What's the difference between hurl and purl?

Hurl


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
  • (v. t.) To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.
  • (v. t.) To twist or turn.
  • (v. i.) To hurl one's self; to go quickly.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).
  • (v. i.) To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.
  • (n.) The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.
  • (n.) Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
  • (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thousands took to the streets to protest, with many hurling rocks and firebombs at police.
  • (2) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
  • (3) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
  • (4) Protesters hurled fire bombs at riot police who responded with tear gas, officers said.
  • (5) That would be something the newspapers, if they did their job, would be shouting at her today, instead of hurling insults at Jeremy Corbyn.
  • (6) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
  • (7) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
  • (8) The keeper hurled himself in front of it to pull off an improbable block!
  • (9) In Ntinda, angry youths shouted and hurled stones and chunks of concrete at passing cars.
  • (10) MEPs boo as Nigel Farage hurls insults in the European parliament Read more Vicky Ford, also a Conservative MEP, ticks the Farageian box of having “worked in business”.
  • (11) The fans, many of whom had been drinking heavily for much of the day, responded by hurling bottles at the police as they marched towards them.
  • (12) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.
  • (13) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
  • (14) The pipe bomb device was hurled at Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers travelling in an armoured vehicle in the Creggan area of the city.
  • (15) And then, mercifully, I discovered How to Be a Woman, a blistering war-cry of a book urging girls to hurl celery into the bin, "give up on the idea of being fabulous" and instead revel in our glorious imperfections.
  • (16) A small but vocal group of hostile Ulster loyalist demonstrators were standing outside, blocking the station's heavily fortified gates, preparing to hurl abuse when he emerged.
  • (17) It was mostly just unplanned sprinting around the city, with bins knocked over and traffic cones hurled at traffic.
  • (18) 2.31am BST Turnbull hurled his observation that the Bloguer Bolter, (with his treachery theory), was losing a certain amount of .. shall we say .. grip .. while attending Stay Smart Online week.
  • (19) I never dreamed that it would end in the way it did.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Palestinian boy hurls stones at Israeli police during the second day of clashes in Shu’afat last year, after the murder of Mohammad Abu Khdeir.
  • (20) Rioters are seen smashing up parts of the building to create missiles to hurl at police officers guarding a sectarian boundary close to the Catholic Short Strand area.

Purl


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To decorate with fringe or embroidery.
  • (n.) An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
  • (n.) An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
  • (v. i.) To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.
  • (v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
  • (n.) A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
  • (n.) A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.
  • (n.) Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
  • (n.) A tern.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purL gene of Escherichia coli encoding the enzyme formylglycinamidine ribonucleotide (FGAM) synthetase which catalyzes the conversion of formylglycinamide ribonucleotide (FGAR), glutamine, and MgATP to FGAM, glutamate, ADP, and Pi has been cloned and sequenced.
  • (2) ileS was closely flanked by an unknown open reading frame and by purL and thus is arranged differently from the organizations observed in several eubacteria or in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  • (3) The Killing does Christmas Jumper Day It's a purl Source: Viral Video Chart .
  • (4) On the basis of the nucleotide sequence of purL, the enzyme was dissected along the polypeptide chain into at least three discrete regions, designated as domains I, II, and III, by genetic complementation tests.
  • (5) These results support a model that the E. coli purL gene is a fused gene of at least three different gene families.
  • (6) These measurements indicated 5- to 17-fold coregulation of genes purF, purHD, purC, purMN, purL, and purEK and thus confirm the existence of a pur regulon.
  • (7) Comparison of the purL control region to other pur loci control regions reveals a common region of dyad symmetry which may be the binding site for the "putative" repressor protein.
  • (8) The purL gene from Lactobacillus casei, encoding phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase II involved in the de novo synthesis of purines, was cloned and sequenced.
  • (9) A series of cold-sensitive mutations, affecting the assembly of ribosomes at 20 degrees C, was isolated within the purL to nadB region of the E. coli chromosome and one group, named rbaA, mapped at the same locus as the suppressor mutation, showing close linkage to the RNAase III gene.
  • (10) The putative purL product of 741 amino acids (M(r) of 79,575) shows 25% and 53% identity to the homologous enzymes from Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, respectively.
  • (11) Escherichia coli 5'-phosphoribosylformylglycinamide (FGAR) amidotransferase (EC 6.3.5.3) encoded by the purL gene catalyzes the conversion of FGAR to formylglycinamidine in the presence of glutamine and ATP for the de novo purine nucleotide biosynthesis.
  • (12) Some of the mutants had acquired an additional genetic lesion in the purine de novo biosynthetic pathway, namely a purF, a purL or a purM mutation.