What's the difference between campy and corny?

Campy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stockholm Facebook Twitter Pinterest A campy and thoroughly unsubtle attempt to attract gay tourists of all ages, by selling the idea that you can sleep with a Swede (“You'll LOVE my bed,” etc).
  • (2) These data suggest that the permeability of GJs in uterine smooth muscle may be regulated by [cAMPi] and physiologically relevant agonists.
  • (3) Myotubes were exposed to agents that enhance the concentration of cytosolic cyclic AMP (cAMPi) and their action on acetylcholine- (ACh) activated channels was investigated.
  • (4) A commercial latex agglutination test [Meritec-Campy (jcl), Meridian Diagnostics, Cincinnati, Ohio] was evaluated for identification of Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli, C. laridis, and other Campylobacter isolates.
  • (5) "Star Trek," he says, referring to the original TV series, "always felt like a silly, campy thing.
  • (6) However, application of these metabolic inhibitors to cells before heat treatment does not result in cAMPi levels greater than that observed in cells with heat alone.
  • (7) A few may still have been hanging around, of course, and Campi Flegrei may have delivered the coup de grace.
  • (8) 2-Deoxy-D-glucose (10 mM), NaN3 (10 mM) and 2,4-dinitrophenol (1 mM) also increase cAMPi in A-431 cells.
  • (9) The forskolin-induced action on the AChR function fully developed with a delay of 30-60 minutes from the peak of cytosolic cyclic AMP (cAMPi) concentration.
  • (10) He watched as Joy Division and New Order borrowed Low for their template, and the New Romantics borrowed his clothes His musical career interrupted by forays into stage and screen – The Elephant Man on Broadway , the campy first world war drama Just a Gigolo , described as “all my 32 Elvis movies rolled into one” – by the early 80s Bowie needed to reassert his authority, his brand.
  • (11) I'd really like to see the left try to reform Italy's labour market and pension system," said Alessandro Campi, a professor of political science at Perugia university.
  • (12) It was concluded that the action of forskolin on AChR-channel function of rat myotubes could be not associated with the cAMPi-dependent phosphorylation of AChR.
  • (13) One day I had unsupervised access to the family PC and, for reasons forgotten, an urge to hear the campy orchestral number from the film Austin Powers .
  • (14) The Campi Flegrei eruption not only gives us a date for the Neanderthals' disappearance, it may provide us with the cause of their extinction, though Stringer sounds a note of caution.
  • (15) ANP led to a dose dependent increase in the intracellular concentration of cyclic GMP and to a dose dependent decrease of cAMPi.
  • (16) Some researchers have even suggested that Campi Flegrei – the biggest volcanic eruption in Europe for more than 200,000 years – would have had a catastrophic impact.
  • (17) Therefore, the selective antibiotic method (Campy-BAP) with sheep blood under gas mixture at 42 degrees C is recommended for laboratories with limited supplies.
  • (18) While the conductance and the closed time was unaffected by forsokolin, cholera toxin, dibutyryl cyclic AMP and 8-bromo-cyclic AMP, these agents lengthened the ACh-activated channel life time with efficacy that paralleled with their capability to increase the cAMPi.
  • (19) These decreased from 34.9 mm on MH agar to 19.6 mm on Campy-BAP agar, suggesting that components in the FT growth medium ameliorated the toxic influence of CdCl2.
  • (20) Diarrheal stool specimens were inoculated into the following media: alkaline peptone water (APW), Bruce-Zochowsky medium (BZ), Campylobacter enrichment broth (CEB), Campy-thio broth (CT), and Skirrow blood-agar (SK) plate.

Corny


Definition:

  • (a.) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
  • (a.) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
  • (a.) Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
  • (a.) Tipsy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yes, sounding on about the ethical dimension to public service can sound corny and implausible when you have ministers rubbishing the state and all its works, but you and the vast majority of your civil service colleagues are doing the job because you are idealists.
  • (2) This is so corny, what I'm saying, but I feel obliged to drone on about it, because before we reach the tipping point, it's time to stop sneering at fat people, being disapproving and bossing them about: walk to work, eat your greens, control yourselves.
  • (3) As well as political statements and corny clown jokes, Madonna lamented the fact she was “very single” and had not had sex for some time.
  • (4) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
  • (5) For 20 dazzling years he was "as corny as Kansas in August, high as a flag on the fourth of July."
  • (6) It sounds corny, but he just looked so much brighter.” But Forde’s hardships are far from over.
  • (7) It is directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, veterans of the BBC's distinguished Natural History unit, but instead of the soothing, informative tones of David Attenborough, the narrator here is Tim Allen, aka Buzz Lightyear, who strikes a rather different tone: cosy, child-friendly, often corny, and all but devoid of any scientific explanation.
  • (8) It is a scene of such potent and telling symbolism that it verges, tremulously, on the corny.
  • (9) "It sounds corny, but it was a bit like the blitz almost.
  • (10) "At the risk of sounding corny, it's about the absolute bliss of the grooves," he says.
  • (11) Fructus Corni (FC) decoction inhibits the increase of peritoneal capillary permeability by ip 0.7% acetic acid in mice, the proliferation of granuloma formed by implanting cotton pellets in rats, the swelling of mouse pinnea with xylene and the edema of hind paw induced by injection of fresh egg white 0.1 ml in rats.
  • (12) It sounds a bit corny to say, but it was a bit like the blitz almost.
  • (13) His easy charm lit up rooms and his corny, often-self deprecating jokes made people laugh.
  • (14) From the excised uterus segments (uterus corni) histological preparations stained with hematoxylin and eosin were made.
  • (15) They're corny, mawkish – but they're shameless enough to get you to press the button.
  • (16) The expectation of black female submission to white masculinity is so ingrained in our culture, Garrison Keillor found it corny enough to compose a love ballad called Tom and Sally – between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings – on the public radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
  • (17) "This isn't corny ape makeup and leather jumpsuits.
  • (18) The presence of the parents provokes corny psychology lessons on dysfunctional families, and Helen's originality and ingenuity seem less remarkable when attributed to family trauma.
  • (19) I don’t want to sound corny but it’s exceeded all my expectations.” She said she mastered “counting to 10” in the camp after admitting it was hard for her to watch other people cooking – a point of contention throughout the competition.
  • (20) Cornie Huizenga of Slocat , a partnership of UN organisations, development banks and other groups committed to low carbon transport, said the transport strategy was a politically astute way to cut emissions, which can be a sensitive issue in many countries.