What's the difference between canary and snitch?

Canary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.
  • (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.
  • (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.
  • (n.) A canary bird.
  • (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.
  • (n.) A quick and lively dance.
  • (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
  • (2) Adult male canaries learn to produce high-amplitude complex courtship songs each breeding season, whereas females do not, and brain nuclei involved with the production of song behavior are much larger in breeding males than in nonbreeding males or females (Nottebohm, 1980, 1981).
  • (3) Because female canaries do not normally sing, neurons in female HVc must develop response selectivity by a mechanism different from that proposed for male birds in the motor theory of song perception.
  • (4) The endogenous stages of Isospora serini Arogão and Isospora canaria Box are described from experimentally infected canaries, Serinus canarius Linnaeus.
  • (5) Examined coding regions of the canary c-myc gene were also highly related to their mammalian counterparts, but in contrast to N-myc, the canary and mammalian c-myc genes were quite divergent in their 3' untranslated regions.
  • (6) The company has already attracted formal censure over its cheerfully casual approach to taking on debt; in January it was forced to remove a page from its website that suggested its loans had advantages over student loans (neglecting to mention its APR of 4,214% and the current student loan rate of 1.5%), and inviting students to borrow money from them for things such as holiday flights to the Canaries.
  • (7) In male canaries examined during the song season, HAT-2 RNA shows variable expression within the song control circuit, and is notably less abundant in the three nuclei which concentrate androgens (HVC, RA and L-MAN).
  • (8) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
  • (9) Opta Joe's warning about the Canaries was very relevant indeed.
  • (10) The latter is fresh out of university, fluent in English and wears a canary-yellow silk blouse and tight jeans with a large designer handbag.
  • (11) The ultraviolet (UV) radiation doses received by 270 psoriasis patients were studied during 4-week climate therapy periods in November, March or April in the Canary Islands.
  • (12) I've been successful enough, but there are still times when I feel like the canary down the mine."
  • (13) Growth rate, nitrogen balance, skeletal muscle nitrogen fractions and in vivo intestinal absorption of D-galactose (2 mM) and L-leucine (20 mM) have been measured in male growing rats (90-100 g initial body weight) fed 12% protein diets containing either casein (control) or the raw leafy legume Chamaecytisus proliferus L. (Western Canary Islands).
  • (14) In a way the judiciary is the canary in the mine, because when courts and tribunals close their doors and won't tell lawyers and complainants what is going on, you know that an essential part of a free society is in the process of being degraded.
  • (15) He may yet return to Sporting Park though, with his initial loan deal at the Canaries running out at the end of this season.
  • (16) Several avian viruses (infectious bursal disease virus, Newcastle disease virus, Canary pox virus, and reovirus) formed plaques under agar.
  • (17) The trust is often the "canary in the mine" at the frontline of change affecting the natural environment and thinking about what this means for the places that we manage.
  • (18) Overseas investment funds Facebook Twitter Pinterest JP Morgan’s offices in Canary Wharf, London.
  • (19) Leaves or fruit from 14 plants considered to be toxic to pet birds were administered by gavage to 15 pairs of canaries (Serinus canaria).
  • (20) Thymidine autoradiography and retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were combined to determine the connectivity of neurons born in adult canary forebrain.

Snitch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another officer grabbing Mann by the collar and threatening his family – to arrest his wife’s “black ass” and ensure he would not see his young son grow up, Mann recalled in an interview – if he did not snitch on a heroin dealer.
  • (2) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
  • (3) That’s probably how they came upon me and my house – probably someone ended up talking to them and they dry-snitched on me.
  • (4) It is thus easy for the organisation to dismiss them as weird, as grasses, snitches, friends of any enemy, even if the enemy is the public interest.
  • (5) The major basis for suspecting Griggs and Johnson killed Rondeau was the word of a snitch named Eugene Hawes.
  • (6) Even though the burden is formally on the state, it substantively kind of shifts the burden to the claimant.” Marc Freeman and the snitch test: ‘We as citizens have to hold to the laws but the police do not’ Marc Freeman outside the site at Homan Square.
  • (7) Snitches get stitches,” she reminded the courtroom, a comment that was met with audible groans from the pews.
  • (8) My mind struggled with the fact that if I was to tell somebody then it would seem like I was a snitch.
  • (9) The following morning, staff in her office arrived to find this message spelt out in magnets on their fridge: “ Jesse Brown snitches get stitches ”.
  • (10) Saeed, who was born in Libya and came to the UK in 2000, said he was worried he would be labelled a “snitch”.
  • (11) But he did put a knife up to his neck, and it lingered for a significant amount of time and then he eventually cut the strings of his sweater.” After another intimidating request by the sergeant to snitch was followed by another unanswered request from the young man to use the bathroom and yet another for legal counsel, his lawsuit states, Deanda Wilson urinated himself in his cell while shackled to the wall at Homan Square.
  • (12) Keep sending this around to bare man, make sure no snitch boys get dis!!!
  • (13) "Once they have what they want, we snitches become dispensable."
  • (14) Interview and observational data yielded three general status classes comprising thirteen associated identities: killer, fighter, assaultive person, fag, rapist, doper, drunk, victim, con, nut, weirdo, snitch, and disoriented.
  • (15) California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ceded modest reforms: more evidence of gang activity would be needed to banish an inmate to the SHU, and a four-year step-down programme to leave solitary confinement without snitching was introduced.
  • (16) When persons do not trust the police to act on their behalf and to treat them fairly and with respect,” Rosenfeld writes, “they lose confidence in the formal apparatus of social control and become more likely to take matters into their own hands.” This idea, which is not new in the fields of criminology or sociology, holds that the emergence of “honor codes”, for example ones which admonish “snitching” and promote informal resolutions to conflict, can drive violent crime.
  • (17) Toles related that Harris’s admissions upset him because what Harris did was wrong,” the police recorded the snitch explaining.
  • (18) Filed on Tuesday night in the US district court for the southern district of New York, the case accuses the US attorney general, Eric Holder, the FBI director, James Comey, the homeland security secretary, Jeh Johnson, and two dozen FBI agents of creating an atmosphere in which Muslims who are not accused of wrongdoing are forbidden from flying, apparently as leverage to get them snitching on their communities.
  • (19) They appeared interested in turning him into a snitch.
  • (20) There’s good detectives and there’s bad detectives, there’s good interrogators and there’s bad interrogators.” When Andre Griggs (left) got fingered by a snitch for the high-profile murder of Renee Rondeau (middle), he says Zuley and his colleagues coerced him into signing a false confession – following hours of shackling and withdrawal at a Chicago police precinct.