What's the difference between champagne and gold?

Champagne


Definition:

  • (n.) A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) "It's jam tomorrow for the investors but champagne today for the investment bankers," said another.
  • (4) ‘People were looking for a focus for their anxieties, and Greenham was it’ Read more People were sitting on the wall, drinking champagne and beers, so I hopped up to join them.
  • (5) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
  • (6) But the instruction issued by the party headquarters in Paris was defied by the Socialist candidate in the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine region, who came third but announced he would stand for the second round anyway.
  • (7) Prosecco sells for an average of £6.49 a bottle, compared with £16.23 for champagne, according to Kantar.
  • (8) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
  • (9) Around the same time, the motor racing heiress Tamara Ecclestone totted up a champagne bill of £30,000 in one evening.
  • (10) Hold the champagne back for now - from a nation of bankers to a nation of builders?
  • (11) Because have you seen the champagne photos that these people take?
  • (12) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
  • (13) And if fancy hats and champers are more your scene, there's a free beach polo match here on 16 September, with public champagne bars and a barbecue.
  • (14) "I think I heard the putt-putt of champagne corks popping in No 11," one Tory said.
  • (15) However, Greenpeace said it was “no wonder the UK government has opted for a ‘champagne-free’ signing ceremony away from public view”.
  • (16) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
  • (17) Thousands of people jammed the streets and stood on rooftops, singing songs, waving Israeli flags and popping champagne bottles.
  • (18) How many science public engagement exercises can you say that about?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest RRS Boaty McBoatface wins poll to name £200m polar research vessel – video explainer Michael Tinmouth, a social media strategist who has worked with brands such as Vodafone and Microsoft, said he did not expect to see a glass of champagne being broken over the bow of Boaty McBoatface any time soon, but also urged the NERC to own the story.
  • (19) Experts suggest that the popularity of prosecco means it risks becoming a generic term for any sparkling wine that is not champagne.
  • (20) He then brought further drinks – four gin and tonics, a champagne cocktail, and even a £15 Romeo and Julieta cigar.

Gold


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Goolde
  • (v. t.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.
  • (v. t.) Money; riches; wealth.
  • (v. t.) A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.
  • (v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
  • (2) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
  • (3) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (4) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
  • (5) To determine the nature of the electrochemical treatment on the gold substrate, cyclic voltammetry was performed with various chemical solutions.
  • (6) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (7) Injection of albumin-colloidal gold conjugates resulted in an insignificant uptake.
  • (8) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
  • (9) Colloidal gold immuno-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defining antigenicity at the subcellular level.
  • (10) The effects of gold thioglucose loading on Se distribution, and on Se-dependent GSH peroxidase and GSH S-transferase, were examined in rats fed three dietary levels of Se (0, 0.2, and 2.0 ppm), and with or without adjuvant-induced inflammation.
  • (11) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
  • (12) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
  • (13) We concluded that gold labeling with polymyxin B is useful in localizing the binding sites of polymyxin.
  • (14) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
  • (15) Evidence for Golgi apparatus-associated processing of oligosaccharides in the ER was obtained by lectin-gold cytochemistry revealing the presence of the galactose (beta 1----4)N-acetylglucosamine sequence and sialic acid residues.
  • (16) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
  • (17) Different techniques for attaching the gold cylinders to the frameworks were used.
  • (18) A post-embedding cytochemical technique using WGA-gold complexes was used and the quantitative intensity of WGA-labeling on the surface membrane of platelets after convulxin stimulation was determined.
  • (19) Only 75% of the granules stained for PRL by the protein-A gold technique; the other 25% stained for neither PRL nor GH.
  • (20) Smoking behaviour, self-reported mood and cardiac activity were examined in 12 "sedative" and 12 "stimulant" smokers, defined using Mangan and Golding's questionnaire.

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