What's the difference between hun and tun?

Hun


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's party won the July polls with 68 seats to the CNRP's 55, a vastly reduced majority but one that the opposition alleges was still biased in the CPP's favour.
  • (2) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
  • (3) The theory is put forward that the Mongolian people living north of China and having constant fights with the Chinese have learnt the horseshoes with nails from the Chinese and that the Huns on their travel westwards have brought this type of horseshoe to Europa.
  • (4) It was hours before the selfie mob questioned what they had actually taken part in beyond a mass exercise in narcissism greeted by adoring comments saying "you still look hot hun".
  • (5) • Boris Johnson finally loses patience with being asked to keep a low profile and organises a publicity stunt to launch an attack on the Greek embassy and hold the ambassador personally responsible for all the money his government owes the Hun as well as a few unpaid congestion charge fines.
  • (6) Notably, Cambodian strongman Hun Sen has described the Republican candidate as “very talented”.
  • (7) No cases of symptomatic early or late HUN were observed in this series.
  • (8) These asymptomatic complications contrast with the symptomatic cases of early or late HUN reported in the literature which necessitated urologic and vascular investigations.
  • (9) "Where I come from they see me as somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun," he jokes.
  • (10) You mean the moment's finally arrived for us to give Harry Hun a good old British-style thrashing, six of the best, trousers down?
  • (11) Largely unfancied, they'd edged past Belgium and Cameroon to make the semi in which the beastly Hun went ahead from a deflected free kick.
  • (12) South Korea pop Kim Jae-sung into midfield in place of Yeom Ki-hun: Jung, Cha, Cho, Jung-Soo Lee, Young-Pyo Lee, Ki, Jung-Woo Kim, Jae-Sung Kim, Ji-Sung Park, Chung-Yong Lee, Chu-Young Park.
  • (13) Meanwhile Ki Sung-Yeung is replaced by Yeom Ki-Hun.
  • (14) While young people have been heavily involved in the protests, many of the first to flood the capital were middle-aged and elderly people, often bearing specific grievances against the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled for 29 years.
  • (15) Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, welcomed the ruling, saying it "gives the frontier between the two countries a clear borderline".
  • (16) The results announced on state television on Sunday morning handed 68 National Assembly seats to Hun Sen's Cambodian People's party and 55 to the opposition Cambodia National Rescue party.
  • (17) The talks lasted about 20 minutes, and Hun Sen left without commenting.
  • (18) I don’t think any of them have expressed any desire to go.” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, and who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
  • (19) All that allows to draw the cautious conclusion that a small split off migrating group of gypsies, who in the 6th century A.D. on their move in flight before the rage of the Huns had immigrated to Iran, halted during their migration in Mesopotamia at the latest in about the 8th century.
  • (20) "If Hun Sen agreed to an outside investigation at this stage, that would be tantamount to conceding that the elections were rigged," he said.

Tun


Definition:

  • (n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
  • (n.) A fermenting vat.
  • (n.) A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
  • (n.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
  • (n.) An indefinite large quantity.
  • (n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
  • (n.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
  • (v. i.) To put into tuns, or casks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tun Lwin, the retired director general of Myanmar's meteorology department told the Associated Press: "We are out of danger and the impact of the cyclone is almost over.
  • (2) Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) " @MAS have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development."
  • (3) Wu Tun 吴吞 (@wu_tun) @aiww use mine, more than happy to make it.
  • (4) Photograph: Oval Partnership In the early 2000s, when enclosed malls were the standard, architect Chris Law of the Oval Partnership proposed an “open city” concept for San Li Tun, an area in Beijing’s central business district.
  • (5) Patients who appear to respond best to high branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) solutions have been previously described by objective measurements such as total urinary nitrogen (TUN) excretion, oxygen consumption index (O2Cl), plasma lactate, plasma pyruvate, plasma glucose (PG) and urinary 3-methylhistidine.
  • (6) This dramatically reduces labor and overall costs for TUN determinations, while providing a more accurate and economical assessment of nitrogen excretion than UUN in a clinical setting.
  • (7) March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort,they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path."
  • (8) Communities are not getting enough of a say in the process when the pubs they treasure are threatened by closure or change of use.” John Harrison, who lives in the south Cambridgeshire village of Guilden Morden, is among the leaders of an ongoing campaign to save the village’s Three Tuns pub and agrees that ACV status has yielded mixed results.
  • (9) The prevalence of mottled enamel (dental fluorosis) was investigated among children, aged 6 to 15 years, in Chung-hsing New Village and in Tsao-tun Village.
  • (10) Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) I will be making a statement on #MH370 at 10pm Malaysian time tonight at PWTC.
  • (11) An unusual B-cell proliferation was noted in an individual (Tun) which was characterized by the presence of two separate populations of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cell staining on the surface and in the cytoplasm for either IgG(k) or IgA(k).
  • (12) For both normal and hospitalized populations, nitrogen balance calculated from UUN data exceeded that calculated from TUN data.
  • (13) With only one exception in Tsao-tun, none of the children in the two groups showed mottling in the "moderate" or "severe" classes.
  • (14) #MH370 March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "We share this information out of a commitment to openness & respect for the families, two principles guiding this investigation."
  • (15) Triggering of effectors, as monitored either by incorporation of 32P into phosphatidylinositol or by transmethylation of phosphatidylcholine, was similar for the positive control YAC-1, STC, TUN, and LTC, whereas ASC appeared to be defective in triggering effectors.
  • (16) #MH370 March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Inmarsat, that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern & southern corridors,has performed further calculations" March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat & the AAIB concluded that the last position of #MH370 was in the middle of the Indian Ocean."
  • (17) March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "With deep sadness and regret I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight #MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean."
  • (18) Total urinary nitrogen (TUN) and urinary urea nitrogen (UUN) in a 24-hour urine collection were measured under a variety of clinical and nutritional conditions in 81 patients for 564 study days.
  • (19) The efficiency of measuring 24-hr urine urea-nitrogen (UUN) and total urine nitrogen (TUN) in patients on general wards was measured.
  • (20) TUN determined by chemiluminescence evidently provides a simple means of calculating nitrogen balance more nearly accurately.

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