What's the difference between stum and swum?

Stum


Definition:

  • (n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.
  • (n.) Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must.
  • (v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 6 baboon hamadryads, in 4 Stum-tailed macaques and in one macaco rhesus they were diagnosed as the so-called polypous gastritis.
  • (2) These findings indicate that methylprednisolone has a profound inhibitory effect on lymphoid cells' response to allogenic stumli in the MLC system.
  • (3) Among imported monkeys the incidence of polyps was in macaques rhesus--0,31% and in Stum-tailed macaques--9,2%.
  • (4) Incidence of polyps among local monkeys was 0.48% in macaques rhesus and 2.3% in Stum-tailed macaques.
  • (5) In 5 Stum-tailed macaques there were noted gigantic folds of the pylorus.

Swum


Definition:

  • () of Swim
  • (p. p.) of Swim
  • () imp. & p. p. of Swim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Squid (Illex illecebrosus, Loligo pealei) were cannulated in the vena cava and swum in a Beamish-type respirometer.
  • (2) For the man who has swum through ice and hauled sledges for 1,200km it will surely be a walk in the park.
  • (3) The breaststroke is swum “head up” with a woolly hat on.
  • (4) In the Morris water maze, both distance swum and time to find the platform increased with age.
  • (5) At 4 months, lesioned and grafted groups were all impaired compared to the normal controls in their swim time and distance swum to find the platform, and they did not show any spatially focussed search strategy in the spatial probe trial when the platform was removed from the tank.
  • (6) Exercised animals were swum daily for 60 minutes on days 1-9.
  • (7) In model 1, rats were swum in a water bath at 33 degrees C for 30 min, which increased tidal volume (VT) approximately 300% and frequency 60%; they were then allowed to rest for up to 4 h. In model 2, rats were exposed to 5% CO2-13% O2-82% N2 for 24 h, which increased both VT and frequency approximately 200%; these rats were then rested for up to 24 h. In both models we harvested a tissue fraction (lamellar bodies, lb) and two alveolar fractions--tubular myelin rich (alv-1) and tubular myelin poor (alv-2).
  • (8) Top tip Once a year, on Pony Penning Day , the wild ponies are rounded up by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department and swum across the channel from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island, where the foals are auctioned off to the public to raise money for managing the herd and keeping the pony population at sustainable numbers.
  • (9) Like Blatter, he has swum in the shark-infested waters of Fifa’s politics of patronage, favours and threats for far too long.
  • (10) In midcycle cervical mucus at 37 degrees C, beat frequencies and swimming speeds were greater than at 21 degrees C, but the trajectories were equally straight, and the distances swum per beat (kinetic efficiencies) did not differ.
  • (11) The opposite was true of acutely swum rats at 270 and 370 days of age.
  • (12) Groups of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri, Richardson) were continuously swum at 20 cm s-1 (1.0 body lengths s-1) for 0, 3, 30, and 200 days.
  • (13) In SWUM, intracellular [Na+] increased significantly in the plantaris (PL), red gastrocnemius (RG), and WG, but not in SOL.
  • (14) Two weeks later the animals were tested in a circular water maze for time and distance swum to find a submerged platform.
  • (15) Animals were swum to exhaustion at either 0700 or 1900 h, after which samples of soleus, white vastus lateralis, and red vastus lateralis muscles as well as liver were excised and subsequently analyzed for glycogen content.
  • (16) In experiment 2, semen extended in egg yolk Tris was cooled to 5 degrees C or layered onto a solution of 6% BSA in extender at 37 degrees C, from which the sperm that had swum into the BSA solution were recovered 2 h later and cooled to 5 degrees C. Sperm in both treatments were cryopreserved.
  • (17) The Dutch team’s third leg was swum by Inge Dekker, taking part in her fourth Olympics, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in February and underwent surgery in March.
  • (18) Molecular sieving of plasma from rats which were swum repeatedly demonstrates that this N-acetyl beta-endorphin IR consists of both larger molecular weight N-acetyl beta-endorphin IR, e.g.
  • (19) In the nature of things there will have been some slippage: some voters will have died; and, as a result of normal political churn, some will have swum against the Ukip tide and departed for other parties.
  • (20) Japanese activists have swum ashore and raised flags on one of a group of islands at the centre of an escalating territorial dispute with China.

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