What's the difference between sporting and spurting?
Sporting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sport
(a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
Example Sentences:
(1) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
(2) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(3) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(4) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
(5) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(6) It is not clear whether Sports Direct, which has a history of taking strategic stakes in related companies including Debenhams and JD Sports, will now make a bid.
(7) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(8) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(9) A history of vigorous sports in the past was not protective.
(10) These are particularly common in the field of sport.
(11) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(12) The sports preparticipation examination can be worthwhile if the musculoskeletal system is examined carefully, with particular regard for the residual disabilities from previous injuries; this can be accomplished in a two-minute orthopedic examination done in addition to the usual physical examination.
(13) This month, Ucas will bring out an interactive map of Gaza , with live updates, highlighting sports events and restaurants, as well as areas of historical interest.
(14) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(15) With their 43-8 win , the Seahawks did more than just produce one of the most dominant performances in Super Bowl history, they gave the city of Seattle its first major professional sports win in 35 years .
(16) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(17) Mass examination in organized populations at industrial enterprises made it possible to bring to light a statistically significant different effect of the level of productive labor and sport activity on the prevalence of frequent alcohol consumption as one of CHD risk factors.
(18) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
(19) Lessons have been learned from previous Games, not least London 2012, in how to best frame the sporting action for maximum impact – not only for those watching on television but those attending in person.
(20) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
Spurting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spurt
Example Sentences:
(1) During the second month, a variable spurt of growth occurs in the genu, followed by a similar period of rapid growth in the splenium between 4-6 months of age.
(2) [2-3H]Mannose incorporation into cerebellar glycoproteins was greater in malnourished rats during the period of brain growth spurt than in normally fed rats at all ages studied.
(3) The development of signs of puberty and a growth spurt appearing at this late age clearly show the potential for maturation and growth once malnutrition is corrected.
(4) Of 193 patients suffering from peptic ulcer bleeding identified by emergency gastrointestinoscopy, 52 patients were found to have bleeding gastric ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 9, fresh clot 11, black clot 17, protruding vessel 4, and clear base without stigmata 6); the other 141 had bleeding duodenal ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 26, fresh clot 43, black clot 23, protruding vessel 15, and clear base without stigmata 31).
(5) In addition, 5 children had GH deficiency so that their growth spurt was blunted and 3 of them were left with an extremely short stature.
(6) Once the growth spurt is over the condition subsides but the results of impaired growth or permanent pelvic deformity will not necessarily be eradicated.
(7) There was blood everywhere … blood was spurting out.
(8) Those children who were in early puberty when GH treatment started went into a rapid growth spurt and have now stopped growing.
(9) The gradual increase in blood pressure for large groups of adolescents would appear to be the result of the aggregate increase in size (weight) resulting from the asynchronous growth spurts of individuals studied.
(10) Whether Philip Hammond is soft snow or a spurting cuttlefish is difficult to say.
(11) Parameters characterizing the growth process, such as peak height velocity (PHV), age at PHV, and age at onset of the pubertal growth spurt (PGS), were calculated directly from the estimated curves.
(12) The patients showed a normal pubertal growth spurt which was, in general, insufficient to restore the growth retardation already established before adolescence.
(13) The results indicate that: (1) The so called adolescent spurt is not well defined among Bod highlanders.
(14) A spurt of corticosteroids was necessary to obtain apyrexia for the patients who had presented multiple auto-immune disorders and a resistance to the classical therapy.
(15) But like them it is at a peak during the prepubertal spurt of growth.
(16) Kyphotic curves tend to progress after the adolescent growth spurt while scoliotic curves do not.
(17) Women who reported sensitive area orgasms were also more likely to report a spurt of fluid at moment of orgasm.
(18) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(19) Gonadal steroids influence the skeletal growth and metabolism both during the pubertal growth spurt and in adulthood with aging.
(20) The growth curves for the testes, epididymides and body weight were similar and exhibited a spurt between the ages of 150 and 180 days.