What's the difference between cony and simpleton?

Cony


Definition:

  • (n.) A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus)
  • (n.) The chief hare.
  • (n.) A simpleton.
  • (n.) An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.
  • (n.) A local name of the burbot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (2) Recent events are also reviewed, including the investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs by Australian sportsmen and women (the Black Enquiry), by the Canadians (the Dubin Enquiry) and by the British (the Coni Enquiry and the Jacobs Enquiry).
  • (3) Complete imaging studies also showed that all lumbar SCMs had low-lying coni and at least one additional tethering lesion besides the split cords, whereas only 1 of 7 cervical and high thoracic SCMs had a low conus and a second tethering lesion.
  • (4) On the opposite, in ungulates, a well-known band runs across the right ventricular chamber from the septum close to the musculus papillaris coni arteriosi up to the anterior wall close to the anterior papillary muscle.
  • (5) However, the ductuli in the coni vasculosi are more sinuous than in the initial zone and they anastomose; pairs join together to form ultimately a single, common ductulus efferens.
  • (6) The strong synthetic promoter conI and its derivatives were observed to interfere with expression of the aadA gene, which confers spectinomycin resistance upon its host.
  • (7) Escherichia coli K-12 F- mutants defective in conjugation with an I-type donor (ConI-) were isolated and characterized.
  • (8) The LV OT in this case drains under both (aortic and pulmonary) coni.
  • (9) Through an examination of the subepicardial part of the heart in the guinea pig it was characterized a duality concerning to the origin and branching of the 2 coronary arteries which are represented by 4, and not by 2, aortic branches: the R. circumflexus sinister and the R. interventricularis paraconalis to the left coronary artery; the A. coronaria dextra and the R. coni arteriosi to the right coronary artery.
  • (10) Janet Conie gives us an over-view of the impact of recent technological advances on the art and science of neurosurgery.
  • (11) This can’t go on like this, I’m tired of it,” Giovanni Malago, president of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) told Italian media.
  • (12) Mutants specific for F-type E. coli donor cells (ConF-) and mutants specific deficient in conjugation with I-type donor cells (ConI-) were isolated.
  • (13) The possibility that the GF rat lacks sufficient precursor of MMA was tested by feeding GF, XGF and CONY rats diets low or high in MMA precursors and examining urinary excretion of MMA and formiminoglutamic acid at intervals.
  • (14) There were 160 coni histologically analysed in which carcinoma in situ (CIS) or carcinoma cum invasione minimali (CIM) were diagnosed.
  • (15) The cord is anatomically differentiated into a proximal cylindrical region, the initial zone, and an ampulla, the coni vasculosi.
  • (16) Both ConF- and ConI- mutants were blocked in stable mating pair formation.
  • (17) By microscopical examination of abradates, operation material and coni schistosoma eggs could be detected in 29.2 per cent of all cases.

Simpleton


Definition:

  • (n.) A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reading your post I couldn't help but think tonight's simpletons had undergone a similar experience."
  • (2) But these simpletons are absolutely determined to find their seat.
  • (3) There’s a really big willingness to help here in Germany and a mind-boggling number of people that are doing lots for refugees, who are not racist, and I think it’s their voice that should be dominant rather than a handful of simpletons who think they should stir up hatred.” This article was amended on 7 August 2015 to correct the name of the news programme on which Reschke made her comments
  • (4) Maybe because I am a simpleton and sometimes can only process what I can see – the actual sky, rather than invisible cyberspace in which data blips through fibre-optic cables.
  • (5) George W. Bush was a Texan simpleton who took more time playing golf on his computer than deciding on executions while governor.
  • (6) Responses to Doyle’s tweet included one from another Twitter user who asked : “What has a Muslim woman in Croydon, got to do with the horrific events in Belgium, you simpleton?” Another, referring to the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, asked : “Did anyone accost you on the streets of Croydon after the Brevik shooting in Norway?
  • (7) Which is also to say, for younger visitors, that the exhibition could even be seen to reduce Diana to the big-spending simpleton who was castigated in Anthony O’Hear’s revisionist essay of 1998, as shallow and self-obsessed.
  • (8) He is by no means the simpleton played by Peter Sellers in Being There, but, like Gardiner, every utterance, however gnomic, is now thought to contain a greater truth.
  • (9) And Navracsics’ hastily put together statement from yesterday seems to only repeat the same category error, a simpleton bureaucrat mantra trying to dodge the absurdity of the EU apparently having no responsibility to give any support to the EU’s own youth orchestra.
  • (10) These use the character of Lennie, the gentle simpleton who doesn't know his own strength from Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men, as a benchmark, with the court writing: "Texas citizens might agree that Steinbeck's Lennie should, by virtue of his lack of reasoning ability and adaptive skills, be exempt" .
  • (11) "I was a simpleton last Saturday evening at Melbourne Park."
  • (12) My husband is pointing out, veeerrryy slowly, as if to a simpleton, that this would involve us trebling our current mortgage.
  • (13) A dverts for insurance comparison websites have long treated the British public like a shower of infantilised simpletons.
  • (14) Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson rapped over "special needs" joke This time it's media regulator Ofcom tut-tutting after Clarkson describes the Ferrari F430 Speciale as "a bit wrong ... that smiling front end ... it looked like a simpleton ... [it] should have been called the 430 Speciale Needs".
  • (15) I liked the idea of an island with a vocation – all islands should have one, surely – and Tico took great pleasure in instructing me in the difference between primary and secondary Atlantic rainforest (simpleton that I am, I thought all forest was good, but Tico tut-tutted every time we passed a coconut palm), and even more pleasure in skipping up the 990m Pico do Papagaio while I lumbered behind.