What's the difference between musing and mussing?

Musing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than his extensive musings on art and politics, Morris is perhaps better known for his wallpaper and fabric designs of the late Victorian period.
  • (2) But if you have less financial support, that difference does hit you.” “As a generation, I don’t think we take enough interest in what’s going on,” she muses.
  • (3) There’s something rather Churchillian about him,” mused one of David Davis’s admirers in a recent TV profile.
  • (4) I might play him at centre-forward next time,” Hodgson mused.
  • (5) Cotton's interview with Paloma Faith on Tuesday in which the singer plugged her latest recording and mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag has attracted particular criticism.
  • (6) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
  • (7) When the narrative voice ventriloquises the metamorphosed Gregor to muse "Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
  • (8) Asked about the status of his own job, the press secretary joked “I’m right here”, telling reporters, in a belligerent line that could have been uttered by his impersonator Melissa McCarthy: “You can keep taking your selfies.” The president was busy sowing confusion by trying a new passive-aggressive tone on Twitter , musing: “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out.
  • (9) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (10) With respect to the MUSE 11 antigen, positive incidence was found in 17 out of 26 pancreatic cancer patients (65%), and in 1 out of 13 chronic pancreatitis patients (8%).
  • (11) He muses that they may not have found the right approach.
  • (12) In the end it's maybe just cultural differences and an ability to align personal with corporate longer term goals," he muses.
  • (13) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
  • (14) This article contains personal and professional musings on becoming and being an old woman.
  • (15) Twin muses of Liam Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix added up to louche tailoring, flower prints and urban staples like a swagger-tastic Gallagher parka.
  • (16) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
  • (17) But sadly, mainstream music culture has always thrived on competition, creating what the media always calls "catfights", says Kristin Hersh, now a solo artist, but in the 80s the frontwoman of the influential American band Throwing Muses.
  • (18) But then you might been seen as a separatist,” the presenter mused.
  • (19) And last week, he let his exasperation be known on Twitter – first taking aim at the Washington Post for quoting anonymous sources while musing about his future and then chastising NBC’s Today show for producing a political package from a tour he took of an embattled housing complex in Jacksonville, Florida, subsidized by the federal government.
  • (20) He mused: "It's a unique opportunity for a journalist to be in this environment.

Mussing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muss

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While studying the ultrastructure of rat celiac nodes, it was stated that lemmocytes from the intercellular plexus develop around separate neuronal processes spiral membranes and multilayer membranes in the shape of concentric "musses".
  • (2) Tory pundits jeered that the pretty boy, the effete “Dauphin” of Canadian politics, was about to get his famous hair badly mussed.
  • (3) Almost as soon as two HIV-prevention activists set up outside the pharmacy in the outskirts of Moscow with two huge backpacks of supplies, a skinny young man with mussed hair and an impish grin quickly walked up to them.
  • (4) Eight anticoagulant rodenticides were used against Rattus norvegicus, R. r. frugivorous and Muss musculus.
  • (5) Three of those charged on Monday – Mohamed Farah, Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman and Hanad Mustafe Musse – had previously been stopped at a New York City airport in November along with 19-year-old Hamza Ahmed, but had not been charged.
  • (6) A doe-eyed stare and mussed-up hair denotes natural beauty, as if you've just woken up and can't help looking like this.
  • (7) Then you'll muss it up with your fingers as soon as you're out of his eyeline and pray that it'll look better once it's washed.
  • (8) For primary molar amalgams the 4-year survival rates "estimate" ist ein Schätzwert--wenn der Autor es so gemeint hat, muss "estimate" stehenbleiben, andernfalls heisst es "iate" (= Quote) were 67% for Class 1 restorations and for 55% Class 2 fillings.
  • (9) Methyl methane-sulfonate (MMS)-sensitive, radiation-induced mutants of Aspergillus were shown to define nine new DNA repair genes, musK to musS.
  • (10) If you're a woman reading this – or, more importantly, looking at the pictures – you will know exactly what I'm talking about: you probably feel like telling me there's a wasp near my hair, just so you can reach out and muss it up a little.
  • (11) This, say campaigners, is because children are unwilling to speak out against their families and communities and that is why Faduma, along with her daughter, Lul Musse, and granddaughter, Samira Hashi, have agreed to explain how – even in a loving and close-knit family such as theirs – such a custom can be perpetuated.
  • (12) (Hochstrasser, K., Muss, M., and Werle, E. (1967) Z. Physiol.
  • (13) Previous injection of cathergen (+)-cyanidonol-3) decreased the region of hepatocytes necrosis, stabilized microvessels diameter and increased muss cells degranulation.
  • (14) As foreign minister, Boris Johnson now has to lie in the bed he made himself” Nikolaus Blome (@NikolausBlome) Es gibt doch noch Gerechtigkeit: Als Außenminister muss Boris #Johnson die Suppe (mit) auslöffeln, die er seinem Land eingebrockt hat... July 13, 2016 Sweden’s former prime minister Carl Bildt was among those despairing over the decision.
  • (15) Hair carefully mussed, suit slightly awry, he deadpanned the line he knew would guarantee his place on the front pages and in the comment columns for days and weeks to come.
  • (16) Jacob Varghese from Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, Luke Hilakari from the Victorian Trades Hall, Waleed Muss from the board of directors of Rise and Brigid Arthur from the Brigidine Asylum seeker project are also board members.

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