What's the difference between sharping and sharpling?
Sharping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sharp
Example Sentences:
(1) Basal 20 alpha DHP levels remained low until a sharp rise at mid pro-oestrus.
(2) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(3) Gonadectomy of females was accompanied by changes in the activity of individual HAS links in different direction--some reduction of ACTH in the hypophysis, a sharp and significant fall of the peripheral blood glucocorticoid level and a marked significant elevation of hydrococortisone production in the adrenal cortex in vitro.
(4) The University of the Arts London and Sunderland, Sheffield Hallam, Manchester Met and Leeds Met university have also experienced sharp declines in applications.
(5) A sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in Neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees C to 45 degrees C, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees C was cyanide-insensitive.
(6) In contrast to findings in the rat and dog, no sharp drop but a gradual fall in CLi was observed at decreasing FENa values down to 0.02%.
(7) A more specific differentiation, as indicated by the sharp increase in GAD levels which was concurrent with an increase in interneuronal contacts, lagged behind the initial growth.
(8) It appears that the decline in plasma IGF-I lags considerably behind the sharp fall in plasma GH levels and expression of hepatic IGF-I mRNA.
(9) Supplementation of Mg resulted in a sharp increase in serum PTH level with a rapid disappearance of the dissociation between the two immunoassays of PTH.
(10) A.CA animals were extremely susceptible, showing a sharp and sustained increase in parasitemia starting on day 12, followed by death no later than day 15 post-inoculation.
(11) There was a sharp transition with actin nearly saturated with S1: when the S1 to actin ratio was low, the kinetics were fast (K1 greater than 300 microM, k2 greater than 40 s-1); when it was high, they were slow (K1 = 14 microM, k2 = 2 s-1).
(12) Low calcium causes an increase in optimum frequency, a decrease in current threshold, and an increase in sharpness of tuning in both real axons and axons computed according to the Hodgkin-Huxley formulation; high calcium causes opposite effects.
(13) The Tea Party movement has turned climate denial into a litmus test of conservative credentials – and that has made climate change one of the most sharp divisions between Obama and Romney.
(14) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
(15) There is no longer a sharp dividing line between working and rentiering.
(16) We are going to see a sharp fall unless sellers hold the sector up by making aggressive offers.
(17) A sharp increase in the intensity of lipids biochemiluminiscence and decrease in the tissue homogenates biochemiluminiscence were observed during the period of progressive tumour growth on the 6-8 days following introduction of the virus.
(18) By no means is this a new theme, but it has taken on an added sharpness and urgency after the conferences.
(19) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
(20) In sharp contrast, the coverage provided by the various mainstream news channels and newspapers not only seems – with some exceptions – unresponsive and stilted, but often non-existent.
Sharpling
Definition:
(n.) A stickleback.
Example Sentences:
(1) The four panel members selected by the chair of the independent inquiry, Justice Lowell Goddard, are Drusila Sharpling, an inspector with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary; Prof Alexis Jay, author of the report into the Rotherham child sex scandal; Ivor Frank, an expert in family and human rights law; and Malcolm Evans, chair of the United Nations subcommittee for the prevention of torture.
(2) In a series of television interviews, senior panel member Dru Sharpling said the inquiry would continue.
(3) Neither he nor the then home secretary May had been made aware of Sharpling’s meeting with the director general, he said.
(4) It was even more confusing that a member of the panel with which Dame Lowell was supposed to be working, Drusilla Sharpling, had actually raised her concerns with the Home Office in April this year, several months before Dame Lowell’s abrupt resignation in August .
(5) We are going to be continuing with the inquiry,” said Sharpling.
(6) Dru Sharpling, a panel member, told the committee that she raised concerns about Goddard’s leadership with the director general of the Home Office in April this year – nine months after the panel began their work with Goddard.
(7) Sharpling, responding to questions about the departure of Goddard, revealed that she had informed Mary Calam, the Home Office director general for the crime and policing group, on 26 April about the concerns with Goddard’s leadership.
(8) But Sharpling insisted the investigations would go on without the group.
(9) But one of her officials – Mark Sedwill, permanent secretary to the Home Office – repeatedly denied that he or May were made aware of the Sharpling meeting with the Home Office official.
(10) Giving evidence alongside Sharpling and inquiry panel member Ivor Frank, the trio refused to comment on the departure of three senior lawyers since Jay took up her position.
(11) In Rotherham, no organ of government, no institution, had uncovered the scale and the depravity of child sexual abuse that had occurred over many years,” Sharpling said.
(12) Instead of Ena Sharples and Martha Longhurst eking out port and lemons in the Rover's snug, it had Sue Ellen knocking back whiskey in the face of her husband JR's endless evil.
(13) They jostled old Albert Tatlock, insulted Ena Sharples and jeered at Harry Hewitt.
(14) I think she is one of the few people who is ideally qualified for the job.” Sharpling’s public statements came after weeks in which the inquiry has been rocked by a series of departures of leading lawyers, allegations of bullying and racism by its former chair Lowell Goddard , the announcement that a public hearing into the late Greville Janner would be postponed and on Friday the departure of the Shirley Oaks survivors from the process.
(15) Last year the diary chronicled the machinations of the bishop of Shrewsbury , Mark Davis, in getting rid of the justice and peace worker Joan Sharples.
(16) Responding to allegations reported in the media that Goddard was racist and abusive to staff on the inquiry, Sharpling said: “I am not going to engage in the sort of character issues that have been published across the papers.
(17) Dru Sharpling, of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, said: "Whilst the service for victims is getting better, there is absolutely no room for complacency, and good intelligence, the right investigative approach and targeting resources effectively are key to preventing rape and catching perpetrators."
(18) Child abuse inquiry facing 'credibility crisis', Labour says Read more Sharpling suggested the inquiry maintained the confidence of other victims.
(19) He said: “For any inquiry to be truly independent and engender faith in its integrity, the Home Office either needs to come clean about its own role in covering up historical child abuse and staff the inquiry with independent employees instead of its secondees or hand over the task of overseeing the inquiry to a less tainted government department.” Despite Sharpling’s confidence that other victims supported the process, Phil Frampton, who is a core participant in the inquiry as part of the Whiteflowers group of victims, said the departure of Shirley Oaks came amid “seething discontent” among survivors over the lack of material support for them and the “contemptuous” way they were being dealt with.
(20) Alan Sharples Liverpool • It is specific issues that put political rhetoric to the test.