What's the difference between biggin and metallic?
Biggin
Definition:
(n.) A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.
(n.) A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.
(v. t.) Alt. of Bigging
Example Sentences:
(1) Shaker Aamer , released after 14 years incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay where he was beaten by his American military jailers, has touched down on British soil at Biggin Hill airport in south-east London.
(2) Against a background of falling TV and live audience figures, and with sponsorship increasingly difficult to negotiate for cash-strapped teams, F1’s strategy group – consisting of the biggest teams, the sport’s chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, and the FIA president, Jean Todt – met at Biggin Hill on Thursday and came up with a few ideas to reinvigorate the sport.
(3) | Barbara Biggins Read more Emily Wilson: It was a total surprise to find out the hero was a woman Somehow I went into the cinema with no idea that the hero would be a young woman and it took quite a while to realise that THIS was the 21st-century Luke Skywalker – THIS was the future of the Jedi knights – some girl!
(4) At Bristol University he gained a degree in English, French and drama (1967), and at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school he graduated from the training course (1969) alongside Jeremy Irons and Christopher Biggins as acting stage managers in the Bristol Old Vic company.
(5) He added: “The prime minister has been clear that the public should be reassured that everything to ensure public safety is in place.” According to the flight-tracking firm FlightAware, a plane left Guantánamo Bay bound for Biggin Hill airport in southeast London at 11.30pm local time (4.30am GMT).
(6) I grew up near Biggin Hill airfield in Kent, in the shadow of the second world war.
(7) It doesn't matter - it's no more likely to land Christopher Biggins in prison for wearing suspenders than the existing law would prevent Robert Downey Jnr from entering the country because he blacked up in Tropic Thunder.
(8) He said: “The Americans announced some weeks ago that they were going to release Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo and I can confirm that he is on his way back to the UK now and he will arrive in Britain later today.” According to the flight tracking firm FlightAware, a plane left Guantánamo Bay bound for London’s Biggin Hill airport at 11.30pm local time (0430 GMT).
(9) An early start to the pantomime season, with guest appearances from Keith Chegwin as Workfare and Christopher Biggins as The Debt?
(10) The rating was well up on the final of the seventh series last year, won by Christopher Biggins, which averaged 8.2 million and a 36% share between 9pm and 10.30pm.
(11) The amendment which has made Moyles so topical has also brought Rod Liddle out in praise of the racist joke, and driven Christopher Biggins to the barricades, in defence of pantomime transvestitism and in despair at what he sees as an effort to ban homophobic jokes.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Biggins (left, with Neil Sinclair) wore a pink suit to the service, saying it would have made Bellingham smile.
(13) Security was tight at Biggin Hill, a small airport famous for its connection with the Battle of Britain.
(14) The Epstein-Barr virus glycoprotein gp85 has been mapped to the Epstein-Barr virus DNA open reading frame BXLF2 (R. Baer, A. Bankier, M. Biggin, P. Deininger, P. Farrell, T. Gibson, G. Hatfull, G. Hudson, S. Stachwell, C. Sequin, P. Tufnell, and B. Barrell, Nature [London] 310:207-211, 1984).
(15) The figures were well up on the final of the seventh series in 2007, won by Christopher Biggins, which averaged 8.2 million and a 36% share between 9pm and 10.30pm Friday's I'm a Celebrity also beat the 2006 finale, which attracted 9.5 million viewers and a 42% share when the former Busted singer Matt Willis won.
(16) (He denies in particular, the claims made to the News of the World in 2006 by a 25-year-old Latvian woman named Liga who allegedly took him to her home, staggering drunk, from a pub in Biggin Hill where, she claims, they made love seven times after which Farage was "snoring like a horse".)
Metallic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(3) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
(4) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(5) These results indicate that the inhibition of CarAc by heavy metals occurs by binding of the sulfhydryl on the enzyme by the metals.
(6) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
(7) In general, enzyme activity was strongly reduced by heavy metal inorganic cations; less strongly by organometallic cations, some anions, and certain pesticides; and weakly inhibited by light metal cations and organometallic and organic compounds.
(8) EGTA was ineffective in removing calmodulin from particulate preparations, but treatment with the tervalent metal ion La3+ resulted in a loss of up to 98% of calmodulin activity from these preparations.
(9) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
(10) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(11) The radioprotective action in E. coli ATCC 9637 of ascorbate added to media containing the weak sensitizer, tetracycline (effect described by Pittillo and Lucas (1967)), was found to be dependent on the presence of metal catalysts of the autoxidation of ascorbate.
(12) This study introduces a simple in vitro arrangement to measure current densities of implant metals.
(13) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(14) Since the enzyme requires a metal ion (Co2+) we suggest that the RNA and heparin are inhibitory by virtue of their capacity to chelate the Co2+.
(15) Lesions of allergic contact type could not be induced in the oral mucosa to any of the metal salt preparations.
(16) As yet the observations demonstrate that workers exposed in their occupation to heavy metals (cadmium, lead, metalic mercury) and organic solvents should be subjected to special control for detection of renal changes.
(17) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(18) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
(19) The physiologically important metal ion for catalysis is Mg2+; however, Mn2+ supports in vitro activity, though at a reduced level.
(20) We support the view that catalysis by metalloenzymes may be a reflection of the chemistry of the metal ion itself as a Lewis acid, and that perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on supposed special characteristics (such as strains, "entasis") of the enzyme-metal ion association.