What's the difference between browser and muffin?

Browser


Definition:

  • (n.) An animal that browses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
  • (2) That refusal seems to have persuaded Apple's team, which has been core to the development of WebKit since using it for the Safari browser, released in January 2003, to introduce WebKit2 earlier this year which did offer that capability.
  • (3) One way they are doing this is to replace cookies, which worked fairly well for a long time when people accepted their browsers' default configuration, which until fairly recently has been to allow most cookies.
  • (4) Average daily unique browsers for guardian.com were down 5.78% month-on-month to 4,334,305.
  • (5) However, the other major events that fuelled Mirror Group Digital's traffic growth was an exclusive video from inside North Korea , which provided its second biggest day in April with 1,912,588 daily browsers.
  • (6) Only shop online on secure sites Before entering your card details, always ensure that the locked padlock or unbroken key symbol is showing in your browser, cautions industry advisory body Financial Fraud Action UK.
  • (7) This week Google launched Chrome, a new web browser , opening up another front in its battle with Microsoft.
  • (8) Almost all the big-name US streaming or image sites are taking part, including Netflix and Vimeo, as are image site Imgur, Tumblr, news sites like Digg and Reddit, plus Firefox browser developer Mozilla and WordPress, which powers some of the biggest blogs on the internet.
  • (9) Security blogger and former Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs wrote on Sunday that users were identified using a flaw in Firefox 17, on which the Tor browser is based.
  • (10) Mirror Group Digital, which includes Mirror.co.uk and MirrorFootball.co.uk, reported 36,430,323 monthly browsers, up 17.05% on the previous month and 1,593,402 daily uniques, up 6.02%.
  • (11) Its software package – the Tor browser bundle – can be downloaded and used to take advantage of that technology, with a separate version available for Android smartphones.
  • (12) Federighi is now talking about Safari, the web browser you are required to use to see this stream live.
  • (13) The fact-checking announcement is a turnaround from 12 November, just days after Donald Trump won the election, when Zuckerberg said of Facebook: “I believe we must be extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.” Activist and journalist Daniel Sieradski, who created a browser plug-in called BS Detector that flags questionable news sources , has been a vocal critic of Facebook’s failure to acknowledge any responsibility for the spread of misleading and false information on its platform.
  • (14) If you choose to use this tool, it will become the master control for online interest-based advertising across all of your devices and browsers where you use Facebook.” Brendan Van Alsenoy, author of a Belgium data protection report into Facebook and a legal researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, said: “This new setting is a very modest step in the right direction.
  • (15) Average daily unique browsers increased 11% to 4,771,866, another record.
  • (16) It does have the best browser on a pocket PC I've yet seen, however, and for those determined not to go Apple, it is (thanks to the market-changing influence of the iPhone) a superior model of its kind (RRP £499, htc.com for stockists).
  • (17) There are online databases of fake rick-roll URLs, and countless jokers have created sham web-browser plugins purporting to block rick-rolls while instead sending visitors to you-know-what.
  • (18) • Install the latest versions of your internet browsers and update add-ons such as Java and Adobe Flash.
  • (19) Further analysis of mortality shows browsers to have been most severely affected, and it is suggested that this is correlated with feeding habits of these animals.
  • (20) Groups already exist today, but a lot of people have to go off their console, get on their PC, open a browser and go to, say, DestinyLFG.net for example.

Muffin


Definition:

  • (n.) A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The net or apparent absorption of nitrogen, magnesium and phosphorus expressed per milligram of intake increased significantly in the oat bran period due to the added content of these nutrients in the oat bran muffins.
  • (2) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
  • (3) A 40-d control period preceded a 32-d experimental period in which subjects consumed four oat bran muffins daily as part of a constant metabolic diet.
  • (4) In the last 24 hours alone I have bought muffins, a second-class single to Colchester, two quality newspapers, a dish of luxury nuts and a garage punk CD called Back to the Grave 9 .
  • (5) Perks for staff on the phones include free packed lunches and chocolate muffins.
  • (6) Twenty minutes, a poppy seed muffin and a burnt tongue later, I was leaving the place.
  • (7) Gently manoeuvre these into greased mini muffin tins and top with 1 tsp filling.
  • (8) Bakery owner Bea Vo, of Bea's of Bloomsbury, who runs four cafes across London, was shocked to discover that "her" invention, the duffin, a cross between a doughnut and a muffin (what was wrong with "muffnut"?
  • (9) In a study to examine the effects of dietary oat bran on serum lipids, subjects who ate two oat bran muffins a day for 28 days showed a 5.3% reduction in serum total cholesterol and an 8.7% reduction in low-density-lipoprotein-cholesterol levels, while no changes were noted in subjects consuming wheat or mixed wheat and oat bran muffins.
  • (10) A full-term male infant was born with skin findings suggesting a blueberry muffin appearance.
  • (11) Spoon the mixture into 6 mini silicone loaf pans or 12 muffin cases, and bake for 30-40 minutes, checking after 25.
  • (12) After an eight-week diet period subjects were randomised to receive two muffins per day containing either 60 g of oatbran or the equivalent amount of fibre from wheatbran in a double blind crossover study.
  • (13) This April, there were maybe 100 attendees wedged into wooden theatre seats in a downtown auditorium, holding weak coffee and spongy muffins.
  • (14) Examples ranged from the Elaine Benes-referencing “what about a muffin place that just sold the top” (from @Seinfeld2000) to the banal juxtaposition of “Iowa is home to the world’s largest truck stop” (by @hannahchin) .
  • (15) People always remind me - as if I need reminding about custard gate and the elbowed muffin and things like that.
  • (16) I learned odd things about him: he doesn’t know the plot of Macbeth ; he hasn’t seen Blade Runner and he’s never heard of the Muffin Man who lives on Drury Lane.
  • (17) Meanwhile, Hampton Creek Foods , founded by 32-year-old entrepreneur Josh Tetrick, is working on a plant-based replacement for egg yolks to go in muffins, mayonnaise and other sauces.
  • (18) At the time of writing, the Daily Telegraph had published 73 articles about the programme since 1 August; supermarket aisles groan with muffin tins and piping bags and cake stands come Bake Off season.
  • (19) The advice is that two to three portions of red meat a week is probably OK and will give you some important nutrients.” Obesity is fuelled mostly by the foods eaten between meals, such as muffins, crisps, cakes and biscuits – all high in fat and made palatable by sugar, said the scientists.
  • (20) Line the holes in the muffin tray with the 20cm rounds, pressing them gently over the base and up the sides without stretching the dough.

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