What's the difference between snubbed and stubbed?
Snubbed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Snub
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(2) Some observers believed the story was planted by Netanyahu aides in order to show the president in a poor light for snubbing the leader of one of America's closest allies.
(3) That followed Pyongyang's snubbing of Beijing's wishes when it conducted a missile test in late 2012, followed by the underground detonation of a nuclear device last spring.
(4) "I didn't come here to apologise," Bush told world leaders in a defiant seven-minute speech, even as the IPS daily conference newspaper Terra Viva led off with the story in an arresting headline: "US President Snubs His Nose at Rest of the World."
(5) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
(6) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.
(7) Speaking at a graduation ceremony for international students, Erdoğan finally broke his silence after voters snubbed his plans to change the constitution in order to extend his grip on power.
(8) Ukraine winger Yevhen Konoplyanka has insisted he has no regrets over snubbing the Premier League in favour of a move to Sevilla this summer, describing La Liga as the best in the world.
(9) It was supposed to be a small snub to the group and the Conservative party,” he says.
(10) Swedish frustration with Saudis over speech may jeopardise arms agreement Read more The snub was compounded when Arab League foreign ministers backed the Saudis and expressed “condemnation and astonishment” at her planned remarks, which were “incompatible with the fact that the constitution of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is based on sharia [law]”.
(11) Postwar, the Mosleys set up Euphorion Books to publish his anathemised writing, although printers snubbed them.
(12) At the time it was a relatively new medium, snubbed by some of his contemporaries as crassly commercial and distorting of reality.
(13) But although last week's reporting suggested that a huge number of stay-at-home mothers are "betrayed" by the government's snub to the 1950s family, the ratio of working to SAH mothers means the great majority of working parents will be more preoccupied with its continued failure to help ordinary families pay for some of the most costly childcare in Europe.
(14) Earlier this month, the Tories announced they had hired M&C Saatchi to work alongside Euro RSCG, in a move that was widely interpreted as a snub to their original agency.
(15) Washington Wizards break .500 If there has been any sort of major All-Star snub it might be that the Washington Wizards' John Wall deserved to be among the Eastern Conference All-Star starters over Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers .
(16) True, as we were reminded last week, members of the EDL have miraculously survived all such conditioning; equally, these extremists now risk being righteously snubbed in Mens' Socks.
(17) Regardless, with all the signs of maturity MLS has shown, the All-Star "snub" may be the most logical.
(18) 5 February 2009 : Sri Lanka snubs the international community's call for a ceasefire, saying troops will not suspend their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels.
(19) November 8, 2015 Grenville Wilson (@GBHeritage) Corbyn's bow at the Cenotaph was virtually nonexistent, more of a twitch, obviously a deliberate snub November 8, 2015 Others were quick to claim that the rightwing media and Conservative supporters had leaped on the footage to politicise the Remembrance Sunday service.
(20) However, activists say the deteriorating human rights situation under president Xi Jinping means the IOC should snub China’s bid for the event, to be held in February and March 2022.
Stubbed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Stub
(a.) Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
(a.) Abounding in stubs; stubby.
(a.) Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of the mutants were unable to assemble a flagellar filament (Fla-), although eight were able to synthesize a short stub of a flagellum.
(2) 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.
(3) The teeth were air dried, mounted on stubs, sputter-coated with gold-palladium and examined under SEM.
(4) Subsequently, the slides were fractured for attachment to SEM stubs, and the coverslips were demounted.
(5) The task consisted of 36 sentence stubs, 18 of which probed attitudes toward sex.
(6) This digested product reacted with an anti-stub antibody which recognizes 4-sulfated disaccharide.
(7) Platinum-carbon replicas were made of the surfaces of both the sections and the complementary surfaces of the sample stubs from which the sections were cut.
(8) Genetic analysis by phiCr30-mediated transduction revealed 27 linkage groups for the fla and stub-forming mutations, and three linkage groups for the mot mutations.
(9) There were more than 150, some on smart, headed paper, some on notebook pages, written with stubs of pencil.
(10) isoamylase is unable to cleave D-glucosyl stubs from branched saccharides.
(11) It has been determined a bacteriolytic action on the bacterial stub "E. Coli host of bacteriophage T4.
(12) Due to the anatomic relationship of bone and nail, a 'stubbed finger' injury may result in an inapparent compound fracture.
(13) When Jane Grigson did her delightful last series Slow Down, Fast Food, we photographed a gigantic hamburger with an implausible bite taken out of it, our tasteful riposte to the cigarette-stubbed-out-in-the-fried-egg school of lurid food photography.
(14) In 2004, he stubbed a cigar out in the eye of City colleague Jamie Tandy at the club's Christmas party; the following year, he was found guilty of gross misconduct after a disturbance in Bangkok with a teenage Everton fan.
(15) Monoclonal antibodies 9-A-2 and 2-B-6 which recognize stubs of chondroitin 4-sulfate were found to bind specifically to the NC3 domain of type IX collagen, and this binding was dependent on prior digestion of the preparation with chondroitinase ABC.
(16) Simultaneously with the penetration into the snail tissue the "bald" cells (epithelial cells with cilium stubs only) of the four posterior tiers loosen, florm globules and fall off.
(17) He stubbed out cigarette butts on her face and chopped off part of a finger.
(18) During erythroid development and enucleation, the actin filaments may depolymerize up to the membrane, leaving a membrane skeleton with short stubs of actin bundled by band 4.9 and cross-linked by spectrin.
(19) thick) were cut by the method of Tokuyasu (Toluyasu KT: J Cell Biol 57:551, 1973) and their scanning transmission electron microscope images were examined either with a scanning transmission electron microscope detector or with a conversion stub using the secondary electron detector.
(20) Maltose and maltotriose stubs preponderated together with small proportions of D-glucose stubs.