.
  • (3) These tRNA species are synthesized with guanine in the wobble position (tRNAG); this guanine can then be replaced with queuine by the action of the enzyme tRNA-guanine ribosyltransferase.
  • (4) A few emerging-market economies have similar wobbles to Iceland but get assistance from the International Monetary Fund.
  • (5) Van Gaal is conscious the deficit to Manchester City can be made up but also that a defeat could precipitate a wobble as serious as December’s.
  • (6) Tory MPs, whose loyalty to the current leader is a jelly that never properly set, are wobbling all over the place.
  • (7) Data are acquired in the stationary mode only (no wobble motion), resulting in a transaxial spatial resolution of better than 6 mm full width at half-maximum (FWHM) at the center, which degrades to 7.5 mm tangentially and 9.6 mm radially at a radius of 20 cm.
  • (8) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
  • (9) ), is also shifted by GpUpA and was previously assigned to FUra 34 at the wobble position of the anticodon.
  • (10) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
  • (11) Even the nickname given to him of Monsieur Flanby, after a caramel pudding, over his perceived wobbly political views, lost its relevance as he elaborated his programme.
  • (12) We see people who are grossly fat, their wobbling, sad bodies being winched out of windows, and class that as "obesity", distancing ourselves from the term.
  • (13) As the temperature increases, the wobble amplitude increases and the spectra narrow.
  • (14) So Nottinghamshire were wobbling on 90 for four when their two old lags combined to calm the favourites' nerves.
  • (15) In order to examine the effects of this mutation on translation of the complementary and wobble codons in vivo, we constructed the gene for an amber (UAG) suppressing variant of Su9, trpT179, by making the additional nucleotide change required for an amber suppressor anticodon.
  • (16) The economic credibility of the country that holds the global reserve currency has wobbled.
  • (17) Until I can strap myself to a big drone like some sort of hipster Icarus, the disappointed futurist thinks, I will wobble about on a two-wheeled board and pretend it is not in contact with the ground.
  • (18) Incorporation of structure 1 into a 3'-stacked tRNA anticodon appears to place 08 within hydrogen bonding distance of the 02' hydroxyl of ribose 33, which may limit the ability of such a molecule of tRNA to "wobble".
  • (19) Each movie group – Gone Girl, The Imitation Game, Selma, etc – sits defensively together, sort of like high-school cliques in the canteen of an 80s teen movie, and those proud, defiant smiles they managed to maintain for TV have long since wobbled away a bit.
  • (20) The complete nucleotide sequences of both rat liver and Walker 256 mammary carcinosarcoma tRNAAsn reveal that they are identical except for the nucleotide present in the wobble position of the anticodon loop.