What's the difference between cocktail and zombie?

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?

Zombie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
  • (2) The business described it in a since-deleted Facebook post as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport”.
  • (3) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
  • (4) Understandably so, since we’re talking about ice demons who can command zombie hordes.
  • (5) Up against the continuing might of animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 3 , as well as fellow debutants including romantic drama The Choice and horror-comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , the 50s-set tale of a major film star gone missing scored just $11.4m (£7.9m) to open in second place.
  • (6) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
  • (7) Nor are Hay Day, Plants vs. Zombies 2, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, The Sims FreePlay, Angry Birds Go, or anything with “Saga” on the end.
  • (8) • Internet fridges: the zombie idea that just won't die
  • (9) ), there are practical concerns about functionally turning one's phone into a zombie in the undead Zuckerberg army: Leviathan212 04 April 2013 6:48pm Sounds like an absolute horror.
  • (10) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
  • (11) However, what Warner has helped create is a "zombie policy" – currently politically dormant but waiting to be given the kiss of life in the future.
  • (12) Also prompting hyperventilating zombie headlines was a leaked “secret” Labor options paper on climate policy – which basically said only what we already knew – that Labor would have an emissions trading scheme of some sort in combination with other policies (the same ones that could help meet the renewable energy goal) as well as things like vehicle emission standards.
  • (13) It’s a trope that often plays an important part in the narrative of zombie stories.
  • (14) Microsoft statisticians estimate that owners of the new console have already dispatched more than 60m zombies, driven 3.6m miles and earned 43m fit points as they explore some of the 22 titles available at launch.
  • (15) Presumably, becoming a zombie involves some sort of widespread, systematic brain damage in which baser survival instincts take over, and motor and language areas are damaged, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the zombie doesn’t remember .
  • (16) But vampires and zombies are old news, according to Quirk.
  • (17) But, unlike most of the bizarre things said about this place, the zombies at least make sense.
  • (18) Back when it suited Green, he emphasized that Assange has not been charged with any crime, that there is far from any certainty that he would be, and that extradition to Sweden is merely for him "to be questioned" on these allegations: exactly the "myths" and "zombie facts" which he now purports to bust.
  • (19) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
  • (20) The TV series was part of a “zombie-like revival of the defunct empire”.