What's the difference between alan and nomadic?

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.

Nomadic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Are we really any closer today in our understanding and appreciation of why the nomadic human made such a choice for their very existence during the transition to a more civilized society?
  • (2) Male risk factors, primarily associated with herding activities, included sleeping outside during seasonal migrations (also a risk factor for nomadic women), bite by a tick (adult male Hyalomma truncatum), tick bite during the cool dry season, and contact with sick animals.
  • (3) Pastoral nomadism is a way of life in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
  • (4) Nomads are a reservoir of susceptible individuals who require immunization strategies adapted to their particular life-styles.
  • (5) Persuading nomadic communities and local farmers of the merits of conservation has, he says, taken time.
  • (6) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
  • (7) An exhibition of Japanese outsider art – all of it made in mental health institutions and daycare centres – continues throughout June at the Wellcome Institute in London and the nomadic Museum of Everything , created in 2009, continues its wanderings.
  • (8) Many individuals from nomadic communities complained of persistent pain in the lower limbs, which was often associated with radiologic evidence of osteoperiostitis of the long bones.
  • (9) These physical impairments would have greatly interfered with the individual's participation in subsistence activities and would have been a substantial handicap in a nomadic hunting and gathering group.
  • (10) He suffers from diabetes, a condition not helped by his nomadic lifestyle and manic disposition.
  • (11) The whole family has taken time to acclimatise to new surroundings, but such adjustments accompany the nomadic life of a football coach.
  • (12) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
  • (13) The Enterprise encounters NOMAD, a small space probe of incredible destructive power.
  • (14) In both nomads and settled residents known to have fully sensitive strains of tubercle bacilli pretreatment the 6-month regimen was highly effective with no failures during chemotherapy and only 3% relapses after stopping chemotherapy in 126 patients compared with a combined failure rate during chemotherapy and relapse rate of 21% in the 152 patients receiving the 12-month regimen (P less than 0.001).
  • (15) The fact that this individual reached adulthood throws new light on the attitude of these nomadic people towards such conditions.
  • (16) Eighteen (22.0%) of 82 cows kept under semi-intensive and 23(26.4%) of 87 cows kept under Fulani nomadic systems were shedding C. burnetii.
  • (17) His adrenalin-pumping shows are woven into American life, yet subvert its capitalist fundamentals, that innate American principle of screw-thy-neighbour, in favour of what he insists to be "real" America – working class, militant, street-savvy, tough but romantic, nomadic but with roots – compiled into what feels like a single epic but vernacular rock-opera lasting four decades.
  • (18) The Ethiopian authorities claim the PBS programme addresses the challenges of poverty through cost-effective service delivery to scattered and nomadic populations.
  • (19) Malaysia The Bakun dam in Sarawak, due to be completed this year, has displaced 10,000 tribal people, including many semi-nomadic Penan tribespeople.
  • (20) Nomads have developed special cultural and social patterns with a system of collective ownership in the clan or tribe.