What's the difference between alcyon and halcyon?

Alcyon


Definition:

  • (n.) See Halcyon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A mean tumor dose of 5000 cGy in 28 fractions was given over a 6-week period to the chest wall and draining lymphatics, using an AECL Theratron 80 or a CGR Alcyon MEV Cobalt-60 unit.

Halcyon


Definition:

  • (n.) A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice.
  • (a.) Hence: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the future search for coalition partners, Merkel will be heavily reliant on the hapless foreign minister and Liberal Democrat leader Guido Westerwelle, while the revitalised Social Democrats and the ever-rising Greens can start dreaming again of the halcyon days under Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer.
  • (2) No one is expecting a return the halcyon days of the early noughties when Big Brother regularly brought Channel 4 audiences of 4 million plus, big online audiences and page after page of tabloid coverage throughout the summer months.
  • (3) I remember Peter Shilton and the like doing this on what seemed like a regular basis (although obviously not in the 70s when I was a wee lad)" queried Neil Denny, back in the halcyon days of 2003.
  • (4) Acid phosphatase activity was histochemically localized in the proventriculus of two birds namely Ploceus philippinus and Halcyon smyrnensis.
  • (5) Yes, Fallon may long for the halcyon days when you could call a spade a spade, but since the race-hate sitcom Love Thy Neighbour was cancelled in the mid 1970s, those days are over.
  • (6) The halcyon days of the mid 20th century, where more mothers did stay at home and the father could be a breadwinner, was not the norm for more than a handful of decades.
  • (7) Equally, she does not shy away from emotive language - similar to the majority of her peers - saying: We do not live in halcyon world where choice exists for everyone.
  • (8) If Margate can emulate St Ives, it will mark a stunning comeback for a town whose halcyon days are long behind it.
  • (9) Playwright and director Shoji Kokami's Halcyon Days looks at the rise to cult status of so-called suicide websites reflecting their proliferation in recent years, particularly in Japan and South Korea.
  • (10) In those far-off, halcyon days, local authorities had been obliged by the Conservatives' 1962 Education Act not only to pay full-time students' tuition fees but also a contribution towards maintenance as well: a benefit my generation took for granted.
  • (11) Limited data on mental health suggest that the halcyon picture of country life may be grossly distorted.
  • (12) Pleasance, Sun to 27 Aug Lyn Gardner Halcyon Days, London Halcyon Days.
  • (13) Platinum discs for her 2010 debut album, the electronica-rippled Lights , and its 2012 follow-up, Halcyon , hang in the hallway.
  • (14) "Originally regional newspapers were run by entrepreneurial-type people back in the halcyon days.
  • (15) In what must now seem like the halcyon days of opposition, when he watched a rightwing government disintegrate in grace-and-favour scandals, George Papandreou uttered the immortal words: "The money exists, it is only that Mr [Kostas] Karamanlis prefers to give it to the few and powerful."
  • (16) There's a quiet track on Halcyon (co-written with Justin Parker) called I Know You Care that Goulding has introduced, at gigs, as a song about her absent father.
  • (17) It sounds almost halcyon; the perfect melting-pot with children of all classes and backgrounds getting on together.
  • (18) The rights had becomebecame available after Halcyon, the company that produced Terminator Salvation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009 .
  • (19) Throughout Ghomeshi’s trial, as his lawyer Marie Heinen ripped apart the accusers , I found myself recalling a line from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, set during the halcyon years when America’s biggest problem was the president’s joint taste for cigars and interns.
  • (20) "He appears to want to take us back to some halcyon age but it is a regressive agenda.

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