What's the difference between stunner and stunning?
Stunner
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stuns.
(n.) Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(2) That stunner set the tone for a first round which did not follow the script that had been set by the countless mock drafts leading up to Thursday night.
(3) It was concluded that the handheld stunner can stun a bird effectively, and provided that the bird's neck is cut promptly, can kill it humanely.
(4) There will be about 70 objects and 70 portraits in the show, including Morris's portrait of his wife, Jane, a "stunner", said MacCarthy.
(5) A Remington Humane Stunner was used to deliver blows to the heads of anesthetized cats.
(6) A suicidal injury from a livestock stunner ("humane killer") serves to demonstrate the reconstruction possibilities presented by the morphology of the bolt entrance wound and the imprimata.
(7) The spontaneous EEG and somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) were examined in chickens before and after electrical stunning using a waterbath stunner.
(8) Ivan Perisic stunner for Croatia leaves Spain to face Italy in last 16 Read more “He is an amazing footballer,” he said after Sweden’s defeat to Belgium on Wednesday night .
(9) Broiler chickens were electrically stunned either by immersing their heads, necks and upper breast in a waterbath stunner or by immersing their heads only.
(10) A Remington humane stunner was used to deliver a blow to the left side of the surgically-exposed skull in ketamine-anesthetized cats.
(11) When currents between 120 and 250 mA were used in a waterbath stunner some birds retained their evoked responses immediately after the current was applied.
(12) Princess Diana The TV confession to beat all others, made in 1995 as a riposte to that other stunner, Prince Charles's on-air admission of adultery to Jonathan Dimbleby.
(13) This shows there are no easy games.” Dimitri Payet’s stunner rescues France’s welcome party against Romania Read more Didier Deschamps, the France manager, who introduced two strikers, Kingsley Coman and Anthony Martial, in place of Antoine Griezmann and Paul Pogba as he chased the win, admitted that there were negatives about the performance.
(14) Shea is direct, quick and strong and has been known to score a few stunners.
(15) A Remington humane stunner was used to deliver blows to the skulls of anesthetized cats.
(16) Anesthetized adult female rhesus monkeys were impacted in the middle of the sternum with a 10 kg stunner traveling at a speed of 22-25 mph to simulate an automobile accident.
(17) Paul Konchesky put the Hammers back in front before Gerrard’s stoppage-time stunner forced extra time and penalties.
(18) Correct application provided the use of penetrating concussion stunners should be preferred to applying a blow to the neck for stunning rabbits.
(19) There followed 90 minutes of similarly vulgar surprises (intercourse with the elderly, the nasal ingestion of poo), but the film's biggest shock, its most convention-rattling stunner, was saved until last.
(20) Sunderland were great in the first half, first to every ball, ensuring that City’s billionaires were kept quite and Borini scored a stunner of a goal.
Stunning
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stun
(a.) Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
(a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(3) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(4) Nevertheless between 18% and 20% appear to have done so – a stunning result for the far right.
(5) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(6) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
(7) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(8) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(9) Considerable evidence indicates that calcium antagonists administered prior to coronary occlusion attenuate postischemic stunning in the canine model: verapamil, diltiazem, and amlodipine have been shown to restore contractile function to 50-100% of baseline values during the initial hours following relief of ischemia.
(10) In models of prolonged ischemia (2 hours) followed by reperfusion, we have not observed a beneficial effect of scavengers on stunned myocardium.
(11) The present study tested the hypothesis that a reduction in calcium flux across the sarcolemma or the sarcoplasmic reticulum at the onset of reperfusion could attenuate subsequent mechanical "stunning" (postischemic myocardial dysfunction).
(12) Thus myocardial "stunning" is a nonuniform phenomenon with maximal severity in the subendocardium.
(13) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(14) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(15) In fact, I'm stunned at how good the place that I am in is.
(16) Myocardial "Stunning" is characterized by a reversible post-ischemic contractile dysfunction despite full restoration of blood flow.
(17) There's a stunning atmosphere in Wembley tonight, one even the Sheffield Wednesday band can't bugger up.
(18) It was similar between dog and rabbit hearts (about 40%) and was not significantly affected by enhanced contractility with calcium, epinephrine, or cardiac cooling, or by depressed contractility with propranolol, decreased coronary perfusion pressure, or stunned myocardium.
(19) RBS starts charging financial customers to park their cash Read more The disposal of W&G is proving troublesome and expensive for RBS, which stunned the City last month by admitting it was abandoning its attempt to float the business on the stock market.
(20) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.