What's the difference between puffing and winded?

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.

Winded


Definition:

  • () of Wind
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
  • () of Wind

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (3) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
  • (5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (6) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (7) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
  • (8) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (9) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (10) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
  • (11) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
  • (12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
  • (13) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
  • (14) The railway between Norwich and Ely was blocked when strong winds caused power lines to fall across the tracks.
  • (15) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
  • (16) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
  • (17) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (18) They’re from every other source in the environment – from the wind, from transport,” he said.
  • (19) Nineteen members of the West Midlands Police Force, who qualified as PTSD sufferers, were offered the 're-wind' technique.
  • (20) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."

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