What's the difference between banshee and phantom?

Banshee


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Banshie

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rob Auton: ­ The Water Show Banshee Labyrinth, to 30 Aug A show all about water.
  • (2) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
  • (3) The big story Once upon a time the Oscar ceremony was a comforting drone punctuated only by the odd song-and-dance routine and the banshee wailing of overwhelmed best actress award winners.
  • (4) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
  • (5) In 1976, the two friends formed one of the first punk bands, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
  • (6) They call him the Shoreditch Creeper and ascertain that he's a Siouxsie & The Banshees fan.
  • (7) Richard Gadd Banshee Labyrinth , 6-28 August Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anarchic stunt comedy … Richard Gadd.
  • (8) Luther and Ripley then proceed to bicker over what genre the Banshees are: "Post-punk."
  • (9) Instead of doing a body scan, I fantasized about flinging off my pillows and running through the empty space in the center of the hall, screaming like a banshee.
  • (10) Natasia Demetriou And Ellie White Are Mother And Baby is at the Banshee Labyrinth, 8-30 August
  • (11) I fantasized about flinging off my pillows and running through the hall, screaming like a banshee Studies have shown that people who are blind or deaf have heightened ability in other bodily senses.
  • (12) From trapping a banshee in a bin to dealing with zombie students, it’s an action-packed adventure full of smart kids that grownups won’t mind watching either.
  • (13) It's like this: in the face of American capitalism and its defenders, there is almost nothing to be done but stomp up and down on the remains of popular culture and shriek like a banshee.
  • (14) There's also a cover version of Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees, which augurs well.
  • (15) Natasia Demetriou And Ellie White Are Mother And Baby is at Banshee Labyrinth, to 30 August PHIL WANG How to heckle Facebook Twitter Pinterest Phil Wang.
  • (16) This morning, 14 years on, Wright is pulling together and fact-checking his script to make sure his audience is whipped into a factually sturdy frenzy on topics such as a proposal to regulate legal highs ("What does Banshee Dust actually do ?").
  • (17) Richard Gadd, whose Waiting for Gaddot was the buzziest hit of last year’s fringe, is likewise back in the (free) Banshee Labyrinth pub – although that’s a mite more explicable, given how in your face and non-mainstream Gadd’s work is.
  • (18) I didn't fully appreciate it at the time but, looking back, the lineup was unmissable: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Young Marble Giants, the Durutti Column, Soft Cell, the Psychedelic Furs, Altered Images .

Phantom


Definition:

  • (n.) That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
  • (2) To know the relation between the signal intensity and sodium concentration, sodium concentration--signal intensity curve was obtained using phantoms with various sodium concentrations (0.05-1.0%).
  • (3) This technique is compared with calculated outline and ring source attenuation correction techniques in a pie phantom.
  • (4) To evaluate image quality a perspex phantom with image quality test objects was used.
  • (5) The validity of the response of this probe to Y-90 and its clinical application were assessed with a phantom containing varying activities and with biopsy samples obtained from patients being treated with SIR therapy.
  • (6) Preliminary heating patterns studied in phantoms indicate the possibility of treating volumes greater than 2000 cm3 within the 50 per cent isotherm.
  • (7) With the addition of a preservative, the phantom could be used for experiments on heating, without degeneration, for over one year.
  • (8) Diffusion coefficients measured on images of water and acetone phantoms were consistent with published values.
  • (9) The incidence of phantom pain and nonpainful phantom sensations was 13.3% and 15.0%, respectively, 3 weeks after mastectomy, 12.7% and 11.8%, respectively, after a year, and 17.4% and 11.8%, respectively, after 6 years.
  • (10) Phantom studies simulating clinical conditions showed no significant difference in performance at 140 keV.
  • (11) In addition, normalized organ dose to the breast, active bone marrow, thyroid, eyes, ovaries, and testes were measured in a pediatric anthropomorphic phantom comparing the anteroposterior and posteroanterior projections.
  • (12) Studies carried out on the phantom have shown how reliable transverse diameter measurements of the pelvis are when carried out by X-Ray scanning pelvimetry compared with conventional X-Ray pelvimetry.
  • (13) A comparison is made between five irradiation methods, the dose distribution and volume doses of which had been ascertained by means of two phantoms presupposed differently large.
  • (14) Analysis of the penumbra width of cross dose distributions, as a function of field sizes, allowed us to postulate that the dmax shift could be due to the phantom scattered photons, which in turn were generated by the collimator scattered photons.
  • (15) The phantom combines an inhalation system which allows for the simulation of xenon buildup or washout in the arterial blood as well as a multisection translatable cylinder in which several sections can be scanned during a preselected protocol to simulate the CT enhancement in brain tissue during a study.
  • (16) The measurements show that the machine outputs are only slightly dependent on phantom size; the percentage depth dose distributions, however, are strongly dependent on the phantom size, suggesting that machine data for total body irradiations should be measured in phantoms whose dimensions approximate the patient during the total body irradiation.
  • (17) The Greeks could be delivering an answer to a phantom question.
  • (18) Quantitative analysis of MR images included fat signal fraction for animals, and relative signal decrease between in-phase and opposed-phase images for phantom and human data.
  • (19) Relative dose functions for 125I for these phantom media are fitted to second-degree polynomials.
  • (20) The supplied reference rods were scanned in different positions within the lung fields of the phantom and with varied chest wall thicknesses.