What's the difference between barney and bicker?

Barney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
  • (2) Photograph: Alex Lake for Observer Food Monthly Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, added: “We wish Gary all the very best as he returns to football with our blessing and begins his managerial career with Valencia.
  • (3) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
  • (4) But one has to ask how the former seven-year-old co-star of Barney and Friends and The Wizards of Waverly Place ended up in a movie that shows drunk girls urinating through their bikinis in public and forcing a gangsta-looking James Franco to suck off his handgun.
  • (5) Forty-nine out of 50 of the most popular Premier League games were shown on Sky Sports last season and a quick look at our opening schedule of fixtures shows Sky Sports is still the place to go for more of the games that matter,” said Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports.
  • (6) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
  • (7) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Bizarre spectacle as world's press swarms over woman in (very small) chile shirt.
  • (8) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Today I ruined the World Cup by writing an article about how exciting it was.
  • (9) Wales’s epic journey comes to an end as Ronaldo gets to run the Portugal show | Barney Ronay Read more Adrien Silva 6 Provided a teasing cross for Ronaldo from the left wing late in first half and was comfortable in possession without any truly blistering moments.
  • (10) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) @JacobSteinberg come on Steinberg.
  • (11) After issuing a warning yesterday we have no hesitation in taking this action after becoming aware of new information today," said Sky Sports' managing director, Barney Francis.
  • (12) Forget the soundbites and sniggers, Brendan Rodgers deserved better | Barney Ronay Read more In his final press conference, just over an hour before his contract was terminated, Rodgers spoke of the rebuilding job which was required at Anfield and the time needed and he reiterated that in a statement released by the League Managers’ Association.
  • (13) The conserved open reading frames of Tc1 and Barney share identity with a structurally similar family of elements named HB found in Drosophila melanogaster, after the introduction of 3 small centrally located deletions in HB1.
  • (14) A new look for Darth Vader, as imagined by designer Barney George (www.barneygeorge.com) So how will Episode Seven play out?
  • (15) Northern Ireland are homeward bound but their fans are leaving on a high | Barney Ronay Read more Grigg failed to make it off Northern Ireland’s bench in France, but became one of the names of the tournament after the 90s song Freed From Desire was adapted in his honour.
  • (16) When her career took off at the age of 10 – a childhood of performing in the living room led to a stint jollying around with Barney the purple dinosaur in the 90s series Barney & Friends – Gomez's mother, Mandy Cornett, became her manager, a relationship Gomez now describes as "like a Gilmore Girls bond, except the dialogue's not as clever".
  • (17) The Sky Sports managing director, Barney Francis, said he had spoken to Keys and Gray personally.
  • (18) Until the 2008 financial crisis, Citi was able to claim to be one of the biggest financial institutions in the world as a result of the takeovers it was permitted to make as a result of the legislative changes – including a move into investment banking by buying brokers Smith Barney and parts of Schroders.
  • (19) Barney Chilton, the editor, told the Guardian: "On the Red News forums the percentages have ebbed away from Moyes like the English coastline.
  • (20) England’s future still has promise, but Wayne Rooney is part of the past | Barney Ronay Read more But the surprise is that people are surprised.

Bicker


Definition:

  • (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
  • (v. i.) To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
  • (v. i.) To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
  • (v. i.) To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
  • (n.) A skirmish; an encounter.
  • (n.) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
  • (n.) A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When she is bickering with Bleeker about the conception, and it looks as though he is going to have the last word by telling her that he has kept her knickers as a memento, she, without missing a beat, says, "I still have your virginity."
  • (2) The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday urged diplomats to stop bickering about a mini package of liberalisation designed to boost global commerce and warned of serious damage to the 20-year-old institution if last-ditch talks failed.
  • (3) "We wanted a backdrop of global espionage, and then the goal was to ignore it as much as possible to focus on people bickering," Reed explains.
  • (4) Over the Atlantic, as politicians bicker over the debt-reduction programme, Moody's has said the US's top-notch credit rating is under review.
  • (5) From upstairs comes the reassuring sound of children bickering.
  • (6) It could not be more fortunate for employers, the ease with which we can be set to bickering among ourselves.
  • (7) An unlikely coalition of sworn enemies, who had campaigned together under the Better Together slogan of “No Thanks”, came to a juddering and messy end as the UK parties bickered over future voting rights of MPs at Westminster.
  • (8) Which makes me wonder if the Dutch (my people btw) will succumb to the bickering and discontent of their recent Euro outing on the first sign of trouble.
  • (9) After observing a couple of weeks of bickering over who would get what time, we threatened to remove them again, whereupon the boys negotiated with each other and came up with an equitable time-sharing agreement.
  • (10) The ensuing months of uncertainty and bickering have not always gone down well with voters .
  • (11) On one question, at least, the bickering candidates in Wednesday’s Republican debate did agree: it was a juvenile way to pick a president.
  • (12) A single example, plucked at random from a lifetime's supply: years ago, after I'd been bickering with a friend who was visiting my flat in London, she fell silent for several minutes and then, pointing to my wooden floors, observed, "You know that floor's laminate, don't you?"
  • (13) Incrementally, forwards and backwards, prevaricating, bickering: so it has been for three years of European troubles that began on the periphery, in Greece, but have spread to the heartland, condemning Europe to a lost decade.
  • (14) In delivering his inflammatory speech, the president was defying Khamenei who a few weeks ago warned officials against bickering, saying those who bring disputes to public attention are "betraying" the revolution.
  • (15) Open Mon-Wed 12.30pm-1am, Thurs-Sat 12.30pm-1.30am, closed Sundays Bar The Clinic Facebook Twitter Pinterest Owned by Chile’s top satirical magazine, The Clinic , and covered in its political cartoons, this infamous bar is where the intelligentsia comes to bicker over beers.
  • (16) Amid the bickering, there was also a sense that Kerry's visit may indicate a failure of Afghanistan's fledgling democratic process.
  • (17) Mohamed El-Erian , chief executive of Pimco: For the sake of their country and the wider global economy, both parties should resist the urge to begin bickering.
  • (18) She also added her voice to the welter of criticism over the bickering performance of the BBC's top brass – current and former – in front of the Commons public accounts committee on Monday.
  • (19) … You’re going to get what I think, whether you like it or not, whether it makes you cringe every once in a while or not.” Decrying “bickering leaders in Washington DC”, Christie held out his record as a fiscally conservative governor with a record early in his tenure of bipartisan victories as evidence of change he could bring to the national capital.
  • (20) Noah’s presence should an international flavour to the show, hopefully breaking it out of its obsession with the 24-hour news channels and petty Washington bickering.