What's the difference between comedown and status?

Comedown


Definition:

  • (n.) A downfall; an humiliation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
  • (2) We’ll probably never know what percentage of Labour MPs and experts are firefighting these events on a Glasto comedown.
  • (3) For the AU, it was a humiliating comedown after the inauguration of its new headquarters, which was accompanied by high rhetoric and performances by a brass band, dance troupes and singers.
  • (4) The comedown can be shocking in terms of feeling down or embarrassed by my behaviour, even if I feel that I wasn’t in the wrong.” Keane also accepts that his reputation means strangers are naturally wary in his company but argues that he is not the person many think.
  • (5) Theirs was a collective comedown from the adrenaline rush, exhaustion from an energy-sapping occasion inevitably creeping in as players attempted to comprehend what had just been achieved.
  • (6) For the person who led it from being just a concept that he struggled to interest carriers in, to a world-straddling behemoth, that's got to be a bit of a comedown.
  • (7) It was a big comedown, in personal and creative terms.
  • (8) But then the vision of a shrinking Fifa Fan Fest, which from the top of a building resembled an ant colony being dismantled by its own inhabitants, brought it all back home: the 2014 World Cup was over and the biggest Brazilian comedown was officially on – no matter that Rio de Janeiro’s most famous promenade, its bars, restaurants and car rental agencies still had a cacophony of foreign accents as a soundtrack.
  • (9) Our politicians have made a habit out of rejecting science, and we’re left with the comedown.
  • (10) He can joke about being approached by drug dealers in the street who mistake his quivering for a junkie's comedown.
  • (11) Whereas in reality, after I've savoured my coffee, there is only comedown.
  • (12) "Users told us there were terrible comedowns with mephedrone, but it was rather moreish," Measham said.
  • (13) Life after the political whirl of the White House was always going to be a comedown, even if you drink lots of coffee, and Engskov sounds like an ex-con when he says: "When I first got out of the White House I struggled … it was a difficult transition."
  • (14) That might be considered a comedown for a player who competed for the Belgian title while at Standard and began this season playing in the Europa League but he says the thrill of escaping relegation is similar to the buzz of challenging for higher honours.
  • (15) Insolvency amounts to a humiliating comedown for a studio with a back catalogue of 4,000 titles holding 205 Oscars between them.
  • (16) Rebecca Nicholson, writer John Grant provides a moment of magic For one all-too-brief hour, as the sun set over Glastonbury and John Grant took to the Park Stage on Saturday night, the unwashed festival masses were transported away from a world of mud, bruises and two day comedowns.
  • (17) JK Rowling's ranking – at number 15, with earnings of £13m – is a steep comedown since the heyday of Harry Potter in 2008, when she topped the highest-earners list with sales of £170m, more than the combined annual earnings of the nine other authors on the list that year.
  • (18) All Scottish newspapers suffered sales falls last month in the annual comedown in circulation following the boost given by the Edinburgh festival in August, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published today.
  • (19) Spring Breakers is a glorious beast of a film, a morally ambiguous piece of pop art, a lurid trip with hallucinatory highs and ugly comedowns.
  • (20) The comedown from his moment of glory was swift and harsh.

Status


Definition:

  • (n.) State; condition; position of affairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (2) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
  • (3) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (4) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
  • (5) In patients with less favourable disease status the 2-year overall and DFS were 73% and 50% respectively.
  • (6) Previous studies have not always controlled for socioeconomic status (SES) of mothers or other potential confounders such as gestational age or birthweight of infants.
  • (7) The present status of percutaneous coronary angioplasty is presented, with a brief outline of current technique, the technical and clinical indications for the method, and the results being obtained.
  • (8) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
  • (9) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
  • (10) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (11) These results indicate that the hormonal status should be taken into consideration in studies dealing with platelet MAO activity in depressed women.
  • (12) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
  • (13) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
  • (14) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
  • (15) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (16) For example, 75% of them were asked about their family life, marital status and children in interviews.
  • (17) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
  • (18) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
  • (19) All of the surviving patients showed improvement in cardiac function and their clinical status.
  • (20) Blood acid-base status, serum electrolytes, and urine pH were examined in 64 infants and children with phenylketonuria (PKU) treated with three different low phenylalanine protein hydrolyzates (Aponti, Cymogran, AlbumaidXP) and two synthetic amino acid mixtures (Aminogran, PAM).

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