What's the difference between huffing and puffing?
Huffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Huff
Example Sentences:
(1) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(2) You can already hear the huffing protests: what possible business is that of his?
(3) Pierre Laurent, national secretary of the French Communist party and president of the European Left party, himself a former journalist, was having no truck with those waving their arms about and huffing and puffing about not being able to address the Greek politician.
(4) In other words, despite huffing and puffing about the details of Ukip policy ( witness the absurd spectacle of Labour forensically tackling its views on the NHS ), all that is for the birds.
(5) The family-run Huf Haus, which celebrated its 100th anniversary this year, has built about 180 prefab houses in the UK since coming here 11 years ago.
(6) For a while this was in danger of turning into something of an anti-climax as Wales, 72 hours after securing their place in France, huffed and puffed without success against an Andorra side who had lost their previous 53 competitive matches and spent the day of the game strolling around a Sports Direct shop.
(7) Wilson described Brown as a “demon” – as an “it” – as a monstrous creature, stomping and huffing, and building up momentum for a final assault, like the Incredible Hulk – all comic-book id and no superego.
(8) Even walking through the gardens to get there is like huffing on an oxygen mask.
(9) Whatever is the right answer over legality and risk, there remains something distinctly dystopian about the cheap, barely-there high that comes from huffing on a balloon.
(10) UNITED LABOUR AGAINST QPR Also important was United's failure to eat into City's goal difference against the 10 men of Wolves – they declared at 5-0 with 30 minutes remaining – and at Old Trafford against QPR: Shaun Derry was sent off after 14 minutes, but United huffed and puffed to a 2-0 win.
(11) Meanwhile, a growing number of German timber frame companies such as Huf Haus and Baufritz have come to Britain.
(12) We introduce a general network thermodynamic method for compartmental analysis which uses a compartmental model of sodium flows through frog skin as an illustrative example (Huf and Howell, 1974a).
(13) FET consisted of postural drainage, breathing exercises, huffing, and coughing.
(14) Arsenal huffed and puffed but they created few noteworthy opportunities after that moment, 27 minutes in, when Rooney sent over a wonderfully taken corner and the visitors' preference for zonal marking meant Van Persie could attack the ball without anyone following his run.
(15) A fibroblast-like cell line (HuF), which was obtained by subculturing fetal human liver cells 4 or more times, was briefly treated with hydrocortisone (HC) or putrescine (PUT).
(16) After huffing and puffing about how everything was in order, the Commons intelligence and security committee has at last announced an inquiry.
(17) PEP consisted of PEP-mask breathing interspersed with breathing exercises, huffing, and coughing.
(18) As Blair stammered, huffed and shifted in his seat, Stewart concluded that: “19 people flew into the towers.
(19) Weathering this gentle breeze, Norwich reasserted themselves and, clearly increasingly alarmed by so much home puffing and huffing, Poyet replaced Emmanuele Giaccherini with Adam Johnson.
(20) Beyond the political huffing and puffing, the debate about what Pfizer would have to pay to bag AstraZeneca always seemed straightforward: a bid of £60 a share or thereabouts would be a knockout; anything less and Pfizer would struggle to get an agreement.
Puffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puff
() a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Puf- strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (PUFB1) was constructed by deleting a portion of the proximal region of the puf operon and inserting a kanamycin resistance gene cartridge.
(2) Chromosome banding patterns are very similar between tissues, but puffing patterns show considerable differences.
(3) The adjacent region, 23B2, is slightly puffed and displays typical RNP particles, some of which may be observed close to band 2-23B1,2.
(4) At the same time the RNA quantity increases by a factor of 2. thermal denaturation profiles of formaldehyde fixed chromosomes show that the Tm of this region in puffed and non puffed state differ by 10 degrees C. Moreover these profiles suggest that a large fraction of histone-bound DNA is destabilized during puffing.
(5) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(6) Habitual smokers of perforation-ventilated cigarettes and of channel-ventilated cigarettes (18 male and 18 female subjects each; nicotine yield 0.1-0.3 mg, 0.2 mg, respectively) were compared with respect to different smoke exposure indicators and puffing behavior.
(7) The boosts for perforation-ventilated cigarettes remained unchanged and were reached with only moderately intensified puffing behavior.
(8) Where there were pictures of powerful women, the images tended to be subversive: the same photograph of a grimacing Theresa May was used to illustrate three different stories about the home secretary, and two of the three pictures of the German chancellor showed Angela Merkel puffing out her cheeks, looking mildly absurd.
(9) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(10) Southern blot analysis demonstrated that in PUFB1, the defective copy of the puf operon had replaced, through homologous recombination, the normal chromosomal copy.
(11) Heat a little oil in a pan then cook the dumplings until crisp and puffed, then roll in the cinnamon sugar.
(12) Fluorescence polarization measurements of the lipopholic probe, 1, 6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), in the purified lymphocyte plasmalemma from mice fed a diet high in PUF indicated an increase in mobility.
(13) The pufBA messages, which end in a large intercistronic stem-loop structure, are long-lived processing products of the puf operon transcripts.
(14) The best subset of predictors, especially with respect to puffing parameters, was found to vary considerably across smoking conditions and dependent variables.
(15) The influence of temperature (17 and 31 degrees) on the maternal effect of mutation Puffed (Pu) in Drosophila hybrids has been studied.
(16) Last month I was given unrestricted access to the enormous archive the PCGG has assembled in its years of global detective work: the president’s handwritten diary, frequently puffed with self-regard; the notepaper headed “From the office of the president”, with scribbled sums endlessly totting up his cash; minutes of company meetings with his comments scrawled in the margins; contracts; “side agreements”; records of multiple bank accounts; hundreds of share certificates; private investigators’ reports; and tens of thousands of pages of court judgments.
(17) The polytene chromosome puffing patterns of Drosophila guanche were established and compared with those of Drosophila subobscura.
(18) David Cameron was “pumped up” ; Russell Brand and Ed Miliband exchanged “aint’s” and “innits” and puffed out their chests.
(19) The individual response to smoke might be assessed by an analysis of puffing on a single cigarette.
(20) Neither between-subject consistency nor within-subject reproducibility was improved by this paced puffing procedure, despite apparent topographical control.