What's the difference between cowboy and gauchos?

Cowboy


Definition:

  • (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
  • (n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (2) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
  • (3) Now Brokeback Mountain, the tragic love story of two American cowboys, is looking to again chart new territory.
  • (4) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
  • (5) Eagles 17 - Cowboys 7 - 1:25 remaining 2nd quarter Bang bang!
  • (6) The Cowboys, meanwhile, move to 7-3 and are back on the play-off road after a couple of recent bumps.
  • (7) The Cowboys had one last chance to beat the Eagles but Kyle Orton, doing his best Tony Romo impersonation, threw an interception to end Dallas hopes.
  • (8) We've all timed our visit to coincide with the annual corrida , a cattle round-up in which all the area's vaqueros (cowboys) unite to retrieve more than 500 cows from all across the range.
  • (9) The former Foreign Office official, who has known Steele for 25 years and considers him a friend, said: “The idea his work is fake or a cowboy operation is false – completely untrue.
  • (10) Much has been made of the personal battle being waged by Dez Bryant and Calvin Johnson at Ford Field, but it is instead Terrance Williams who blows this game open, scoring on a 60-yard catch-and-run to make it Cowboys 20-10 Lions .
  • (11) A good starting point is 1972's The Cowboys, in which Dern became the first man to kill John Wayne in a movie.
  • (12) Some of it is still naff, but that's bootcut-jeans-wearing cowboys for you.
  • (13) And it doesn't, because their film was released on the same day as Hollywood blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens , starring proven money-maker Daniel Craig.
  • (14) Her real passion has always been 1970s character films: Badlands, Midnight Cowboy and Bonnie And Clyde.
  • (15) Then, in 1963, driving to attend a memorial service for Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country stars who had died in a plane crash, Anglin was killed in a car accident.
  • (16) After a coroner recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at the inquest in Oxford in October, his family said US forces had been allowed to behave like "trigger-happy cowboys" and called for charges against those responsible.
  • (17) Christie, well known for his love of sports teams including the Dallas Cowboys, kicked off his visit by attending Arsenal’s 5-0 Premier League win over Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium.
  • (18) And partly because too many European companies have a no-questions-asked policy towards every broker and cowboy willing to take troublesome waste off their hands.
  • (19) 3) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 The Cowboys have enough talent on their roster to be a play-off team.
  • (20) Alongside any stronger regime for penalties, we would urge measures to tackle domestic and small scale flytipping, for example, by unregistered ‘cowboy’ builders and householders who evade their responsibilities to dispose of waste properly.” Councillor Peter Box, the Local Government Association’s environment spokesman said: “Waste crime costs taxpayers tens of millions of pounds every year and is a burden on businesses, and residents.

Gauchos


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Gaucho

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mario Götze, Miroslav Klose, Toni Kroos, André Schürrle, Shkodran Mustafi and Roman Weidenfeller enacted an old football chant that had previously only been seen on the terraces, jumping and waving as they sang "That's what the Germans look like," then slouching with hanging heads to the words "That's what the Gauchos (Argentinians) look like".
  • (2) Gaucho Rasmussen, an OFT director, said: "OFT research has found that reference pricing can mislead consumers into thinking the item they have bought is of higher value and quality."
  • (3) Juan Manuel gives me the lowdown on riding gaucho style, which involves holding the reins very loosely in one hand.
  • (4) A former model, who trained as a chef in New York, she’ll occasionally drop nuggets like “My father was a gaucho,” into the conversation.
  • (5) She and her friends dress in bombachas de campo (baggy gaucho trousers), and congregate in the town plaza to drink mate (the traditional national drink, made from steeping dried leaves of yerba mate ).
  • (6) The Gaucho Martín Fierro, written by José Hernández in 1872 and 1879, is today considered the most beautiful of the original productions of the River Plate literature.
  • (7) Blood samples of a normal, blood group 0 individual and of a patient who exhibited methemoglobinemia after Loxosceles bite were incubated separately with antisera against Loxosceles gaucho, Crotalus terrificus, Bothrops jararaca, with Loxosceles gaucho venom and 0.3% phenol.
  • (8) Gel filtration on Sephadex G 100 of L. gaucho spider venom resulted in three fractions: fraction A, containing the higher mol.
  • (9) A search for IgG antibodies anti-Loxosceles gaucho venom in patients with loxoscelism submitted to serumtherapy showed antibodies in four out of 20 patients.
  • (10) Most especially, he gives vivid and pathetic shape to the myth of the gaucho in his context: the rural community in its early stages.
  • (11) According to Juan Manuel, Sol is a prime example of how Uruguayan gaucho culture is undergoing a revival.
  • (12) So if tango and gauchos belong as much to Uruguay's national identity as they do to its gigantic neighbour, what else has this tiny country been hiding?
  • (13) Immunoblotting tests showed that human anti-L. gaucho IgG antibodies recognize preferentially the components responsible for the dermonecrotic and lethal activities of the venom.
  • (14) Before then, there's a chance to refuel with a typical Panagea spread: hearty pasta, fainá (a thick pancake of chickpea flour and cheese), salad and galleta (a traditional gaucho's loaf of bread which looks like a concertina and lasts for a month).
  • (15) Porto Alegre is known throughout Brazil for its gauchos and rock music scene, with hyped alt-rockers Apanhador Só currently toast of the town.
  • (16) Gaucho Rasmussen, head of the OFT's goods and consumer group, said: "Retailers advertise bargains and discounts by referring to a previous or future higher price.
  • (17) I've come here as a complete beginner to learn how to ride, gaucho-style.
  • (18) Loxosceles gaucho spider venom causes a typical dermonecrotic lesion in bitten patients and rarely causes lethal systemic effects.
  • (19) Gauchos don't gallop unless there's a problem," Juan Manuel assures me, as we prepare to set off on horseback from his farmhouse in the deepest reaches of the Uruguayan interior.

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