What's the difference between promote and shill?

Promote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.
  • (v. t.) To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.
  • (v. i.) To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
  • (3) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
  • (4) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
  • (5) In contrast, the effects of deltamethrin and cypermethrin promote transmitter release by a Na+ dependent process.
  • (6) The effects of hormonal promotion of T24-ras oncogene-transfected rat embryo fibroblasts (REF) were compared to cotransformation of these cells with adenovirus E1A and ras.
  • (7) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
  • (8) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
  • (9) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
  • (10) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (11) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
  • (12) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
  • (13) Tumor promoting phorbol esters (1-1000 nM) could also inhibit PGE2 stimulated cAMP production dose dependently.
  • (14) The data indicate that adult neurons with an intrinsic ability to regenerate axons can respond to substances with neurotrophic or neurite-promoting activities in tissue cultures.
  • (15) The 21K peptide had little direct effect on the selection of promoters in vitro as measured by this technique, but it dramatically increased the translatability of the product.
  • (16) It was found that these Hageman factor fragments promoted rapid proteolysis of one-chain factor VII to a more active two-chain form.
  • (17) As a result, trnK is under the control of the psbA promoter in this species and has therefore acquired psbA-like expression characteristics.
  • (18) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
  • (19) One promoter factors is identical to u-EBP-E, an enhancer binding protein.
  • (20) Endogeneous satellite cells in skeletal muscle regenerating from bupivacaine damage were infected with an injected retrovirus containing the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene under the promoter control of the Moloney murine leukemia virus long-terminal repeat.

Shill


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shell.
  • (v. t.) To put under cover; to sheal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
  • (2) A friend heard the butcher boast five shillings that he would be let off again by the tribunal, for the sixth time.
  • (3) A well-meaning litany of no-nos: don't be racist, don't be sexist, don't be homophobic, don't shill the World Cup to countries with human-rights issues .
  • (4) They charge fees of 3,000 Ugandan shillings – about US$2 – a term.
  • (5) A note on the text The first edition of Dracula appeared in bookshops on 26 May 1897, price six shillings, in a print run (from the publishers Archibald Constable and Co) of some 3,000 copies bound in plain yellow cloth with the one-word title in simple red lettering.
  • (6) One gloomy August afternoon Stevenson took Lloyd's shilling box of water-colours and made a map of an island.
  • (7) I'd go across the street with him and give him a 10-shilling note to get home because he never had any money, and that was it.'
  • (8) "Today I bought a goat, slaughtered, at 25,000 shillings (around £7)," she says, pausing in her shuttle between customers and pot.
  • (9) "The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies.
  • (10) With significant donor support from Britain and others, the government has allocated more than 2tn shillings (£856,000) for education in 2010-11, about double its spending on health.
  • (11) They have only to make their papers good enough in order to win, as well as to merit, success, and the resources of a newspaper are not wholly measured in pounds, shillings, and pence.
  • (12) But the health centre hasn't the 200,000 shillings (£56) to pay for it.
  • (13) So why is my overriding desire for the next 12 months to see Morrissey and Marr (and the lawnmower parts ) to put creative differences and court cases behind them, take the shilling for a criminally vulgar reunion concert, and risk tainting my memories?
  • (14) "Some local staff working for NGOs and UN agencies ask for 3,000 shillings [around £20] to give you a food card.
  • (15) You then send between 100 shillings (74p) and 35,000 shillings (£259) via text message to the desired recipient - even someone on a different mobile network - who cashes it at an agent by entering a secret code and showing ID.
  • (16) Osteoarchaeologist Katie Tucker looked again at the bones in the museum when tests showed the team of local historians and residents, and experts from the university, that the bones from St Bartholomew, sold to a 19th-century vicar for 10 shillings as those of Alfred and his family, were centuries too late.
  • (17) The Uganda Red Cross will need to raise 2.5bn shillings (£640,000) for a three-month operation.
  • (18) And by doing so I've learned that Thiago Silva is not going to Barcelona because he has signed a new deal that will deliver a few extra PSG shillings into his pockets and keep him at the Parc des Princes until 2018.
  • (19) A young Treasury minister was once sent out to public meetings to explain currency metrication from the old 20 shillings and 12 pennies.
  • (20) In 1914 the Treasury printed and issued 10 shilling and £1 notes.

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