What's the difference between daze and zinger?

Daze


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
  • (n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
  • (n.) A glittering stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (2) "We're not really here," read John Reid's T-shirt, quoting a City song from the difficult years, as he stood in a daze in Albert Square listening to Oasis blast out from the speakers.
  • (3) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.
  • (4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
  • (5) "Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis," Murray said afterwards, still in something of a daze a good half hour after the final point.
  • (6) He was also forced to scrap plans to launch a Russian Dazed & Confused, which was due to appear in March or September this year.
  • (7) But the most worrying thing about the shadow cabinet is that few have the stature to challenge the leader if he does make mistakes, as all leaders do; some are so green they’ll merely be thrilled to have a job, others too dazed by defeat.
  • (8) Gagarin Way, Gregory Burke's first play in 2001, was phenomenal; I reeled from the Traverse theatre in a daze of admiration.
  • (9) Still bloodied and dazed, Karen must hand over her baby and be led outside.
  • (10) His elbow to the head of Joe Cole left the Chelsea midfielder so bloodied and dazed that he had to be replaced by Jermaine Jenas.
  • (11) The magazine's dazed New York lawyers then heard Eady instruct the jurors that they were not there "to judge Mr Polanski's personal lifestyle" because the libel court was not "a court of morals".
  • (12) Dazed survivors stand immobile in a huge, roiling cloud of dust.
  • (13) I saw this when I spoke with men and women at the very start of their journey – dazed and battered from the drive across the desert border with Niger but filled with a naive optimism.
  • (14) The city centre ground to a halt as rescuers pulled bloodied corpses from the rubble and dazed, dust-covered survivors stumbled away.
  • (15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
  • (16) They were carried or staggered ashore, some paralysed by malnutrition, others little more than walking skeletons, burnt and dazed from weeks at sea on boats the UN has called “floating coffins”.
  • (17) He sat up, looked round, said 'I just want to go home', dazed shocked."
  • (18) Dazed from the fumes, I walked smack into an older gentleman only to realise it was, in fact, Bill Murray.
  • (19) Frank Lampard had spoken of the game passing in "all a bit of a daze", with team-mates left to pick over the drama to recreate the timeline: conceding to Sergio Busquets; losing John Terry to a red card; falling further behind to Andrés Iniesta; Ramires's glorious riposte; Lionel Messi's penalty miss; the quivering of the woodwork as they heaved to contain the holders; the desperate rearguard action before Fernando Torres, the £50m goalscorer with so few goals to his name, sprinted alone into Barça territory and equalised in stoppage time.
  • (20) A week later, he was found wandering in a daze some distance behind the front line.

Zinger


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
  • (2) "Trickle down government ... is not the answer for America," is obviously one of the famous Mitt Romney Zingers that we have promised.
  • (3) Still, Farage poses a few rhetorical questions and, as he seems to seek rational discussion instead of comic zingers, so I am happy to answer them here seriously.
  • (4) You decided to stay home and that’s OK.” But Clinton had a zinger up her sleeve: “I think Donald just criticised me for preparing for this debate.
  • (5) Although this zinger owes its origins to the fact that Thatcher's gag-writer, Sir Ronald Millar, happened to be a dramatist of the Fry generation, he could expect that the reference would be understood by a significant proportion of the press and the electorate.
  • (6) He started telling his own variation on the classic in March 2014, and today he delivered his own zinger: Ta-da!
  • (7) In a tetchy BBC Question Time encounter with Ukip’s Nigel Farage , it was Brand who produced the zinger, with the jibe that his opponent was “a pound-shop Enoch Powell ”.
  • (8) The story of the Grantham family has reached 1924, and, according to Mrs Hughes, “Downton is catching up with the times we live in.” “That is exactly what I’m afraid of,” replies Carson, suggesting yet more resistance to impending modernity – which, of course, means plenty of opportunity for baffled zingers from the Dowager Countess.
  • (9) It’s about a set of principles.” He acknowledged his shortcomings, however, by running through the long list of advice he has received of late: some stylistic, like removing his glasses or changing his tie, and some more strategic: “Nail that zinger.
  • (10) That latter detail unfortunately undermined some of the hilarity of the Snapchat zinger, since complying with a law enforcement directive about which you really have no choice isn’t really that funny.
  • (11) He saves a zinger for the planted follow us, accusing the ALP of " inter generational theft " 5.14am BST Abbott's third motion of indulgence to acknowledge the death of Paul Ramsay who is described as the creator of a "mighty business empire, but he never lost his soul".
  • (12) They had seen him, heard the zingers, taken a picture or two, and now they were heading to the parking lot, to get a head start on the traffic.
  • (13) You can focus on how things look and how they played and who won the zinger-off rather than on the underlying issues.
  • (14) Glenn looks pleased until Hollywood hits him with an under-baked zinger.
  • (15) As the candidates deliver their zingers, you can take their words and create your own debate lines.
  • (16) Updated at 8.38am GMT 8.32am GMT First set: Djokovic 1-1 Wawrinka* (*denotes server) Wawrinka starts with a 217km ace, followed by a zinger that Djokovic connects with but can't control.
  • (17) Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) Romney walked into that pension zinger.
  • (18) Obama: While the president generally struggled to get his "zingers" across, over-larding them with too much detail, he did get in a pithy dig about Romney's vague budget proposals which he claimed didn't add up.
  • (19) Updated at 8.07pm BST 8.00pm BST The Guardian will be live blogging tonight's debate, starting in a few hours, at which point we will subject you to, among others, these shady characters: Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) "Can I use my zinger now?"
  • (20) Clearly, the early word that Romney would offer "zingers" was a misdirection, as he avoided most cutesy or canned lines.