What's the difference between seep and wild?

Seep


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Alt. of Sipe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results indicate the presence of ANP in canine CSF and that it does not come from blood that has seeped across the blood-CSF barriers but may originate in the brain.
  • (2) The media are more pervasive, seeping everywhere into the vacuum left by the shrinking of the old powers.
  • (3) It has been estimated that natural oil seeps may also contribute as much as 10% of the hydrocarbons in the global marine environment.
  • (4) The unusually long period of time that the tooth survived might be attributed to a different approach to the replantation technique, such as occlusion adjustment prior to replantation, preoperative reduction of oral cavity bacteria and of the harmful aerosols commonly found in the dental operatory, placement of a noneugenol periodontal packing under the acrylic splint to prevent residual liquid monomer from seeping into the periodontal space, use of the patient's own blood and no other material to moisten the root while it was out of the socket, a short extraoral period, loose splinting, complete isolation of the operative site in the oral cavity, and completion of periodontal therapy before intentional replantation.
  • (5) For these palmiers, however, – full of chocolate and honey – I've found the rolling method is best for keeping the filling contained in the swirls of dough and stopping it from seeping across the baking tray.
  • (6) Today's news shows the poison of bad credit continues to seep through the veins of the world's financial markets.
  • (7) Over the following days, every drop of the 119,328 tonnes of crude oil borne by this 300m-long supertanker seeped into the Atlantic.
  • (8) Porous rocks under the Martian surface might hold frozen water that melts in the summer months and seeps up to the surface.
  • (9) Shorten said he hoped debate would shift from the “toxic, malignant, poison of Hansonism that seeps to surface of our politics”.
  • (10) Noble gases are one of four things the organisation looks out for in its nuclear monitoring process, because the gases can be released by either slowly seeping through rock and sediment from underground to the surface after a nuclear test or come from activity at a test site.
  • (11) Even as the radiation levels above ground stabilise, the legacy for Tomioka and Fukushima Prefecture in general will be a long one, as caesium seeps deeper into the ground on its slow journey to the groundwater.
  • (12) But the arts are of importance to all voters, and seep into areas well beyond the confines of the Department for Culture .
  • (13) By the 13th fetal day cerebrospinal fluid begins to seep into and replace it.
  • (14) Somehow the story seeped into our bones, expressed in our best-loved sitcoms – with their tales of frustrated men, from Captain Mainwaring to David Brent, made ridiculous by delusions of grandeur – and by a brand of newspaper whose unspoken daily message is that the country is going to the dogs.
  • (15) The organism was recovered from the clay layer of the soil profile as well as from water that seeps into this layer during the "wet" season.
  • (16) Oil is spreading across the creeks and mangrove forests and seeping deeper into the water table.
  • (17) If bleeding persists in spite of ligation, this does not mean that the wrong vessel has been tied off but that arterial anastomoses are allowing blood to seep from the ethmoidal to the sphenopalatine area of the nose.
  • (18) She said: "Under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see."
  • (19) Lahm was 12 years old when he joined the Bundesliga’s record title winners and it would not be an exaggeration to say that the club’s you-have-to-win-everything attitude to the game has seeped deep into Lahm’s psyche.
  • (20) Brendan didn’t obsess about telling us about opponents constantly, but through working on certain exercises the message seeped into our minds.

Wild


Definition:

  • (superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
  • (superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
  • (superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
  • (superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
  • (superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
  • (superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
  • (superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
  • (superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
  • (n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
  • (adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
  • (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) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (5) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
  • (6) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
  • (7) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
  • (8) The kinetics of endocytosis and recycling of the wild-type and mutant receptors were compared.
  • (9) 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.
  • (10) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
  • (11) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.
  • (12) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
  • (13) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
  • (14) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
  • (15) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
  • (16) Addition of streptomycin restores much of the wild-type behaviour.
  • (17) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
  • (18) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
  • (19) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
  • (20) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.