What's the difference between sniffing and snuffing?
Sniffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sniff
(n.) A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.
Example Sentences:
(1) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
(2) Both mothers had been sniffing regularly throughout their pregnancies.
(3) Drainage of contrast medium from the maxillary sinus during blowing and sniffing was studied by cine-roentgenography in 11 healthy subjects.
(4) A Standard Neutron Irradiation Facility (SNIF) was established using a 3 MV Van de Graaff accelerator.
(5) Cash may not return much but it will hold its nominal value, a feature not to be sniffed at when approaching retirement."
(6) Two cases of neonatal renal tubular dysfunction and metabolic acidosis due to maternal sniffing of a product containing toluene are reported.
(7) Scopolamine (10 micrograms) only slightly increased the effects of quinpirole (5 micrograms) on both sniffing and oral behaviors, whereas it dramatically potentiated the effects of fenoldopam (2.5 micrograms) on oral activity; sniffing was only slightly increased.
(8) S(+)-MDMA was more potent than R(-)-MDMA in eliciting stereotyped behaviors such as sniffing, head-weaving, backpedalling and turning and wet-dog shakes.
(9) Bilateral injection of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA, 10-300 micrograms) into the substantia nigra (pars reticulata) of rats produced stereotyped sniffing and had an analgesic-like effect on the hot-plate but not on the tail-flick test.
(10) Following the Nembutal injection, sniffing and feeding are disinhibited temporarily in condition 1, whereas in condition 3 only sniffing, but not feeding, is disinhibited.
(11) Apomorphine-induced gnawing and licking but not sniffing were attenuated in rats with GP lesions.
(12) In control rats, SKF 38393 enhanced the stereotyped responses induced by quinpirole, converting lower-level stereotypies (sniffing and rearing) to more intense oral behaviors (licking and gnawing).
(13) 25 cases of clinically severe toxic polyneuropathy were observed among young people in Berlin who were addicted to sniffing methylethylketone-containing solvents.
(14) Cocaine reduced both the total number and duration of sniffing and licking maternal behaviors, and resulted in a lower maternal behavior rating at 60 minutes compared to saline-treated subjects.
(15) Soon after injection, SKF38393 produced moderate increases in grooming and sniffing which were not very intense, while bromocriptine (with or without SKF38393) inhibited all grooming behaviour.
(16) Toluene which is used as the solvent is presumably the toxic agent involved in glue sniffing.
(17) They were then tested when adult on activity and sniffing behaviour.
(18) "Oh yeah, she's still massively important," he says, citing her strong connections with the underground and her instinct for sniffing out cutting-edge collaborators as reasons for continuing to take her work seriously.
(19) But Heinsohn is sniffed at by some contemporaries, who are wary of drawing too strong a connection between the youth bulge and instances of unrest – particularly very violent ones.
(20) The duration that a single odor needs to be sniffed for identification was determined for 18 humans.
Snuffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snuff
Example Sentences:
(1) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
(2) But again, many in the industry are concerned the recovery could be snuffed out, with the National Federation of Builders pointing to threats to the housbuilding as mortgage lending stagnates.
(3) There was no checking their charges into space – they needed snuffing out – while the impressive Busquets collected unchallenged in central areas and shifted the ball on, either up to Messi or across the field from one side to the other.
(4) Like Rona Jaffe's novel of the 50s, The Best of Everything – a book that Rakoff loves and reread before she started work on My Salinger Year – it is concerned with what it feels like to move to the big city, to take on your first job, and to struggle to survive on a tiny salary when all the while your dreams are seemingly being snuffed out at every turn, and your love life is spiralling into muddle and mayhem.
(5) Lined up, five by five, rows and rows of dead bodies before my eyes, already shot, lives snuffed out in a single bloody instant.
(6) The brief flurry of liberal street protest in 2011 and 2012 was ruthlessly snuffed out by the Kremlin, and many have suggested that, far from a liberal revolution, the most likely revolt in Russia is the “senseless and merciless” Russian uprising of which Alexander Pushkin wrote.
(7) No: she's eagerly looking forward to other premature snuffings.
(8) Atletico win a throw deep in Barca's half but their intricate passing is snuffed out and, after a little halfway line tangle between several players, the referee decides that's enough.
(9) They were too reliant on Dimitri Payet, allowing Leicester to focus on snuffing out the Frenchman’s threat, and ended the game with 10 men when Adrián was sent off in stoppage time for a reckless foul on Jamie Vardy.
(10) Queens Park Rangers where they had surrendered a 2-0 lead but their slim hopes of beating the champions were snuffed out in the first 34 minutes.
(11) The bitter dispute over who is Karzai's rightful successor has alarmed Afghanistan's US and western benefactors, creating a political crisis that risks undermining more than a decade of efforts to build a government capable of fighting the Taliban on its own and snuffing out terrorist groups like al-Qaida.
(12) In the new alt-reality bubble, negative information simply no longer penetrates; gaffes and scandals can be snuffed out, ignored, or spun; counternarratives can be launched.
(13) Tokyo turmoil: race to rule world’s largest city mired in sex scandal and misogyny Olympic flame snuffed out by protesters Striking teachers managed to extinguish the Olympic torch relay after it entered Rio de Janeiro and the runner carrying it had to be escorted to safety.
(14) Cameron and Osborne inherited a growing economy in 2010 and snuffed out recovery with savage cuts and tax increases.
(15) "Though the challenge of terrorism was and is very real, the sectarianism of the Maliki government snuffed out what was a genuine opportunity to build a cohesive Iraq.
(16) Stephenson scored with 1:31 left to make it 99-90, but James snuffed out any comeback hopes right there with a three-point play.
(17) Four blue shirts swarm around him, the danger snuffed out.
(18) Markets had fallen sharply on Tuesday after the prospect of a Greek referendum snuffed out any optimism about the rescue package eurozone leaders had announced last week to bolster banks by €106bn and add extra firepower to Europe's bailout fund.
(19) Obviously there's only one way this can end: the Nationals win by snuffing a late-inning Cardinals rally when they turn a double-play assisted by an umpire who fails to call the infield fly rule.
(20) Negredo might have scored a couple of minutes earlier than he did when a strong run and measured pass from Fernandino gave him a sight of goal that a combination of Skrtel and Mignolet snuffed out.