What's the difference between alan and aland?

Alan


Definition:

  • (n.) A wolfhound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
  • (2) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
  • (3) The last complete count of the number of US abortions was made by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) in 1982.
  • (4) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
  • (5) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
  • (6) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
  • (7) You had to admire the party’s commitment to its Alan Partridge roots.
  • (8) If Alan Sugar did The Apprentice for older people, I would love to be on it.
  • (9) London might have Nelson’s column, the north its angel, Manchester its Alan Turing .
  • (10) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
  • (11) The 24-year-old becomes Alan Pardew’s fifth signing of the summer and offers much-needed support up front after the departures of the loan signing Loic Rémy and the out-of-contract Shola Ameobi.
  • (12) Alan's pathology is highlighted by his psychotic identification with Equus and his binding of the horses.
  • (13) I think we’re finally at a place in culture where a character being gay or lesbian isn’t taboo, especially for teenagers – the target audience for a lot of these summer blockbusters,” says screenwriter Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game .
  • (14) Edmund White I think the sexiest passages are those about Luc in Alan Hollinghurst's The Folding Star .
  • (15) Analysts and industry watchers say it is too soon to judge the mettle of Lewis and new finance director Alan Stewart, whose tenure can still be measured in weeks.
  • (16) For example, in May 2012 , Hockey said, “Australians are right to be concerned about handing Wayne Swan yet another increase in our nation’s credit card limit.” He then went on Alan Jones to argue that the government could not make claims that it was making savings if it was also increasing the debt ceiling from $250bn to $300bn.
  • (17) Alan Pardew's side have forgotten how to win at home and, resorting to too many aimless long, high balls, could find no way beyond the excellent James Collins and his fellow West Ham United defenders.
  • (18) Updated at 7.54pm GMT 7.34pm GMT The Guardian’s Alan Yuhas has a roundup of recommended commentary and analysis on the situation in Ukraine.
  • (19) Fourteen of these fragments have been found by one man, Blaine Alan Gibson, the result of an independent, self-funded investigation he began 18 months ago.
  • (20) The right-back, Alan Hutton, was comfortably Villa’s most potent attacker, with a run and a shot midway through the first half that had Tim Howard worried for the first time, then a blistering break down the right that caught out Baines and led to a chance for Tom Cleverley that James McCarthy had to come across and intercept.

Aland


Definition:

  • (adv.) On land; to the land; ashore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The secretion of the ABH antigens in saliva was tested in indigenous individuals of several populations: Icelanders in Reykjavik and Husavik (northeastern Iceland), Aland Islanders, Finno-Ugrians (Finns, Finnish Lapps, Komi) and Eskimos (Augpilagtok, northwestern Greenland).
  • (2) Because of this similarity and the defective dark adaptometry that has been reported in patients with this disorder, we believe that Aland Island eye disease is more appropriately classified as a form of congenital night blindness than as a form of ocular albinism.
  • (3) The series of triplet families from both Aland and Finland as a whole indicate a considerably higher frequency of twinning on the maternal than on the paternal side.
  • (4) A reinvestigation of a Danish family with X-linked inherited congenital nystagmus through 6 generations revealed a congenital stationary retinal dysfunction syndrome with characteristics of both incomplete congenital stationary night blindness and Aland Eye Disease.
  • (5) These differences in migration rates can in turn be attributed to greater geographic isolation in Aland and the contrasting social structures of the two populations.
  • (6) These findings are in agreement with clinical, nystagmographic and EM findings that Aland eye disease is distinct from the Nettleship-Falls type of X-linked ocular albinism.
  • (7) Among Alanders and Swedes on the Finnish mainland the frequency (around 20%) was comparable to Swedish values but considerably higher than among Finns (13-14%).
  • (8) These attempts have resulted in a more general model, which was then applied to data from Aland Islands (1750-1939), Nmes (1790-1875), Stuttgart (about 1790-1900) and Utah (1850-1900).
  • (9) Electrophysiological studies showed that a patient with Aland eye disease had no misrouting of the optic pathways which is always found in all forms of albinism as a consequence of the retino-geniculate anomaly.
  • (10) Most cases were from Aland Islands and nearby south-western main Finland.
  • (11) Comparison with a Finnish population and one from the Aland Islands revealed similar systolic blood pressures in females, but definitely lower values in male Lapps and Skolts.
  • (12) Furthermore, Aland eye disease is different from X-chromosomal congenital stationary night blindness with myopia by the fact that the scotopic functions are only moderately affected and there is no restriction of the peripheral photopic visual fields.
  • (13) These trends are consistent with changing migration patterns and isolate breakdown in Aland since 1900.
  • (14) Bites of the tick are believed to be common in Aland, an island province of Finland in the Baltic Sea.
  • (15) The contribution of inbreeding to the prevalence of recessive genetic diseases in the Aland Island parish of Sottunga is investigated.
  • (16) A study was conducted on twinning in relatives of consecutive triplet sets in the Aland Islands in the years 1740-1939.
  • (17) In the Alandic familial cases the cataracts appear to be an autosomal recessive trait.
  • (18) Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies against mammalian intermediate filament (IF) proteins were used to demonstrate IF expression in tissues and lymphoma tumors of northern pikes, Esox lucius L., from the Aland Islands of Finland by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy.
  • (19) If further studies confirm that the disorders are the same, we recommend use of the term Aland Island eye disease or Forsius-Eriksson-Miyake syndrome.
  • (20) On the Aland Islands, a 1-month-old girl was diagnosed as having Wolman disease.

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