What's the difference between chaffinch and spink?
Chaffinch
Definition:
(n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The last flight wave, which is observed in the Kurskaya Kosa in the second half of October, consists, in general, of chaffinches which have already gone through the leucocytozoonosis.
(2) Small birds rose up in clouds from the pond’s edge: chaffinches, bramblings, a flock of long-tailed tits that caught in willow branches like animated cotton buds.
(3) Four artiodactyl (even-toed hoofed mammal) papillomaviruses, the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, and avian (chaffinch) papillomavirus type 1 formed a third major branch.
(4) Androgen-concentrating cells were found in the midbrain of the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs by autoradiography using tritiated testosterone.
(5) Pink-footed geese fly overhead on their way back to Greenland, rooks caw in the beech trees, a charm of chaffinches sing from the dead branches of an alder, and black-headed gulls follow a tractor ploughing in the distance.
(6) Furthermore, PePV DNA hybridized with the DNA from the European chaffinch only at low stringency, indicating that it represents a unique avian papillomavirus.
(7) Earlier this year, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust published research that claimed that greys are having a "significant effect on certain woodland birds' fledging success", particularly species such as the great tit, nuthatch, chaffinch and blackbird.
(8) Conducted parasitological investigations have shown that when migrating through the Courland Spit birds of more northern populations extensively infected with Leucocytozoon either do not merge with local populations of chaffinch, willow wren and icterine warbler or their portion is quite negligible.
(9) Eight autumn-caught female chaffinches were injected with testosterone in their first spring.
(10) • Large flocks of chaffinch with some bramblings in woodland, abundant redwing and fieldfare in hawthorn hedges, and rare waxwings appearing in unusually high numbers.
(11) From skin papillomas of the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), a virus has been purified and studied by physicochemical techniques and electron microscopy.
(12) Similar structures are not present on the lampbrush chromosomes of quail, wood pigeon or chaffinch.
(13) To identify the major group-specific epitopes, we immunized 26 guinea pigs or rabbits with purified bovine PV type 1 (BPV), canine PV, or avian PV from the common chaffinch.
(14) Chaffinches, infected with hemoproteids (Haemoproteidae) and leucocytozoids (Leucocytozoidae), are uniformly distributed in the ranges of each nonequivalent from the point of view of bioenergetics migratory wave.
Spink
Definition:
(n.) The chaffinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking as the debate was going on earlier in the day, Paul Spinks, the manager of a day nursery, explained that he and his partner were waiting until the gay marriage law was passed to commit to one another legally.
(2) Jack said Muhammad Ali and Leon Spink s, for the heavyweight title.
(3) In February 1978, he lost the title to the workaday Leon Spinks and regained it once again that September – but tiredly, for now the feet were flat, the reflexes dull, the senses dimmed.
(4) Two months earlier Mike Tyson had knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
(5) Two fights with Sonny Liston, where he proclaimed himself 'The Greatest' and proved he was; three epic wars with Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in 1974's 'Rumble in the Jungle'; dethroning Leon Spinks in 1978 to become heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time.
(6) Spink had made only one previous appearance in the first team but went on to excel, keep a clean sheet as Villa beat Bayern 1-0.
(7) Spinks advocated centralized coordination of policy, an approach deliberately rejected in 1981 by the Government in favour of continued pluralism, with each of the scientific research councils and various ministries 'doing their own thing'.
(8) The industrial progress and dissemination of biotechnology has been slower than Spinks implied, but we have a clear understanding of the importance of such contributors to the climate for investment as balanced regulation, training and public perception.
(9) Three years later, Aston Villa's rookie goalkeeper Nigel Spink was summoned from the bench after 10 minutes to replace the injured Jimmy Rimmer.
(10) There's no way they'll let Spinks win – the fight business won't make a dime.
(11) October 3, 2012 Updated at 8.42pm BST 8.07pm BST Shaun Spink with the University of Denver vacuums on the stage prior to the first presidential debate at Magness Arena at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, October 3, 2012.
(12) You can limit palm oil, you can be careful about how you produce it, but I think it’s quite wrong to prevent it.” Rosie J Spinks is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in GOOD Magazine, Marie Claire, The Ecologist, Sierra Magazine, and EcoSalon.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emily Spink: ‘If there’s one thing that has come out of this whole sorry tale, I will not hear a word against the NHS.’ Photograph: Jim Wileman for the Guardian My partner stabbed me in the back Emily Spink never dreamed her then partner would hurt her.
(14) * This name has been changed Rosie Spinks started the Three Course Story project in 2013, interviewing attendees at North London Action for the Homeless (NLAH), a Hackney-based charity that serves a meal twice a week to anyone who needs it – most are homeless, socially isolated, mentally ill, immigrants or those struggling with addiction.
(15) Retired In 1978, after winning the title for a third time by avenging a loss to Leon Spinks, Ali retired.
(16) The establishment of a research-orientated biotechnology company was one of the recommendations of the Spinks Committee.
(17) Jayne Spink, the director of policy and research at the MS Society, said: "There is still a long way to go before the palliative and end of life care offered to people with MS is the best it can be.
(18) With possibly two more golds to come, Robert McCracken's excellent squad are poised to become the best British boxing team of modern times, better even than the heroes of Melbourne, 1956, when Terry Spinks and Dick McTaggart each won gold.
(19) A previous Essex defector (remember Bob Spink anyone?)
(20) Government policy towards biotechnology has come a long way since the Spinks Report.