What's the difference between nub and nun?

Nub


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To push; to nudge; also, to beckon.
  • (n.) A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Out of the latter, NUB congenital defect was in 4, total epispadia in 1, spina bifida in 1 patient.
  • (2) In the case of S. enteritidis NUB 31, the effect of CPS-K was detectable only when more than 20 mug per mouse was injected.
  • (3) And that is the nub of the FT report: grim reading for chancellor George Osborne as he puts the finishing touches to his 19 March budget.
  • (4) The peak CPS-K effect on infection with S. enteritidis NUB 1 was seen when given immediately before bacterial challenge.
  • (5) Some wore "slave bracelets" made out of boot laces and walked with "Black Power canes", sticks with the nub carved into a clenched fist.
  • (6) This is the nub of the issue and the foreign secretary's statement seems to mask a much more complex picture.
  • (7) Four new nuB mutations in the DNA gyrase-binding site between the G and I genes were also sequenced and found to be identical to the nuB103 mutation sequenced previously.
  • (8) The nub of Zittrain’s concern is that the practice of shaping what stays and what goes from the database is hopelessly individualistic.
  • (9) The promotion of infection with S. enteritidis NUB 1 by CPS-K depended upon its dose, the effect of CPS-K being demonstrable up to as little as 0.2 mug per mouse.
  • (10) This is the nub of what I am going to call, because I've always secretly wanted to be a mathematician, the "Birmingham Liberty Paradox".
  • (11) And I'm hopeful that we're getting closer to the nub of the problem.
  • (12) The nub of the controversy was his comment that "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years" if Mr Thurmond, who ran a campaign to keep blacks out of white schools and neighbourhoods, had won the presidency in 1948.
  • (13) Both have seen very bleak scenarios depicted by either side in attempts to scare the electorate, for example with the idea that a yes vote will usher in a very authoritarian regime.” In his presentations, Baldini, who will vote yes, tries to go to what he sees as the nub of the issue.
  • (14) Our failing economy needs stimulating and your nub of grey meat and Mars egg are simply not sufficient.
  • (15) Why does it matter whether other people believe it or not?” I suspect that gets to the nub of it.
  • (16) As a result of enumeration of bacterial populations in the peritoneal washing, blood, liver and spleen, it was revealed that CPS-K promoted in vivo growth of S. enteritidis NUB 1 and NUB 31.
  • (17) The NUB-6 cell line consisted of two distinct cell subtypes, small typical neuroblasts and larger spheroid-forming cells, while NUB-7 was homogeneously neuroblastic.
  • (18) All the children were operated on: NUB reconstruction according to Davis, bilateral uretero-cystostomy according to Coen.
  • (19) Two new neuroblastoma (NB) cell lines, NUB-6 and NUB-7, were established from recurrent and primary NB tumours respectively and identified conclusively as NB by their phenotypic characteristics, catecholamine production and N-myc amplification.
  • (20) Urodynamic studies showed the absence of detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia and confirmed organic nature of NUB lesion.

Nun


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
  • (n.) A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.
  • (n.) The smew.
  • (n.) The European blue titmouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The working women lost their elasticity more rapidly than the nuns, and the male blue collar workers lost their elasticity more rapidly than the male white collar workers.
  • (2) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
  • (3) At least 14 At least 14 monks, nuns and former monks are believed to have set themselves on fire in the past year, mostly in traditionally Tibetan areas of Sichuan that have been focal points of opposition to central government control.
  • (4) It’s an issue highlighted in the 2013 film Philomena, starring Judi Dench, which tells the true-story of an Irish woman searching for her son after being pressured to give him up for adoption by nuns when she was a teenager.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
  • (6) On Monday, a nun became the first woman to set fire to herself , dying as a result.
  • (7) There are clearly lots of nice, benign, kind nuns who'd be a bit miffed to be lumped in with all the others."
  • (8) Mass graves containing hundreds of men, women and children were found close by and not far down the road, stood a convent with blood-stained walls where nuns were gang-raped and massacred .
  • (9) Sister Cristina's moment of metamorphosis from singing nun into global internet sensation involves four judges listening to her with their backs turned, as the Voice format demands, then spinning around when the cheering of the audience becomes hysterical and they've heard enough to know they want this mystery singer on their team.
  • (10) I can't spell them in French but they are basically little nuns full of cream.
  • (11) The present study describes relationships between TMJD and selected health parameters in a population of 75- to 94-year-old Roman Catholic sisters (nuns).
  • (12) Base substitutions in boxA and the proximal portion of boxB impaired Nun termination, while base substitutions between boxA and boxB, in the distal portion of boxB, and immediately downstream from boxB had no appreciable effect.
  • (13) The nuns who were supposed to care for him were "bordering on the psychotic" in the way they maltreated him and other children, the witness said.
  • (14) If you are lucky, one of the few resident nuns will show you around.
  • (15) Despite these similarities, Nun is required neither for the lytic nor the lysogenic pathway of phage development.
  • (16) 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.
  • (17) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
  • (18) The works of this period include Revelation and Fall (1966), in which a nun in blood-red costume and a megaphone shrieks expressionist poems of Georg Trakl, the Missa super l’Homme Armé (1968), a parody of a Latin Mass, and above all Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969).
  • (19) The termination defect of all of the base substitution mutations was relieved by increasing the level of Nun protein; in contrast, the deletions and a multiple-base substitution did not regain full Nun responsiveness at elevated Nun concentrations.
  • (20) The Nun protein of the lambdoid phage HK022 blocks lambda growth by terminating transcription at (or near) the lambda nut sites.

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