What's the difference between catnip and ticket?

Catnip


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Catmint

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The onesie-wearing 21-year-old is the darling of the glossies and tabloid catnip, a social media princess and a talented musician, best mates with Rihanna, parties with Prince Harry and about to break into Hollywood.
  • (2) I suspect that messrs Fry and Connolly – who grew up watching this man segue from gar- landed stage-thesp to tireless campaigner (Stonewall, women's and children's rights) to Hollywood catnip to that dreadful position for anyone with a fine remaining sense of mischief: being on the cusp of national-treasure status – were equally conscious of the company they were in.
  • (3) Relationships between the younger, single members of staff were purest catnip to us; we were always turning love triangles into love trapeziums.
  • (4) Fractionation of the commercial sample of catnip oil by either distillation or gc yielded 40% nepetalactone and 43% nepetalic acid.
  • (5) All of this makes it catnip to users – and to the media, which dutifully reports every twist and turn on the site.
  • (6) However, removal of the vomeronasal organ did not attenuate any of the behavioral reactions to catnip.
  • (7) But Europe is the catnip that makes Tory eyes cross, and the next two years are going to be wall-to-wall Europe.
  • (8) The rolling and rubbing during a catnip reaction might be a sexual response activated by the accessory olfactory system since the system projects to parts of the brain involved in mediation of sexual behavior.
  • (9) Olfactory bulbectomy immediately eliminated catnip responding, revealing that the chemosensory stimulus evoking the catnip reaction is undoubtedly mediated through the main olfactory system.
  • (10) Catnip oil, nepetalic acid, and a nepetalactone-enriched fraction were evaluated for toxicological and behavioral effects in mice and rats.
  • (11) Lincoln is measured, respectful and quietly reassuring; unadulterated awards catnip.
  • (12) Nor will you find him out and about at gigs or parties or openings or any of the usual stuff that's rockbiz catnip.
  • (13) The area was obviously catnip to people who wanted something more from life than can be bought in Walmart.
  • (14) But the other thought is that the campaign is proving to be catnip to Gove’s personal ambitions.
  • (15) In the chewing and mouthing of the catnip source, substances might be dissolved in saliva and transported to the vomeronasal organ.
  • (16) The alcohol extract of catnip has a biphasic effect on the behavior of young chicks.
  • (17) And if they do, they’d like her as mangled up as possible.” Clinton said other candidates were able to avoid scrutiny by continuously talking about things that are “catnip to the people who get bored talking about” candidates’ positions on serious issues.
  • (18) 1.8m page views, 1,139 comments 5) Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher: 'I always felt sorry for her children' Tuesday 9 April 2013 The comedian's periodic columns for the Guardian this year rarely failed to cause a stir, but this one , about Thatcher's death, proved particular catnip.
  • (19) cis,trans-Nepetalactone, the biologically active component of catnip, was force-fed to the domestic cat.
  • (20) Rats were injected with saline and then exposed for 20 min to the presence of a domestic cat pretreated with catnip.

Ticket


Definition:

  • (v.) A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
  • (v.) A little note or notice.
  • (v.) A tradesman's bill or account.
  • (v.) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
  • (v.) A label to show the character or price of goods.
  • (v.) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
  • (v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
  • (v. t.) To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
  • (2) "It's a ticket that is going to win in order to bring out an agenda of transformation.
  • (3) So if you are, for example, going on maternity leave in 17 weeks' time you can ask the booking office for a 17-week season ticket, which will be cheaper than buying a series of monthlies and weeklies.
  • (4) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
  • (5) Manchester United Would you vote in favour of a £30 cap on away tickets?
  • (6) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
  • (7) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (8) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
  • (9) Like Donald Trump’s campaign today, the Know Nothings (who watered down their name to the “American Party” in 1856 when Fillmore ran for president on their ticket) appealed to those who saw native-born Americans losing out to immigrants.
  • (10) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
  • (11) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
  • (12) It went ahead with the hospitality on Monday and Tuesday – using around 96 tickets – but has called off all further formal entertainment.
  • (13) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
  • (14) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
  • (15) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
  • (16) Last week, it emerged that the firm was sending out tickets to members of the public that were originally intended for Games sponsors.
  • (17) Yet here comes Bloomberg — a former Democrat turned Republican turned independent who many thought might run for president himself on a third-party ticket — throwing his support behind Obama , citing climate as the proximate reason for his hop off the fence: Our climate is changing.
  • (18) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
  • (19) Liverpool’s Ian Ayre urges fans to ‘look at facts’ over ticket prices Read more The FSF chief executive, Kevin Miles, who has been leading its Twenty’s Plenty campaign for a £20 cap, said: “We are incredibly disappointed to learn that a proposed cap on away ticket prices was voted down by the Premier League clubs yesterday in a secret ballot.
  • (20) • San Francisco fans may struggle to get hold of a ticket to their game in Seattle on Sunday, after the Seahawks restricted sales to just six US states and two Canadian provinces .