What's the difference between sun and tun?

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.

Tun


Definition:

  • (n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
  • (n.) A fermenting vat.
  • (n.) A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
  • (n.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
  • (n.) An indefinite large quantity.
  • (n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
  • (n.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
  • (v. i.) To put into tuns, or casks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tun Lwin, the retired director general of Myanmar's meteorology department told the Associated Press: "We are out of danger and the impact of the cyclone is almost over.
  • (2) Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) " @MAS have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development."
  • (3) Wu Tun 吴吞 (@wu_tun) @aiww use mine, more than happy to make it.
  • (4) Photograph: Oval Partnership In the early 2000s, when enclosed malls were the standard, architect Chris Law of the Oval Partnership proposed an “open city” concept for San Li Tun, an area in Beijing’s central business district.
  • (5) Patients who appear to respond best to high branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) solutions have been previously described by objective measurements such as total urinary nitrogen (TUN) excretion, oxygen consumption index (O2Cl), plasma lactate, plasma pyruvate, plasma glucose (PG) and urinary 3-methylhistidine.
  • (6) This dramatically reduces labor and overall costs for TUN determinations, while providing a more accurate and economical assessment of nitrogen excretion than UUN in a clinical setting.
  • (7) March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort,they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path."
  • (8) Communities are not getting enough of a say in the process when the pubs they treasure are threatened by closure or change of use.” John Harrison, who lives in the south Cambridgeshire village of Guilden Morden, is among the leaders of an ongoing campaign to save the village’s Three Tuns pub and agrees that ACV status has yielded mixed results.
  • (9) The prevalence of mottled enamel (dental fluorosis) was investigated among children, aged 6 to 15 years, in Chung-hsing New Village and in Tsao-tun Village.
  • (10) Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) I will be making a statement on #MH370 at 10pm Malaysian time tonight at PWTC.
  • (11) An unusual B-cell proliferation was noted in an individual (Tun) which was characterized by the presence of two separate populations of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cell staining on the surface and in the cytoplasm for either IgG(k) or IgA(k).
  • (12) For both normal and hospitalized populations, nitrogen balance calculated from UUN data exceeded that calculated from TUN data.
  • (13) With only one exception in Tsao-tun, none of the children in the two groups showed mottling in the "moderate" or "severe" classes.
  • (14) #MH370 March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "We share this information out of a commitment to openness & respect for the families, two principles guiding this investigation."
  • (15) Triggering of effectors, as monitored either by incorporation of 32P into phosphatidylinositol or by transmethylation of phosphatidylcholine, was similar for the positive control YAC-1, STC, TUN, and LTC, whereas ASC appeared to be defective in triggering effectors.
  • (16) #MH370 March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Inmarsat, that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern & southern corridors,has performed further calculations" March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat & the AAIB concluded that the last position of #MH370 was in the middle of the Indian Ocean."
  • (17) March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "With deep sadness and regret I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight #MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean."
  • (18) Total urinary nitrogen (TUN) and urinary urea nitrogen (UUN) in a 24-hour urine collection were measured under a variety of clinical and nutritional conditions in 81 patients for 564 study days.
  • (19) The efficiency of measuring 24-hr urine urea-nitrogen (UUN) and total urine nitrogen (TUN) in patients on general wards was measured.
  • (20) TUN determined by chemiluminescence evidently provides a simple means of calculating nitrogen balance more nearly accurately.

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