What's the difference between balderdash and waterfall?

Balderdash


Definition:

  • (n.) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
  • (n.) Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
  • (v. t.) To mix or adulterate, as liquors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And lest there be any remaining doubt, a forensic expert on maggots – such people do exist – testified that the theory of "semen-destroying maggots" was balderdash.
  • (2) Other balderdash included Nick Clegg's phoney claim : "As a proportion of this country's wealth, this government will be spending more in public spending at the end of this parliament after all these cuts, than Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when they came into power."
  • (3) The balderdash quotient is high at all party conferences, but at a time like this people will wince more than ever at high-minded phrases from government ministers that disguise a very different reality.
  • (4) That kind of balderdash brings politics into disrepute.

Waterfall


Definition:

  • (n.) A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
  • (n.) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.
  • (n.) A certain kind of neck scarf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
  • (2) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
  • (3) Our project was huge and our overall quality assurance process at the time was very basic and waterfall-esque,” recalls one quality assurance worker at EA.
  • (4) 1) During changes in PGCV below a threshold value, the coronary circulation exhibits traditional waterfall behavior.
  • (5) Plus there’s a children’s pool, a tiny waterfall, a sunbathing zone, showers, changing rooms, and parking.
  • (6) Here the two waterfalls can cause small landslips, so do take care crossing them.
  • (7) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
  • (8) Tapajós was investigating the head of an illegal gambling cartel, Carlinos Cachoeira – also known as Charlie Waterfall – and his sprawling web of influence.
  • (9) Several studies of flow through collapsible tubing deformed by external pressures have led to a concept known as the "vascular waterfall".
  • (10) In the shadow of the Black Cuillins, the icy water of Allt Coir a'Mhadaidh spills down a series of waterfalls and pools.
  • (11) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
  • (12) At a site near Boti waterfalls in southern Ghana a total of 14 644 female and two male Simulium squamosum were caught in four nights in Monks Wood light traps.
  • (13) Each roomy retreat sleeps five, and has a patio and lounge, but only Berghylur backs onto a waterfall.
  • (14) These data do not support the presence of a "sluice" or "waterfall" effect in the umbilical-placental circulation of the sheep fetus in utero.
  • (15) The entire population of the Umgeni Waterfall Institution for mentally retarded Whites was karyotyped using aceto-orcein and ASG banded preparations.
  • (16) Theatrically backdropped by conical Great Sugarloaf mountain, the estate is landscaped with terraces, lakes and ponds, and also embraces the country's highest waterfall.
  • (17) The path starts climbing up the side of a pretty beck with a waterfall.
  • (18) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.
  • (19) The findings agree with the predictions of the vascular waterfall model.
  • (20) In addition, Pla-Ppa relationships, obtained at a constant flow, have no discriminating ability in identifying the presence or absence of a waterfall along the circulation.