What's the difference between backfire and boomerang?
Backfire
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Boomerang
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(n.) A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.
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(1) In Wales, former ITV boss Clive Jones is leading an alliance between ITN, Northcliffe Media, Newsquest, Tindle Newspapers, ITV Wales news staff and production company Boomerang .
(2) Diagnostic criteria for Boomerang dysplasia are outlined.
(3) SLPI has a boomerang-like shape with both wings comprising two well separated domains of similar architecture.
(4) Take the benefit cuts, which reveal the boomerang effects of confrontational politics.
(5) Boom emerged out of another company, Boomerang, and since then has grown to include the acquisition of Educating Yorkshire producer TwoFour.
(6) In the complex, the DNA is bent by about 40 degrees into the shape of a boomerang but maintains essentially Watson-Crick B-form.
(7) The last time the boomerang came back was on a slow day at work in November 2012, when Marie came across an extract from a book by the journalist Brian Cathcart, now well known for his role leading the Hacked Off press campaign.
(8) The Taliesin team includes the publishers Northcliffe Media , Newsquest and Tindle Newspapers as well as the Cardiff-based production company Boomerang.
(9) Boomerang dysplasia is a recently delineated form of neonatally lethal dwarfism.
(10) With neither of them earning enough, he knows they will soon endure the fate of the "boomerang generation": having moved away from home long ago, they are heading back.
(11) The patient is compared with previously reported cases of AT-I, as well as with patients reported as having "boomerang" dysplasia.
(12) So those are your big bucks post-Brexit beacons, ranging from a boomerang-maker who would very much like you to commute your expectations, to some hipster chancer who has sold fewer than 300 empty jars to Chinese ironists.
(13) The boomerang triumph can be traced back to a single company in Leighton Buzzard whose own general manager is at pains to stress “Boomerangs are obviously not exactly a huge market” , while the naans-to-India bit is a reference to one baker in Dunstable who has invested in a factory outside Mumbai.
(14) On the boomerang are written two words: Lynton Crosby.
(15) In the classroom, it is easy to get caught up in the assumption that all Aboriginal peoples used boomerangs or played didgeridoo, paint using the same techniques, materials and designs or are interested in sports.
(16) When denials came from a newspaper, their "boomerang effect" was nearly equal in magnitude to the direct effect of affirming the target proposition's validity.
(17) Finn Nørgaard Finn Nørgaard, 55, who was killed in the Copenhagen cafe attack , was a Danish film director, who directed and produced documentaries for Danish television including in 2004 Boomerang-drengen (“Boomerang Boy”) about an Australian boy’s dreams to become a world boomerang champion and in 2008 “Le Le” about Vietnamese immigrants in Denmark.
(18) The director now fears that anything he says, any idiotic aside that he makes, risks being bent into a boomerang and then thrown back at his head.
(19) In a submission to the inquiry, the Boomerang Alliance pointed to a study from 2014 that estimated seafood consumers in Europe eat up to 11,000 pieces of microplastic each year.
(20) Among the possible field shapes, the authors investigated the mantle field, the inverted Y field, the boomerang field, as well as total body irradiation and upper and lower partial body irradiation.