What's the difference between speaking and sputter?

Speaking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speak
  • (a.) Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.
  • (a.) Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (2) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
  • (3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (4) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
  • (5) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
  • (6) Speaking to a handpicked audience of community representatives, the prime minister said he had not allowed the EU to get its way.
  • (7) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
  • (8) The distribution of cells at the stage of DNA synthesis and mitosis in all the parietal peritoneum speaks of the absence of special proliferation zones.
  • (9) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
  • (10) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (11) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
  • (12) The ability to demonstrate selective augmentation of the functional matrix-associated receptor population, and our recent results showing that gonadotropes are indeed the responsive cells (Singh P, Muldoon TG, unpublished observations) speak to the specificity and relevance of these findings.
  • (13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
  • (14) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
  • (15) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
  • (16) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
  • (17) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
  • (18) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (19) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
  • (20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.

Sputter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
  • (v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
  • (v. i.) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
  • (v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
  • (n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All tooth specimens were sputter-coated with gold for 4 min and examined using a scanning electron microscope.
  • (2) And the Sunni-Shia conflict driving so much of this is not unlike the Wars of the Reformation– those took a century to conclude ... and still sputter along in Northern Island three centuries later.
  • (3) Auger spectroscopy and ion sputtering technique have shown that in surface of new archs oxygen and carbon are present up to about 300 A depth.
  • (4) The teeth were air dried, mounted on stubs, sputter-coated with gold-palladium and examined under SEM.
  • (5) Electronegative elements will be detected with similar sensitivities in the spectrum of negative sputtered ions, but inert gases, which are ionized with difficulty and have small electron affinities, will be detected with considerably poorer sensitivities.
  • (6) It is based on the selective evanescent field excitation of ligands adsorbed to supported planar bilayers on argon-sputtered glass plates.
  • (7) of implantation the surface of the as-cast polyurethane was covered with a monolayer of platelets and leukocytes, whereas thrombus development progressed more rapidly on the sputtered polyurethane surface and at 1 hr.
  • (8) Looking for a solution for Britain's sputtering maternity services?
  • (9) The catheter segments were sputter-coated with approx.
  • (10) While TEM provides the highest resolution images of sputter-coated cytoskeletons, it also damages the specimens owing to heating in the beam.
  • (11) He yanks a few times on the starting cord of the outboard engine, and we sputter off into the bay towards our target – our progress in these sensitive waters observed by a police motorboat.
  • (12) Images of DNA and ribosomal subunits contrasted by sputter shadowing with tungsten are shown.
  • (13) Several substrates--aluminum mnium foil, silver mirror deposit and sputtered gold-provided good conductive backgrounds for chromosomal spreads.
  • (14) Using sputter coating to form oxide films allows control of its thickness.
  • (15) Sputtered coats of 1-2 nm of platinum or tungsten provide both an adequate secondary electron signal for SEM and good contrast for STEM and TEM.
  • (16) Forty-five sputter-coated implants and an equal number of noncoated titanium implants were placed into 15 partially edentulated dog mandibles.
  • (17) The forward planning in such cities runs counter to the steadily accumulating evidence in Washington that Barack Obama's efforts to green America's economy is sputtering to a halt.
  • (18) Here we show that construction and use of a tungsten target greatly improves the quality of the sputter shadowed deposit.
  • (19) The thickness of the oxide layer can also be controlled by sputter coating.
  • (20) This study investigated and compared the healing rates of bone around commercially pure titanium implants and titanium implants sputter-coated from a hydroxyapatite target.