What's the difference between mot and witticism?

Mot


Definition:

  • (Sing. pres. ind.) of Mot
  • (pl.) of Mot
  • (v.) May; must; might.
  • (n.) A word; hence, a motto; a device.
  • (n.) A pithy or witty saying; a witticism.
  • (n.) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After administration of 1 mu g of choleragen, lymphocytopenia was mot marked at 24 hr; recovery occurred 6 to 10 days later.
  • (2) The findings of the present investigation suggest that measurement of PRL serum levels in MOT-test could be of value in early diagnosis of Sheehan syndrome.
  • (3) With current immunosuppressive protocols MOTS projects 1-year patient survival rates of 95% after kidney transplantation, 88% after heart transplantation and 81% after liver transplantation.
  • (4) Rats receiving an isogeneic multiorgan transplant (MOT) survived more than 150 days.
  • (5) It is also of interest to note that the tumour was mot able to penetrate those areas where the cellulose acetate filter was present.
  • (6) This was mot marked in the older age groups and the patients with malignant disease.
  • (7) The proteins essential for energizing the motor, the Mot and switch proteins, are thought to exist as multisubunit complexes peripheral to the basal body.
  • (8) The Tn10 insertions in strain LT-2 were mapped to loci in regions II (flh and mot) and III (fli) of the flagellar genes, and the mutations were transduced into the mouse-virulent S. typhimurium strains SR-11 and SL1344.
  • (9) The distribution of Fla, Mot, and Che mutational sites within each gene was examined.
  • (10) Genetic analysis by phiCr30-mediated transduction revealed 27 linkage groups for the fla and stub-forming mutations, and three linkage groups for the mot mutations.
  • (11) Sweden is almost unique in that its government through its foreign office gave financial support to a carefully thought out proposal from Svenska Läkare Mot Kärnvapen (Swedish Physicians against Nuclear Weapons) for a youth education project on the nuclear issue.
  • (12) The nonmotile (mot::Tn10) mutants reacted with H-specific antisera and expressed paralyzed flagella that were indistinguishable from wild-type flagella.
  • (13) He’s seemingly supportive of every Gove policy, and comes up with bone-headed initiatives of his own – teacher MOTs and Hippocratic oaths being the most worrying.
  • (14) Updated at 8.32am BST 7.58am BST Kicking the MOT's tires Mario Draghi's bond-buying scheme is rumoured to be called the “monetary outright transactions” * plan.
  • (15) Fla sites were fairly broadly distributed, whereas Mot and Che sites were more narrowly defined.
  • (16) Some recovery specialists offer membership benefits and special vouchers, such as half price MOTs for new and existing members.
  • (17) An exception to this general pattern is assembly of the Mot proteins into the motor, which appears to be possible at any time during flagellar assembly.
  • (18) If the mot juste was always a priority – "I suppose we all have our foibles.
  • (19) The mucous secretion is not affected, whereas, in correlation with changes in salt secretion, the change in ATPase activity is mot conspicuous.
  • (20) On every page, someone, somehow has replaced every queasy showbiz bon mot with those two common nouns.

Witticism


Definition:

  • (n.) A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (2) He enquired as to Morrissey's Christian name and, on being told "Steven", muttered: "I knew it was either that or Jim..." Meanwhile Morrissey remained his shy and retiring self, entering the conversation now and then with a clear point or a dry witticism.
  • (3) Favourite line: Goldfinger, preparing to dissect 007's groin with his laser beam: "Choose your next witticism carefully, Mr Bond, it may be your last."
  • (4) Unkind though it is to remind him of his own cruel witticism aimed at Gordon Brown when he was at his weakest, there is now more than something of Mr Bean about Dr Cable.
  • (5) The question evaporates, however, in the dry witticism, "It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect."
  • (6) The theory is used to conceptualize the humor elicited by jokes, witticisms, and social events that are neither intended nor expected to be humorous.
  • (7) Sadly, tangential forms of humor such as fun, mirth, frivolity, songs, jokes, puns, witticisms, and other forms of humor are not as readily addressed or investigated.
  • (8) ", "Little Princess", "Sweet and tasty" and, of course, the eternally hilarious witticisms upon the acronym FCUK.
  • (9) Everyone knows this putdown: it's nearly as famous as your witticism about everyone thinking rich men need wives.
  • (10) So, here was a polite speech, given to serried ranks of grey-haired architectural folk who laughed politely at studied witticisms and clapped politely when it was over.
  • (11) Nor is that witticism (originally from a 1942 Wall Street Journal article) a particularly good example of the construction that linguists call "preposition stranding", as in "Who did you talk to?"
  • (12) In some cases, this can lead to a pleasant surprise: long-lost pictures, an old witticism, a fragment of a distant conversation.

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