What's the difference between insult and stinger?

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.

Stinger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, stings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Common problems--muscle cramps, burners (or stingers), and ankle and shoulder injuries--can be managed effectively with certain basic techniques.
  • (2) Based on the clinical course and positive patch tests, it was concluded that the patient developed a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to the sea urchin's stinger.
  • (3) "For killstreaks, one of the things we noticed when we've watched players is that they'll spend a lot of time just running and then being killed by something from the sky, or running around looking up, trying to fire their stinger missile at something above and not paying attention to what's in the game around them.
  • (4) History of previous corresponding sensations from contact with cosmetic products was significantly more common in stingers than in non-stingers (p less than 0.001); other factors, such as dermatologic history, sensitivity to ultraviolet light or skin dryness had no characteristic patterns.
  • (5) The stinger of the wasp was examined from the zoological aspect and is compared with that of the honeybee and hornet.
  • (6) Protesters have also been fired on with 60-calibre Stinger rubber bullets and what appear to be 40mm wooden baton rounds .
  • (7) Since Stinger's appointment in March 2005 he has struggled to break the company out of its "silo" organisation that has prevented co-ordination between different divisions.
  • (8) In the objective, immediate non-immunologic contact urticaria tests with sorbic acid and benzoic acid, the stingers developed significantly more erythema to 0.5% sorbic acid (p less than 0.05) and to 1% benzoic acid (p less than 0.02).
  • (9) "Some were seized by the Soviets, and Stingers were acquired by the Iranians within a year."
  • (10) Gili said this was mostly surprising because the mauve stingers were close to beaches.
  • (11) Soon, the proxy war against Gaddafi was underway, and "Charlie Chad" and his CIA counterpart were there, ferrying Habré C141 Starlifters full of weapons, eventually including a dozen Stinger missiles, the coveted and deadly shoulder-fired anti-aircraft weapon system lusted after by terrorists and aspirant armies worldwide.
  • (12) It will inevitably be a custodial sentence.” The facts of the case were not given in court, but the Guardian understands that on New Year’s Eve Sheppard placed a home-made stinger made of nails and plywood across a road close to Concorde House in Emersons Green, a police base to the east of the city centre.
  • (13) The institute has detected a surge this spring in one of the most poisonous species, the mauve stinger or Pelagia noctiluca , along the coast of Catalonia and Valencia.
  • (14) 1% sorbic acid also induced more edema in stingers (p less than 0.02).
  • (15) The same protein has, however, been reported to be sorted by an indirect pathway through transcytosis from the basolateral to the apical cell surface in hepatocytes (Bartles, J.R., Feracci, H., M., Stinger, B., and Hubbard, A.L.
  • (16) "Great midfield, solid defense, but absolutely no chance of scoring when they should..." 8.12pm BST 26 min: Jorge Jesus, managing Benfica while on secondment from 1980s American MOR rock group called Boston or Journey or Commute or something, is starting to look anxious, probably because Chelsea are starting to grind their way forward and Oscar has just got their first shot on target, a decent stinger from 20 yards.
  • (17) Stingers and non-stingers reacted similarly to open, cumulative SLS irritation as measured with transepidermal water loss.
  • (18) It's the element of surprise – a hidden stinger in a cosy chat, something unusually personal from the grand inquisitor – that works.
  • (19) Emma Sheppard, who has been convicted in Bristol of damaging police cars with a stinger device.
  • (20) Most American weapons, including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, were channelled by the Pakistanis to the Hezb-i-Islami faction of the mujahideen led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.