What's the difference between puffing and ruffing?
Puffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puff
() a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Puf- strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (PUFB1) was constructed by deleting a portion of the proximal region of the puf operon and inserting a kanamycin resistance gene cartridge.
(2) Chromosome banding patterns are very similar between tissues, but puffing patterns show considerable differences.
(3) The adjacent region, 23B2, is slightly puffed and displays typical RNP particles, some of which may be observed close to band 2-23B1,2.
(4) At the same time the RNA quantity increases by a factor of 2. thermal denaturation profiles of formaldehyde fixed chromosomes show that the Tm of this region in puffed and non puffed state differ by 10 degrees C. Moreover these profiles suggest that a large fraction of histone-bound DNA is destabilized during puffing.
(5) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(6) Habitual smokers of perforation-ventilated cigarettes and of channel-ventilated cigarettes (18 male and 18 female subjects each; nicotine yield 0.1-0.3 mg, 0.2 mg, respectively) were compared with respect to different smoke exposure indicators and puffing behavior.
(7) The boosts for perforation-ventilated cigarettes remained unchanged and were reached with only moderately intensified puffing behavior.
(8) Where there were pictures of powerful women, the images tended to be subversive: the same photograph of a grimacing Theresa May was used to illustrate three different stories about the home secretary, and two of the three pictures of the German chancellor showed Angela Merkel puffing out her cheeks, looking mildly absurd.
(9) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(10) Southern blot analysis demonstrated that in PUFB1, the defective copy of the puf operon had replaced, through homologous recombination, the normal chromosomal copy.
(11) Heat a little oil in a pan then cook the dumplings until crisp and puffed, then roll in the cinnamon sugar.
(12) Fluorescence polarization measurements of the lipopholic probe, 1, 6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), in the purified lymphocyte plasmalemma from mice fed a diet high in PUF indicated an increase in mobility.
(13) The pufBA messages, which end in a large intercistronic stem-loop structure, are long-lived processing products of the puf operon transcripts.
(14) The best subset of predictors, especially with respect to puffing parameters, was found to vary considerably across smoking conditions and dependent variables.
(15) The influence of temperature (17 and 31 degrees) on the maternal effect of mutation Puffed (Pu) in Drosophila hybrids has been studied.
(16) Last month I was given unrestricted access to the enormous archive the PCGG has assembled in its years of global detective work: the president’s handwritten diary, frequently puffed with self-regard; the notepaper headed “From the office of the president”, with scribbled sums endlessly totting up his cash; minutes of company meetings with his comments scrawled in the margins; contracts; “side agreements”; records of multiple bank accounts; hundreds of share certificates; private investigators’ reports; and tens of thousands of pages of court judgments.
(17) The polytene chromosome puffing patterns of Drosophila guanche were established and compared with those of Drosophila subobscura.
(18) David Cameron was “pumped up” ; Russell Brand and Ed Miliband exchanged “aint’s” and “innits” and puffed out their chests.
(19) The individual response to smoke might be assessed by an analysis of puffing on a single cigarette.
(20) Neither between-subject consistency nor within-subject reproducibility was improved by this paced puffing procedure, despite apparent topographical control.
Ruffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruff
Example Sentences:
(1) Neoplasms were identified in 3 of 13 free-flying ruffed grouse submitted to the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study during a 10-year period.
(2) A joint operation took on, defeated and disarmed the RUF over the next 18 months, and in January 2002 Kabbah officially declared the war over.
(3) By 1997, when the war-weary population elected Taylor president, Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels had begun phase two of their war against the government of Sierra Leone.
(4) A year later, war came to Sierra Leone – and the RUF entered from Liberia.
(5) Providing training, supplies and arms (many taken from stockpiles purchased from the west and Russia), Gaddafi contributed to horrors such as Charles Taylor's NPFL and the brutal RUF in Sierra Leone.
(6) The partially purified preparations, RUF-1, RUF-2 and RUF-3, were analyzed by the sandwich-type enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method, and it was found their maximum reactivities were about 30%, 45% and 20% that of the intact plasma fibronectin, respectively.
(7) mATPase activities were similar in both species, but spruce grouse contained 15 times more myoglobin in the pectoralis muscle and the heart was three times heavier than that of the ruffed grouse.
(8) He is alleged to have been rewarded with blood diamonds from Sierra Leone in return for helping Foday Sankoh's RUF.
(9) But the operation's commander, Brigadier David Richards, was given wide latitude and found that the RUF melted away when it met a determined show of force.
(10) Sponsored by Taylor, Sankoh set up his RUF and launched his own insurrection in 1991.
(11) A stable social group of 7 semifree-ranging black-and-white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata variegata) was studied for 4 months to catalog the behavioral repertoire of this species.
(12) The pavilion itself, a power-temple designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer in 1938, acts as a tyrannical shell for a reconstruction of the Kanzlerbungalow, or Chancellor's Bungalow, built in Bonn in 1964 by modernist architect Sep Ruf.
(13) During sorting, liver cells showed ruffing activity even when they appeared to be totally surrounded by other cells.
(14) Results of breeding of ruffed lemurs (Lemur variegatus) at the Duke Primate Facility provide information concerning estrous cycle, sexual behavior, age of first conception, gestation period, parturition, litter size.
(15) The RUF was notorious for tactics such as mass rapes and amputations during a conflict that left between 50,000 and 200,000 dead before it was formally declared over in 2002.
(16) Two of his early Libyan-trained comrades, Abu Kanu and Rashid Mansaray, were summarily executed after they tried to moderate the excesses of the RUF.
(17) The civil war went on, with the West African force lined alongside Sierra Leone's pathetic army and the even weirder militia known as the Kamajors, against the ousted Koroma military junta and the RUF.
(18) The RUF was eventually driven out by a West African regional force, but a year later it was back on Freetown's doorstep and the city panicked.
(19) One of them, Issa Sesay, a former leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was given 52 years for his role.
(20) We report, for the first time, the existence of ruffed cells in these species.