What's the difference between crow and daw?

Crow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
  • (v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
  • (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
  • (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
  • (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
  • (v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
  • (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
  • (2) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (3) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
  • (4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
  • (5) When these studies are reviewed in the light of Crow's "two-syndrome" paradigm of schizophrenia, a new trend emerges.
  • (6) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
  • (7) The genetic evidence is reviewed concerning 'traditional' clinical subtypes as more novel categories derived from multivariate statistical methods and Crow's type I-type II classification.
  • (8) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
  • (9) Intracytoplasmic, rod-shaped and eosinophilic inclusions were recognized only in Purkinje cells in a case of Crow-Fukase syndrome.
  • (10) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
  • (11) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
  • (12) And as Crow demonstrated, militancy may not guarantee success – but passivity will asphyxiate unions when the workforce needs them to be stronger than ever.
  • (13) We felt blessed,” said Rebecca, pulling out another family picture in which a smiling Sarah leans her head against her mother’s shoulder, her younger siblings crowing around them.
  • (14) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
  • (15) Oh, and Tony Benn and Bob Crow, when they were alive.
  • (16) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
  • (17) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
  • (18) In contrast, in the adults melatonin caused more than a two-fold increase in E in the pigeon, and a significant increase in the crow.
  • (19) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
  • (20) Some of his well-paid members, such as drivers, queried why the union should concern itself with these lower-paid workers whose lack of job security meant they were far more difficult to reach and retain in the union, but Crow, true to his principles, always argued in favour of supporting them.

Daw


Definition:

  • (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
  • (v. i.) To dawn.
  • (v. t.) To rouse.
  • (v. t.) To daunt; to terrify.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The heavy chain of a pathological immunoglobulin G (Daw) of type L, subclass gamma(2b) (We) and Gm(a+)(f-), has been cleaved with cyanogen bromide.
  • (2) Daw Suu has her critics, and not only among ex-generals.
  • (3) But Dawe said that Ofqual's proposals to retain GCSE maths exams split into two tiers – with an easier "foundation" level paper and a harder "higher" paper – were likely to be counterproductive.
  • (4) Mark Dawe, head of the OCR exam board, said the proposals for maths were "nothing short of a quantum leap for teachers".
  • (5) Julie Dawes, interim chief executive of Southern Health said : “ I express again our apologies to the patient involved, and the patient’s family.
  • (6) Burma's most renowned female writer, Ludu Daw Ahmar, is also outspoken against the regime.
  • (7) Daw Suu Kyi is the leader and is the one with the primary responsibility to lead, and lead with courage, humanity and compassion.” ‘It will blow up’: fears Myanmar's deadly crackdown on Muslims will spiral out of control Read more Nobel peace laureates who signed the letter include Jose Ramos-Horta , former president of East Timor, and Yemeni opposition activist Tawakul Karman .
  • (8) Mark Dawe, chief executive of the OCR exam board, said universities had made it clear they wanted students with qualifications in science and maths.
  • (9) Dawes (1986) has stated that, "The difference between high and low voltage activity depends solely on the presence in the latter of higher amplitude oscillations with relatively low frequency superimposed on the low voltage components as shown by spectral analysis".
  • (10) The standard scores of the Chinese children averaged 118 in the DAM and 112 in the DAW tests.
  • (11) The patches were spotted last summer, but the conclusions have just been detailed in a report by Daw and other English Heritage staff published in the latest edition of the journal Antiquity .
  • (12) Numerous articles and newspaper editorials had, excitedly, touched on the fairytale of a Burmese Mandela moment: the country’s most popular politician, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, assuming the highest office after years of relentless persecution, heroic perseverance and noble reconciliation.
  • (13) Mark Dawe, a former chief executive of the OCR examination board, disagreed with the committee’s conclusion.
  • (14) Last year, 41 patients with rabies were sent to Yangon General Hospital, the biggest in the city, according to its deputy medical superintendent Daw Khin Than Mon.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It’s a complete cultural cross section of Yangon in one building.’ Daw Khin May Lin’s family of 13 live in one room in Turquoise Mountain.
  • (16) Tim Daw, who helps to maintain the site, noticed that the patches matched spots where missing stones may have stood, making Stonehenge a full circle.
  • (17) Daw Suu can convince them,” he said, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi with an honorific.
  • (18) These values were about half the values of those parameters in adults (Lagerlöf and Dawes, 1985), and insertion in the computer program (Dawes, 1983) of these values suggested that sugar clearance in the five-year-old children would be slightly faster than in adults.
  • (19) With every new building bidding for the best view of the Shwedagon Pagoda, we’re not going to have any views left,” says Daw Moe Moe Lwin, director of the Yangon Heritage Trust (YHT), a campaign group founded in 2012 by architects and historians keen to save south-east Asia’s last surviving colonial core.
  • (20) The amino acid composition of SpA-binding protein did not show structural homology with that of human IgG1 heavy chain (Daw), which also binds SpA.

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