What's the difference between pine and ping?

Pine


Definition:

  • (n.) Woe; torment; pain.
  • (v.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
  • (v.) To grieve or mourn for.
  • (v. i.) To suffer; to be afflicted.
  • (v. i.) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away.
  • (v. i.) To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.
  • (n.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.
  • (n.) The wood of the pine tree.
  • (n.) A pineapple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
  • (2) Hiddleston, who played spy Jonathan Pine in the Night Manager, has played down speculation that he would take on the role, recently telling the BBC’s Graham Norton Show: “The position isn’t vacant as far as I’m aware.
  • (3) Might pine martens suppress other predators that affect capercaillies?
  • (4) Workers exposed to pine and fibre dust have more respiratory symptoms and a greater risk of airflow obstruction.
  • (5) In areas where there are lots of pine martens, there are lots of red squirrels," she said.
  • (6) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (7) We first developed a method for isolating from pine tissue the very high molecular weight DNA necessary for the preparation of libraries requiring large inserts.
  • (8) Teflon and Lucite were used to represent synthetic materials, and dry pine was chosen as a type of organic material.
  • (9) The American has not secured a major title since Torrey Pines for the 2008 US Open and, while overhauling Jack Nicklaus's record total of 18 majors was once a matter of "when", it is now very much a case of "if".
  • (10) I think we all pine for the good old days when politicians actually wrote bills, and bills actually became laws and can I rub your arms a little?
  • (11) This team may have limped to the 50-point mark with their draw against the champions, but they have been pining for the end of this campaign for months.
  • (12) Unlike aspiration pneumonitis, which follows petroleum distillate ingestion, chemical pneumonitis from pine oil cleaner may occur from gastrointestinal absorption of pine oil and deposition in lung tissue.
  • (13) Four hundred eighty-five Native American students in grades 7-12 from two remote sites--Pine Ridge, SD, and Many Farms, AZ--and one nonremote site--Lapwai, ID--were scored for the DAI.
  • (14) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
  • (15) In 2012, Europe made €12m available to save threatened pine trees in Portugal and Spain.
  • (16) The serosurvey was performed shortly after a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Pine Ridge reservation in 1983-84, and immediately before a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Rosebud reservation in 1985-86.
  • (17) The psbA gene, encoding the D1 protein of photosystem II, was found to be duplicated in the chloroplast genome of two pine species, Pinus contorta and P. banksiana.
  • (18) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
  • (19) Bratwurst grilled by use of pine-cones, spruce-cones and hard wood contained on average 28 ppb BaP.
  • (20) My undergraduate essays were handwritten, but in my third year I sent my first email using a green interface called Pine.

Ping


Definition:

  • (n.) The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
  • (v. i.) To make the sound called ping.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
  • (2) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
  • (3) The kinetic data are compatible with a tert-uni ping-pong mechanism, as in the case of the 'classical' glutathione peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9).
  • (4) Hu Ping, a US-based editor and friend of Liu, asked why the international community was not doing more to secure his release.
  • (5) Initial-velocity kinetic studies indicate the enzyme acts by a ping-pong mechanism.
  • (6) Initial velocity and isotope exchange studies confirmed that the over-all reaction, like that catalyzed by pyruvate carboxylase purified from rat liver and chicken liver, was a nonclassical Ping Pong Bi Bi Uni Uni sequence with ATP and HCO3-binding randomly in the Bi Bi partial reaction.
  • (7) The asymptotic kinetics of lipoamide oxidoreductions switch between the ping pong and ordered mechanisms by varying pH of the reactions.
  • (8) The assurances we are getting from those that are protecting him is that he is not far from Bamako," Ping said.
  • (9) Penetration of these drugs into perforated ping pong balls implanted intraperitoneally in rabbits was studied.
  • (10) Rare is the interview that concludes with the subject pinging one’s bra strap.
  • (11) The results obtained were consistent with a ping-pong or substitution mechanism.
  • (12) Since each catalytic cycle step is irreversible, the data fit a peroxidase ping-pong mechanism rather than an ordered bi-bi ping-pong mechanism.
  • (13) And then, proving that in the celebrity world of self-abasement there really is no such thing as "bottoming out", Shane started tweeting Ping Pong, otherwise known as Elizabeth Hurley's parrot Why has Australia not staged an intervention?
  • (14) It seems most probable that, as previously suggested by others for Ts, eIF-2B effectively catalyses an exchange reaction through a "ping-pong" type mechanism.
  • (15) Right up until the 79th minute, when the substitute Ramires pinged a 25-yard shot beyond Tim Krul, Chelsea were unconvincing.
  • (16) Such distension results in an area of tympanic resonance or ping.
  • (17) Initial velocity studies indicate that the enzymatic reaction proceeds by a Ping-Pong mechanism.
  • (18) This reaction pathway is compared with the double displacement (Ping Pong) mechanisms that have previously been described for pyruvate carboxylases from other sources.
  • (19) The wild-type enzyme and Y177F mutant displayed ping-pong kinetics, but the Y177S and Y177G mutants appeared to have switched to an ordered sequential mechanism.
  • (20) But I don’t think [Lords chief whip] Ben Stoneham is going to be very accommodating to anyone.” Brexit weekly briefing: article 50 moves closer but EU dashes divorce deal hopes Read more Labour has promised no “extended ping pong” as it does not want to frustrate the timetable for triggering article 50, but it has laid eight amendments on issues from EU nationals to quarterly reporting to parliament about the Brexit process.

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