What's the difference between plum and plume?

Plum


Definition:

  • (n.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
  • (n.) A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
  • (n.) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The NIa-like protein of plum pox virus is a protease with high sequence specificity that is autocatalytically released from the viral polyprotein.
  • (2) For some months there has been speculation that he is in line for a plum job at the BBC.
  • (3) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
  • (4) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
  • (5) Carboxylic acids were present in much higher levels in plum brandy, vinegar, lamb and mutton (heated), whereas alcohols, esters and carbonyls aldehydes are particularly abundant in brandy.
  • (6) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
  • (7) The Luxembourger had offered him the plum post of vice-president of the commission, Schulz told the Guardian.
  • (8) Children's author Allan Ahlberg, the mind behind much-loved titles Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum, has turned down a lifetime achievement award because it is sponsored by Amazon and the idea that his success "should have the Amazon tag attached to it is unacceptable".
  • (9) Not that Astle has a clue as to what's happening, because he can't shift his feet, plays all around the ball, and watches as it raps his pads plum.
  • (10) That will be a plum job for someone, and names such as Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton have been mentioned online.
  • (11) The children were divided into two groups according to the type of coma, using the Plum and Posner coma classification (1966) modified by Pagni et al.
  • (12) The plum pox potyvirus (PPV) NIa protease expressed from a medium copy number plasmid was able to process an excess of substrate expressed from a high copy number plasmid, in a binary Escherichia coli expression system.
  • (13) And why have certain Salford refuseniks – I use the example of Simon Mayo , who left 5 Live for Radio 2 – been accommodated with new plum jobs in the capital?
  • (14) Gailiunas, Peter (Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory, Greenport, N.
  • (15) The complete nucleotide sequences of an isolate from plum and an isolate from peach (AF isolate) were shown to be identical, consisting of 297 nucleotides with a 93.6% sequence homology to HSV-hop.
  • (16) serves 4 cooking times 20 minutes For the tomato sauce: 5-6 tbsp lard or dripping 1 large onion, finely chopped 1-2 red chillies, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, chopped 2 tins plum tomatoes sea salt and black pepper 1 tsp piloncillo or demerara sugar a generous few splashes of Worcestershire sauce a small handful chopped tarragon 4 corn tortillas, chapatis or other flatbreads 4 eggs 60g Lancashire cheese, grated Heat 2 tablespoons of the lard in a wide saucepan and add the onion and chilli.
  • (17) Xylella fastidiosa has been known to attack almond, plum and laurel trees among 309 plant species.
  • (18) Much is at stake, with Brussels and national capitals consumed by manoeuvring for the plum jobs up for grabs under the Lisbon treaty: Europe's first president, a new foreign policy supremo, a host of second-tier positions, and the make-up of a new European commission.
  • (19) Full English breakfast SERVES 4 sausages 4 vegetable oil smoked streaky bacon 200g plum tomatoes 2 salt Portobello mushrooms 4 butter chicken stock 200ml thyme 1 sprig garlic 2 cloves, crushed black pudding 4 thick (1.5cm) slices free-range eggs 4 bread toasted Start with the sausages For me, it's about finding great ingredients and treating them with respect, as if you were building a wall or making a beautiful piece of furniture.
  • (20) The nucleotide sequence of the small nuclear inclusion protein (NIa)-like cistron of plum pox potyvirus (PPV) has been determined.

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.