What's the difference between cactus and torchwood?
Cactus
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.
Example Sentences:
(1) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(2) It's an extraordinary, sprawling world, powered by magic and steampunk technology, populated by humans, cactus-people, insectoid, amphibian and avian races, dripping with myths and monsters and menaced by repressive regimes.
(3) 3:28:05 New York Tracon: "Cactus 1529, if we can get it to you, do you want to try to land runway 1-3?"
(4) Agurell has previously detected (tlc, glc-ms) tyramine, 3-methoxytyramine, and two unknown alkaloids in the Peruvian cactus, Trichocereus peruvianus Br.
(5) 3:29:21 New York Tracon: "Cactus 1529, turn right 2-8-0, you can land runway one at Teterboro."
(6) 3:31:30 Unknown: "Was that cactus up by the Tappan Zee?"
(7) Her autopsy findings were characteristic of the damage to an immature brain during development; cactus formation of cerebellar cortex and periventricular leukomalacia.
(8) One is how, when parachuted behind enemy lines, he landed on a cactus bush and was horribly injured.
(9) 3:31:32 New York Tracon: "Uh, yeah, it was a cactus.
(10) Here we show that in contrast to the dorsal group genes, the maternal gene cactus acts as a negative regulator of the nuclear localization of the dorsal protein.
(11) In between come the honky-tonk towns of Texas, the cactus-studded desert of New Mexico and Arizona, and the dunes and mountain passes of California.
(12) The cactus alkaloid 3,4-dimethoxyphenethylamine and its naturally occurring N-methylated homologs inhibited the deamination of tyramine and tryptamine by rat brain monoamine oxidase.
(13) Coca-Cola, cactus and flight safety manual illustrations form the basis of the kitsch prints.
(14) Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus Facebook Twitter Pinterest The title of this psychedelic road trip extravaganza gives a good idea of the drug-fuelled adventures to come.
(15) He blogs at DC's Improbable Science Response on behalf of the CACTUS Study research team Dr Charlotte Paterson, Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Exeter.
(16) However, embryos still retain dorsoventral polarity, even if derived from germline clones using the strongest available, zygotic lethal cactus alleles.
(17) Ultrasound detected 59 of 60 foreign bodies, including all cubes of meat embedded with gravel, cactus spine, plastic, metal, and wood.
(18) Previous work showed that in cactus mutants more dorsal protein enters the nucleus in dorsal regions, resulting in a ventralized phenotype.
(19) This result implies that cactus acts via dorsal and has no independent morphogen function.
(20) Two patients are described with occupational asthma due to carmine, a natural dye extracted from the insect Coccus cactus.
Torchwood
Definition:
(n.) The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the intervening years he has worked mostly for the BBC, creating the mini-series Casanova, starring the future Time Lord David Tennant, and the Doctor Who spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
(2) We have surprised audiences with different points of views and experiences – The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Indian Doctor, Lip Service and, for the aliens amongst us, Torchwood.
(3) The BBC's third series of Torchwood ended on Friday 10 July, winning its slot for the fifth night running with 5.8 million viewers and a 27% share, according to unofficial overnight figures.
(4) In the 9pm slot, the fourth episode of Torchwood increased the momentum it had built all week, attracting more than six million viewers for the first time since Monday.
(5) After all, he did take Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood from BBC3.
(6) It easily won its slot, beating BBC1's Torchwood: Miracle Day, which picked up 3.4 million viewers, a 14% share, and ITV1 cop drama Single-Handed, which drew 2.8 million viewers (11.4%).
(7) A BBC spokesman denied Torchwood was being "punished", saying the BBC1 controller, Jay Hunt, and the controller of drama commissioning, Ben Stephenson, wanted to create an "event" to launch the show on the channel, with the new series due to be shown at 9pm every weeknight next week.
(8) Torchwood drew 900,000 viewers on BBC3 from 10pm, losing out to Sky One's Lost.
(9) He was also the first controller of BBC3, where he commissioned Little Britain, The Mighty Boosh, Torchwood and Gavin and Stacey.
(10) In 2006, Torchwood's launch episode on BBC3 and the first instalment of Sky1's Terry Pratchett adaptation Hogfather each attracted a live audience of 2.4 million viewers .
(11) This was also BBC3's biggest ever audience, beating the 2.4 million who tuned in for the launch of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in October 2006 .
(12) Gay characters in TV dramas are now more commonplace, from Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood (Russell T Davies again) and Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks to US drama Brothers and Sisters and Netflix's acclaimed prison series Orange Is the New Black.
(13) BBC Worldwide said the top-selling programme brands in the year to the end of March were Top Gear, Doctor Who, Frozen Planet, Torchwood, Spooks, Sherlock, Planet Earth and Natural World.
(14) As a fan of Doctor Who and Torchwood, I asked if Cardiff had its own team.
(15) In a recent interview, Russell T Davies, saviour of Doctor Who and creator of Torchwood, argued provocatively that the rise and fall of Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent was, whatever moral concerns it raises, the greatest drama of the year and challenges the makers of fiction to come up with stories that engage the public and the media at such a level.
(16) Little Dorrit and Torchwood actor Eve Myles will also play what ITV says is a "central role" in Broadchurch, while Blandings and Bad Education's Phoebe Waller-Bridge is also joining the cast.
(17) Writer Chris Chibnall, whose previous scripts include Life on Mars, Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood, said his influences stretch back further than that to the 1990s US cop show Murder One and David Lynch's Twin Peaks.
(18) And BBC America, who show Torchwood, are furious that we've changed the format.
(19) Last year, BBC3's Torchwood launched with 2.4 million viewers, and the first part of Sky One's Hogfather attracted the same audience just before Christmas.
(20) He points to such well-received offerings as Freefall, Occupation, Torchwood and The Street (although, for non-BBC reasons, the latter show will not return for another series).