What's the difference between asian and toon?

Asian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic.
  • (n.) An Asiatic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (2) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
  • (3) Asian teenagers had a 50% marker rate and a 27.2% rate for persistent antigenemia.
  • (4) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
  • (5) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
  • (6) Bangkok Centre serves the Asian countries on the Global Programme on Prevention of Hearing Impairment and Deafness.
  • (7) More than a million white women between the ages of 50 and 64 were recruited between 1996 and 2001, alongside nearly 6,000 south Asian women and almost 5,000 black women.
  • (8) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
  • (9) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
  • (10) The summary adjusted relative risk for a Down syndrome livebirth for all those of North African or Asian origin, compared to those for women of European origin, was about 1.56.
  • (11) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
  • (12) Now, 42 years later, he lives in the same flat in Portland Place, central London, though he is richer by £1bn, a peer in the House of Lords, and this week received a lifetime achievement gong at the Asian Business Awards.
  • (13) Omeprazole 40 mg therefore was found to produce rapid healing and symptom relief in Asian patients with H2-antagonist-resistant peptic ulcers.
  • (14) This was also true of the Asian population (Trafford dmft = 4.49.
  • (15) But many inside these Asian nations are wary of efforts to make emerging economies break ranks.
  • (16) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
  • (17) I gave her my personal opinion, which was that there would be no problem for her, but I was not able to give her the guarantee that I think she was entitled to deserve.” The peer reminded the House of Lords about the shock in Britain when Idi Amin expelled the Asians from Uganda.
  • (18) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
  • (19) Last week he argued that properly primed immigrants will "see off the racists" - as if once blacks and Asians could conjugate their verbs properly and learn the date of the Battle of Agincourt, then racists would refrain from attacking them.
  • (20) This article reports how the Staying Healthy After Fifty Program, designed for the general United States population, was introduced into the State of Hawaii, how it was adapted for use with two Asian-American groups, the Japanese and Filipinos, and on the benefits reported by participants.

Toon


Definition:

  • () pl. of Toe.
  • (n.) The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Toon, on the other hand, are in a wee spot of temporary bother.
  • (2) Toon attempted to dissuade him from boxing by explaining its dangers.
  • (3) After pleading guilty to an unspecified lesser charge, Toon was sentenced to 75 days in jail.
  • (4) Texas pool party incident raises questions about wealth and race Read more Toon’s brother, Matthew, was quoted as telling reporters that his brother was innocent and had been at a cinema at the time of the incident.
  • (5) On the former front, the company's Angry Birds Toons channel launched in March within developer Rovio's various games, and by September had notched up more than 1bn views of its short cartoons and trailers.
  • (6) Photograph: Supplied Sean Toon was sentenced to more than nine months in jail after pleading guilty to killing and maiming prize farm animals and covering them in paint, according to court records in Texas .
  • (7) Yet according to court records, Toon pleaded guilty to felony criminal mischief and was sentenced in August 2000 to 285 days in jail and fined $300.
  • (8) Freddy Shepherd and the ‘Toongate tapes’, 1998 Mahmood won Reporter of the Year in 1999 after he revealed that the Newcastle United chairman and his deputy had described women from Newcastle as “dogs”, mocked ex-manager Kevin Keegan for being like Shirley Temple and laughed at loyal supporters, known as the Toon Army, for buying expensive replica shirts.
  • (9) What stands out for me was that “Toon, Toon” song going on for twenty minutes.
  • (10) This represents from one-fifth toone-third of the need for services from organized programs among this groups.
  • (11) The head of the National Crime Agency, Donald Toon, notes that “the London property market has been skewed by laundered money.
  • (12) The home fixture between Newcastle United and Chelsea, at St James’ Park, was not a good Saturday for black Geordies to hit the Toon.
  • (13) As a teenager, Toon had two serious encounters with the criminal justice system.
  • (14) A Dallas County court clerk confirmed details of the case on Wednesday but was unable to confirm how long Toon served in jail.
  • (15) Meanwhile, children’s broadcasters from the BBC and Disney to Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are finding new digital ways to deliver their shows to children alongside their traditional channels, while startups like Hopster and Toon Goggles have launched mobile apps to deliver shows.
  • (16) The Toon get the ball rolling, then sailing through the air.
  • (17) The Toon need you.” Such messages were backed up an incessant two-word soundtrack set to the tune of La Bamba.
  • (18) The shadow home secretary welcomed the fact that May had bowed to the political pressure applied by Labour, including its decision to raise the issue at prime minister's questions and to call an opposition Commons debate toon Wednesday.
  • (19) Carroll was reported in today's Daily Star to have sent texts to Steve Wraith, editor of the Toon Talk fanzine, claiming he felt he had being forced out of the club.
  • (20) Luckily for the Toon, who had sent the big defenders upfield, City misplace their passes and Williamson eventually snuffs the move out.