What's the difference between barometer and baroness?
Barometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both are barometers of acceptable levels of violent punishment and their elimination is a hallmark of a maturing and decent society.
(2) In the Caribbean , resort costs have fallen sharply in Barbados, accounting for a 26% drop in the barometer basket to £84.24.
(3) Our Guardian Cities global city brand barometer certainly saw the pressure rise in the comments thread.
(4) These data suggest that the clinical neurological examination alone is not an adequate barometer to predict neurourological dysfunction and that video-urodynamic evaluation provides a more precise diagnosis for each patient.
(5) The Stoke contest is likely to offer the clearest barometer since the referendum of whether leave-voting Labour supporters still trust the party.
(6) Our recent Manufacturing Barometer survey, which questioned the leaders of over 500 businesses, provides strong clues as to why manufacturers are bucking the trend and, more importantly, how they are doing it.
(7) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
(8) Gavin Kibble, the project manager at Coventry foodbank, which fed 7,500 people in 2010-11, its first year of operation, described the foodbank as a "barometer of the state of the nation".
(9) Two closely watched barometers of factory activity released on Tuesday were at multi-year lows, reviving concerns about the state of the country’s economy which caused a major sell-off on the world’s financial markets last week .
(10) After suffering badly during the recession and the UK's sluggish recovery, Thursday's survey showed that the Purchasing Managers' Index – a barometer of manufacturing's strength – rose from 52.9 in June to 54.6 in July.
(11) The latest Euro-barometer of public opinion shows for the first time that overall distrust of the EU outstrips trust, predominantly so in Britain, Germany and France.
(12) Legislators not on the secretive panels often look to their colleagues who serve on them as barometers of opinion about the appropriateness of intelligence activities.
(13) I know there was discrimination in 1965, but I also know that what we were doing then is not a relevant barometer of what we are doing now in 2013.
(14) Dealers and analysts were divided on whether sales figures, which are often read as a barometer of the economy, could sustain their growth throughout the year.
(15) It shares first place with Sri Lanka in the annual Post Office Worldwide Holiday Costs Barometer – which compares in-resort prices for a shopping basket of eight items including drinks, suncream and a meal for two – as the best value places to stay out of 42 surveyed.
(16) As a key barometer for the mood of the NHS, this is entirely understandable, especially in years when one set of changes after another seemed to loom ahead, waiting to be foisted on a service which could only wait and hope it survived.
(17) The presence of traditional fishermen is a barometer of a sea’s health.
(18) The Ifo business climate index, a barometer of economic health in Europe's largest economy, rose to 101.4 from 100.0 last month, an increase for the first time since six consecutive declines.
(19) Obama’s most vociferous critics are unwilling to call for a re-escalation in Afghanistan, a barometer of how brittle US support for its longest war actually is.
(20) The television satirist seen as the barometer for free speech in post-revolutionary Egypt, Bassem Youssef , has ended his show because he feels it is no longer safe to satirise Egyptian politics.
Baroness
Definition:
(n.) A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
(2) In addition alcohol like cocaine inhibits the baro receptor reflex.
(3) Two and a half years on, Baroness Warsi is no longer a cabinet minister.
(4) McAlpine, one of Baroness Thatcher's closest aides during her time in Downing Street, had been retired from public life for some years when he was thrust back into the limelight over a poorly researched Newsnight investigation in 2012 .
(5) Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive of the Breast Cancer Campaign charity, said: "These are interesting results that report a link between increased fat in the blood and an increased risk of breast cancer.
(6) The Edinburgh-born actor Lindsay Duncan, 58, who played Baroness Thatcher in a recent BBC TV film, was appointed a CBE, as was Welsh-born Jonathan Pryce, 62, who has recently appeared in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films.
(7) UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) Baroness Stowell has been appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at @CommunitiesUK #reshuffle October 7, 2013 That's Tina Stowell , the Lords whip who took the gay marriage legislation through the Lords.
(8) This is a humane Bill" #untiltheend July 18, 2014 1.40pm BST In one of the more extreme speeches so far, Conservative peer Baroness Cumberlege refers to the bill as “gag of poison”.
(9) The last time a euthanasia bill came before our parliament, much was made by Baronesses Knight and Finlay of the fact that allowing any form of assisted death had impacted badly on palliative care in Oregon.
(10) The Lords leader, Baroness Amos, said: "Significant negotiation goes on by our ministers and others, usually in Brussels, before we get to the point where we agree."
(11) That number had to be doubled with reinforcements from the territorial support group (TSG) after it became clear protesters had infiltrated the building housing Tory Party headquarters, with party chair Baroness Warsi inside.
(12) I look forward to the results of the review of the PCC which Baroness Buscombe has announced.
(13) The Press Complaints Commission chair, Baroness Buscombe, has claimed the organisation would have helped stop publication of allegations that Ryan Giggs had an affair with a former reality TV star .
(14) Staff Facebook Twitter Pinterest Conservative peer Baroness Shields, formerly a managing director at Google, is now the minister for internet safety and security.
(15) On the face of it, Baroness Butler-Sloss has all the qualifications, and more, for what will be a highly complex and sensitive task: heading the wide-ranging inquiry the home secretary has announced into historical child abuse.
(16) Their origin seems to be correlated to the acute imbalance of the autonomic innervation of the heart after surgical disturbance of baro- and chemoreceptors.
(17) • With the funeral preparations now advanced, notables continue to share recollections of the baroness.
(18) Corner for Liverpool, which Milan Baros wins off Jaap Stam.
(19) Murdoch will have an opportunity respond to Thompson's comments later this month when he delivers the first Baroness Thatcher lecture in London.
(20) Application of sodium pentobarbital to the ventral medullary surface (VMS) depressed baseline arterial pressure and ventilation, and attenuated the baro-pressure reflex, but not the baro-ventilatory reflex.