What's the difference between boomerang and kylie?
Boomerang
Definition:
(n.) A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Wales, former ITV boss Clive Jones is leading an alliance between ITN, Northcliffe Media, Newsquest, Tindle Newspapers, ITV Wales news staff and production company Boomerang .
(2) Diagnostic criteria for Boomerang dysplasia are outlined.
(3) SLPI has a boomerang-like shape with both wings comprising two well separated domains of similar architecture.
(4) Take the benefit cuts, which reveal the boomerang effects of confrontational politics.
(5) Boom emerged out of another company, Boomerang, and since then has grown to include the acquisition of Educating Yorkshire producer TwoFour.
(6) In the complex, the DNA is bent by about 40 degrees into the shape of a boomerang but maintains essentially Watson-Crick B-form.
(7) The last time the boomerang came back was on a slow day at work in November 2012, when Marie came across an extract from a book by the journalist Brian Cathcart, now well known for his role leading the Hacked Off press campaign.
(8) The Taliesin team includes the publishers Northcliffe Media , Newsquest and Tindle Newspapers as well as the Cardiff-based production company Boomerang.
(9) Boomerang dysplasia is a recently delineated form of neonatally lethal dwarfism.
(10) With neither of them earning enough, he knows they will soon endure the fate of the "boomerang generation": having moved away from home long ago, they are heading back.
(11) The patient is compared with previously reported cases of AT-I, as well as with patients reported as having "boomerang" dysplasia.
(12) So those are your big bucks post-Brexit beacons, ranging from a boomerang-maker who would very much like you to commute your expectations, to some hipster chancer who has sold fewer than 300 empty jars to Chinese ironists.
(13) The boomerang triumph can be traced back to a single company in Leighton Buzzard whose own general manager is at pains to stress “Boomerangs are obviously not exactly a huge market” , while the naans-to-India bit is a reference to one baker in Dunstable who has invested in a factory outside Mumbai.
(14) On the boomerang are written two words: Lynton Crosby.
(15) In the classroom, it is easy to get caught up in the assumption that all Aboriginal peoples used boomerangs or played didgeridoo, paint using the same techniques, materials and designs or are interested in sports.
(16) When denials came from a newspaper, their "boomerang effect" was nearly equal in magnitude to the direct effect of affirming the target proposition's validity.
(17) Finn Nørgaard Finn Nørgaard, 55, who was killed in the Copenhagen cafe attack , was a Danish film director, who directed and produced documentaries for Danish television including in 2004 Boomerang-drengen (“Boomerang Boy”) about an Australian boy’s dreams to become a world boomerang champion and in 2008 “Le Le” about Vietnamese immigrants in Denmark.
(18) The director now fears that anything he says, any idiotic aside that he makes, risks being bent into a boomerang and then thrown back at his head.
(19) In a submission to the inquiry, the Boomerang Alliance pointed to a study from 2014 that estimated seafood consumers in Europe eat up to 11,000 pieces of microplastic each year.
(20) Among the possible field shapes, the authors investigated the mantle field, the inverted Y field, the boomerang field, as well as total body irradiation and upper and lower partial body irradiation.
Kylie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(2) Quit Victoria's acting executive director, Kylie Lindorff, said the research proved the legislation had worked in terms of reducing the appeal of cigarettes, but longer-term research was being carried out to determine if it led more smokers to quit.
(3) He said: "I wept like a child" when Kylie Minogue said she would be in it.
(4) She left the soap in 1988 following the release of her debut album, Kylie.
(5) The player’s girlfriend, Natasha Massey, and his sister Kylie appeared on ITV’s This Morning to insist on his innocence (“Just because 12 people found him guilty, people should not necessarily listen to them,” said Kylie Evans).
(6) Kylie has gone through four reincarnations; Michael Jackson, for obvious reasons, 13.
(7) Only Bradford in 2003 and St Helens in 2006 had won the domestic treble before, but Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai ended their rugby league careers by ensuring Leeds became the third member of this most illustrious club.
(8) Or if Kelly Rowland has got over that mysterious debilitating throat infection which comes on every time she thinks of the heyday of Destiny's Child and juxtaposes it with watching a skeleton in a TK Maxx tracksuit doing falsetto Kylie Minogue.
(9) Not under my name, under my club or community.” She was immediately branded a hypocrite by Evans’s sister Kylie, who retweeted a message the presenter posted last month saying she wanted to get a photograph of former heavyweight boxing champion and convicted rapist Mike Tyson.
(10) When Clarkson first met Barnett, she was still a jobbing dancer, performing cabaret shows in London and later working as backing dancer for singers including Kylie Minogue, Cheryl Cole and Jessie J, but “always doing music in some way, always writing”.
(11) Pictures of racehorses adorn the cream and pink walls, a flatscreen TV plays songs by Oasis and Kylie Minogue, and laminated menus offer English-style pub grub such as a full breakfast or fish and chips.
(12) Minogue was praised for talking openly about her illness and this may have saved lives: a study at Sydney University found an increase in bookings for breast screening following the singer's diagnosis, a so-called "Kylie effect" .
(13) Stephen Moss Turn It Into Love – Kylie Minogue In 1989 I was 11 years old, I'd just started secondary school and I'd fallen in love for the first time.
(14) What we need is a Kylie moment”, said Newsom-Davis, referring to how breast cancer became a mainstream issue after the singer was diagnosed with the disease.
(15) Stenberg had been criticised for calling out Kylie Jenner’s culturally appropriated cornrows , but did not stay silent.
(16) Kylie managed to tremble to the church, but cracked somewhere around the renounce all evil part of the ceremony.
(17) I was always used to guess when rewinding or fast forwarding to find the track i needed" tobyd – Use Your Illusion 2 by Guns N' Roses: "school trip to France in '91 or '92, many hours in a coach listening to Use Your Illusion 2 by Guns N' Roses" catfacebaldwin – Kylie: "My first Walkman was a yellow Sony complete with a Kylie album.
(18) To illustrate the point with trivial stereotypical examples from British society: just as male heterosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates, so male homosexuals are to be free to enjoy themselves going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female mates."
(19) Outgoing EMI chief Roger Faxon has confirmed that labels such as Parlophone, whose roster includes Coldplay, Lilly Allen and Kylie Minogue, will now be brought together as a separate unit, managed independently of Universal, and report to someone appropriately called the "hold separate manager" – much like an air traffic controller, keeping the artists in a plane-like holding pattern, before they're sold off.
(20) Among his early clients were the pop songwriting and production team Stock Aitken Waterman , who introduced him to Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.