What's the difference between pease and tease?

Pease


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Pea
  • (n.) A pea.
  • (n.) A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conjunction with the previous paper (Milne, R. W., Theolis, R., Maurice, R., Pease, R. J., Weech, P. K., Rassart, E., Fruchart, J.-C., Scott, J., and Marcel, Y. L. (1989) J. Biol.
  • (2) This substitution converts codon 2153 from glutamine (CAA) in apo B100 mRNA to a stop codon (UAA) in apoB48 mRNA (Powell, L. M., Wallis, S. C., Pease, R. J., Edwards, Y. H., Knott, T. J., and Scott, J.
  • (3) When the millionaire fund manager Nichola Pease told a House of Commons committee last month that a year's maternity leave was "too long", she triggered a row about whether it has now bent too far.
  • (4) Pease, we must assume, would not have chosen to sound so puffed up if he had known that Lawsky was about to publish his explosive allegations.
  • (5) The gene was also synthesized from its fragments by using an overlap extension method similar to the procedure as described [Horton, R. M., Hunt, H. D., Ho, S. N., Pullen, J. K. & Pease, L. R. (1989) Gene 77, 61-68].
  • (6) Surely, after hearing it, the crowd would surge forwards and carry me on their shoulders, from our hotel in Brighton maybe even as far as Westminster (stopping off at the Pease Pottage Services ), where we would nail our Grand Remonstrance to the doors of parliament itself.
  • (7) To examine whether these results were mediated by the previously demonstrated mechanism of RNA modification (Powell, L. M., Wallis, S. C., Pease, R. J., Edwards, Y. H., Knott, T. J., and Scott, J.
  • (8) That may have infuriated many women, but Pease's second argument that the "commercial realities" of some City jobs – covering financial markets in different time zones, perhaps – just don't permit flexible working is harder to dismiss.
  • (9) "In light of your suggestion for John Terry's shirt design," writes Anthony Pease, "Emile Heskey could wear a similar one, only with the arrow on the back and another pointing to his elbow."
  • (10) Pease and Baker (1948) (74) achieved an early success with the double-embedding method using the plastic "Parlodion" and paraffin wax.
  • (11) Consider this self-congratulatory statement by the chairman, Sir John Pease, only last week: "In recent weeks, issues have surfaced around governance and behaviour in banking.
  • (12) It may have hops in it, but it is keg.” When I put this to Bob Pease, CEO of the American Brewer’s Association and key speaker at the Siba conference, he visibly bristles at the implication that keg beer is somehow inferior to cask.
  • (13) We may not get cask ale, but we have a total appreciation of quality, in any format.” The beer bloggers appear to agree with Pease, often painting Camra as out of touch, and attacking British real ale as “boring brown beer”.

Tease


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax.
  • (v. t.) To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
  • (v. t.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
  • (v. t.) To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
  • (n.) One who teases or plagues.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
  • (2) "My great ambition is to be president of a golf club where I am playing," he teased .
  • (3) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
  • (4) To examine this proposal VIP concentrations in plasma from arterial, gastric venous and intestinal venous blood were measured in healthy conscious lambs before, during and after teasing with, and sucking of milk.
  • (5) Teased-fiber techniques were used to record from 28 CMHs that innervated the hairy skin of upper or lower limb in anesthetized monkeys.
  • (6) When the behavior of the nontarget partners was controlled, children initiated more physical aggression, nonverbal teasing, and regression after experiencing negative social comparison with the partners than after following the other treatments.
  • (7) Paxman claimed that at the same lunch Morgan had teased Ulrika Jonsson about the details of a private conversation she had had with Erikson, who was England manager at the time.
  • (8) A teased fiber technique established that the ratio of internodal distance and fiber diameter in urodele nerves was essentially similar to that in Anolis.
  • (9) He teased readers by adding: “By the time you read this I will know whether it has worked.” The American Academy of Neurology is sceptical about the treatment .
  • (10) At one point he teases us with the intro to 'When You Were Mine' at another he wittily picks out the theme to The Beverly Hillbillies .
  • (11) We did not perform a sexy version of oppression or create a teasing "naughty" campaign.
  • (12) Surgery should be performed ideally before the early school years, when the child is subjected to the most teasing, provided both parents and the patient have realistic expectations and really want the major reconstruction.
  • (13) Her teenage sons, who haven't read the book, tease her often, which is jolly; her mother, though distressed to find that Christian and Anastasia never seem to shower after sex, is delighted; even her father-in-law likes the book.
  • (14) As soon as he could, Coltrane escaped to art school in Glasgow, where he had much more fun – despite being teased for sounding posh – but discovered he wasn't an artist.
  • (15) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
  • (16) At 12 h and 24 h after crush, however, no ovoids were apparent and the number of incisures present was determined from teased fibres by light microscopy using oil immersion.
  • (17) Zidane, however, was in the mood to tease his admirers.
  • (18) The histological study using the teasing method demonstrated the existence of unmyelinated fibres, in the thoraco-cervical region of the vagus nerve, becoming progressively myelinated from the periphery to the nodose ganglion.
  • (19) The most common finding in teased fibres from each leprosy type was paranodal demyelination affecting successive internodes.
  • (20) Functional properties of neurons regenerating axons into the grafts were studied by recording from single regenerated fibers teased from the grafts.

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