What's the difference between purring and rumbling?

Purring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pur

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No correlation between PUR, platelet survival, platelet function and the clinical situation could be assessed.
  • (2) The sequence of markers in the corresponding segment (mel to purA; 91.5 to 93.5 min) of the E. coli linkage map was shown to be mel--aspA--mop(groE)--ampA--frdA--pur A.
  • (3) Two types of repetitive DNA elements are located within the PAI-1 structural gene and flanking DNAs: we have found 12 Alu elements and 5 repeats of a long poly (Pur) element.
  • (4) These things happen, it all comes together and a team suddenly starts purring; we hit five in about 10 minutes and, with Jimmy [Greaves] in that groove, we'd have beaten any team anywhere.
  • (5) Pur repressor bound specifically to purF operator DNA as determined by gel retardation and DNase I footprinting assays.
  • (6) It is concluded that: PUR, but not BAC, is a useful pharmacological tool for the aminopeptidase inhibition and for activation of enkephalinergic neurons; aminopeptidases are concerned with activities of opioid peptides.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest David Cameron tells Michael Bloomberg ‘the Queen purred’ Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the discussions between Geidt and Heywood.
  • (8) Before a ferociously red crowd, in which the Australian fans, scattered throughout the stadium in little blobs of yellow, struggled to assert themselves in any meaningful way, the Chileans started with their customary disregard for defence, a line of five attackers purring forward with gushing, almost smug intent.
  • (9) The order of the markers was hom-1-thr-1-his-1-(gly-1 or gly-2)-pur-1-pur-2.
  • (10) Nicola Sturgeon could be sat in that castle now – we know she had her eye on it – it was a damn close-run thing.” Royal circles found particularly offensive Cameron’s portrayal of the Queen as having “purred down the line” when he telephoned her to tell her Scotland had voted against independence.
  • (11) The dominance of the referendum explains why a relieved Cameron told the former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an overheard conversation days after the referendum, that the Queen had “ purred down the line ” when he told her the result.
  • (12) Furthermore, Pur-1 is able to activate an intact insulin promoter in HeLa cells, where it is normally inactive.
  • (13) The concentration of PPRibP has been examined in the rat adrenal gland at various times after induction of diabetes with STZ, in view of the key role it plays in the synthesis of Purs and Pyrs.
  • (14) Mutations in this group have previously been shown to be pleiotropic, affecting not only ras but also two other genetic entities, gua 1 and pur 1, which yield auxotrophic mutations.--The eight new mutations have been characterized phenotypically in double heterozygotes with gua 1, pur 1 and ras mutations.
  • (15) Washington is positively purring with pleasure over Abe's tougher stance.
  • (16) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!
  • (17) Puromycin aminonucleoside, an analog of PUR with no inhibitory action on protein synthesis, had no effect.
  • (18) Exogenously supplied histidine (that blocks conversion of AMP to guanine nucleotides) does not reduce the growth rate of the strain of pur apt genotype on adenosine as the sole purine source.
  • (19) The mutation, called rer, is located between arg B and pur D loci.
  • (20) PUR induced the dose-related analgesic effect abolished by NAL and increased the level of ENK in the striatum.

Rumbling


Definition:

  • () a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (2) In two exceptional patients with a prolonged PR interval, this apical sound was separated from a presystolic rumble that occurred during an accelerated phase of mitral inflow or at the A wave of mitral valve echograms.
  • (3) So little wonder that the spectacle of five safety incidents in a week – however minor – could trigger rumblings of distrust from a nervous public.
  • (4) As soon as the feed-in tariff was removed, that position looked very different.” What’s more, Rumble believes that solar energy was just a few years away from being cheap enough not to require government support to grow.
  • (5) The students said they were told in London that a journalist would accompany them and that they risked deportation or detention if they were rumbled.
  • (6) It was here in 1974 that the heavyweights fought the Rumble in the Jungle under the gaze of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko .
  • (7) The LV dimension was significantly decreased in HCM with rumble as compared with those of HCM without rumble and the normal subjects.
  • (8) It sounds like the rumblings of a typical North Korean purge.
  • (9) Sir Richard Dalton, former UK ambassador to Iran "Iran seems to have been tipped off and come clean because it knew it was about to be rumbled.
  • (10) "Fortunately Denmark seem to have rumbled this sneaky Dutch trick just in time to bench him... " 1 min: Denmark set the game in motion ... 2 min: Already the game has settled into the pattern we all foresaw, with Holland staking out the full width of the pitch and stroking the ball around deliberately.
  • (11) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
  • (12) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
  • (13) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
  • (14) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
  • (15) All that changed on China’s “Black Monday” last week, when the stock market sell-off that had been rumbling along for weeks turned into a rout.
  • (16) There are rumblings that Goldman and UBS should go without some of their fees if it is found they got the valuation wrong.
  • (17) Turkish police appeared uneasy at the size of the crowd gathered near a fragile border fence and fired teargas grenades to disperse them, adding the crack of smaller explosions to the rumbling of the Isis advance.
  • (18) Factors necessary for the production of a diastolic rumble appear to include central flow, a flexible stent, and the presence of biologic material.
  • (19) Discontent has been rumbling at New York fashion week since 2010, when the official catwalks were relocated from the more intimate Bryant Park space to the Lincoln Centre.
  • (20) Perhaps because few of us know what a gene actually does, the debate about whether we are a product of our DNA or our environment rumbles on.

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