What's the difference between cocker and indulge?

Cocker


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
  • (n.) One given to cockfighting.
  • (n.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
  • (n.) A rustic high shoe or half-boots.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But he added: “It’s also true that extremely low oil prices, adverse changes in currency rates, and a further decline in power prices are having a significant effect on our business.” Tony Cocker, the chief executive of E.ON UK, said milder weather and improved energy efficiency in British homes were behind the fall in power use, hitting sales.
  • (2) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
  • (3) JP Bean tells the story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, "not an easy task", added Cocker, "especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol".
  • (4) Although significant cell kinetic differences have been reported for other epidermal structures (interfollicular epithelium, upper hair follicle external root sheath, sebaceous glands) in seborrheic Cocker Spaniels, proliferation of hair root matrix cells apparently remains unaffected.
  • (5) There was a moment of panic, a short-breathed time when I wondered what I had done with the previous 10 years, but then I went to see Jarvis Cocker at the Roundhouse.
  • (6) Jarvis Cocker of Pulp spoke to BBC 6Music , praising Bowie’s outsider influence: He was like an umbrella for people who felt a bit different.
  • (7) This inherited erythroenzymopathy and myopathy is commonly diagnosed in English Springer Spaniels, but the family study of this Cocker Spaniel, although supporting an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance, did not reveal any English Springer Spaniel ancestors.
  • (8) Seemingly, the seborrheic skin observed in these Cocker Spaniels and Irish Setters was associated with an altered rate of epidermal keratinization.
  • (9) At the 1996 Brit Awards he was accompanied on stage by a children's choir, prompting a stage invasion by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, who claimed his attitude was "Messiah-like".
  • (10) A 3-year-old female American Cocker Spaniel with a chronic hemolytic disorder and hemolytic crises was found to have M-type phosphofructokinase deficiency.
  • (11) Never salubrious – Pulp's Jarvis Cocker even wrote a song about his time there in which he simply repeats the lines "Oooh – it's a mess alright – it's Mile End" over and over again.
  • (12) Retinal dysplasia has been reported in Bedlington Terrier, Sealyham Terrier, Beagle, Labrador Retriever, English Cocker Spaniel, American Cocker Spaniel, English Springer Spaniel, Yorkshire Terrier and Rottweiler.
  • (13) The mean age was 7.0 years for all breeds, 5.1 years for the Cocker Spaniel, and 9.0 years for the Poodle breeds.
  • (14) Twitter: @DerekNiemann • Badger watching: a beginner's guide The Guardian's former northern editor Martin Wainwright will chair a discussion of Country diary with diarists Mark Cocker and Derek Niemann and former editor Celia Locks at 11.30am on Saturday 15 November, as part of the sixth annual gathering of New Networks for Nature at Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire
  • (15) Therefore we describe, clinically and pathologically, a case of pituitary tumour-dependent Cushing's disease in an 8-year old female cocker spaniel.
  • (16) The examined Cocker Spaniels consisted of 5 animals without renal problems for control and 21 animals with nephropathy: 12 of 1-2 years, 6 of 4-6 years and 3 of 9-10 years old dogs.
  • (17) One of the things I cherish is being brought breakfast in bed in the Lake District by the deputy prime minister and two cocker spaniels."
  • (18) Five littermate Cocker Spaniels were born with concomitant pericardial, diaphragmatic, caudal sternal, and cranioventral abdominal wall defects.
  • (19) 5.15pm, and I'm harbouring serious reservations about the mental well-being of Guardian Unlimited Football's readership: "I am sitting alone in my serviced apartment in Singapore, wearing a Scotland top and boxer shorts like a Caledonian David Mellor, nursing the dregs of my one and only can of Tiger," writes Neil Cocker, in what can only be a cry for help.
  • (20) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.

Indulge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain
  • (v. t.) to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;
  • (v. t.) to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure.
  • (v. t.) To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
  • (v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
  • (2) The lender will also have to take a 5% hit, to ensure it does not indulge in offering risky loans.
  • (3) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
  • (4) I believe that both Nan and I had such a strong marriage that it was possible.” And she was prepared to indulge his experiments?
  • (5) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
  • (6) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
  • (7) When election strategists brought in to pour over Ghani’s speeches told him to swear off coffee on rally days to strengthen his voice, he gave up one of his very few indulgences immediately.
  • (8) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
  • (9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
  • (10) This was the logic that initially led the coalition to reject Heathrow expansion, so why is it now, indulged if not quite supported by the opposition, drifting inexorably towards a new runway in the south-east?
  • (11) This is a character deliriously doomed to repetitive self-indulgence.
  • (12) They cut taxes on corporate Britain while indulging in entirely destructive gimmicks such as scrapping the 10p tax rate.
  • (13) However, it seems that other types of viruses (e.g., tobamoviruses, tombusviruses) do not indulge in regular gene exchange and that common gene pools, distinct from each other, do not occur.
  • (14) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
  • (15) There were also significantly elevated risks associated with occasional indulgence in these four habits.
  • (16) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
  • (17) It was another popular choice at a closing night ceremony indulgently received by the Cannes crowd.
  • (18) This is not about benevolent indulgence but achievement of genuine equality in support and contribution.
  • (19) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
  • (20) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.