What's the difference between coney and hyrax?

Coney


Definition:

  • (n.) A rabbit. See Cony.
  • (n.) A fish. See Cony.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway return with their cinema experience Every Minute Always and Coney offers the experience of The Loveliness Principle.
  • (2) Since the dawn of cinema, Coney Island has been a beloved shooting location.
  • (3) Coney, Blast Theory and Fish And Game are just a few of those engaging with the possibilities of film and persuasive media, while the city has offered festival-goers a series of downloadable virtual adventures at locations around Edinburgh.
  • (4) And there have been times I couldn't bear to play Coney Island Baby, with its refrain of "I wanted to play football for the coach", its quiet nostalgia like a punch in the stomach.
  • (5) The beverage industry led a multimillion-dollar disinformation campaign, complete with Astroturfing advocates handing out "right to choose" leaflets in Manhattan's Union Square and aeroplanes flying "soda freedom" banners over Coney Island.
  • (6) Coney had a prolific criminal record, including assault with a weapon.
  • (7) The stuff that reinforced that image – I'm Waiting for the Man, Street Hassle, Dirt, Kicks, Sad Song – was matched by songs of real tenderness, not in the grudging tears-of-a-tough-guy style, but open and honest and touchingly fragile (see Femme Fatale's ruined suitor warning others off to Coney Island Baby , his lovestruck paean to Rachel, the beautiful drag queen who was his mid-70s companion ).
  • (8) Business is far from usual this winter for Alex Alfidi, manager at Leo's Coney Island restaurant in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham.
  • (9) When the mayor's representative came to unveil the sign, she was mobbed by Jane Jacobs look-alikes protesting the rezoning in Coney Island that will see the historic amusement park halved in size and shielded from the sea by high towers.
  • (10) As Coney Island’s fortunes shifted into decline in the 1960s and 1970s, its portrayal in the movies followed suit.
  • (11) From the long-standing regular night Coney Island (where dressing up to various classic movies is encouraged, music is themed accordingly and hotdog eating competitions are standard) to The Virgin Xtravaganzah and her variety show of the best of London’s alternative cabaret scene to the popular Disco 54 night, there’s something for everyone.
  • (12) It emerged that Scott was very familiar with the Vincent Thomas bridge near Long Beach, about 30 miles south of his Beverly Hills home, because he planned to use it in a remake of the 1970 cult classic The Warriors, about a gang crossing New York to their Coney Island home pursued by rival gangs.
  • (13) The trajectory of this unfortunate shift in New York film-making is perhaps best exemplified by looking at how Coney Island has been portrayed throughout film history.
  • (14) We could stop the collection of millions of dollars a day, turn off the water supply, pull out the ambulance drivers, leave Coney Island without lifeguards,” ruminated Gotbaum, the DC37 union’s executive director, during the crisis, with a frankness no American union leader would dare voice today.
  • (15) There were a few who were very vocal, but really a lot of that is down to not knowing who was coming and what to expect,” said the Rev Steve Coneys of the Seasalter Church in the town, who is helping at the centre.
  • (16) To deal with the problems of excessive and inappropriate use, the medical staff of Coney Island Hospital established compulsory, prospective antibiotic control.
  • (17) Coney Island hospital was also evacuated Monday night.
  • (18) Zones has been designed with interaction experts and theatre-makers Coney to ensure that genuine gamification is incorporated into the design.
  • (19) Lou Reed poses for the cover session for his album Coney Island Baby, in 1976.
  • (20) A retrospective study of the Coney Island Hospital experience with Greenfield filters over a five-year period was undertaken.

Hyrax


Definition:

  • (n.) Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H. Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H. Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Semi-thin plastic sections reveal that the carotid baroreceptor region in the rock hyrax comprising the origin of the internal carotid artery has a preponderantly elastic structure and a thick tunica adventitia.
  • (2) Intraorally the protraction device can either be attached to a bonded acrylic expansion appliance or to a cemented Hyrax depending on the developmental stage of the dentition.
  • (3) In vitro metabolism of progesterone by hyrax whole blood, erythrocytes, or plasma in the presence or absence of NADPH was investigated.
  • (4) Centriole formation in male meiosis of the hyrax, Heterohyrax syriacus, and the Berdmore palm squirrel, Memetes berdmorei, was investigated by serial section analysis of selected regions of the seminiferous epithelium and isolated meiotic cells.
  • (5) Cine-x-ray (100 frames per second) was used to record feeding behavior in four adult hyraxes (Procavia syriacus), herbivores.
  • (6) Adult males from a colony of lesser rock hyrax found near the equator in Kenya exhibited an annual cycle of testicular activity characterized by intense spermatogenesis and elevated androgen status from May to July.
  • (7) After the operation the palatal expansion appliance (Biedermann-Hyrax-screw) was normally activated one one-quarter turn twice a day until the desired expansion was achieved.
  • (8) A notable resemblance between the hyrax and elephant sequences was observed, setting them apart from the ungulates, including whale.
  • (9) The perioral and intraoral representations are relatively large in SI of hyrax and exhibit considerable distortion.
  • (10) Radioimmunoassay and bioassay estimates of LH in hyrax pituitaries containing widely differing quantities of pituitary hormones were similar.
  • (11) As part of a study of the evolutionary development of the eye lens protein alpha-crystallin the 173-residue A chain of this protein has been studied in elephant, whale, hyrax and rhinoceros.
  • (12) However, with the exception of the elevated potassium levels observed in the cranial stomach, the hyrax poses no unusual osmotic or electrolyte concentrations when compared to man or other mammals.
  • (13) The findings showed the two-point RPEe was as efficient as the Hyrax in obtaining dental expansion of the maxillary posterior teeth with less effect on the maxillary anterior and mandibular teeth.
  • (14) This study uses a comparative approach to evaluate the role of footpad sweating on increasing friction, utilizing a variety of mammals which possess sweat glands on their footpads (rat, tenrec, hyrax, and dog).
  • (15) Restriction-fragment-length polymorphisms in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) were used to evaluate geographic population genetic structure in the rock hyrax, Procavia capensis, a species which occurs widely, though restricted to rocky habitat, throughout South Africa.
  • (16) Evidence of an annual testicular cycle contradicted the prevalent belief that equatorial hyrax breed all year and suggested that the testicular cycle is a conservative element of hyracoid reproductive strategy.
  • (17) For cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania aethiopica, the hyrax and the giant rat are the proven reservoirs of the disease while several species of rodents have been demonstrated to harbor L. major.
  • (18) The following species were represented: red kangaroo, common tree shrew, Senegal-Galago, Demidoff's-Galago, brown howler monkey, woolly monkey, long-haired spider monkey, white-eared marmoset, chimpanzee, three-toed sloth, palm squirrel, red panda, fennec fox, tree hyrax and large-toothed hyrax.
  • (19) These results are a quantitative description of the coordination that exists during different feeding behaviors (ingestion, intraoral transport, mastication, and swallowing) in normal, freely functioning hyraxes.
  • (20) Sulci are reliable landmarks demarcating boundaries of SI in hyrax as they are in other mammals.

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