What's the difference between cornfield and cornflower?
Cornfield
Definition:
(n.) A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They're scared," one woman says April 15, 2014 max seddon (@maxseddon) Slavyansk residents are marching to defend their local airstrip, which is a cornfield with no fuel, working planes, or real runway April 15, 2014 Updated at 5.20pm BST 5.04pm BST There are conflicting reports of casualties at Kramatorsk airport, taken by Ukrainian forces Tuesday afternoon local time.
(2) Carbofuran (Curater 5G) behavior was studied in two drained cornfield soils, clay and loamy-clay, for 2 successive years.
(3) The images coming in to the Guardian's picture desk have reflected the last few days' carnage in an even more graphic way than usual: dead and maimed children in bombed-out Gaza or bodies of victims lying in Ukrainian cornfields.
(4) Five men in plain clothes blocked the road into Chen's village with a van and six more came running after journalists, who tried to enter the community, which is surrounded by cornfields.
(5) A new vision of robots patrolling the meadows and cornfields of the UK may seem dark and satanic to some, but according to farmers and the government it is the future, and will bring efficiencies and benefits, and an end to some of the most back-breaking jobs around the farm.
(6) As for OR analysis, we emphasize that the chi-square function, introduced by Cornfield for unstratified data, and extended by Gart to the case of stratified analysis, is based on the efficient score and thus embodies its optimality properties.
(7) It's as though the 72-year-old author had just popped out of a ripening cornfield to take a sniff at the sheep-shearing contest going on behind her.
(8) The online tool monitors nitrogen applied and lost on cornfields across the country.
(9) And environmentalists are worried that the expansion of cornfields will dry out peaty soils, leading to greenhouse gas emissions, and be harmful for biological diversity.
(10) (3) Histidine-rich protein from granular cells contained polypeptides of larger molecular sizes than those in histidine-rich protein from cornfield cells, although amino acid composition of the two histidine-rich protein was non-distinguishable (histidine residue was more than 7%).
(11) And in the end they pass, like ripples of breeze through a ripe cornfield, having made relatively little impact on the body politic.
(12) Approximate confidence intervals for these parameters including the classical Cornfield's method are mainly based on efficient scores.
(13) The characteristic "cornfield" growth in RCM in 25-ml Universal containers is described.
(14) That suggests the dynamics of this race has changed.” For his campaign, the dynamics of the race roll along two-lane roads through snow-crusted cornfields.
(15) Studies show that the nitrous oxide emitted from cornfields has a greenhouse gas impact of similar magnitude to the entire aviation industry of the United States.
(16) Under the multiplicative model, the crude relative risk may be adjusted indirectly, by means of a factor proposed by Axelson [1978], and implicitly by Cornfield et al.
(17) We took buses, trains, walked on railways and through cornfields.
(18) Unfortunately, the principles underlying valid application of these techniques are more subtle than those first considered by Cornfield in the rare-disease setting, and appear to be easily misunderstood.
(19) The obvious answer from Iowa is Rick Santorum , who pushed him so close in the cornfields.
(20) Don Benton: the Trump 'shadow' adviser taking over the US draft system Read more Michael Cornfield, associate professor of political management at George Washington University, said: “Like Reagan, Trump established his name among Americans through commercial television.
Cornflower
Definition:
(n.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.
Example Sentences:
(1) As late as 2013, he attended party gatherings wearing a blue cornflower on his lapel – a plant popularised as a symbol of the pan-German movement by the Austrian politician Georg Ritter von Schönerer , whom Hannah Arendt described as Adolf Hitler’s “spiritual father”.
(2) One key detail that both Leigh and Thompson get right is the ever-present cornflower blue necktie Ruskin wore, knowing that it highlighted his blue eyes, along with a brown-velvet-collared greatcoat.
(3) If it wasn’t for the votes of 31,000 Austrians – out of a 4.64 million-strong electorate – the country’s figurehead would now be Norbert Hofer , a man who wears the blue cornflower, a symbol associated with the Nazis.
(4) Strache has stated that the cornflower represented “the bourgeois freedom movement of 1848”, a claim that historians dismiss as fictitious.
(5) As Ian prepares for the half-mile-long return journey, he points a fistful of oily cotton waste towards the purple thistle-like flowerheads of knapweed, the pink, white and blue pincushion-shaped flowers of scabious, and the vivid blue of cornflower.