What's the difference between meow and purr?

Meow


Definition:

  • (v. i. & n.) See 6th and 7th Mew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The survey found that, among clubbers who reported having taken ecstasy within the past month, three quarters had also taken mephedrone – known in the media as "meow meow" – within the same period.
  • (2) #p0rn What is genuinely concerning is that Meow has an option to hide a person's age, which could be very problematic in the wrong hands.
  • (3) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
  • (4) The idea of connecting with people all over the world is a nice one, and in this Meow has the potential to be the pen pal scheme for the internet generation.
  • (5) It's called Meow , and it's the chat app which is currently the most popular free app in the UK iTunes store.
  • (6) One article is headlined "The miserable meowing of Pussy Riot" .
  • (7) Returning from a meal with two friends whom I share a houseboat with on the Thames; a meowing above our heads alerted us to her.
  • (8) They took mephedrone – also known as M-Cat and Meow Meow – along with alcohol and methadone, the heroin substitute, while clubbing.
  • (9) We shall overcomb.” “Cats for Trump, the time is Meow.” “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” Inside, every seat had been taken and the floor filled quickly with a standing room only crowd.
  • (10) Its website also featured a pro-Kremlin article, later deleted, attacking the "meowing" of the punk band Pussy Riot.
  • (11) Mephedrone , the former legal high known as "meow meow", is as popular as cocaine among teenagers and young adults despite being banned last year, according to official figures.
  • (12) When we visited her with the company president the day before she died, she stood up and meowed as if she was begging him to hold her,” Yamaki said.
  • (13) The pride celebration is a platform for that dialogue to happen,” San Francisco Pride board president Michelle Meow said.
  • (14) Photograph: Hannah Jane Parkinson I suspect that clicking "I understand" is not, as you would assume, an acknowledgement of understanding, but an actionable OK for Meow to spam your notifications list.
  • (15) The frustrating thing about Meow is that it could be a really strong app.
  • (16) By 2010, the drug, now dubbed meow meow by journalists, had become the fourth most popular drug on the market, after marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy.
  • (17) "We were all sleeping when the storm hit, but our cat started meowing so loudly that we all woke up," said Quinn Capacio, 22, as he traipsed through the streets with bottles of water and an umbrella.
  • (18) The deaths of two young men in Scunthorpe last Monday that have been linked to the new "legal high" mephedrone (colloquially known as plant food, meow meow, m-cat, or bubbles) has raised a great deal of public concern and loud calls for it to be made illegal.
  • (19) Mephedrone (also known as M-cat and meow meow), once considered as a drug with a positive low-risk profile, now tops the negative rankings for after-effects and unwanted effects on mental health.
  • (20) Meow shares its DNA with Chatroulette , Whisper and (RIP little guy) MSN messenger .

Purr


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To murmur as a cat. See Pur.
  • (n.) The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Expression of glyA, encoding serine hydroxymethyltransferase activity, was elevated in a purR mutant compared with a wild-type strain.
  • (2) A bulldozer on rail wheels purrs up on the other line and begins pawing at the stones.
  • (3) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
  • (4) Nitrogen control was found to be mediated by the glnLG gene products, and purine repression required a functional purR gene product.
  • (5) Though I could have sworn that you did actually purr,” Dave recalled.
  • (6) AMP but not GMP is needed for binding, and purR mutants are deficient in the binding substance.
  • (7) The PurR protein bound specifically to a DNA fragment carrying the glyA control region, as determined by gel retardation.
  • (8) Cross pathway regulation of pyrC by PurR may provide one mechanism to coordinate synthesis of purine and pyrimidine nucleotides.
  • (9) "Oh, the lords absolutely love Justin," purrs one senior peer.
  • (10) Both operator constitutive and repressor type (purR) mutations have been identified.
  • (11) The purR product functions in the common control of several genetically distinct enzymes that participate before the formation of IMP.
  • (12) The regulation of the guanine operon is regulated by some other mechanism independent of purR.
  • (13) A highly conserved sequence in the promoter regions of these two genes is similar to the pur operator, which is the binding site for the purine repressor (PurR).
  • (14) Gene purB is regulated threefold by the purine pool and purR.
  • (15) The purEK operon is regulated by the purR gene product, and a purR regulatory-protein-binding site related to the sequences found in other pur loci was identified in the purEK operon control region.
  • (16) In the film, there is a killingly funny vignette in which Joshua McGuire’s Ruskin, who cannot pronounce his Rs, purrs with self-satisfaction at his own ideas – the critic who got the cream.
  • (17) Analysis of a purR-lacZ transcriptional fusion indicated that purR expression is autoregulated.
  • (18) Mutations that changed the binding sequence toward the consensus sequence had no significant effect on either PurR binding or purine-mediated repression.
  • (19) Site-directed mutagenesis was used to change the PurR binding site in the control region of a glyA-lac gene fusion.
  • (20) Two independent purR mutations were isolated which abolished repression of purF and purF-lacZ.