What's the difference between dingo and dog?

Dingo


Definition:

  • (n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have found that domestic dogs and dingoes are monomorphic for the same electrophoretic alleles at a further 15 loci, and polymorphic for the same alleles at a 30th locus.
  • (2) Polymerase chain reaction, in combination with direct DNA sequencing, was used to compare DNA from cysts and adult worms from dingoes.
  • (3) This article describes an investigation of inter- and intraspecific variation in three small populations of wild Canidae-wolf, coyote, and dingo.
  • (4) Photograph: Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd He didn't even have a skin to help with the dingo, and produced an adorably fluffy and very un-wild looking dog.
  • (5) Surely these latter institutions are of more cultural value to you than naive treatments of kangaroo with a mouse's head and a dingo that looks like a fox in wolf's clothing.
  • (6) The kangaroo and the dingo were exhibited at the Society of Artists in London, and Banks's own portrait by Joshua Reynolds was shown at the Royal Academy.
  • (7) During lactation, female rodents, dingoes, and kangaroos consume urine and feces excreted by the young.
  • (8) The family Canidae serologically may be divided into two main groups: 1) the genus Canis which includes the wolf, domestic dog, dingo, jackal and 2) species which significantly differ from the former (the fox, polar fox, dog fox, fennec).
  • (9) Stubbs had even less to go on for the dingo, which is no doubt why Portrait of a Large Dog looks more like something you might enter for Crufts than a feral beast from the outback.
  • (10) On the south western Downs, where sheep-farming predominates, the prevalence in cattle was much lower, probably because of fewer dingoes.
  • (11) Twenty-four had dingoes and wallabies but only 8 had feral pigs.
  • (12) No significant differences were found in any of the parameters studied except the enzyme level of NADH-MR which was significantly lower in dingoes (P less than 0.05).
  • (13) Also, 50 intestinal tracts from dingoes from southern Queensland were examined between October 1981 and November 1983.
  • (14) "The dingo looks like it is about to pounce on something; it has a hard stare, so maybe that's what Stubbs was trying to get across."
  • (15) The saved items included two George Stubbs paintings, including the first depictions of a kangaroo and a dingo in Western art, and maps of Hampton Court.
  • (16) Small foci of the domestic strain of E. granulosus may be maintained in a cycle involving dingoes, macropods and possibly feral pigs in cattle raising areas of coastal Queensland.
  • (17) I can take or leave the Maritime Museum's argument that the pictures belong with a portrait of Cook by Nathaniel Dance commissioned by Stubbs and memorabilia from the Endeavour voyage, and understand Aussie irritation at the somewhat dingo-in-a-manger attitude of the Brits who didn't seem to care much about the paintings when they were in private collections, but were suddenly jumping up and down as soon as it looked like they might be on their way to Canberra.
  • (18) "We predict that Wallaby will find an amazing 600,000 new galaxies and Dingo 100,000, spread over trillions of cubic light years of space."
  • (19) The sylvatic strain of E. granulosus was found in 36 dingoes, the Australian mainland domestic strain in 4, and a further 5 dingoes were infected but the strain was not identified.
  • (20) The strain of E. granulosus in both patients was genetically indistinguishable from that found in macropods, dingoes and sheep from New South Wales and the United Kingdom.

Dog


Definition:

  • (n.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
  • (n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
  • (n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
  • (n.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
  • (n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
  • (n.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
  • (n.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
  • (n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
  • (v. t.) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
  • (2) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (3) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (5) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
  • (6) For similar inotropic responses, normo- and hyperkalaemic dogs had similar levels of (Na+, K+)-ATPase inhibition and microsomal-bound digoxin.
  • (7) Complete heart block was produced in 20 of 20 dogs.
  • (8) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
  • (9) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (10) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
  • (11) From the present results it is concluded that secretion of extrapancreatic glucagon increased in response to arginine infusion in the diabetic state, both alloxan diabetic dogs and one-week post-pancreatectomized dogs.
  • (12) The effect of pO(2) was studied in a further nine dogs.
  • (13) The effects of tachycardia caused by ectopic right or left ventricular stimulation on ventricular recovery potentials were studied in 30 dogs.
  • (14) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
  • (15) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
  • (16) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
  • (17) Liver bloodflow remained unchanged in AS dogs, but hepatic alanine uptake nearly tripled (p less than 0.01) and hepatic glucose production increased by 60% (p less than 0.05).
  • (18) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
  • (19) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
  • (20) Temelastine produces these species-specific changes by enhancing thyroxine clearance from the circulation in the rat, but not in the dog or mouse.

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