What's the difference between morse and torse?

Morse


Definition:

  • (n.) The walrus. See Walrus.
  • (n.) A clasp for fastening garments in front.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First, contact your school, even if you are no longer a student there, recommends Ben Morse, head of Year 13 at the Piggott school, Reading.
  • (2) Auditory lateralization was investigated in 26 right-handed and 26 left-handed, normal subjects using seven different dichotic listening tests in each proband (free recall of digit lists, free recall of consonant-vowel (CV) syllables, four different CV syllable monitoring paradigms, and free recall of Morse codes).
  • (3) Although, among jobbing-actor roles in series such as Casualty, Lovejoy and Inspector Morse, he also appeared in the Dennis Potter drama Cream in My Coffee (1980), with Peggy Ashcroft; a TV version of Mr Jekyll and Hyde (1990) and Ending Up (1989), based on the Kingsley Amis novel about old buffers going grumbling to their doom.
  • (4) The receptor-linked tyrosine phosphatase RPTP alpha from human brain (Kaplan, R., Morse, B., Huebner, K., Croce, C., Howk, R., Ravera, M., Ricca, G., Jaye, M., and Schlessinger, J.
  • (5) The National Rifle Association said the election sent a clear message to lawmakers that they should protect gun rights and be accountable to their constituents, not to "anti-gun billionaires" – a swipe at the New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who supported Giron and Morse.
  • (6) Measured data were supplemented with Monte Carlo-calculated relative dose rate data generated using the MORSE code.
  • (7) Willett, Norman P. (University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, Pa.), and Guy E. Morse.
  • (8) He said that the money market desk had told compliance, then headed by Stephen Morse, about the decision to reduce the Libor submission.
  • (9) I first meet him as the 43-year-old sits in his Inspector Morse-style Jaguar outside Radio 2.
  • (10) Subsequently, a surface substance was obtained from strains 1142 or 1124 by the method of Morse.
  • (11) ITV1's prequel to Inspector Morse, Endeavour, has proved there is still life in the franchise, attracting an average audience of 6.5 million on Monday night.
  • (12) Timing measures were obtained from subjects instructed to tap a Morse key in synchrony with a metronome which marked a timing pattern consisting of alternating blocks of intervals of imperceptibly different duration.
  • (13) were tested on their ability to learn letter names of Braille configurations presented visually or tactually and to Morse Code signals presented aurally.
  • (14) Performance was higher for braille than for Morse code.
  • (15) The NAO comptroller and auditor general, Amyas Morse, recently refused to sign off the accounts of the Department for Education due to his opinion that “ the level of error and uncertainty in the statements to be both material and pervasive ”, which bears out Kerslake’s concern: Morse says he simply does not know whether academy schools are spending public money well enough.
  • (16) Wayne Morse of Oregon, the so-called "Tiger of the Senate", managed 22 hours 26 minutes to stall debate on an oil bill in 1953, while Robert La Follette Sr of Wisconsin kept going for 18 hours 23 minutes in 1908 to talk out a bill that would have allowed the US treasury to lend currency to banks during fiscal crises.
  • (17) However, the Guardian disclosed last month that the head of the NAO , Amyas Morse, appeared to undermine the process before it had even started by telling Hartnett that the inquiry would find "nothing of substance".
  • (18) At the time of the killings, Bales had been under heavy personal, professional and financial stress, Morse said.
  • (19) Just before he left the base, Morse said, Bales told a special forces soldier that he was unhappy with his family life, and that the troops should have been quicker to retaliate for a roadside bomb attack that claimed one soldier's leg.
  • (20) Our previous work has shown that 26 of 38 cases (68.4%) of primary adenocarcinoma of the colon exhibited significantly elevated levels of c-myc RNA compared to normal colonic mucosa (M. D. Erisman, P. G. Rothberg, R. E. Diehl, C. C. Morse, J. M. Spandorfer, and S. M. Astrin.

Torse


Definition:

  • (n.) A wreath.
  • (n.) A developable surface. See under Developable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) the facies superior trochleae tali) is a torse, the medial flanking facet (corresponding to the medial articular facet of the trochlea, i.e.
  • (2) A torsed, incarcerated Meckel's diverticulum was discovered and resected.
  • (3) Observation in these same children may allow a torsed edematous ovary to convert to a nonviable necrotic tissue necessitating oophorectomy.
  • (4) The sequential involvement of each testis with a nine month interval between respective torsions provides a unique example where each testis serves, sequentially, as a normal control for the torsed contralateral appendage.
  • (5) The remaining 2 patients had biopsy of the contralateral testis only because the torsed testis was infarcted completely.
  • (6) In 18 boys biopsy of the torsed testis only was performed, while in another 18 bilateral testis biopsy was obtained.
  • (7) This form of therapy may be applicable to all "torsed testes" regardless of viability.
  • (8) In adolescent boys the mean number of late spermatids also was diminished severely in the contralateral and torsed testes.
  • (9) All painful scrotal masses should be considered possible torsed testes, unless obvious predisposing factors exclude its diagnosis.