What's the difference between cowboy and independent?

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.

Independent


Definition:

  • (a.) Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.
  • (a.) Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.
  • (a.) Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.
  • (a.) Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.
  • (a.) Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
  • (a.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.
  • (a.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.
  • (a.) Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.
  • (n.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.
  • (n.) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
  • (2) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
  • (3) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
  • (4) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
  • (5) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
  • (6) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (7) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (8) Effects of OT injection and OT application were independent.
  • (9) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
  • (10) However, empty shells can also form independently of intact virions.
  • (11) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
  • (12) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
  • (13) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
  • (14) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
  • (15) In particular, inflammatory reaction was significantly more frequent and severe in ischemic groups than in controls, independent of the degree of coronary stenosis.
  • (16) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
  • (17) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
  • (18) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
  • (19) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
  • (20) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.