What's the difference between colossus and molossus?
Colossus
Definition:
(n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
(n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size.
Example Sentences:
(1) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
(2) Colossus wasn't the only reason why negotiations fell apart.
(3) One site, two entry fees The most longstanding issue is ticketing: none of the £15 entry price to Bletchley Park goes to TNMOC, so the museum has to charge a second fee to visitors (currently £2 to visit just Colossus and £5 to see the whole museum).
(4) One way around the Sky colossus would be to develop ITV.com and provide a paid service via the internet.
(5) At a glitzy opening for the biggest building to be built in Rome in decades – a €363m (£307m) colossus in the EUR neighbourhood that took almost 20 years to build – Raggi took to the stage to express her disapproval for the work as a symbol of waste and extravagance.
(6) At that stage Newcastle were in complete control, with Cabaye a colossus in midfield.
(7) Colossus isn't owned by TNMOC; it is on long-term loan from Colossus Rebuild Limited, a shell company created by Tony Sale, himself a founder member of the Bletchley Park Trust, for that purpose.
(8) The man who towers over them like a colossus in terms of British blockbusting appeal is street trader's son Jason Statham , a former Olympic diver.
(9) Horwood, whose parents worked at GCHQ and at Bletchley Park where his father helped to build the Colossus network, said: "If you do cast too much sunlight on some of these things they actually stop working.
(10) Ibrahimovic remains elite European football’s own dazzling kung-fu colossus, a player whose famously moreish highlights reel is backed by the hard yards of goals scored, 12 league titles won at six different clubs and an underrated appetite for the physical battle.
(11) The power station will become a big Westfield with a shopping centre inside.” But Tincknell says the height of the new buildings will be capped at 60 metres, which means the brick colossus’s four white chimneys will be visible from afar.
(12) Vivendi Universal yesterday dismantled former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier's dream of a French-American media colossus by finalising the sale of its entertainment assets to NBC.
(13) But there are those who believe Amazon is now trying to do too many hard things at once – and at the same time facing mounting competition from multiple new rivals, from TV broadcasters to supermarkets and a Chinese colossus opening in its own US backyard.
(14) He believes, as he argues in the new book, that "financial history is the essential backstory behind all history"; it is an approach that is both illuminating and sets him apart, but critics such as Stephen Howe, a professor of the history and culture of colonialism at Bristol University, worry that in Empire and Colossus in particular, the instinct for a cost-benefit analysis has precluded the humanity that marked The Pity of War (1998), which was about "blood and tears as much as cash".
(15) I think getting them all round a table actually talking through everything would be the best way to sort it out.” Colossus: Bletchley's crowning achievement Hitler's second world war intelligence systems were formidable.
(16) Trace the Nile about 2,250km upstream and there's a rising colossus that threatens to upset a millennia-old balance.
(17) "Colossus, who cracked the Enigma code," Coogan ploughs on, "the bouncing bomb, Manchester United, unions, people who galvanised the working people."
(18) Sale's achievements in building Colossus and leading the campaign to preserve Bletchley Park were widely admired.
(19) It appears that we will have to wait a while for Sony's killer IPs, like Uncharted, God Of War, LiitleBigPlanet and Shadow of the Colossus, to make it to the new console.
(20) Resurgent pop colossus David Bowie can look forward to even more royalties from Life on Mars?
Molossus
Definition:
(n.) A foot of three long syllables.
Example Sentences:
(1) Viperidae snakes belonging to the genus Crotalus, subfamily Crotalinae, include the species durissus terrificus, durissus durissus, adamanteus, atrox, cerastes, horridus, molossus, scutulatus, viridis and others.
(2) The lipid composition of washed erythrocytes from Molossus molossus and Molossus ater were studied.
(3) C. molossus molossus and C. lepidus lepidus did not react with CA-P-8 and CA-5+.
(4) Uterine function was assessed histologically in nonpregnant Molossus ater removed from a laboratory breeding colony.
(5) Adult specimens of seven southern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis helleri), four northern black-tailed rattlesnakes (Crotalus molossus molossus), and six western diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox) were housed under controlled light and temperature and milked of venom monthly for 20 months.
(6) M4, a fibrinolytic protease, was isolated from the venom of Crotalus molossus molossus.
(7) The venom from Crotalus molossus nigrescens contains many activities including: hyde powder azure proteinase; N-benzoyl-arginine-ethyl-ester hydrolase; phospholipase; phosphodiesterase; desoxyribonuclease; fibrinogen coagulase; collagenase, fibrinolytic activity, and hemorrhagic factors.
(8) Ten venoms of the genus Crotalus (Crotalus adamanteus, Crotalus atrox, Crotalus durissus durissus, Crotalus horridus horridus, Crotalus lepidus, Crotalus polystictus, Crotalus molossus molossus, Crotalus pusillus, Crotalus scutulatus scutulatus, venom B, and Crotalus viridis lutosus) were fractionated using HPLC anion and cation exchange chromatography.
(9) Wangiella dermatitidis was isolated for the first time from the macroscopically asymptomatic internal organs of 2 Phyllostomus discolor, 1 Molossus molossus, 1 Sturnira lilium and 1 Myotis albescens among bats captured in the region of Manaus, Brazil.
(10) In an effort to define further the factors that can influence trophoblastic growth, development of the discoidal chorioallantoic placenta was examined histologically in laboratory-bred black mastiff bats, Molossus ater.
(11) Uterine events during pregnancy were examined histologically in laboratory-bred black mastiff bats (Molossus ater) as part of an effort to develop this species as a model for studies of the factors controlling trophoblastic growth.
(12) Single-unit responses to tonal stimulation with interaural disparities were recorded in the nuclei of the superior olivary complex (SOC) and the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICC) of the echolocating bat, Molossus ater.