What's the difference between cocktail and cosmopolitan?

Cocktail


Definition:

  • (n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
  • (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
  • (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
  • (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cocktails of two or more BsAbs, selected to bind to multiple epitopes on ribosome-inactivating proteins and perhaps also on unwanted cells, could provide an important new strategy in immunotherapy.
  • (2) The work reported was done as part of an intensive investigation on toxic and radioprotective properties of three substances, ATP, AET and serotonin, administered singly or in combination to mice, with a view to identifying optimal dose ratios for cocktails.
  • (3) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (4) These monoclonal antibody cocktails were drug conjugated and administered intravenously.
  • (5) The breakfast meetings, cocktails, roundtables and press conferences will all be without incident.
  • (6) The stains-cocktails are well preserved for 4-5 weeks and may be used repeatedly.
  • (7) The onset of tolerance to morphine analgesia was studied in 34 female Wistar rats immediately after they drank a dextrose-saccharin cocktail or tap water for 6 or 24 hours.
  • (8) A group calling itself Fight Xenophobia contacted AFP to claim the attack, which it said was carried out with “Molotov cocktails”.
  • (9) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
  • (10) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (11) By utilizing the gamma-emitting isotope of selenium, Se-(8-azidoadenosyl)[75Se]selenomethionine eliminates the need for the impregnation of acrylamide gels with fluorographic enhancers and dilution of liquid samples into scintillation cocktails, as is required with the commonly used methyl-3H-labeled and 35S-labeled S-(8-azidoadenosyl)methionine.
  • (12) 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".
  • (13) Sometimes she would take me out for cocktails and get diplomatic cars from embassies to take me home.
  • (14) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
  • (15) MAbs were screened in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) against three different antigen cocktails: S-form LPS from three P. aeruginosa strains, R-form LPS from six P. aeruginosa strains and, as a negative control, R-form LPS from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.
  • (16) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
  • (17) There is no easy win against terrorists, Tunisia will be pursuing a cocktail of solutions,” said one London-based security expert.
  • (18) This study illustrates the approach that we have taken to individualize the cocktail of MoAbs for the development of patient-specific therapeutic immunoconjugates.
  • (19) Rhodes said Obama had not been briefed about the arrest of three activists alleged to have been planning to throw molotov cocktails at Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago as well as the home of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.
  • (20) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?

Cosmopolitan


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
  • (a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Possible participation of the in vitro synthesized polypeptides in providing functions of cosmopolitanism and mobilization is being considered.
  • (2) Photograph: Tathiana Yumi Kurita The look on the street is as diverse as the city itself, but on the whole it’s cosmopolitan and smart, with some lightness and freshness to it – it is a tropical country we live in, after all.
  • (3) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
  • (4) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
  • (5) Urban nurses express negative attitudes toward incorporating indigenous practitioners into the cosmopolitan care setting.
  • (6) Of greater importance are the cosmopolitan infectious diseases such as typhoid fever, paratyphoid, salmonella enteritis, poliomyelitis, viral hepatitides which are transmitted orally and altogether are imported in no small numbers.
  • (7) Yet there is a great sense of unity among a cosmopolitan squad.
  • (8) "I think that turning to Europe is an attempt to escape a difficult identity in favour of a more simple one … This idea will always fail, because a German who goes to France, England, the United States and presents him or herself as simply a European, this is not what he is, he is not just a European, he's a German and those who travel learn that the world is not as cosmopolitan and international as we'd like it to be."
  • (9) In rapidly-changing and cosmopolitan Singapore, ergonomic principles are vital to all facets of manufacturing processes and the transportation and distribution of goods, but ergonomic practice can be complicated by several factors as indicated by such examples.
  • (10) They are mainly represented by latrines, where Anjouan ethnic group is predominent; by cesspools in localities inhabited by Sakalava (a Malagasian ethnic group) and by other latrines and cesspools in mahoraises (inhabitants of Mayotte) and cosmopolitan localities.
  • (11) It might sound strange but when I was very young I read these women magazines like Cosmopolitan and they were pretty feminist.
  • (12) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
  • (13) The "capital" of the ancient Irish western province of Connaught is also something of a cosmopolitan spot, with a fifth of its population falling into the non-Galwegian category.
  • (14) Fascioliasis has a cosmopolitan distribution and is prevalent in sheep-raising countries.
  • (15) A cosmopolitan coach got a culture shock when Everton adopted an old-school British approach by introducing Koné alongside Romelu Lukaku to form a towering attacking duo as Martínez deployed a tactic Fellaini might have enjoyed.
  • (16) The intricate cosmopolitan weave of the city was pulled apart.
  • (17) Company launched in 1978, aiming at a younger demographic than Hearst sister title Cosmopolitan.
  • (18) People take naked photos of themselves for all sorts of reasons – a 2014 survey by Cosmopolitan found that 89% of millennial women have taken naked photos of themselves (and only 14% regretted it).
  • (19) Not all species of dermatophytes are cosmopolitan in their distribution throughout the world.
  • (20) Instead, what we get is Cosmopolitan's recent Condom Kama Sutra, which attempts to "make condoms sexy" by suggesting a series of "moves" a woman could do, one of which involves applying one with your tits.