What's the difference between brandy and snapdragon?
Brandy
Definition:
(n.) A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this regime is by no means a temporary regime,” Brandis said.
(2) O’Sullivan said a number of “third parties” whom Brandis met would need to be consulted before they could consider release.
(3) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(4) Brandis rejected suggestions the Coalition had made a deal with the Greens to pass Senate reforms as long as the ABCC was not raised.
(5) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(6) Brandis said nothing in the bill would stop Asio whistleblowers from reporting suspected wrongdoing to the inspector general of intelligence and security.
(7) Brandis is yet to make a final determination about whether the government will implement such a regime or not – I suspect it is very likely to happen – but he's quite clearly reserving himself time and space to think it through.
(8) Brandis has asked the ACT government not to put the new laws into effect until the court can determine their validity, but the chief minister, Katy Gallagher, has vowed to press ahead.
(9) Everyone knows that Father Christmas’s tipple of choice is brandy, so Santa, if you’re reading this, we recommend you pause in The Flask on Highgate West Hill for a quick snifter.
(10) In 2013, the Mail On Sunday reported that Umunna belonged to a “shady” City men’s club where bottles of brandy went for £4,000 a pop, that he hung out with celebrities, and that he would happily pay £1,200 for a suit.
(11) I want to emphasise the point: it’s a common responsibility on all citizens if they become aware of information of concern, they should make authorities aware.” Brandis said he had spoken early on Friday to the AFP commissioner, Andrew Colvin, who told him the New South Wales police had “no reason to believe” the Merrylands police station incident was an act of terrorism .
(12) Brandis said former human rights commissioner Tim Wilson, who retired in February and was preselected as Liberal candidate for Goldstein , had a “particularly distinguished term”.
(13) Asked about his forthcoming Christmas television special in an interview in the Radio Times, the BBC presenter, who turns 90 next year, said: “At Christmas we’re under the impression we have it all: we have turkey and brandy butter and Christmas pudding and the family and we have a great time, by and large.
(14) The latter of these focus on the things Chile does best: wine and pisco, the local brandy with a grassy colour and spicy-sweet taste.
(15) Marriage equality could be a reality by end of the year, says George Brandis Read more The attorney general, George Brandis , told Sky News on Sunday the government’s mooted plebiscite on the issue would be held shortly after the 2016 election and before the end of the year.
(16) Brandis conceded to Liberal Democratic senator David Leyonhjelm, explicitly prohibiting Asio from engaging in torture, but would not even answer a reasonable question from Greens Senator Scott Ludlam during what passed for the debate over the bill.
(17) Carboxylic acids were present in much higher levels in plum brandy, vinegar, lamb and mutton (heated), whereas alcohols, esters and carbonyls aldehydes are particularly abundant in brandy.
(18) Brandis said the measures were developed in conjunction with the New South Wales government.
(19) In an interview with Sky News on Tuesday, Brandis emphasised that the government had not made any decisions about second-generation Australians and had instead opted to “lead a national conversation about the rights and obligations associated with citizenship”.
(20) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, the attorney general, George Brandis, the trade minister, Andrew Robb, the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, and Turnbull are understood to oppose Billson’s proposed changes.
Snapdragon
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.
(n.) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
(n.) A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dihydroflavonol reductases of barley, maize, petunia and snapdragon are highly polymorphic in the NH2- and C-terminal parts of the polypeptide chain while a central region of 324 residues contains 51% identical amino acids.
(2) The G3 will also have metal body and use Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, which other flagship phones from Samsung, Sony and HTC have used to produce fast smartphones with at least one full day's battery life.
(3) The bladderwort ( utricularia ), incognito like a snapdragon, has an ingenious underground lair, vacuum-sucking insects to chambers where they are acidified; pitchers are outwardly passive, but inside their cavernous depths float a mass of drowned flies.
(4) The Xperia Z1 Compact features a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 – currently the most powerful ARM-based mobile processor available in smartphones and tablets – a 20.7-megapixel camera, NFC, 4G LTE and a solid, waterproof build that makes it feel every bit a premium Android smartphone, but smaller than the trend.
(5) The Desire has a large 3.7 inch AMOLED screen, like the Nexus One, and contains the 1GHz Snapdragon processor which is also found on the Nexus One.
(6) Six genes that contain sequence encoding the DNA binding domain of the Myb oncoproteins have been isolated from a cDNA library prepared from Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon) flowers using oligonucleotide probes directed against part of this domain.
(7) Rates of DNA synthesis in root tip cells of diploid and autotetraploid snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) seedlings and in diploid and tetraploid (mononucleate and bidiploid-nucleate) regenerating mouse-liver cells have been studied.
(8) HTC Desire is powered by a one gigahertz Snapdragon processor and is Adobe Flash 10.1 ready.
(9) The 2959 bp HFL1 sequence predicts a 2.0 kb open reading frame (ORF1) with substantial amino acid similarity to the transposases of Activator (Ac) from maize (Zea mays) and Tam3 from snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus).
(10) Tam3, a transposon from the Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus), is highly active in the generation of such rearrangements.
(11) FireTV comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8064 quad core 1.7Ghz chipset, 2GB RAM and 8GB storage, and a Bluetooth remote with built-in microphones for voice control.
(12) Top-flight specifications The Lumia 2520 also features top-of-the-range components, including a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB of RAM, which should handle multi-tasking and gaming well.
(13) In the chalcone synthase gene of Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon), 150 base pairs of the 5' flanking region contain cis-acting signals for UV light-induced expression.
(14) The quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor struggles to respond, battery life sputters out quicker than I'd like, and the phone also throws off enough heat to melt a pat of butter.
(15) Based on the underlying hardware of one of LG’s current Android smartphones, the LG G2, the Nexus 5 features, a top-of-the-line 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM and 16 or 32GB of built-in storage, which should perform well for both multi-tasking and graphically intensive gaming.