What's the difference between pang and throe?

Pang


Definition:

  • (n.) A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
  • (v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Reading win promotion in the Championship play-off final against Swansea City on Monday – and, to be fair, even if they don't – a lot of managers will probably be feeling a pang of regret.
  • (2) Administration of furosemide induced marked increases in PRA, Ang I-ir, PAng II-ir and CSF Ang II-ir, however, neither plasma nor CSF angiotensinogen was changed.
  • (3) Elevation of sodium intake suppressed pANG II to minimal levels in nonpregnant sheep, but to only 25% of the control level in pregnant sheep.
  • (4) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
  • (5) I look around and everyone else seems to have invited Barbie into their children's toy chests without a pang of guilt.
  • (6) in the accompanying paper (L. T. Haber, P. P. Pang, D. I. Sobell, J.
  • (7) The influence of nifedipine treatment on plasma (PV) and extracellular fluid volume (ECV), the ratio of plasma volume to interstitial fluid volume (PV:IF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), renal clearances of Na+ and K+, plasma concentrations of renin (PRC), angiotensin II (pANG II), aldosterone (pAldo), adrenaline (PA) and noradrenaline (PNA) were studied in 18 consecutive patients with essential hypertension.
  • (8) A disgraceful display in any civilized society to be sure, but for fight fans of a certain vintage it was hard to not feel a pang of nostalgia.
  • (9) In spite of significant suppression of PRA and PAng I-ir, there were no significant changes in either plasma or CSF angiotensinogen.
  • (10) Immunological data revealed that the 42- and 43-kDa proteins were related to alpha-subunits of the Gq class recently purified from brain (Pang, I.-H., and Sternweis, P. C. (1990) J. Biol.
  • (11) This difference was more evident for the Yao Pang locus.
  • (12) "I'd be fibbing if I said I didn't have a pang for that – the amazing five days [of coalition talks that followed the election] and deals stuck together and all the rest of it.
  • (13) Across the contralateral kidney the veno-arterial differences in PRC and pANG II were both close to zero, while negative differences in pANG II indicated the removal of ANG II.
  • (14) He has been burdened with them for a decade and more, first satisfying the hunger pangs wrought by 77 years of waiting for someone to emulate Fred Perry, then leading this team here to smash more Perry history and win the Cup for Great Britain for the first time since 1936.
  • (15) Also, the inverse relationship of sodium intake and pANG II was blunted, suggesting a reduced role for ANG II in the maintenance of renal function during pregnancy.
  • (16) Previous studies in the once-through perfused rat liver preparation have shown that the techniques of normal and retrograde delivery of substrate and computer simulation of enzyme distributions along the sinusoidal flow path in liver were useful in delineating the relative distributions of sulfation and glucuronidation activities for harmol metabolism (Pang et al., J. Pharmacol.
  • (17) said Pang Jinhua, mother-in-law of lawyer Teng Biao, who has been missing since mid-February.
  • (18) Rather the zonal localization of metabolizing activities [a periportal sulfation, evenly distributed glucuronidation, and perivenous hydroxylation system (Xu and Pang, J. Pharmacokinet.
  • (19) River flows had however been boosted temporarily – the Pang in Berkshire, which had been completely dry, was flowing again thanks to runoffs from drenched fields.
  • (20) Veno-arterial differences in pANG I across the affected kidney in patients with lateralization of the renin secretion indicated release of angiotensin I (ANG I) in considerable amounts.

Throe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put in agony.
  • (n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
  • (n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
  • (v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
  • (2) And then in the final throes, more than enough incident for a whole game!
  • (3) Now, after 30 years of direct funding by government grant, with little scrutiny, it is in the throes of the rudest of awakenings, from leaks about zero-rated programmes to critics who say it had too much money.
  • (4) Gordimer won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist, a novel about a white South African who loses everything, and the Nobel Prize in 1991, when apartheid was in its death throes.
  • (5) The quarter-on-quarter leap in lending is the biggest since 2007, when the housing market boom was in its final throes.
  • (6) NYSE Euronext, which runs the New York Stock exchange and the London futures exchange and is itself in the throes of being taken over by a rival, is setting up a new London-based subsidiary to run Libor.
  • (7) Commentators have been queuing up to analyse the death throes of the paid-for printed news model.
  • (8) Yes, during its death throes, our sun will swell, boiling the oceans and turning the ice caps to steam.
  • (9) As described by Bloomberg, the US is in the throes of a major shift in energy production.
  • (10) Developed and developing countries are in the throes of environmental crisis.
  • (11) What the family could not entirely grasp on that day was that Mississippi was in the throes of a new statewide campaign of cross-burnings and violence organised by the Klan to protest at the start of investigations by Congress into civil rights abuses.
  • (12) Indeed, many would argue that Turkey was already in the throes of a slow motion coup d’état, not by the military but by Erdoğan himself.
  • (13) It seems such an awfully long time ago now, the Preston and Chantelle romance, long enough ago anyway that Big Brother was still a cultural force, or, at least, still watched by significant numbers of people, and not in the awful embarrassing death throes it's currently experiencing nightly on Channel 4.
  • (14) It is now in the throes of a contest between two candidates whose personal and professional backgrounds seem to illustrate the fault lines in current policy debate.
  • (15) Mickey is a guy who clearly can't cut it as an assassin or anything else: a depressive, an alcoholic, a person who we encounter in the virtual death throes of his professional and personal existence.
  • (16) Updated at 3.00pm BST 1.16pm BST More from Turkey Constanze Letsch has sent this from Istanbul: Fehim Tastekin writes in the daily Radikal: "It is natural that many smile that the UU received the prize at a time when it seems in its death throes.
  • (17) Austin is in the throes of a multi-pronged crisis within his command.
  • (18) Tsipras has persistently surprised and out-manoeuvred his opposite numbers, but without securing any net gains for a country in the throes of financial collapse.
  • (19) For a country in the throes of separatism, the World Cup is providing almost a surreal glue of unity.
  • (20) The question of how Australia ought to respond to Indochinese refugees had been hotly debated between April and August 1975 but had been overshadowed by the death throes of the Whitlam government.