What's the difference between plumping and slumping?
Plumping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plump
Example Sentences:
(1) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(2) Their current Westminster tally is strikingly close, too, to the 45% of the constituency vote that gave Alex Salmond his great Holyrood landslide in 2011, and indeed to the 44% who tell ICM in Friday’s survey that they would plump for the nationalists if there were a fresh ballot for their local Holyrood seat.
(3) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(4) The company had originally plumped for the name Fox Group, but announced its change of mind in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
(5) Approximately 40% of the plump, spindle-shaped cells that formed the background stroma of these tumors possessed the antigen; however, it was not present on giant cells.
(6) For alkaline phosphatase and adenosine triphosphatase particularly, positive cells and negative cells coexisted, as in the large plump cells of synovial sarcoma.
(7) Sclerosed areas with scarce and plump villi as well as sometimes hyperplastic and polymorphous synovial cell layers could be demonstrated histologically in the tissue specimens of the needle biopsies in cases with gout.
(8) But soon Gontar would see the same plump women and the same injured men appearing in different newscasts, identified as different people.
(9) There are queues at communal water tanks and the irrigated fields plump with crops abruptly give way to hard-baked soil forced to sit fallow.
(10) More peripherally there is a cellular zone containing elongated or plump tumor cells embedded in a fibromyxoid stroma.
(11) The mediastinal milky spots were generally covered with plump mesothelial cells with hemidesmosome-like structures in small projections of the cytoplasm, and consisted mainly of clusters of lymphocytes, macrophages and fibroblasts.
(12) This Week host Andrew Neil predicted 12 million for the leaders' debate, while regular sofa sidekick Michael Portillo plumped for 6 million – so that one goes to Neil, narrowly.
(13) ('Bulkiness' is the average cross-sectional area, or 'plumpness', of a side-chain.)
(14) Melanocytomas are pigmented tumors of the uvea and optic nerve head composed of plump polyhedral melanocytes which have been regarded as nevus cells.
(15) It can snatch a creature as small as a beetle or as bulky as a duck, but its favourite food on high moors is a plump little bird greatly prized by game shooters: the red grouse.
(16) One reader chose Zoë Heller's The Believers, about the dysfunctional Litvinoff family, another plumped for Sue Miller's While I Was Gone, in which a woman is forced to confront the murder of her best friend 30 years ago, a third pointed readers towards Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, about an Indian boy growing up in America.
(17) Biopsy showed collagenous stroma containing spindle cells and irregular trabeculae of woven bone rimmed by plump osteoblasts.
(18) Of particular interest is a number of tumor cells with plump, bizarre nuclei which contain cross-striations of skeletal muscle pattern.
(19) The tumor cells were uniform in appearance, plump and polyhedral, with distinct finely granular eosinophilic cytoplasm, and were arranged in solid acinar groups.
(20) And here’s a statistic that should terrify anyone who leans to the left: nearly nine out of 10 Austrian manual workers plumped for the far right.
Slumping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slump
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
(2) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(3) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
(4) If the government reduces its spending at the same time, this will make the slump worse, not better.
(5) Household spending has slumped to its lowest rate in nearly two years, underlining the sluggishness of Britain's economy.
(6) The construction of Fab 42 was halted in 2014 , following a slump in PC sales, but analysts don’t believe Trump is the reason it’s been restarted.
(7) A leading academic, Prof Robert Bea, from the engineering faculty at the University of California in Berkeley, who made a special study of the Deepwater Horizon accident , has raised new concerns that the recent slump in oil prices could compromise safety across the industry as oil producers strive to cut costs.
(8) The schemes will be scrutinised for evidence that the government has accepted criticism that it is not acting fast or hard enough to reverse the continuing slump in the economy, with ministers braced for further bad news on jobs and investment over the summer.
(9) Branson also has a stake in Virgin Money, which has suffered a 40% slump in its shares since the referendum.
(10) The austerity drive and recession meant some big construction projects being shelved, while in many regions housing market activity slumped.
(11) However, Leroy warned that a slump will hit the industry this year, with pan-European sales expected to fall 5%.
(12) House prices have slumped by 14.6% since last October after 12 consecutive months of falls, Nationwide Building Society said today.
(13) But Nel said that for Steenkamp to have fallen on to the rack, given she was found with her head slumped over the toilet, she would have had to have got up.
(14) Newspaper sales slumped in Spain during the financial crisis.
(15) Despite a near monopoly in many towns, HMV stores were seeing sales slump year after year, even at paper-thin margins.
(16) She looks at me, slumped and sweating at her kitchen table.
(17) Wetherspoon said it was trying to help those caught in the economic slump.
(18) The government has declared an end to the half-decade slump in housebuilding after cheap borrowing and the Help to Buy scheme prompted a 6% increase in the start of work on new homes in the three months to June.
(19) More than 8,000 jobs at Clinton Cards were on the line after the group became the latest casualty of the high street spending slump.
(20) A worse slump than expected means many more unemployed and thousands more homes repossessed.