What's the difference between luce and puce?

Luce


Definition:

  • (n.) A pike when full grown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Luce's choice theory was used to analyze subjects' responses.
  • (2) In both applications, a GRT model accounted for the identification data better than Luce's (1963) biased-choice model.
  • (3) In 1954 the BBFC banned the Marlon Brando biker flick The Wild One outright (it was eventually released here in 1968), while the following year Clare Booth Luce, as US ambassador to Italy, intervened to prevent The Blackboard Jungle being shown in competition at Venice.
  • (4) Luce's choice theory provided the psychophysical basis for investigating the ability of cerebral-palsied children to detect passive movement of the elbow joint.
  • (5) In 1987 her arts minister, Richard Luce, announced that "the only test of our ability to succeed is whether we can attract enough customers."
  • (6) The second stage involves both template matching of the transformed test stimulus with each of the stored internal representations of the characters within the set and response selection, which is assumed to conform to the unbiased choice model of Luce (1963).
  • (7) A difficult discrimination context produced greater complexity effects than an easy discrimination context, consistent with Folk and Luce (1987).
  • (8) Also, Cardiff City sacked the French midfielder Kevin Sainte-Luce after he was found guilty, but not jailed, for assaulting two women.
  • (9) Another official noted that the FCO minister Richard Luce suggested "we should try to prevent the press from getting wind of such training".
  • (10) Luce ends with a cautious endorsement of Barack Obama : [T]his is no time to gamble.
  • (11) The experiment of category judgments of horizontal line lengths was performed in three conditions of stimulus presentation sequence, in order to examine whether the sequential dependencies of this type might be explained with the attention band theory which Green & Luce (1974) proposed.
  • (12) To follow the success of Call the Midwife on Sunday evening, Harris has recently optioned Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mysteries.
  • (13) Using special enzyme purifications, Sumper and Luce presented evidence that self-replicating RNA not present ab initio can grow out of 'template-free' incorporation mixtures.
  • (14) Dr Luce reviews recent changes in the organization and delivery of critical care and argues that the utilization and quality of critical care units can be improved through a combination of strategies.
  • (15) Both the Luce choice model and the informed guessing model (a new model having a simple and elegant process interpretation) provided excellent fits to the data.
  • (16) Carrington, who resigned after the invasion with the two other FCO ministers, Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce, wrote to John Nott, the defence secretary, three times early in 1982 trying to persuade him to reverse the decision to withdraw the survey ship HMS Endurance from the south Atlantic.
  • (17) Acknowledging that the nature of the intensive care environment makes applying ethical principles difficult, Luce urges physicians to carry out their obligations to serve the interests of their patients.
  • (18) Three extended versions of the Bradley-Terry-Luce model are discussed and used to assess scale values for the criteria as well as for order effects.
  • (19) Luce applies five principles of medical ethics -- beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, disclosure, and social justice -- to issues that often arise in critical care medicine.
  • (20) Her co-author, Dr Stephanie Luce, called the reversal “a promising sign” for New York’s workers, and added “the data show once again that union membership greatly improves workers’ wages.” Another piece of evidence suggesting that the outlook for workers is changing overall: an economic measure called labor’s share of income is spiking upwards.

Puce


Definition:

  • (a.) Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
  • (2) Formation of the light harvesting complex B800-850 (LHII) of Rhodobacter capsulatus requires the expression of more than the three known genes specific for that complex (pucA, pucB and pucE) encoding the alpha, beta and gamma subunits of LHII, respectively.
  • (3) To dissect the pucC, pucD and pucE genes from pucB and pucA and independently regulate them, they were placed under control of the nifHDK promoter.
  • (4) We love to categorise: Amis is the money-grubbing bloke who needed a big advance to fix his dodgy teeth; Stoppard is that clever fellow with a neat line in cod Shakespeare; Pinter is the chap who goes puce, tells journalists to fuck off, and is forever banging on about Iraq or the Kurds or the iniquities of US imperialism.
  • (5) Vote Leave, remember, was meant to be the moderate, judicious voice of Euroscepticism, distinct in manner and content from the vulgar nationalism conveyed by swivel-eyed, puce-cheeked Kippers.
  • (6) When submerged in red wine, her majesty’s face on the current paper notes goes a puce colour, but stays fresh on polymer, and can just be wiped clean.
  • (7) Analysis of the pucD and pucE genes led to the conclusion that the products of these genes stabilize the B800-850 complex.
  • (8) As the anguished, bearded face of the new marketing manager went puce with the effects of excess cocaine and the camera stayed right on him, it became apparent to me that this was art of a very high order indeed.
  • (9) Saturdays, ville-saintes.fr charentais Porte de Vanves flea market, Paris Photograph: Alamy The Porte de Vanves marché aux puces is still peopled by locals eager to help you practise your French.

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