What's the difference between sun and sup?

Sun


Definition:

  • (n.) See Sunn.
  • (n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000.
  • (n.) Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
  • (n.) The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.
  • (n.) That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (2) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
  • (3) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
  • (4) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
  • (5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (6) A parent who took his anti-Page 3 campaign to Legoland and Wapping is claiming victory after the Danish toymaker announced the end of its two-year partnership with the Sun.
  • (7) He poses a far greater risk to our security than any other Labour leader in my lifetime September 12, 2015 “Security” appears to be the new watchword of Cameron’s government – it was used six times by the prime minister in an article attacking Corbyn in the Times late last month, and eight times by the chancellor, George Osborne, in an article published in the Sun the following day.
  • (8) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
  • (9) It has emerged that Kelvin MacKenzie , who attacked the decision by Channel 4 News in his Sun column and called on readers to complain to the media regulator, did not in fact end up lodging a complaint himself.
  • (10) News International executives are also understood to have been testing the water for a potentially swift launch of a Sunday edition of the Sun as a replacement for NoW, which published the final issue in its 168-year history on Sunday, in conversations with advertisers and media buyers.
  • (11) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
  • (12) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (13) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
  • (14) Then annually from 1985 to 1989, they received written recommendations about sun protection for a period of 2-6 years after the initial education.
  • (15) A sun protection factor (SPF)-15 and an SPF-30 sunscreen were compared with regard to their ability to prevent sunburn cell formation after the exposure of human skin to a standardized dose of solar-simulated radiation.
  • (16) He said the Sun was hugely profitable and had enjoyed a record year in 2010.
  • (17) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
  • (18) This finding does not affirm the belief that protection of adult skin from exposure to the sun will reduce the risk from melanoma.
  • (19) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
  • (20) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.

Sup


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
  • (n.) A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.
  • (v. i.) To eat the evening meal; to take supper.
  • (v. t.) To treat with supper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
  • (2) However, the Con A-sup stimulates synergistically M-1 cells with DF.
  • (3) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
  • (4) In this paper we show that the sup-3 mutation is an amplification of the structural gene for the MHC A protein, myo-3.
  • (5) The capacity of such activated M phi to function as APC decreased upon removal of Con A sup, and could be regenerated by a second pulse.
  • (6) We report that E. coli K-12 and W1485 (sup0) accumulated trehalose but that they required a higher osmotic strength in the growth medium than that required by their sup+ derivatives.
  • (7) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
  • (8) Solar UV-irradiance was compared with radiation from different phototherapy devices (UVB, SUP, and PUVA therapy equipment).
  • (9) In addition to mutations in sup-20, other mutations causing muscle defects, such as unc-54 and unc-22 mutations, suppress the hypercontracted phenotype of unc-105.
  • (10) The particularities of the case are the long period between onset of the disease and establishment of the diagnosis-the cutaneous lesions having persisted all the time, and the marked persistence of postlesional erythemas showing positive improvement by means of selective ultraviolet phototherapy (SUP).
  • (11) Studies on femurs retrieved at autopsy from patients who underwent cemented total hip arthroplasty two week sup to seventeen years earlier and were functioning well, have shown that the failure of cemented femoral components is initiated primarily by mechanical factors, consisting of debonding at the cement-prosthesis interface and fractures of the cement rather than lack of bone ingrowth or fibrous tissue formation at the interface.
  • (12) Analytical gel filtration of M phi sup revealed that the factor had an apparent molecular weight of 27,000 daltons which was distinct from interleukin 1.
  • (13) It is shown that these suppressor cells can inhibit an ongoing response of T cells to active SUP and that this inhibition is reversible.
  • (14) Mutations in the internal promoter of the first gene decreased transcription, both in vitro and in vivo, of the second-tRNA(SUP)6-o-gene.
  • (15) The group with the most heterogeneity was the SUP, sharing similarities with the UP and SBP mostly.
  • (16) Translation of the UGA codon was found to occur with high fidelity since it was refractory to ribosomal mutations affecting proofreading and to suppression by the sup-9 gene product.
  • (17) Although the incisional hernia may sometimes stay silent and asymptomatic for years, it inevitably ends sup by representing a reason for acute and subacute pathologic events; an early surgical treatment is therefore desirable once the incisional hernia has been diagnosed.
  • (18) Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequences of the peptides has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50143 (23 pages) at the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies may be obtained as indicated in Biochem.
  • (19) The PWM that remained in solution after incubation with E (Sup E-PWM) had little mitogenic capacity and inhibited the blast cell response induced by fluid-phase PWM.
  • (20) Similar responses were apparent following the HDT to SUP II transition, except for VO2, which changed little.

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