What's the difference between argo and carina?

Argo


Definition:

  • (n.) The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.
  • (n.) A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
  • (2) Clonal analysis indicates that argos acts nonautonomously and can diffuse over the range of several cell diameters.
  • (3) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
  • (4) NH2-senktide slightly inhibited angiotensin-induced drinking, while Argo-neurokinin B was ineffective.
  • (5) Argos shoppers are largely drawn from the core mass market – the C2 and D socio-economic groups, which have not benefited as much from big falls in mortgage rates as those on higher incomes.
  • (6) A statement at the end of Monday's meeting condemned Argo as a "violation of international cultural norms" and said that the award was "propaganda attack against our nation and entire humanity".
  • (7) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
  • (8) Sainsbury’s has revealed its first quarterly sales growth in more than two years, raising hopes that the supermarket will make a new bid for Argos owner Home Retail Group this week.
  • (9) The supermarket is under pressure from shareholders not to overpay for Argos, as some are sceptical about taking on a business that has struggled to increase sales and profits in recent years.
  • (10) I live with my husband and three-year-old daughter in a two-bed and my office is outside in the garden, in a shed from Argos.
  • (11) Conceptual translation of the argos gene suggests that it encodes a secreted protein.
  • (12) The takeover of Argos is designed to broaden the Sainsbury’s product range and reduce its reliance on the highly competitive grocery market.
  • (13) Last year's prize for ensemble cast went to the Ben Affleck thriller Argo, which went on to claim the best film Oscar.
  • (14) Spotlight is more akin Argo , Ben Affleck’s big winner in 2013: it takes a conventional approach to telling a compelling true story, with assured direction and exemplary performances from its ensemble cast.
  • (15) Last year 12 Years a Slave trod this path ; in the past Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech and Argo (which was runner-up to Silver Linings Playbook at Toronto) also followed suit.
  • (16) However, several analysts said they expected Sainsbury’s to come back with a counter bid because of the strategic and financial benefits of taking over Argos.
  • (17) Chief executive John Walden said that despite the poor performance, Argos was a “strong business”.
  • (18) Terry Duddy, chief executive of Home Retail Group, said Argos had a better than expected festive season with its strongest quarterly sales growth for five years as tablet sales soared more than 50%.
  • (19) Terry Duddy, the chief executive of Home Retail Group, which owns both Argos and Homebase, said the retailer was not seeing any positive effect on furniture sales from a rise in the number of housing transactions.
  • (20) The offer falls under the banner of an overall scheme entitled Everday Offers, giving current account customers up to 15% cashback on everyday spending at a range of retailers including Ocado, Homebase, Morrisons and Argos, with more to join over the coming weeks.

Carina


Definition:

  • (n.) A keel
  • (n.) That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification
  • (n.) A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
  • (n.) The keel of the breastbone of birds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One type of short-axon horizontal cell (HC) and one type of axonless HC are described in the retina of Carinae noctua, a crepuscular bird and Tyto alba, a pure nocturnal bird.
  • (2) The allegations over the speeding penalty points did not emerge until after the MP's 26-year marriage ended in 2010 as a result of his affair with his PR adviser Carina Trimingham.
  • (3) To maintain this important bilateral bronchial circulation, it is of capital importance not to mobilize the arteries individually and to avoid large dissections around the carina.
  • (4) The distance between the bevel end of the tube and the carina was determined with a fibreoptic bronchoscope.
  • (5) Positive end-expiratory pressure increased the bronchial blood flow at the tracheal carina and both bronchial carina (p less than 0.05).
  • (6) We present a case of carcinoma in situ located on the carina with excisional biopsy via a fiberoptic bronchoscope and no recurrence after five years.
  • (7) Seven consenting patients who required thoracotomy and 1-LV were anesthetized and their tracheas were intubated with the Univent BB tube; the BB was inserted into the appropriate mainstem bronchus until the proximal surface of the BB cuff was just distal to the tracheal carina.
  • (8) Only five cases have been reported in children (two of a lung, one of a mainstem bronchus, one of the carina, and one of the trachea).
  • (9) Forty-eight patients with carcinoma, but without gross neoplastic involvement of the main carina, underwent biopsy.
  • (10) We opened the thorax, cannulated the trachea 1 cm above the carina and ventilated the lungs through the lower airways with a Harvard respirator.
  • (11) The location of the obstruction was trachea in 16 patients, carina in 24, main bronchi in 8, and distal airway in 8.
  • (12) But in June 2010 Huhne told his family he was leaving Pryce as a newspaper had learned of his long-term affair with his PR adviser, Carina Trimingham, 46.
  • (13) Anastomoses were performed, respectively, at the level of the main carina (long single anastomosis), at the midpoint between the main carina and the bifurcation of the left main-stem bronchus (short single anastomosis), and just distal to the bifurcation of the left main-stem bronchus (lobar anastomosis).
  • (14) Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) and radioisotope studies using radio-labeled erythrocytes (RI) were used to measure blood flow at the donor main carina (DC) and upper lobe carina (DUC) after 3 h of reperfusion.
  • (15) So for the palliation of airway obstruction we inserted the silicone rubber T-tube stent from 0.5 cm above the vocal cord to 2 cm before the carina after endotracheal tumor resection with Nd-YAG laser.
  • (16) TBNA was positive for carcinoma in the two patients whose tracheal carinae appeared abnormal on computerized tomography.
  • (17) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.
  • (18) We measured vocal cord-carina, oral-carina, and nasal-carina distances in situ at autopsy of two groups of infants (less than 1000 and greater than or equal to 1000 g).
  • (19) The tracheal mucosa was studied for histologic changes in the cilia, the epithelium, submucosal reaction, and mucus production at the level of the carina.
  • (20) Atropine abolished tracheal constriction induced by mechanical stimulation of the carina or aerosolized histamine, showing that the responses were mediated over vagal pathways.

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