What's the difference between dad and mummy?

Dad


Definition:

  • (n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
  • (2) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
  • (3) My dad had just died, and he was born on the very same day, in the very same year.
  • (4) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
  • (5) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … On looks alone, American Dad’s Stan Smith .
  • (6) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
  • (7) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
  • (8) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
  • (9) DADs may reach a magnitude in which extrinsic interventions may not adequately terminate sustained triggered activity.
  • (10) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
  • (11) Multivariate techniques for LC-DAD data are shown to suffer from inherent limitations of sensitivity for the minor components.
  • (12) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
  • (13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
  • (14) "It's made him more real, more of a person for me, whereas when I was a little girl I would say to my friends 'My dad died in the war' but it didn't mean anything to me because I never knew him.
  • (15) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
  • (16) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
  • (17) "But my dad ran a furniture business, which he lost at the time of the Great Recession before dying of a brain haemorrhage," he says.
  • (18) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
  • (19) Throughout his life, Dad observed the rule that profanity – effing and blinding as he called it – should be confined to workplaces and other all-male venues where men gathered outside the earshot of women and children.
  • (20) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.

Mummy


Definition:

  • (n.) A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction.
  • (n.) Dried flesh of a mummy.
  • (n.) A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.
  • (n.) A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).
  • (n.) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
  • (n.) One whose affections and energies are withered.
  • (v. t.) To embalm; to mummify.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Structures resembling red blood cells have been seen in mummies, but have been considered by some to be artifacts or molds.
  • (2) Three beautifully restored mummy portraits of well-off young people who were, 2,000 years ago, probably members of a mysterious group called "the 6475" are to go on display at the new home for one of the most important Egyptian collections in the world.
  • (3) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
  • (4) "It is not by any means the end of the road because the technology is moving on rapidly all the time, and we're hoping in the next few years we'll be able to continue scanning more mummies and revealing more remarkable facts."
  • (5) Three Pharaonic mummies, preserved for thousand of years, had fiberoptic endoscopy carried out of the cranial, thoracic and abdominal cavities.
  • (6) No cases of this disease have been seen in Peruvian mummies while in Chile it seems quite common, suggesting some environmental factor in the etiology.
  • (7) There are still disputes over mummy portraits, for example whether they were done while the subjects were alive or after they were dead, as part of the 70-day mummification process.
  • (8) The bile acids of the gall bladder and hepatic tissue of a 3200-year-old Egyptian mummy were isolated by thin-layer chromatography and identified by combined gas-liquid chromatrography and mass spectrometry.
  • (9) Common issues also included the books being of poor quality, getting basic facts wrong (such as referring to same-sex adopters as mummy and daddy) or being completed by someone who had never met the child.
  • (10) One female mummy is displayed with a translation of an offering inscription, which visitors will be invited to recite to ensure her food supply in the next world.
  • (11) It is worthwhile to note the suggestive role of mummy cells in pathological diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease.
  • (12) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
  • (13) A 500-year-old mummy of a seven-month-old Eskimo infant recently removed from a tomb north of Umanak presented problems of preservation.
  • (14) The museum has been x-raying mummies since the 1960s but, as the technology has improved, the results have dramatically improved.
  • (15) The ancient cultures of Babylon, Jericho, and Egypt used "art-eyes" in mummies, sarcophagus lids, and statues; they were made from precious stones, silver, gold, and copper as a symbol of light and life in their religious beliefs.
  • (16) The second mummy was a 18-year-old young woman, 800-700 b. C. From the inscriptions on the sarcophagus name, family and living circumstances could be found.
  • (17) Taylor hopes even more secrets will be revealed in years to come, including being able to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects inside the mummies.
  • (18) Recently I've just been at home enjoying being a mummy, but it's been nine months now and I'm slowly getting ready to return to work.
  • (19) 17.42 Julie : Mummy, tell the police they must be quick.
  • (20) Zoe Dronfield set up a support group, I want my Mummy (IWMM), after her abusive ex-partner was given emergency custody of their child.

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