What's the difference between insult and jibe?

Insult


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
  • (v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
  • (v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
  • (v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
  • (v. i.) To leap or jump.
  • (v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
  • (2) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
  • (3) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
  • (4) Combined with histological analysis, these results suggest a more rapid recovery of normal spermatogenesis after physical insult with LAC treatment.
  • (5) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
  • (6) Among the various physiological factors involved in the development of a nephrotoxic insult, certain renal transport systems may be important.
  • (7) In addition, PROM is the result of direct bacterial insults or host-mediated autodestruction in response to bacterial presence or challenge.
  • (8) Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult.
  • (9) This toxic effect, although not seen in intact nigrostriatal systems, may indicate L-dopa toxicity on transplanted DA cells, or on DA cells maximally activated to recover from insult.
  • (10) Under the conditions employed in these studies, repeated occlusions give rise to progressively more prolonged deficits in brain protein synthesis activity, which may thus provide a useful index of the severity of the accumulated ischemic insult.
  • (11) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.
  • (12) We also observed a difference in the pattern and severity of alterations between repeated ischemic insults and single ischemia.
  • (13) Unconsciousness was associated with a brief period of hypotension, so brief that in itself it caused no apparent insult.
  • (14) These findings suggest that NB-818 may be useful for clinical treatment of neurological deficit after an ischemic insult.
  • (15) For example, patients suffering from transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) experience onset of insult within 6 hours of a transfusion and have the presence of leukoagglutinins in their serum.
  • (16) This review article discusses the clinical manifestations and the diagnostic workup of insults to the kidney in patients with cancer.
  • (17) We have recently demonstrated in vitro a potential biological mechanism which could occur in vivo upon inhaling airborne graon dust, thereby constituting a potential inflammatory insult to the respiratory tracts of grain workers.
  • (18) It is hypothesized that transmission failure of interneuronal systems in the initial period following insult may be a general response occurring in wide areas of the central nervous system, and not restricted to areas to which mechanical stress is directly applied.
  • (19) These shape changes may become irreversible and, in fact, they may be encountered in different types of haemolytic disease, suggesting that the echinocytic and stomatocytic shape changes represent two fundamental ways in which red cells react to intrinsic and extrinsic insults.
  • (20) The Labour party erupted into open civil war as Ed Miliband loyalists and supporters of Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader who resigned this weekend, exchanged accusations and insults.

Jibe


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.
  • (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.
  • (v. t.) To agree; to harmonize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He reiterated his jibe that the Republican convention had been like watching something from the past, a black-and-white newsreel.
  • (2) It seemed to be a jibe at the Serbs’ claims on Kosovo, whose population is overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian, and the photographs depicted on either side were equally inflammatory.
  • (3) Sal Russo, an influential strategist and founder of the Tea Party Express, said that even the terrorist jibe was a sign of success.
  • (4) The PBR took "no tough decisions", jibed the Conservatives, but it lopped £7bn off public spending and jacked up national insurance contributions by £3bn – fairly tough in anyone's book.
  • (5) Livingstone, the former London mayor, whose fractious relationship with the Standard reached a low point with his Nazi jibe at Jewish reporter Oliver Finegold , remains defiantly unapologetic about the incident and holds a healthy hatred of the title, now majority-owned by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev.
  • (6) Berg's jibe was "there's no longer anything original or particularly provocative about bowel movements presented as art".
  • (7) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
  • (8) Take Channel 4 political correspondent, Michael Crick, who tweeted a cruel jibe made about Abbott by a London cabbie just to make a point about Jeremy Corbyn.
  • (9) I actually don’t drink.” He smiles when repeating Hayden’s jibe.
  • (10) Ignoring Osborne's jibe that to threaten a debt default was like threatening "to burn my own house down in protest", Salmond warned that if there was no deal on sterling, there would be no deal on Scotland paying its share of the £1.6tn of national debt expected by 2016.
  • (11) And in response to tabloid-inflated hysteria about an influx of Romanian and Bulgarian welfare-hounds, Johnson cracks a cheap jibe about Transylvanians and tents – an undisguised slur on the Roma.
  • (12) Now he has a 4-5% chance.” Later in the debate, Trump and Cruz went at each other’s jugulars a second time – on this occasion over Cruz’s recent jibe that Trump subscribed to “New York values”.
  • (13) Charlene White, a presenter on ITV News London, received insults on social media after she appeared on screen without the poppy, with many of the jibes focusing on her race.
  • (14) Corbyn v Cameron at PMQs: was 'bunch of migrants' jibe intentional?
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump makes menstruation jibe at Megyn Kelly - audio Cruz said that Trump’s feud with Kelly was a sign of weakness: “If he thinks Megyn Kelly is so scary, what exactly would he do with Vladimir Putin?
  • (16) They’re both enjoying the challenge.” There have been inevitable jibes about Mauresmo being a woman working in men’s tennis.
  • (17) Corbyn v Cameron at PMQs: Google tax row sparks 'bunch of migrants' jibe Read more “They met with the unions and gave them flying pickets.
  • (18) Speaking at the launch of the new TechHub incubator in Old Street, the London mayor referred to Merkel’s jibe on Monday at the expense of Britain’s poor rural broadband.
  • (19) She is by far the most popular …" Ms Harman was careful not to smile at this gallant jibe, but most of the shadow cabinet thought it very droll and smiled happily.
  • (20) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.