What's the difference between cheerio and cheers?

Cheerio


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Jonathon Porritt – official government green adviser – this week left his Whitehall office after nine years trying to crash the gears of the machine of state, his staff of 60 in the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) didn't just say cheerio; they hired an old ship on the Thames, formed a blues band and sang him out to a Muddy Waters tune: For nine long years this green guru reigned Watching over Whitehall, his eye keenly trained Tree-hugger-in-chief or simply JP However you know him you should start to see He's a true ninja of sustainability Porritt stood to one side of the crooning SDC backing singers, delighted but emotional at his send off.
  • (2) Thirty-two subjects, 7 to 14 months of age, were observed grasping Cheerios from styrene surfaces that provided different amounts of support to the infants' hands.
  • (3) Calculations are reported which clearly indicate that there is general agreement in the magnitude of the fractal dimension from the "Cheerios" model, the "Discovery" experiment with those determined with the automatic sedimentimeter.
  • (4) Italy packed parmesan, olive oil and prosciutto; while the USA team brought oatmeal, Cheerios, peanut butter and A1 Steak Sauce.
  • (5) In this part of the study, "Cheerios" (trademark General Mills) are used as a macroscopic model.
  • (6) Join Barry Glendenning for what could be another early exit – Cameroon v Croatia – but from me, cheerio!
  • (7) If it is the 'common touch' we're after, then David Cameron munching breakfast Cheerios with his family is surely enough (I think he has my sofa, by the way).
  • (8) A Cheerios challenge where you didn’t have to put cereal on a sleeping baby’s forehead.
  • (9) On the flipside, she understands the moral outrage felt by millions in the developing world when the west wags its finger at them for wanting Cheerios for breakfast.
  • (10) In person, Bateman has the pleasing facial symmetry of a catalogue model and he delivers this damning verdict of Cera in the same nonchalant tone with which he talks about his current uncharacteristically swishy hair (“It’s ridiculous now; I look like a Bee Gee”) and his memories of working as a child actor in advertisements for Honey Nut Cheerios (“Ahh, I still remember having to follow that fake little bee around with my eyes …”).
  • (11) Ain't it grand that we'd sooner say there are too many human beings in the world than too much Coca-Cola, Honey Nut Cheerios or Special K?
  • (12) In order to examine the effect of rouleaux formation, the "Cheerios" are stacked one on top of another and then glued.
  • (13) Boxes of Cheerios cropping up on Citizen Kane's dining table?
  • (14) While a milky bowl with stray Cheerios communicates at least some mental competence, it is clear that the Woman Who Made up Her Mind, further evidenced by her painful gurning, really does have trouble processing abstract thoughts and, at the same time, providing her husband with a nutritious, if simple, breakfast – whose detritus he has now left her to wash up.
  • (15) It is interesting that a random sampling of "Cheerios" has the same volume distribution curve that is found for erythrocytes with a Coulter Sizing Apparatus.
  • (16) One minute you're absorbed by another gripping instalment of quality TV drama; the next, you're wondering why there's been a box of Cheerios hogging the shot for five minutes, or why all the characters are driving the same brand of car, or why that otherwise credible teenager is using Bing as their search engine.
  • (17) One patient had bizarre pelvic radiolucences ("Cheerios" in the pelvis) upon x-ray presentation.
  • (18) As a stunt for the the TV cameras they took generic boxes of Cheerios and repackaged them as ObamaOs and Cap'n McCains and sold them for $40 a pop (there's a venture capital firm in New York that keeps a box of ObamaOs in their conference room as a sad reminder of what happens when you don't see the potential in something – Airbnb pitched them early on and they turned them down).

Cheers


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (2) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
  • (3) At best I would like to think about this as Project Cheer; we’re going to be upbeat about this.
  • (4) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
  • (5) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
  • (6) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (7) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
  • (8) There was indeed a crowd of “Women for Trump” cheering at the event.
  • (9) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
  • (10) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
  • (11) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
  • (12) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
  • (13) From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
  • (14) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
  • (15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
  • (16) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
  • (17) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
  • (18) Updated at 4.23pm BST 3.19pm BST 54 mins "Afternoon Ian," cheers Simon McMahon.
  • (19) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
  • (20) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.