What's the difference between slumping and stumping?

Slumping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slump

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (2) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
  • (3) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
  • (4) If the government reduces its spending at the same time, this will make the slump worse, not better.
  • (5) Household spending has slumped to its lowest rate in nearly two years, underlining the sluggishness of Britain's economy.
  • (6) The construction of Fab 42 was halted in 2014 , following a slump in PC sales, but analysts don’t believe Trump is the reason it’s been restarted.
  • (7) A leading academic, Prof Robert Bea, from the engineering faculty at the University of California in Berkeley, who made a special study of the Deepwater Horizon accident , has raised new concerns that the recent slump in oil prices could compromise safety across the industry as oil producers strive to cut costs.
  • (8) The schemes will be scrutinised for evidence that the government has accepted criticism that it is not acting fast or hard enough to reverse the continuing slump in the economy, with ministers braced for further bad news on jobs and investment over the summer.
  • (9) Branson also has a stake in Virgin Money, which has suffered a 40% slump in its shares since the referendum.
  • (10) The austerity drive and recession meant some big construction projects being shelved, while in many regions housing market activity slumped.
  • (11) However, Leroy warned that a slump will hit the industry this year, with pan-European sales expected to fall 5%.
  • (12) House prices have slumped by 14.6% since last October after 12 consecutive months of falls, Nationwide Building Society said today.
  • (13) But Nel said that for Steenkamp to have fallen on to the rack, given she was found with her head slumped over the toilet, she would have had to have got up.
  • (14) Newspaper sales slumped in Spain during the financial crisis.
  • (15) Despite a near monopoly in many towns, HMV stores were seeing sales slump year after year, even at paper-thin margins.
  • (16) She looks at me, slumped and sweating at her kitchen table.
  • (17) Wetherspoon said it was trying to help those caught in the economic slump.
  • (18) The government has declared an end to the half-decade slump in housebuilding after cheap borrowing and the Help to Buy scheme prompted a 6% increase in the start of work on new homes in the three months to June.
  • (19) More than 8,000 jobs at Clinton Cards were on the line after the group became the latest casualty of the high street spending slump.
  • (20) A worse slump than expected means many more unemployed and thousands more homes repossessed.

Stumping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stump

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
  • (2) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
  • (3) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
  • (4) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
  • (5) Posterior half stumps regenerated limbs with a mean digit number of 2.7 and had a normal dorsoventral muscle pattern.
  • (6) Two factors influencing cellular morphology in vitro were identified in Locusta: 1) the presence of a primary neurite stump, and 2) membrane contacts between cells.
  • (7) This low level of binding was maintained for periods of up to 70 days, demonstrating that some STX binds to structures other than axons in denervated distal stumps.
  • (8) For those who can't stump up more than 5% of the agreed price, he suggests guarantor mortgages, such as that offered by Lloyds TSB.
  • (9) The appendix or appendix stump was visualised on 53% of the barium examinations.
  • (10) We describe a male infant with congenital deficiency of coagulation Factor XIII who presented in the immediate postnatal period with umbilical stump bleeding and suffered a severe intracranial hemorrhage at 2 months of age.
  • (11) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
  • (12) In both treatments, the proximal axon stumps exhibited regenerative growth as early as 1 day after axotomy, and, by the third day, neurites had extended.
  • (13) Since muscle contraction ceases immediately following nerve transection, regardless of nerve stump length, the results can be ascribed to the lack of some neural influence other than nerve-evoked muscle activity.
  • (14) Injury to the stump of a below-knee amputation (BKA) may require revision to a higher level of amputation.
  • (15) Crushing the optic nerve eliminated retinopetal fibers from all regions except the cerebral stump of the optic nerve, indicating that this projection was of central origin.
  • (16) This is dependent upon the gap between the tendon stumps being rather small.
  • (17) To maintain its 30% stake the Co-op would need to stump up another £120m, increasing its already high debt levels.
  • (18) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
  • (19) The radiological picture of the amputation stump after osteosarcoma was reviewed in 75 cases, in which postoperative follow-up ranged from a minimum four months, to a maximum of over 12 years.
  • (20) The postoperative alkaline reflux gastritis is described, the consequences including the carcinoma of the gastric stump are mentioned.

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