What's the difference between serge and surge?

Serge


Definition:

  • (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.
  • (n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
  • (2) City’s equaliser came from the failure of Serge Aurier and Thiago Silva to clear a Bacary Sagna cross as Fernandinho drove the ball home after 72 minutes.
  • (3) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
  • (4) The tribunal's prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, will give a statement on Wednesday, and Mladic is expected to appear before judges by Friday to hear his indictment for the worst crimes committed in Europe since the Nazi era.
  • (5) Villa had already lost Nathan Baker by that point, having been knocked out after taking a shot from Serge Gnabry flush in the face, and Wenger finished the night with his own injury worries.
  • (6) "I don't have to tell you how important it is that finally this trial can start, 17 years after the first indictment was issued [against Mladic]," said the court's chief prosecutor, Serge Brammertz.
  • (7) Serge Durand, director of the protection of unaccompanied children with Terre d’Asile, said the organisation had been working with minors in Calais since 2012 and had seen a sharp rise in the number of children, the youngest of whom was a 12-year-old from Afghanistan.
  • (8) Real Madrid cruise past Malmo and Cristiano Ronaldo moves level with Raúl Read more Serge Aurier had a dream Champions League debut on Wednesday, scoring one goal and setting up another to help PSG win 3-0 at Shakhtar Donetsk .
  • (9) A Belgian journalist – Maurice Sarfatti, who uses the byline Serge Dumont – was reportedly beaten, arrested and accused of spying.
  • (10) Serge Ibaka added 20 points and Westbrook had 13 assists for the Thunder in a game that neither team ever led by double digits.
  • (11) But in the game he gets two opportunities and puts them in the back of the net and that’s why everybody wants him.” West Brom have confirmed Serge Gnabry’s loan has been terminated and the midfielder has returned to Arsenal.
  • (12) Bovine neurophysin-I (bNP-I) is the first neurophysin protein which contains histidine and possesses an acidic COOH-terminal segment for which the complete amino acid sequence is presented: NH2-Ala-Val-Leu-Asp-Leu-Asp-Val-Arg-Thr-Cys-Leu-Pro-Cys-Gly-Pro-Gly-Gly-Lys-Gly-Arg-Cys-Phe-Gly-Pro-Ser-Ile-Cys-Cys-Gly-Asp-Glu-Leu-Gly-Cys-Phe-Val-Gly-Thr-Ala-Glu-Ala-Leu-Arg- Cys-Gln-Glu-Glu-Asn-Tyr-Leu-Pro-Ser-Pro-Cys-Gln-SerGly-Gln-Lys-Pro-Cys-Gly-Ser- Gly-Gly-Arg-Cys-Ala-Ala-Ala-Gly-Ile-Cys-Cys-Ser-Pro-Asp-Gly-Cys-His-Glu-Asp-Pro-Ala-Cys-Asp-Pro-Glu-Ala-Ala-Phe-Ser-Leu-COOH.
  • (13) Throughout, the chief prosecutor of the court who has arranged the case against Mladic, Belgian lawyer Serge Brammertz, looked on impassively.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last year, Moroder noted that Je T'Aime , Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's heavy-breathing 1969 smash, was selling again in England, and Summer jokingly suggested that they do their own "love song".
  • (15) Interview with Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of the Institute of Physics on the 2012 Nobel prize in physics winners Serge Haroche and David Wineland (mp3) Some highlights from Prof Knight's interview are below.
  • (16) We have to play somebody with almost no experience [in central defence] or somebody who is not used to playing in the position.” Wenger is also without Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, Mesut Özil, Mikel Arteta, Abou Diaby, Tomas Rosicky, David Ospina and Serge Gnabry.
  • (17) Serge Aurier went across to take the Ivory Coast corner but it was a dismal effort, truth be told, hit low to the first man.
  • (18) These distinct areas or foci of SER and presumptive glycogen (SERGE) were most numerous during initial periods of glycogen synthesis.
  • (19) In particular Cameroon’s decision not to place Touré in the top five has been criticised, although the presence of his Ivory Coast team-mate Serge Aurier as coach Alexandre Belinga’s first choice makes it difficult to stand up that theory.
  • (20) In the film, former textile workers Jocelyne and Serge Klur not only take on Arnault after he “ruined their lives” by delocalising their jobs to Poland – they also make him pay.

Surge


Definition:

  • (n.) A spring; a fountain.
  • (n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.
  • (n.) The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
  • (n.) The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
  • (v. i.) To swell; to rise hifg and roll.
  • (v. i.) To slip along a windlass.
  • (n.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
  • (2) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
  • (3) When the antagonist was administered on the day of the LH surge, serum concentrations of bioactive LH were still elevated on the following day, but then fell to low levels.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) In estrogen-primed ovariectomized rats, intraventricular injections of baclofen, a selective GABAB receptor agonist, either delayed, eliminated or disrupted the steroid-induced LH surge, depending on the time and the dose of the agonist injected.
  • (6) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
  • (7) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
  • (8) High blood pressure is itself an independent risk factor for vascular disease, in proportion to its height, for all ages and sexes, whether systolic or diastolic, labile or fixed, and the threat is further aggravated by surges in blood pressure throughout the person's daily activities.
  • (9) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
  • (10) Since the debate the number of Ukip members has surged past 35,000.
  • (11) There was however a surge of plasma oxytocin detected during labor and puerperium, a pattern somewhat similar to that seen in normal pregnancy.
  • (12) Exposure to short daylengths arrests the oestrous cycle, provokes daily gonadotrophin surges and reduces the ability of exogenous oestradiol to trigger behavioural receptivity in golden hamsters.
  • (13) [Surg Gynecol Obstet 1986; 163:555-560]; the estrogen and progesterone receptor levels were evaluated by immunoenzymatic assay.
  • (14) The Liberal surge in February 1974 and the rise of the SDP in the early 1980s showed that protest politics was translating into something more ambitious.
  • (15) The day of the serum LH surge was taken as a reference point in evaluating the reliability and sensitivity in predicting ovulation of the other tests studied.
  • (16) On the basis of these and previous results it is concluded that the availability of NE in the MPO is an important factor in determining the hight of the preovulatory LH surge.
  • (17) Frontal hypothalamic deafferentation (FHD), which disconnects the anterior hypothalamus from the preoptic area, stops the twice daily surges of prolactin secretion of pregnancy or pseudopregnancy in the rat, and causes rapid luteolysis.
  • (18) The relative contributions of dopamine (DA) and prolactin-releasing factor (PRF) in generating the preovulatory prolactin (PRL) surge were investigated.
  • (19) Most panics surged out of a pre-existing plateau of tonic anxiety which lasted most of the day.
  • (20) injected at 13.45 h. Transection which interrupted the connection of septum (SEPT), diagonal band of Broca (DBB) and bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BST) with the preoptic-suprachiasmatic area interfered with ovulation and surge of release of all 3 hormones.