What's the difference between carriage and dicky?

Carriage


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.
  • (n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
  • (n.) The price or expense of carrying.
  • (n.) That which carries of conveys,
  • (n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
  • (n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
  • (n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
  • (n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
  • (n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
  • (n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Staphylococcal carriage seems largely to depend on individual characteristics rather than environmental factors.
  • (2) A higher proportion (14 of 40; 35%) had evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection than had evidence of either hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriage (17.5%) or alcohol abuse (30%).
  • (3) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
  • (4) Bronchial carriage may, however, not always be associated with pathological effects.
  • (5) 2) Chronic HBsAg carriage in the adult household contact was associated with female sex of the index case and with being a sibling; among young subjects, household contacts were more likely to be chronic HBsAg carriers when the index case was the mother, a sibling, or an HBV-DNA-positive subject.
  • (6) This study further confirms the importance of skin carriage of group A streptococci as a precursor to pyoderma and demonstrates the importance of minor skin trauma as a predisposing factor.
  • (7) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
  • (8) The current uses of serotyping of N. gonorrhoeae include epidemiological studies, clinical purposes and surveillance of antibiotic resistance and plasmid carriage.
  • (9) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
  • (10) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
  • (11) The carriage of C. diphtheriae was found to be 19.8%, 65.3% of them were toxin producing by counter-immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).
  • (12) Efforts at prevention of non-A, non-B hepatitis associated with blood transfusion have thus far been hampered by the lack of reliable laboratory markers for carriers of this disease, and controversy exists over the implementation of screening tests on blood donors, using such nonspecific indicators of possible viral carriage as serum alanine aminotransferase levels.
  • (13) The epidemic strain, which was not agglutinated by commerical diagnostic antisera, was isolated from the hands of personnel in five instances directly incriminated hand carriage as the mode of spread.
  • (14) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
  • (15) These patterns are generally consistent with available information concerning the distribution of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriage in New Zealand and suggest that HBsAg carriage is likely to be a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in New Zealand, as it is in other countries.
  • (16) In renal transplant recipients carriage was positively related to treatment with ranitidine, consumption of more than three types of cheese in the previous 20 months, and consumption of English cheddar cheese more than once per week.
  • (17) The objectives of this preliminary study were to determine the prevalence of oral candidal carriage and infection in a group of HIV-positive individuals and compare the humoral immune responses in serum and saliva in this group with a control group of HIV-negative subjects.
  • (18) "My service is not as frequent as it should be and has very old carriages," he said.
  • (19) An association between fecal carriage of Streptococcus bovis and colorectal carcinoma has been reported.
  • (20) The carriage rates were 89% in children, 39% in adolescents and 34% in adults.

Dicky


Definition:

  • (n.) A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.
  • (n.) A false shirt front or bosom.
  • (n.) A gentleman's shirt collar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.38pm GMT A good point, well made from Simon McMahon Maybe if Dynamo could arrange for him and Dickie to stand in Perth tomorrow England might be in with a chance.
  • (2) It came in useful when I auditioned for The Dickie Davies Story, but if the character I’m playing doesn’t have a white streak in his hair I wear scarves or hats on stage, or rely on an understanding director of photography when doing TV and film work to shoot me from a sympathetic angle.
  • (3) Photograph: Screengrab 8.31pm GMT Dicky Bird and Magicial Dynamo The esteemed and ancient Dickie Bird is in some kind of montage with young magician Dynamo.
  • (4) For decades, "Tricky Dicky" was the supreme hate figure for the American left, the incarnation of the antichrist for Democrats.
  • (5) (The fourth round, in 2015, raised £5m in 20 days, which was what prompted Watt and Dickie to drop those stuffed “fat cats” onto the City.)
  • (6) Growth in 'Dickie' culture and reactivity with 1G10 myeloid antibody suggested coexpression of lymphoid and myeloid characteristics.
  • (7) It is also opening a whisky and vodka distillery on the same site, and building a major new production facility in the US – its biggest export market, where Watt and Dickie are the stars of an extreme-brewing reality show called Brew Dogs, which follows the pair around America as they visit craft breweries and make beer using outlandish ingredients ranging from a lobster to the world’s hottest chilli.
  • (8) The last three steps described in the preceding communication Robern, H., Stavric, S. and Dickie, N. (1975) Biochim.
  • (9) When your mum used to call you in for tea, did she call you Dickie or Harold, your real name?
  • (10) Flavour was everything to Jackson, he was obsessed by it,” Dickie said, reverently.
  • (11) Up in Ellon the following month, Dickie took a different tack.
  • (12) Peter Box, the veteran leader of Wakefield city council, recently told the BBC: “Whatever happens in the coming Scottish independence vote, there will be more devolution … The genie is out of the bottle, we want more power and I actually believe Yorkshire should be independent.” The poet Ian McMillan, the “Barnsley Bard”, has started to think about who should serve in Yorkshire’s cabinet, suggesting Geoffrey Boycott as head of the diplomatic service and Dickie Bird as prime minister – because “he would ensure that nothing was spent”.
  • (13) ‘The characters have gone out of sport’ … Dickie Bird after his last Test match, between England and India at Lord's in 1996.
  • (14) His greatest journalistic coup came in 1977 when he interviewed the disgraced US president Richard Nixon and induced Tricky Dicky to confess in public his guilt over Watergate.
  • (15) A t the end of 2006, Dickie followed Michael Jackson’s advice and quit his day job at the brewery (which also meant moving back in with his parents).
  • (16) What’s good with beer, compared to spirits, is you can try stuff and get an outcome really quickly,” Dickie, in jeans and T-shirt, told me on a dark December afternoon in the BrewDog Taphouse, a warm, shed-like bar conveniently attached to the company’s Ellon brewery, filled with dog walkers, office workers from a nearby business park, guys with tats and caps and girls in woolly hats.
  • (17) Tricking the truth out of Tricky Dicky was, in many ways, the least of his achievements.
  • (18) On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.
  • (19) It’s a story that’s repeated in cities across the world, by old men with dodgy backs and dicky knees, still riding because after 20 years, no other job will have them, struggling to earn half of what they did before, warning newcomers like me to get out while the going’s good.
  • (20) His autobiography sold more than a million copies – the bestselling sports book of all time, he tells me proudly; his show, An Evening With Dickie Bird, still tours – he says he got a bigger audience at Leeds Grand Theatre than Shirley Bassey; he has launched a foundation to help disadvantaged teenagers play sport; and his home town of Barnsley erected a statue of him.

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