What's the difference between penned and plume?

Penned


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Pen
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Pen
  • (a.) Winged; having plumes.
  • (a.) Written with a pen; composed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (2) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
  • (3) Auranofin (AF), D-penicillamine (D-pen) and thiola are prescribed as disease-modifying drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
  • (4) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (5) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (6) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
  • (7) Left ventricular cavity and muscle areas of each image were planimetered with a light-pen system and summated for volume: total volume = sigma (areas x 3 mm).
  • (8) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
  • (9) The pullets were housed in battery brooder pens with raised wire floors.
  • (10) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
  • (11) There is a simple solution, formulated by English PEN, the Manifesto Club and the Earl of Clancarty, who raised the matter in the Lords earlier this year: remove short-term visits by non-EU artists from the PBS and expand the entertainer route, letting paid and unpaid artists qualify.
  • (12) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.
  • (13) With a stroke of his pen, he effectively declared the end of racism in America.
  • (14) The 27-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Emirates – he will wear the No23 shirt at the club – though confirmation that the deal had been ratified by the Premier League did not come until just before 5pm tonight.
  • (15) Harnessing its greatest asset – its authors – PEN is planning to publish an open letter to each of the five imprisoned writers every day this week, in the run up to the 33rd annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
  • (16) An area on top of a hill near to the spot where Sharon was laid to rest alongside his late wife, Lily, was penned off with crash barriers.
  • (17) Deaths, 40 on CAZ and 21 on AG+PEN, were mainly related to their underlying condition.
  • (18) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
  • (19) But Ukip is not the NF nor Trump, Nigel Farage is not Le Pen, father, daughter or niece Marion.
  • (20) I don’t think we should spend too long doing it.” Farage enjoyed support from the far-right French politician and Front National leader, Marine Le Pen , who spoke next.

Plume


Definition:

  • (v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
  • (v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.
  • (v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
  • (v.) A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
  • (v.) A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
  • (v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
  • (v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.
  • (v. t.) To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the 19th century, Newtown Creek was a centre for oil refining and other industries, which left behind a massive oil plume.
  • (2) On computer screens, the plume showed up as a patch of sky where levels of ash were above 200 micrograms per cubic metre.
  • (3) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.
  • (4) Papillomavirus DNA has been reported recently in the vapor (smoke plume) derived from warts treated with carbon dioxide laser; this raises concerns for operator safety.
  • (5) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
  • (6) Polar conductivity data substantiate the fact that small air ions of one polarity in the plume are elevated while those of opposite polarity are suppressed compared to background concentrations found in the rural environment.
  • (7) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
  • (8) These "plume cells" are about 30-40 microns long and have an extremely irregular nucleus in their expanded terminus.
  • (9) Plumes of smoke rose above Kathmandu as friends, relatives and others gathered by the river to quickly cremate their loved ones’ remains.
  • (10) The fire also burned two vehicles and a US Forest Service garage and sent an enormous ashy plume over the mountains.
  • (11) Using satellite imagery, researchers could map the areas of coral covered by plumes of sediment released by the dredging process.
  • (12) The results allow the following changes in the germ counts in the plume of a wet cooling tower to be expected: 1.
  • (13) May 31, 2017 Images posted on social media showed a huge plume of smoke in the sky.
  • (14) A large plume of smoke rises from what is said to be Baiji oil refinery in Baiji, northern Iraq.
  • (15) It released a video of a vehicle driving away down a road, followed later by a plume of smoke rising in the distance.
  • (16) The city, one of the largest Kurdish bastions of resistance to Isis in northern Syria, was shaken by heavy shelling from the advancing militants at dusk on Friday, sending plumes of smoke skywards and more refugees scrambling across the border into Turkey .
  • (17) This surplus was interpreted as due to dry deposition from the plume, and deposition velocities were estimated at 0.02-0.10 m s-1.
  • (18) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
  • (19) We have calculated washout factors for locations where there are data on deposition, rainfall and air concentrations during the passage of the Chernobyl plume.
  • (20) were detected in one-third of the samples and low numbers of Campylobacter jejuni were found in the sewage and plume.

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