What's the difference between silenced and squashed?

Silenced


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Silence

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (3) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
  • (4) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
  • (5) Cameron has already announced there will be one minute’s silence on Friday at noon, a week after the start of the killing.
  • (6) In addition, he describes a type of transference interpretation that is better not made, and emphasizes the transference value of silence on the part of the analyst at certain crucial moments in the analysis.
  • (7) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
  • (8) Transient ischemic electrical silence with Q waves in the absence of MI is a rare phenomenon and affects the anterior leads much more commonly than the inferior leads.
  • (9) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (10) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
  • (11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
  • (12) 1:109-124, 1983) suggested that the insertion might have been selected to silence a disadvantageous bglR+ allele.
  • (13) He criticised attempts to create “safe spaces” by silencing controversial speakers such as Germaine Greer, who was recently targeted by students at the University of Cardiff for her position on transgender women.
  • (14) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (15) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
  • (16) Our data indicate that these elements exert their effect irrespective of orientation and position, suggesting that they are silencers.
  • (17) The silence about Ji's fate was broken by his former boss, Nanjing party secretary Yang Weize.
  • (18) • The News of the World was ordered to hand over details of the secret agreement which it struck with Gordon Taylor in the earlier case as well agreements it has made withMulcaire which are alleged to have bought his silence.
  • (19) But the case is widely seen as a means of silencing the man who has become Putin's loudest critic.
  • (20) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.

Squashed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Squash

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (2) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
  • (3) The long-term culture corresponded to mouse MXT and MCF-7 cell lines whereas the primary culture corresponded to primitive breast cancers squashed onto histologic slides and maintained in cultures for between 12 and 48 h. Cell proliferation was evaluated by means of digital cell image analysis of Feulgen-stained nuclei.
  • (4) Alignment of these sequences with that of squash defines domains of nitrate reductase that appear to bind its 3 prosthetic groups (molybdopterin, heme-iron, and FAD).
  • (5) In four of the above cases, Ki-67 staining was performed on air-dried squash preparations with excellent visualization of immunoreactive nuclei.
  • (6) There's squash and cake, and the atmosphere is a bit like a staff meeting, something the teenagers don't have much experience of.
  • (7) We compared cytomorphonuclear parameters--related to DNA histogram and chromatin distribution--on MXT mouse mammary tumor and murine normal cells from fresh squash smears or from deparaffinized tissue smears fixed in several fluids.
  • (8) Six amino acid sequences for trypsin inhibitors isolated from squash, summer squash, zucchini, and cucumber seeds were determined.
  • (9) Squash was associated with significant changes in heart rate and circulating concentrations of catecholamines, lactate, free fatty acids, and potassium.
  • (10) I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, the festive sideboard always featured one of those long, oval boxes packed with slightly squashed dates held together with a plastic stem.
  • (11) A statistical collection of squash injuries in 8000 players from 30 squash centers in the Federal Republic of Germany over a 12 months period is presented and evaluated.
  • (12) Many inhibitors of trypsin and human beta-factor XIIa have been isolated from squash and related seeds and sequenced (Wieczorek et al., Biochem.
  • (13) Large numbers of whole (infected) sandflies can be quickly squashed on to nylon hybridization filters and (following standard procedures) the filter-bound DNA can be hybridized sequentially to cloned, multicopy genomic sequences that are specific for species of Leishmania (kinetoplast DNA) or for the sandfly (ribosomal (r) DNA).
  • (14) Racquets were more common as the source of injury (61%) than squash balls.
  • (15) The renowned US architect Frank Gehry recently completed the Dr Chau Chak Wing building for the University of Technology in Sydney, described by the Australian governor general, Sir Peter Cosgrove, as “the most beautiful squashed brown paper bag I’ve ever seen”.
  • (16) Marrow sections and squash preparations were made at intervals during 120 hr.
  • (17) Static tests indicated that standards published by the Canadian Squash Racquets Association are inappropriate.
  • (18) It’s run like a squash club committee and that needs to stop.
  • (19) Sex chromatin studies on squash preparations of a well differentiated transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder without evidence of invasion from a female aged 63 revealed a single body in some regions, but two to four bodies in others.
  • (20) In the UK, the first plant to store electricity by squashing air into a liquid is due to open in March, while the first steps have been taken towards a virtual power station comprised of a network of home batteries.

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