What's the difference between squirt and whippersnapper?
Squirt
Definition:
(v. t.) To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.
(v. i.) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
(v. i.) Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
(n.) An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
(n.) A small, quick stream; a jet.
Example Sentences:
(1) For direct measurement of the ESR signal of superoxide anion (O2-) produced in biological samples, O2- generated at a physiological pH was trapped in alkaline media instead of by a rapid freezing method, and then its signal was measured by ESR spectroscopy at 77 K. A reaction mixture for O2- generation, such as xanthine oxidase-xanthine and neutrophils, was incubated at a physiological pH (pH 7.0-7.5) for a suitable reaction period (30s), then an aliquot (300 microliters) was pipetted out and squirted into 600 microliters of 0.5 M NaOH to stabilize O2- (pH-jump).
(2) A total of 22 females with this disease whose age ranged from 22 to 69 years were treated for two years with high concentration purified sea-squirt antigen named Ei-M having a molecular weight of 22,800.
(3) To test whether this inhibitory effect of Na+ reflected inhibition of the hydrolysis of E2P, we measured the rate of loss of incorporated 32P when enzyme, newly phosphorylated by [gamma32P]ATP, was squirted into a large volume of ice-cold solution containing 1,2-cyclohexylenedinitrilotetraacetic aicd (CDTA), unlabelled ATP and 0, 5 or 150 mM-Na+.
(4) Doses of 1.25, 2.5, 5.0 mg and placebo, as 1 squirt, were randomly given to all patients.
(5) I’ve just been around a long time.” Jocelyne Larocque, one of the last cuts before the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, gave Canada their first goal of the tournament only 85 seconds after the opening faceoff when a rebound squirted out to her at the blue line and she wristed a shot past Schelling.
(6) Formation of immune complexes can be responsible for the "squirting papilla" phenomenon, and conversion of the stratum corneum - which is normally an inaccessible antigen - into its reactive form seems to be brought about by proteases of polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
(7) John Terry and Ledley King leapt to meet the rebound with the ball squirting away for Mata to volley from a tight angle into the mass of bodies in the goal-mouth.
(8) The fight ends with you stomping the last remaining vitality from the hapless construction worker's blood-squirting body.
(9) When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.'
(10) Indirect immunofluorescence studies using antisera to synthetic somatostatin, human calcitonin and substance P indicate, in the neural complex of the sea-squirt, Ciona intestinalis L., that these polypeptides are present in large perikarya situated at the periphery of the cerebral ganglion as well as in some smaller perikarya in the medulla.
(11) The lipid content of sea squirts is low, namely less than a half percent of the fresh weight.
(12) César Azpilicueta's throw-in two minutes into stoppage-time prompted panic, the ball squirting out for the Spaniard in front of goal only for Cassio to smother the chance.
(13) Hoya (sea-squirt) asthma is a typical type I occupational asthma.
(14) Strong electrical stimuli to the nerve or a squirt of relatively large amount of water into the oropharynx prolonged the duration of both swallowing and the cessation of rhythmic jaw movements for about 1.0 sec.
(15) With the lights switched off during ascent, I could press my face against the porthole to see the bioluminescent displays of deep-sea animals: flashes and squirts of light in the smothering darkness, triggered by the passing of our submersible.
(16) Teat dipping lowers the number of new infections (5 vs 15 for the control group of M III), but the association of squirting and teat dipping gives no better results (6 new infections).
(17) Southern blot analyses revealed that sequences homologous to the rat gene are present in sea squirt, fish, bird, and human DNA, indicating that this gene is highly conserved and that related proteins may be present in many if not all vertebrates.
(18) Then the ball squirts out to Kaka at the edge of the area.
(19) All the mains water from the washing machine squirted out," said Mooney.
(20) Son worked the ball to Alli and the midfielder’s shot was blocked, before it squirted back off him towards Kane.
Whippersnapper
Definition:
(n.) A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lowry didn't have his first London exhibition until the beginning of his sixth decade, which puts whippersnappers such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin in their place.
(2) "You know, if I'm on a programme with some know-it-all whippersnapper, I become rather Lady Bracknell and say: 'My dear boy, if you'd been around the block as often as I have, then you'd be rather embarrassed by what you're saying...' It's revenge for all the times I've been patronised.
(3) Jowell went in 2007 and was replaced by the ambitious young whippersnapper James Purnell.
(4) Pocketing Murdoch's old media shilling and organising Vice's output into more formalised channels – it announced plans to launch a "food vertical for global youth" last month, and five more channels are coming this year – might prompt suggestions that the perennial enfants terribles are becoming old-fashioned, just as BuzzFeed and other innovative whippersnappers are threatening to eat their lunch.
(5) It is a little shabby round the edges now that whippersnappers like Padstow get all the limelight, but a lick of paint, a drop of new blood, and it'd come up beautiful once more.
(6) The lesson has been well and quickly learned, particularly by the Red franchise, in which almost every actor qualifies for an OAP bus pass, and chief among whose pleasures is the opportunity to watch Dame Helen Mirren behind the sights of some mega machine gun, or knocking sense into a dozen whippersnappers with a few well-placed elbow-jabs, head-butts and groin-stompings.
(7) I was but a whippersnapper when I started to work for Gawker in 2007.
(8) As a young whippersnapper of a duke, do you really want the sartorial point of comparison to be with the prime minster?
(9) Liverpool are interested in this whippersnapper and a lot of people are expecting him to make a big name for himself at this World Cup.