What's the difference between coddling and codling?

Coddling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coddle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They're angelic mother-saviours, there to lead Caspar out of misery by coddling his ego.
  • (2) The children of the rich never stop being coddled and gladhanded their way through life; the children of the poor deserve a little bit of support before being dumped on to the minimum wage pile.
  • (3) But is reducing use by deploying other substances, such as the pheromone of the female coddling moth , the pest that puts maggots on apples.
  • (4) As he put it: "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
  • (5) China doesn't just violate the human rights of its citizens, it coddles and supports brutal dictatorships around the world.
  • (6) We didn’t coddle or conciliate with the dictators in Iran.” On the eve of his visit to Lausanne, Kerry said he would not take responsibility for Cotton’s intervention, which he said was an unprecedented attempt to interfere in an executive’s foreign negotiations.
  • (7) France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one day have to answer to the Chinese people, one of the country's leading civil rights activist has told The Observer.
  • (8) Needless to say, the purchasers were wealthy Tory donors looking out for their coddled offspring.
  • (9) And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody of the coddled one-percent.
  • (10) Conversely, only one in four residents believed that most poor people become poor as a result of lack of effort on their part, and one in five believed that society is coddling the poor.
  • (11) "For too long," Heijne wrote, "the Dutch government has coddled the dictator in Moscow."
  • (12) Take the ubiquitous calls today for European countries to do just what will "reassure the markets", as though holders of government bonds were trembling, paranoid little flowers who must be psychically coddled at all costs.
  • (13) Crazy,” he says, but then a little voice, the one that has savagely punctured the brattishness of coddled celebrities four times now as presenter of the Golden Globes, kicks in.
  • (14) The radio crackles with adverts attacking the Milwaukee mayor as a gun-controlling, criminal-coddling, union-schmoozing, tax-and-spend liberal dinosaur.
  • (15) The first few days go to staring and coddling and dodging effluent.
  • (16) Making Donald Trump our commander-in-chief would be a historic mistake.” The former first lady deconstructed Trump’s policy positions as a recipe for alienating allies, emboldening enemies and coddling dictators.
  • (17) Photograph: Jonathan Kaiman for the Guardian "He walked this weird line between knowing that he was a symbol of nationhood on one level, and even of independence, I guess – but at the same time, he was very comfortable in this coddled position as a performer," said Deborah Stratman, a Chicago-based documentary film-maker who lived with Adili as he toured Xinjiang for three months in 2001.
  • (18) Discussing university “safe spaces” and the threats to free speech, the academic psychologist Jonathan Haidt recently suggested the problem had its roots in increasingly risk-free, coddled childhoods.
  • (19) Lazy bum babies shouldn’t be coddled with all sorts of indolence-promoting nutrition.
  • (20) The frontrunner for the Republican nomination told the programme’s presenter, Piers Morgan, on Wednesday that residents of the Brussels neighbourhood Molenbeek had “coddled and taken care of” Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam before his arrest.

Codling


Definition:

  • (n.) An apple fit to stew or coddle.
  • (n.) An immature apple.
  • (n.) A young cod; also, a hake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Preparations of ecdysterone, ponasterone A and sum of ecdysones isolated from the plant sources possess a high hormonal activity with respect to house fly larvae and codling moth caterpillars.
  • (2) AcMNPV could not initiate a productive infection in frog, turtle, trout, or codling moth cell lines.
  • (3) Anthony Codling at Jefferies, the building investment group, said the decision to sell Parsons Brinckerhoff would be "the biggest strategic decision the company is going to make in the next five years" and could deter potential candidates from the chief executive role.
  • (4) Specifically, life span was shown to be different in different photoperiodic regimens for the codling moth and the face fly.
  • (5) These highly active chemical attractants have been synthesized for some of the most important insect pests, including the boll weevil, gypsy moth, codling moth, tobacco budworm, European corn borer, and several bark beetles.
  • (6) Parsons Brinckerhoff was described by Codling as "the jewel in the crown", as the consulting trade is seen as a more reliable source of income, compared with the more volatile construction business.
  • (7) London’s status as the world’s best big city is underpinned by labour mobility, cultural diversity and a constant influx of talent and investment from around the world, and the UK economy in turn is powered by the success of our capital city.” Anthony Codling, analyst at Liberum Capital, said of the UK’s housebuilders, Berkeley was most sensitive to the referendum decision.
  • (8) The structure of a sex pheromone of the codling moth.
  • (9) Extension of day length by artificial light in selected field plots in the fall prevented 76 percent of European corn borer [Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner)] larvae and 70 percent of codling moth [Laspeyresia pomonella (L.)] larvae from entering diapause.
  • (10) Feeding tests showed that the powdered dried leaves and leaf extracts of L. bidwilli are toxic to the larvae of the housefly (Musca domestica), and the codling moth (Laspeyresia pomonella).
  • (11) Anthony Codling at said Parsons Brinckerhoff was "the jewel in the crown", as the consulting trade is seen as a more reliable source of income, compared with the more volatile construction business.
  • (12) In the codling moth, trans-8, trans-10-dodecadien-1-ol was found to be present at a level of 3.5 ng per female, and in the European grapevine moth trans-7, cis-9-dodecadienyl acetate at a level of 1.6 ng.

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