What's the difference between cheerio and farewell?

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).

Farewell


Definition:

  • (interj.) Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell.
  • (n.) A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.
  • (n.) Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.
  • (a.) Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
  • (2) Rudd's spectacular fall is a fate that the now former PM, a proud man who some say is driven by a quiet rage, will find difficult to accept – he shed tears in his farewell address .
  • (3) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
  • (4) During a break between Detective Frost and Whitechapel, I decided to have a farewell glass of port in the honesty bar adjacent to the library.
  • (5) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
  • (6) But Moyes would not be drawn on the chances of this being their European farewell.
  • (7) More than half a century after the US military draft put Elvis Presley's career on hold, his modern-day South Korean counterpart bade farewell to tearful fans this week as he prepared for two years' national service.
  • (8) If this is verified, we may say farewell to routine smallpox vaccination.
  • (9) But this was a thoroughly joyous and well-crafted farewell.
  • (10) When France put an end to capital punishment in 1981, it also bid a not-so-fond farewell to the instrument of death that had taken the lives of thousands.
  • (11) This is a farewell message [from a doctor] whose fate along with that of his companions is death or arrest at any moment.” One resident said the airstrikes had subsided by Tuesday morning due to lower visibility and rain, offering a brief respite to civilians who were still on the move and seeking shelter in the rebel districts.
  • (12) Frank Lampard had moved to nip all talk of farewells in the bud.
  • (13) Thompson was also a generous host of farewell dinners for departing BBC staff.
  • (14) Gassman's swan song, or serata d'addio, the farewell performance which Italian actors of distinction were always expected to give, began in 1996.
  • (15) Leaving London this morning after a formal farewell from the Queen at Buckingham Palace, Mr Bush and his entourage made their way on Air Force One to the prime minister's County Durham constituency.
  • (16) One of only two artworks on display to feature any colour is Farewell, based on a picture she took of her father looking out from his study into his wild, overgrown back garden for the last time.
  • (17) The analysis demonstrates differences in the two therapists' practice from the very moment patient and therapist greet one another till they say farewell.
  • (18) Big international firms should shoulder (their) due responsibilities to bid farewell to malpractice, setting a good example and serving as a wake-up call for domestic pharmaceutical companies.
  • (19) I realized that win or lose, there are people out there that see what I’m doing and follow it as a role model.” Although he slogged vigorously across his home state in the pursuit of every last vote, the final 10 days of Rubio’s campaign more closely resembled a farewell tour.
  • (20) A great woman gone far too young.” Bellingham’s pre-recorded farewell appearance on Loose Women is due to be screened on Wednesday.