What's the difference between mis and stir?

Mis


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Wrong; amiss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Confirming a low proliferative activity in CN and a high activity in melanomas (MIS, IM, MM), the results showed that dysplastic nevi (NAA, NCAA) had a proliferative activity intermediate between common nevi and melanomas.
  • (2) The group set aside £3.2bn to cover PPI mis-selling in 2011.
  • (3) Corbyn to complain to MoD about army chief's ‘political interference’ Read more Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn’s political mis-steps over the past 10 days have allowed his views to be dismissed as flaky and irresponsible – even where he is right, as in his warnings about kneejerk responses to terrorist attacks and, indeed, in his Armistice Day strictures about the requirement for the top brass to stay out of politics .
  • (4) More information is needed on mitotic time (TM) and apoptotic time (TA), in order to estimate cell doubling time from data on MIs and PIs.
  • (5) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
  • (6) There was a significant reduction of the mean MIS level in children with bilateral cryptorchidism compared with those with unilateral undescended testis (P less than .05).
  • (7) Hyperthermia combined with MIS and MMC enhanced the antitumor effects, as compared to hyperthermia with MMC, and with MMC plus MTR.
  • (8) A few ovotestes with intermediate levels of MIS activity had both an oviduct and an epididymis.
  • (9) The acute tolerability of rapid infusions of bidisomide or disopyramide was evaluated in normal conscious dogs and in conscious dogs 48 h after the creation of myocardial infarctions (MIs).
  • (10) There were 4 perioperative MIs (13%) and no deaths.
  • (11) Scandals such as the payment protection insurance mis-selling and the subprime mortgages in the US continue to weigh on the sector.
  • (12) It said departments and regulators had been “far too passive” in allowing compensation that could have been paid to mis-selling victims instead of claims managers.
  • (13) Furthermore, unlabeled anti-idiotypic MIS antibody competed for 125I rhMIS binding to A-431 vulvar carcinoma membranes.
  • (14) We conclude that, in general, analysing blastomeres is subject to less mis-diagnosis than polar body analysis, except in the case of dominant diseases which are caused by genes which lie extremely close to the centromere.
  • (15) Male fetuses are exposed to higher levels of androgens and Müllerian inhibiting substance (MIS).
  • (16) Asked about such mis-steps, Frieden said: “Ebola is scary.
  • (17) "We are now working hard to compensate customers who were mis-sold these products in the past.
  • (18) In contrast LH treatment produced no difference in either messenger RNA expression or immunohistochemical staining for MIS.
  • (19) Don't ignore the letter; your bank has written to you because it believes it may have mis-sold you PPI and this is your chance to respond and get a refund of your premiums.
  • (20) The report said: “In many cases, these companies merely package up payment protection insurance claims, but they typically charge between a quarter and a third of any compensation subsequently paid … the public bodies involved have been too slow in taking responsibility for this situation, and too passive in allowing it to happen.” The committee said firms’ cultures and the nature of their sales incentives have been key factors behind mis-selling.

Stir


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
  • (v. t.) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.
  • (v. t.) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
  • (v. t.) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
  • (v. i.) To move; to change one's position.
  • (v. i.) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
  • (v. i.) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
  • (v. i.) To rise, or be up, in the morning.
  • (n.) The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
  • (n.) Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
  • (n.) Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (2) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
  • (3) The apparent Km for K+-ATP was 2.1 mM when the incubation mixture was vigorously stirred, and the effect of stirring indicated that the kinetics of K+-ATP hydrolysis are limited by external diffusion.
  • (4) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
  • (5) This modification facilitated a wider range of application of the Kedem-Katchalsky equations to systems in which the solutions were stirred or unstirred.
  • (6) Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech at UC Berkeley last weekend, during the course of which she said many stirring things about the future awaiting the class of 2016.
  • (7) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
  • (8) Additionally, in 12 of 15 cases examined by Short-TI-IR (STIR) image, the trabecular structures and fluid collections in the subcutaneous tissue were shown more definitely in high signal intensity than by T2-weighted image.
  • (9) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
  • (10) We examined the effect of ethylene glycol (EG) concentration, in water, on O2 sensitivity, stirring effect, in vitro drift, in vitro response time, behaviour on the skin of newborn infants and in vivo response time.
  • (11) Stirring of the sample induced a significant decrease of neutrophils (P less than 0.001) but no changes of red blood cell (RBC) and platelet count.
  • (12) There was no potentiation when A119 alone was pre-stirred or left standing for several days in the presence of divalent cations prior to use.
  • (13) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (14) 3) After stirring for 1 and 5 minutes, there was a negative correlation (Spearmann's rank correlation coefficient test) between the pH values of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
  • (15) Simmer for 2 minutes then stir in the orange zest, orange blossom water and vanilla extract.
  • (16) And after stirring for 10 and 20 minutes, there was a negative correlation between the Ca concentrations of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
  • (17) Having stirred the viewer's emotional responsiveness, the art work provides a reliable "container" for the objectification of latent emotions.
  • (18) The inversion recovery sequence with short inversion time (STIR) will suppress signal from fat tissue and this is of particular value in differentiating dermoid from hemorrhagic cyst.
  • (19) At different intensities of medium stirring the lysins synthesizing activity was directly related to the activity of tricarboxylic acid cycle dehydrogenases.
  • (20) The experimental result of the quantitative determination of magnolol in Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis and its processed samples by HPLC has shown that the stir-fried sample has the highest content of magnolol among all sample and so does the ginger-fried sample among all ginger-processed samples.

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