What's the difference between mucker and pucker?

Mucker


Definition:

  • (n.) A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person.
  • (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Johnson's schoolfriend and Bullingdon mucker, Darius Guppy, leapt to Johnson's defence in the Spectator correct , though I use the word "defence" loosely.
  • (2) Tapio Liller reckons the CDU will have wished they could have given their old coalition muckers the FDP a few more votes to get them over the line...
  • (3) So, you invite David Cameron's mucker Jeremy Clarkson to plug his latest DVD and the Top Gear Christmas special on The One Show on the day of the biggest public sector strike for many a long year.
  • (4) No sooner had Ratner persuaded his mucker Eddie Murphy to act as the show's host (an inspired choice, we give him that) then he was promptly ejected from his co-producer role after some rather unwise words during the promotional rounds for his new film as director, Tower Heist.
  • (5) For example, the Mucker concert hall is Birmingham’s only surviving Victorian music hall.
  • (6) At least my old mucker Germaine Greer showed us her bits and now many women, through a mixture of Wilhelm Reich, Tantra and good old mirrors, know what they are made of.

Pucker


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.
  • (n.) A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
  • (n.) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As in the protein sample, a tendency for the cis-proline residues to have the DOWN pucker was observed, but the effect was less pronounced.
  • (2) The ultrastructural findings of the macular pucker removed by vitreoretinal surgery are demonstrated.
  • (3) Sugar puckers and proton distances are very sensitive criteria to monitor molecular dynamics.
  • (4) Intranucleotide proton-proton distances combined with the knowledge of sugar puckers have been used to fix the glycosidic bond torsion angle (chi).
  • (5) High proliferative activities were found in 4 of 5 PVR membranes, in 9 of 14 PDR membranes, in 6 of 11 recurrent membranes after intraocular silicone oil tamponade, and in 2 of 6 macular pucker membranes.
  • (6) No "flips" to the opposite puckering for this ring were found in the simulations starting from the global minimum, although such a transition was observed for a trajectory initiated with one of the higher local minimum energy conformations.
  • (7) Thus, flexibility in psi as well as in omega and omega, and in the sugar pucker is indicated.
  • (8) These facts suggest that astrocytes play an important role in preretinal membrane formation in macular pucker.
  • (9) The free duplex adopts a regular right-handed B-type conformation in which all glycosidic bond angles are anti and all sugar puckers lie in the C2'-endo range.
  • (10) All cases occurred in eyes with existing retinal holes or tears, including eight cases of macular pucker after previous retinal detachment.
  • (11) The conformations of the terminal residues of helix I, which corresponds to bases (-1)-11 and 108-120 of native 5S RNA, are less well-determined, and their sugar puckers are intermediate between C2' and C3'-endo, on average.
  • (12) Different ester substituents affect 1,4-dihydropyridine ring puckering to a small extent in most cases.
  • (13) Scalar couplings from correlated experiments and interproton distances from NOESY experiments at short mixing times have been used to determine glycosidic angles, sugar puckers, and other conformational features.
  • (14) There appeared to be a possibility that this muscular thickening might give rise to the rectosigmoidal mucosal puckering often seen through a sigmoidoscope.
  • (15) Intranucleotide NOEs from the sugar protons H1', H2', and H3' to the base protons were used to determine the conformation of each nucleotide (puckers and glycosidic torsion angles).
  • (16) The most flexible conformational angles in the structure are the glycosidic angle and the sugar pucker.
  • (17) Of these, 89% of the cis-proline residues exhibit the DOWN pucker, while the trans-proline residues, on average, are about evenly distributed between the two forms.
  • (18) The folding of the polynucleotide chain is accomplished either solely by rotations around the P-O bonds or in concert with rotations around the nucleotide C4'-C5' bond with or without changes in the sugar ring pucker.
  • (19) Postoperative proliferative vitreoretinopathy occurred in six eyes (10%) and macular pucker in two (3%).
  • (20) The glycosidic torsional angle, chiCN = -28.4 degrees, is in the anti region; the sugar pucker is C(2')exo-C(3')endo in a nearly pure 32H twist; and the conformation of C(4')-C(5') is gauche-gauche.

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