What's the difference between dinosaur and feather?

Dinosaur


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) In 1868, Thomas Huxley suggested that Archaeopteryx was an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds.
  • (3) Fossil eggs attributable to dinosaur (probably prosauropod) parentage that have been recovered from the early Jurassic Elliot Formation sediments at the Rooidraai locality possess shells that are similar to those of birds and crocodilians, and distinctly unlike those of chelonians and gekkonids.
  • (4) A dinosaur bone was examined with the aim to demonstrate in it the presence of lipids and to determine their localization.
  • (5) Dinosaur embryos moved around inside their eggs and grew in much the same way as those of modern animals such as birds, say scientists who have examined more than 200 fossilised bones from 190m-year-old embryos found in China.
  • (6) It’s a dinosaur from the days of the fixed line telephone and the fax machine.
  • (7) On the ground beneath their feet lived salamanders, amphibians and plenty of mammals, including the badger-sized beast, repenomamus, which dined on dead dinosaurs.
  • (8) But the Sunday Mirror's Kevin O'Sullivan thought the whole episode was a "lacklustre affair", from the plot to the dinosaur and robots who made an appearance.
  • (9) He always had stereotypically male interests like soccer, karate and dinosaurs.
  • (10) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
  • (11) Steve Cole is best known as the ever-scribbling, slightly crazy author of the Astrosaurs book series – featuring dinosaurs in space – as well as Cows in Action and The Slime Squad.
  • (12) Although they have a distinctive training advantage in the emerging quality-driven industry over that of physician-M.B.A.s, most physician-attorneys have continued to use these skills in the reactionary world of litigation, which will rapidly go the way of the dinosaur in the 1990s.
  • (13) Dinosaurs disappeared in the Maastrichtian near the peak of their historic diversity.
  • (14) The kinds of details that such specimens can bring to questions of growth and development are most important for understanding dinosaur ecology and this baby, which clocks in at less than 6 feet (around 1.8 m) in total length, has a lot to tell us.
  • (15) The Masiakasaurus knopfleri, a theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period, was named after him in 2001.
  • (16) The Disney-owned studio which gave us Toy Story, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Up and Wall-E has already debuted the trailer for Inside Out , which arrives in June in US cinemas (24 July in the UK), while we’ve just been treated to some new concept art for November’s The Good Dinosaur .
  • (17) Dinosaurs actually have rings in their bones rather similar to those of trees and so you can take a sample of a bone, count the rings and work out the age of the individual at hand.
  • (18) Because the fossils, unearthed in north-eastern China , are older than previous discoveries of similar creatures, the find adds weight to the theory that birds descended from predatory dinosaurs.
  • (19) As the unveiling of a life-sized statue on Friday confirmed, Theco – full name Thecodontosaurus antiquus – is not the most spectacular of dinosaurs, measuring no bigger than a labrador dog.
  • (20) "People are aware of the extinction of the dinosaurs, but they don't know that we are currently experiencing a mass extinction of our crop diversity."

Feather


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
  • (n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
  • (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
  • (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
  • (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
  • (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
  • (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
  • (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
  • (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
  • (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
  • (v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  • (v. t.) To tread, as a cock.
  • (v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
  • (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
  • (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
  • (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
  • (2) Sexually mature males have long, 'feathered' tails as compared with females.
  • (3) HVT-specific immunofluorescent antigen was detected in the feather follicle epithelium (FFE) and in the surface layer of the skin epidermis.
  • (4) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
  • (5) The most consistently sensational evidence from Icac has been around former Labor member Eddie Obeid and the influence he wielded in the NSW Labor government to feather his own nest.
  • (6) However, feather loss (in one test) was associated with escape and avoidance behavior of groups; stepwise increases in fearfulness with increasing group size were associated with similar increases in loss of feathers.
  • (7) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
  • (8) If that effect existed in small animals, they would lose less heat if nude than if fur or feathers were present.
  • (9) Daily subcutaneous injection of L-dopa for 4 weeks into 2-year-old low egg production hens resulted in a lightening of feather color to snow white and increased oviduct and ovary weights and the development of well developed follicles.
  • (10) Hatched chicks were small and had pale feathers, skin, skeletal muscles, bone marrow, and viscera.
  • (11) During feather follicle formation, N-CAM was expressed in the dermal papilla and was closely apposed to the L-CAM-positive papillar ectoderm, while the dermal papilla showed no evidence of laminin or fibronectin.
  • (12) One hundred forty-two allergic children aged three to 18 years were studied for evaluation of the usefulness of skin testing with influenza vaccine as a means of identifying those children who could be immunized safely despite their allergies to chickens, eggs, or feathers.
  • (13) The Glasman "project" will undoubtedly ruffle feathers inside and outside Labour.
  • (14) Successful colonization and invasion of experimentally inoculated feathers required addition of moisture and elevation of relative humidity within the cultures.
  • (15) Injections of ovine prolactin during the pause-inducing procedure significantly reduced the subsequent rate of loss of primary wing feathers, suggesting that in certain physiological states, PRL may function to suppress molting.
  • (16) The endogenous virus, ev6, markedly reduced recovery of the endogenous virus (EV21) from plasmas of slow-feathering chickens.
  • (17) The very first collection we worked on together was called The Birds, and when he got the Givenchy job and we went to Paris, and he got to see what the Givenchy ateliers could do with feathers, he was just blown away.” The photographer Anne Deniau, who took many portraits of McQueen and whose camera was from 1997 to 2010 the only one allowed backstage at McQueen shows, felt that he loved “the lightness, the delicacy, of feathers.
  • (18) Retinal pigmented epithelium of White Leghorn chick embryos did not give rise to pigmentation of feather primordia in the hosts.
  • (19) The type of curve described by a feather is characteristic of its tensile properties and its degree of softness.
  • (20) Total amino acid flow to the duodenum was 19.3 and 15.6% higher for cows fed the feather meal and combined meal diets, respectively, compared with the soybean meal diet.