What's the difference between piss and poss?

Piss


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To discharge urine, to urinate.
  • (n.) Urine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (2) In the most hard-hitting attack on the Labour leader by any of his MPs since Ukip squeezed the party’s vote in the Heywood and Middleton byelection, Field accused Miliband of “pissing while Rome burns”.
  • (3) We haven't changed that much, we still take the piss out of each other, there's an understanding there that hasn't gone away.
  • (4) Brand isn’t the messiah (or just a naughty boy, for that matter) and his message pisses off plenty of people.
  • (5) Then there's me and my buddy Ralph Garman , who does a daily radio show in LA, doing our entertainment podcast Hollywood Babble-On , which is basically just two guys who've worked in showbiz long enough to have informed opinions, sitting around taking the piss out of the entertainment industry.
  • (6) Or the story about how Rich was en route from Switzerland to Finland and had to order his jet to reverse course at 20,000ft to avoid being arrested by the FBI at Helsinki airport; or the secret tunnel he built between the 'Dallas building' and the Glashof restaurant opposite so he could slip out to lunch without fear of being assassinated; or the time he was held hostage in Azerbaijan while his captors considered whether or not to sell him to the Russians (who were allegedly pissed off with Rich for nicking their reserves of gold and other precious metals), or the rumours that Rich had slipped in and out of Britain and the US on numerous occasions under false passports.
  • (7) I haven’t even watched it again because I’m so pissed off about the first one, because I thought Manny could have made that fight much easier than he did.
  • (8) Of course, after Hitler got into power and Low started, beautifully, to take the piss, Low, along with his cartooning colleagues Illingworth, Vicky and even Heath Robinson, was placed on the Gestapo's deathlist.
  • (9) The catch is that the wine has been spiked with an extinguished cigarette, bogies, phlegm, piss and maggots; Ryle tackles it with vigour.
  • (10) Rather than open downstairs and piss off the council, I decided to take it more slowly,” he says.
  • (11) To my teenage self, who wanted to join Baader-Meinhof and rob banks hand-in-hand with my dead-eyed dream-date Magdalena Kopp, she was the ultimate Hollywood bad girl, always pissing off the right people.
  • (12) But I know they will complement my weaknesses and help me make better decisions because they will challenge me and, at times, that will piss me off because I want them to think like me and be as excited as me,” he says.
  • (13) Charly Rexach played for Barcelona between 1965 and 1981 and talks about winning the cup, "their cup", as a way of "really pissing [Real Madrid] off."
  • (14) The only advantage to being considered insane is, Shields says, that "people don't get as angry with you when you piss them off".
  • (15) "I sometimes got the feeling that Kurt enjoyed that I pissed people off.
  • (16) It was written about in the press, and taken the piss out of on other late-night shows.
  • (17) After the game we shake hands and everything else – what the hell, you’re going to get pissed off?
  • (18) The only response in these circumstances is to do what the Guardian did – throw your hands up and take the piss .
  • (19) He said: "The office said she's taking the piss here.
  • (20) I had phoned up all the national newspapers to say that “something big” was going to happen, and they were a bit pissed off because it wasn’t the dramatic stunt they thought it would be.

Poss


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To push; to dash; to throw.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are definitely elements of Clash of Clans in this Wild West-themed game, but it’s got a spark of originality too as you build your posse, explore the wild frontier and protect your town.
  • (2) N-(Tetrazol-5-yl)azetidin-2-ones were found to posses excellent activity.
  • (3) Leadership is not always about pyrotechnics at EU summits or staying one step ahead of the posse.
  • (4) Normally, amphetamine reduces grooming behavior, but since this reduction was greater in lead-reared than in control rats, the data suggest that for this measure the lead-reared rat may posses an increased sensitivity to amphetamines.
  • (5) In this simple sentiment we can find hope, as we can in the efforts of those cleaning up the debris and ash in bonhomous, broom-wielding posses.
  • (6) All GABAergic agents, except piracetam, were found to posses anticatatonic actions as they significantly blocked perphenazine-induced catatonia.
  • (7) According to the differentiations of the apical surface of the dendrites, it is possible to distinguish six different classes: a) dendrites with one cilium and 75 nm thick cytofila (sometimes dendrites of identical appearance posses more than one cilium); b)dendrites with several cilial and 150 nm thick cytofila; c) dendrites with several cilia, 50 nm thick cytofila, and long, striated rootlets; d) dendrites with several cilia bur without cytofila; e) dendrites with 130 nm thick cytofila but without cilia; and f) dendrites with 65 nm thick cytofila but without cilia; dendrites of this class are the only ones with a cytoplasm more electron dense than that of the surrounding supporting cells.
  • (8) He refers several times to Vaughan, Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans, and to the kind of "posse radio" spawned by Steve Wright.
  • (9) This microvascular difference may account for the susceptibility of the ganglia to metastases when compared to nerve trunks which posses unfenestrated endothelium and blood-nerve barrier.
  • (10) For the first time a new type of glia cells is described which are designated as astrocytic tanycyte; they posses the structural features of tanycytes as well as of astrocytes.--After adrenalectomy and castration the area of the glia is bigger in the external zone than in untreated animals.
  • (11) It has been stated that the neuromuscular spindles posses their own microcirculatory bed which is formed by the vessels of the surrounding muscular tissue, tends to separate in the course of development and subdivides into two parts: extracapsular and intracapsular.
  • (12) For example: Broker B: u see 3m jpy libor going anywhere btween [sic] now and IMM?4 Primary Submitter B : looks fairly static to be honest, poss more pressure on upside, but not a lot Broker B: Oh.
  • (13) These sites of staining have been shown, by other methods, to posses substantial Na+, K+-ATPase, indicating that the antibody recognizes antigenic determinants of the sodium pump highly conserved in the course of evolution.
  • (14) Benzophenanthridine alkaloids, fagaronine 4, O-methylfagaronine 5, nitidine 1, allonitidine 3 and methoxydihydronitidine 2 have been shown to posses inhibitory activity against reverse transcriptase of RNA tumor viruses.
  • (15) The intercellular spaces are considerably dilated, and the cells posses intracellular spaces having well developed microvilli.
  • (16) The kind of don who arrived in a smart restaurant while on the run at Nuevo Laredo, deep in the territory of an enemy cartel, had the doors locked by his men, who took all mobile phones from those dining, asked them to continue at his expense while he ate, then left with his posse.
  • (17) Characteristically, the avascular pole and the lateral margins of the cell posses predominantly stacked and whorled cisternae of agranular ER.
  • (18) It is concluded that the hepatic ALDH from rats posses in the active centre two SH-groups in close vicinity which can be oxidized slightly to the intramolecular disulfide and reduced again.
  • (19) So expansive, grateful and loyal is the fighter's posse he makes presidents jealous.
  • (20) In previous studies 1-methyl-2-nitro-1H-imidazole-5-carboxaldehyde and 1-methyl-2-nitro-5-vinyl-1H-imidazole were found to posses interesting antimicrobial activities.