What's the difference between ogre and troll?

Ogre


Definition:

  • (n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Then the European commission and the council will start looking like an ogre here, and what the Daily Mail says – which is not true now – about hostility to the Brits inside the institutions will start being true."
  • (2) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
  • (3) We have constructed a P2 ogr deletion mutant by in vitro techniques.
  • (4) Phages carrying Cys or Ala in place of Tyr-42 gave burst sizes at least as high as P2 ogr+ in a rpoA+ strain; a Gly substitution also allowed P2 to grow in either a rpoA+ or rpoA109 background, but markedly reduced the burst size.
  • (5) There, proprietorial and remorselessly downbeat, like the ogre in Shrek, stands MigrationWatch UK.
  • (6) Essebsi has dismissed the word “taghaoul” (power grab) that the Marzouki camp has deployed, evoking the ogre (“ghoul”) of north African Berber and Arab legend.
  • (7) The repeat is not present in the promoter region of P2 ogr.
  • (8) We propose that the P4 delta and P2 ogr gene products bind the -55 region of the P4 and P2 late promoters.
  • (9) We have inserted the ogr gene into a plasmid under control of the leftward promoter and operator of bacteriophage lambda.
  • (10) The bacteriophage P2 ogr gene product, a 72-residue basic protein rich in cysteine and histidine, is a positive regulatory factor for phage late gene transcription in both P2 and satellite phage P4.
  • (11) Thermal induction of ogr gene expression in this plasmid results in overproduction of a small protein that has been shown by complementation to possess Ogr function.
  • (12) The bacteriophage P2 ogr gene encodes an 8.3-kDa protein that is a positive effector of P2 late gene transcription.
  • (13) P2 mutants (P2 ogr) able to overcome the gro109 block have been isolated in which synthesis of late P2 mRNA and phage proteins Is restored.
  • (14) It seems reasonable to assume that mutants which strongly affect development of the imaginal-specific central nervous system may evidence abnormalities during the late larval or pupal stages when the adult central nervous system is undergoing final assembly and might show a lethal phase prior to eclosion (as is true for mutations at the previously defined l(1)ogre locus).
  • (15) The cryptic ogr genes are constitutively transcribed, apparently at a higher level than the wild-type ogr gene in a P2 lysogen.
  • (16) We have made null mutants of the P2 ogr and P4 delta genes.
  • (17) Seen up close in Helsinki earlier this year, Putin did not look the ogre his critics sometimes make him out to be.
  • (18) The P2 ogr gene encodes a 72-amino-acid protein required for P2 late gene expression.
  • (19) Neither GDH or OGR mobility alone clearly differentiated all species, but their combined use provided unambiguous discrimination of all species except F. varium and F. mortiferum.
  • (20) The DNA sequence of the ogr gene containing the ogr1 mutation was determined.

Troll


Definition:

  • (n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
  • (v. t.) To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
  • (v. t.) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
  • (v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
  • (v. t.) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
  • (v. t.) To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
  • (v. i.) To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
  • (v. i.) To move rapidly; to wag.
  • (v. i.) To take part in trolling a song.
  • (v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
  • (n.) The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
  • (n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
  • (n.) A trolley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (2) Trolls called Kaepernick racial epithets , after all.
  • (3) (They also delivered an encouraging decision on patent trolls just this week.)
  • (4) Asked by a troll how long he planned to “live off” his Olympic success, and if he would ever do anything of consequence again, Rutherford suggested he might become a porn star or dabble in pottery instead.
  • (5) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
  • (6) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Oliver on Donald Trump: ‘A Klan-backed misogynist internet troll’ Hang on a minute: who am I as a Briton to interfere in the internal affairs of a foreign country?
  • (8) And I’m sorry, that will come before any internal party-political issue and I think I should be able to adopt that position without being attacked, without being subject to a nasty troll-form of politics.” On Tuesday the prime minister, David Cameron, promised to publish a comprehensive strategy on Syria in the form of a written response to a report by the foreign affairs select committee, which concluded that the government had failed to make the case for extending airstrikes.
  • (9) Indeed, the internet’s troll culture developed, at least in part, as a response to the inane “participation” offered by online marketers.
  • (10) Now, some are accustomed to Dawkins being a bit of a troll.
  • (11) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
  • (12) The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi hate site whose founder organizes harassing “troll storms” of abuse towards political opponents, surpassed the traffic ratings of Stormfront, a more traditional racist site, last July, according to the center’s analysis, becoming the most popular English-language far-right site.
  • (13) This is the dead centre of troll territory; what they're looking for is that sharp intake of breath; the collective, "How can you say that?"
  • (14) You should eat less cake’.” In response, Rushmore posted another picture with a defiant message for the troll.
  • (15) When women can be misogynist trolls, we need a feminist internet | Polly Toynbee Read more “We have got a very real problem with online abuse in this country,” she said.
  • (16) Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee carrying out a parallel inquiry, has said that at least 1,000 “paid internet trolls working out of a facility in Russia” were pumping anti-Clinton fake news into social media sites during the campaign.
  • (17) The most widely accepted definition of a troll is a provocateur – someone who says outrageous, extreme or abusive things to elicit a reaction.
  • (18) Trolls are not often in a rush to discuss their behaviour with a stranger who might spill their darkest deeds to the world.
  • (19) She admitted getting dates wrong, – giving both trials and the police three separate dates for the visits – but insisted the event, as Trolle later testified, was true.
  • (20) A variety of different forms of online abuse are highlighted on the site, from trolling (deliberately posting “offensive, upsetting or inflammatory comments online in an attempt to hurt and provoke a response”) to doxxing (publishing personal information about someone, including sex videos and photos, also known as revenge porn) and cyberstalking (“a pattern of online behaviour that is the long-term, intrusive and persistent pursuit of one person by another, making the victim feel frightened and distressed”).