What's the difference between stamper and stumper?

Stamper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who stamps.
  • (n.) An instrument for pounding or stamping.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
  • (2) In a recent murine study of 13 lymphoma lines, we found that lymphomas that bind well to high endothelial venules, in the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro assay (an assay of lymphocyte binding to venules in frozen sections of peripheral lymph nodes or Peyer's patches), spread hematogenously to all high endothelial venule bearing lymphoid organs, whereas non-binding lymphomas did not.
  • (3) The investigation of sanitary working conditions of stampers and blacksmiths revealed that intense impulse noise of complex time and stochatic structure was a major health adverse factor.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Deputy Sheriff David Stamper on patrol in Beattyville.
  • (5) Mononuclear cells isolated from paired blood and synovial fluid of seven patients with rheumatoid arthritis showed cytoadherence to porcine Peyer's patch high endothelial venules using the Stamper-Woodruff method.
  • (6) The most outlandish idea discussed by Stamper was to hire mercenaries to rescue Abacha's son Mohammed from a prison cell in Nigeria.The operation never got past the planning stage.
  • (7) Applications of these new microscopes to technology are demonstrated with images of an optical disk stamper, a diffraction grating, a thin-film magnetic recording head, and a diamond cutting tool.
  • (8) Metal stampers pressed against either side, and it was quickly cooled to 40C.
  • (9) The private eye A former member of the Territorial Army SAS, Jonathan Stamper was instructed by lawyers for the Abachas to "dig the dirt" on the legitimate Nigerian government's national security adviser and attorney general, and a Swiss-based financier working with them, who were seeking to have some of the looted funds from the frozen bank accounts returned in a London civil case.
  • (10) Quantitative neutrophil to lung adhesive interactions were examined using an adaptation of the Woodruff-Stamper frozen section binding assay.
  • (11) A modification of the in vitro "homing assay" described by Stamper and Woodruff (J Exp Med 144: 823) was used.
  • (12) Employing the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro adhesion assay, which measures lymphocyte attachment to HEV in cryostat-cut sections of lymphoid organs, we have previously shown that treatment of PN sections with two different sialidases inactivates HEV-adhesive ligands, whereas treatment of PP tissue sections has no effect on HEV-adhesive function.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Deputy Sherrif David Stamper stops off at the Saturday local college basketball game.
  • (14) Norm Stamper, a former Seattle police chief and member of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition , said he was very happy.
  • (15) Stamper and his partner William Biedleman decided to sub-contract much of the work to another private eye, telling him on the phone that the strategy was "to apply pressure to this subject ... to get him to back down in being so supportive in litigation against the client ... and that really comes down to anything we can find out about it so whether he has personal assets hidden away that he has squandered or fraudulently got from previous dealings in Nigeria ... whether he had any vices at all."
  • (16) The mother is then used to create several mirror-image “sons”, or “stampers”, which are taken to the presses to imprint the grooves on heated vinyl.
  • (17) It turned out that Stamper's phone calls were being taped by the other side, and his deeds eventually came out in court.
  • (18) In every way examined, lymphocyte attachment to PPME beads (measured by flow cytofluorometry) mimics the interaction of lymphocytes with PN HEV (measured in the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro assay): both interactions are selectively inhibited by the same panel of structurally related carbohydrates, are calcium-dependent, and are sensitive to mild treatment of the lymphocytes with trypsin.
  • (19) In a judgment in February, Lord Justice Rix described the use of Stamper's firm Alpha Bravo as "unscrupulous and perhaps illegal".

Stumper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who stumps.
  • (n.) A boastful person.
  • (n.) A puzzling or incredible story.

Example Sentences:

Words possibly related to "stamper"

Words possibly related to "stumper"