What's the difference between ner and nerd?

Ner


Definition:

  • (adv. & a.) nearer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Nurses Evaluation Rating Scale (NERS) consists of 16 items designed to capture salient dimensions of psychopathology and nursing care requirements for psychiatric patients.
  • (2) Using electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) it is shown that nuclear extracts from young radish leaves (NER) contain a protein fraction which binds to specific sequences in the radish ES.
  • (3) At the time of E2-capsule removal (0 h) large increases in nuclear estradiol receptor (NER) levels were seen in anterior pituitary, preoptic area, and hypothalamus (HYP).
  • (4) Correspondingly, although the hypothalamic NER levels were equally elevated 24 hr after either a low or a high dose of EB, these receptor concentrations remained high at 36 and 48 hr post EB, only in those animals that received the high estrogen dose.
  • (5) A good friend and NER supporter was quick to remind me that SKC's 3-0 win at Sporting Park in August against his team was a drama-filled event where two NER players saw red in the second half.
  • (6) Breast cancer tissue from 95 women was simultaneously assayed for three receptors: cytosolic estrogen (CER), cytosolic progesterone (CPR), and nuclear estrogen (NER).
  • (7) By adapting a method for DNA-footprinting using impure extracts of ner overproducing cells, we were able to determine that the ner-binding sites are located between nucleotides 1026 and 1058 from the Mu left end.
  • (8) The Ner protein of bacteriophage Mu negatively regulates transcription initiated at the early promoter and at the major repressor promoter.
  • (9) High resistance to mastitis was determined in the progeny of AO-4, EM-01, NC-17, NB-10, NEB-15, NUN-3, Nx-33 bulls, while opposite results were recorded in the progeny of NAR-45, NAR-47, NER-01, NOM-19 and REN-100 bulls.
  • (10) Using a number of criteria, a generalized ranking order of the toxicity of the compounds was drawn up: TRA > ETR > ACIT > 13CRA > 4HPR > TZR identical to NBR > NER identical to 13CNER.
  • (11) Black patients whose tumors contained both CER and NER had a significantly better time to recurrence than those whose tumors lacked these receptors, while in Asian women the presence of CER alone, or CER together with NER, or CER, NER, and CPR, was indicative of a significantly longer disease-free period.
  • (12) TMF contains leucine-zipper amino acid motifs and exhibits homology in its DNA binding domain with the phage-encoded DNA binding protein Ner.
  • (13) The content of UEBP (NUEBP) and ER (NER) in the liver were determined using the quantitative methods for differential specific determination of the E2-binding sites of these proteins.
  • (14) Irrigation with the Ner river water increased the copper content of the soil ten times.
  • (15) The NERS appears to be a promising instrument for longitudinal, daily evaluations of inpatient psychopathology as seen in the routine clinical practice of psychiatric nurses.
  • (16) Among 25 patients with CER- the rare occurrence of NER+ in only three patients did not suggest any clinical implication.
  • (17) Both teams have a lot of pride at stake, and as I review side-by-side stats from the regular season rounded to whole percentages, the two lead in shutouts, and are close to even on passing accuracy (SKC's 78% to NER's 76%) and duels won (SKC's 50% to NER's 48%).
  • (18) NER worked hard to win a playoff spot, (the first since 2009), and SKC has evolved over the season even if Vermes is criticized for rarely changing tactics.
  • (19) The main objective was to determine whether the addition of NER assay to the currently accepted practice with only CER and CPR could improve the predictive capacity of receptors.
  • (20) Results indicated that NER levels changed significantly throughout pregnancy and that the magnitude and direction of change was site specific.

Nerd


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
  • (2) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
  • (3) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
  • (4) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
  • (5) This target audience includes not just those young people taking part in state-sponsored sports and defence training or patriotic youth groups, but also nerds who love western videogames and superheroes.
  • (6) "I'm a nerd who likes to keep his private life private," he said.
  • (7) Whereas Crow tended to rely on his rhetoric and his street-fighter smarts, Whelan is more of a data nerd – part barrow boy, part actuary.
  • (8) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
  • (9) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
  • (10) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
  • (11) And it would be nothing short of condescending for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher to have concocted some fictional spunky-girl nerd character or a wise female comp sci professor in an attempt to make their film more female-friendly.
  • (12) "Adam had this typical nerd look: belts, tucked-in shirt.
  • (13) There are duelling nerds in sports jackets and a panicky associate producer (inevitably and infuriatingly female) who is smarter than her ditzy persona would have you believe.
  • (14) 2.16pm BST Moyes music I'm something of a music nerd, so do keep the suggestions for Dave's iPod coming.
  • (15) "Really in those early days the web was just for nerds like me, if you wanted some tech advice or needed to find out how to do something.
  • (16) And for those who think interplanetary exploration is just nonsense for space nerds, the same lessons could surely be applied closer to home.
  • (17) So then I grew up and I stopped taking nerd-drugs, and about the same time, Starbucks opened in the UK, whereupon I took to getting double espressos, except they were never big enough.
  • (18) The open source community are geeks and nerds and they created the current inequality in technology.'
  • (19) June 18, 2014 2.13pm BST Paul Doyle has spent the last few hours in a dark corner of the office, nerding it up on Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
  • (20) His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" – people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens.

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