(n.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eventually he just voiced roles, as with the Dodo Bird in the same director's Alice in Wonderland film last year, but always to striking effect.
(2) Larry Kestelman, who scooped up around £100m from the sale of his telecoms company, Dodo, in March is aiming for Newsmodo to leverage the growing number of media outlets that need professional content.
(3) But, like many other such proposals, it is a dodo, and one that is potentially politically dangerous.
(4) Under a blood red sky, a crowd has gathered in black and white ... (to watch a 42 inch flatscreen in HD) Elsewhere on New Year's Day, David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive, in which Attenborough spent some screen time with dinosaurs and a dodo, began its 3D voyage with an average of 583,000 viewers, a 2.4% share, between 6.30pm and 8pm on Sky1.
(5) He had a short stint in politics as the director of communications for an atheist group called Enlighten the Vote , and he co-authored a well-received book mocking creationism, Flock of Dodos , which the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz compared to works by celebrated authors Thomas Paine and Mark Twain.
(6) In particular, the perennial interpretation of past psychotherapy meta-analyses that therapeutic orientation makes no difference to outcome--or as the dodo bird put it: "Everyone has won and all must have prizes"--may be wrong.
(7) His critic pleaded for "this whole sorry saga to go the way of the dodo", while other Fry fans beseeched him not pull the plug on his tweets, prompting Fry into a change of heart.
(8) Whether this is the result of impenetrable stupidity, dodo-like foresight, monumental incompetence, the cynical realisation that they will be booted out in 2015 anyway so might as well inflict as much damage as possible or a combination of all the above, I have not yet decided.
(9) We have already let the dodo die out, we can't and mustn't let this happen to a people and their culture."
(10) To me, it’s dead as a dodo.” Mundine, who heads the Indigenous Advisory Council, said some outspoken members of the Coalition were pushing for the changes but the rest of the government was happy to let the matter rest.
(11) Everywhere you look, things made from it are going the way of the dodo.
Doo
Definition:
(n.) A dove.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now they’re having to downsize, changing cities and dispose of all their toys, like their big trucks and Ski-doos, but nobody wants to buy that stuff because they can’t afford it either.” “It’s very depressing,” says Seibel, who’s still unemployed despite sending several hundreds of resumes, including to McDonalds, where he was told he was overqualified.
(2) For what it’s worth, I thought of Sadness and Joy as like Velma and Daphne from Scooby Doo , of equal importance in the long run.
(3) Complex in the details (the fact that many companies have been operating DOO for more than a decade; the technology used; the laws being cited by Southern in the hope of outlawing the strikes) and simple in the principle – scrapping guards on large trains is unsafe for passengers, says Aslef , and puts drivers under extreme pressure.
(4) In 100 of these cases DOOS and creatinine were measured.
(5) But there is arguably nothing on either list to rival the yuck factor of one of last year's crop – the Doggie Doo , a plastic dog that poos out plasticine.
(6) The Orbit is a landmark, an icon, a thing, a doo-dad, a wotsit.
(7) She denied being homophobic or racist, and said she was against taking drugs, insisting that a reference on Twitter to making "hash brownies" was from a Scooby Doo film.
(8) Both unions agreed to oppose any more driver-only operated (DOO) trains , which threaten jobs for conductors and which drivers believe makes passengers, and themselves, less safe.
(9) The nicknames have helped build his "regular guy" image, but Pootie-Poot sounds more like a throwback to the preppy vocabulary of his father, who was famous for such phrases as "I'm in deep doo-doo".
(10) You press a button, and the bookcase opens, like in Scooby-Doo.
(11) (Monday was reserved for that Scooby-Doo road trip which garnered much – and largely favorable – publicity, Chipotle surveillance footage and all .)
(12) Asiana President Yoon Young-doo arrived in San Francisco from South Korea on Tuesday morning, fighting his way through a pack of journalists outside customs.
(13) Age had an effect on DOOS, creatinine and their ratio.
(14) But Pak Doo Ik looked in fine shape as he wandered through Westminster yesterday, stop ping momentarily in front of a portrait of Tony Benn to ask if he had ever been mayor of Middlesbrough.
(15) In hit recordings such as Poison Love , Cryin' Heart Blues and Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight, they spiced country music's plain cooking with exotic dashes of Latin American music and black doo‑wop vocalising, yet for a decade they were valued cast members of the conservative Grand Ole Opry.
(16) Before that, his teenage band the Jades had released two entirely unexceptional doo-wop tracks in 1958 and two years later he had chanced his arm as a solo singer, recording in the perky, post-rock'n'roll style that predominated in pre-Beatles America.
(17) In August last year Turner Broadcasting moved to edit out scenes where smoking appeared to be condoned from 1,700 episodes of Hanna Barbera cartoons including Tom & Jerry, Scooby Doo, the Jetsons and the Flintstones.
(18) You know, I was Tory darling for a day, whoopi-doo, but that was it.
(19) Photograph: Sam Frost The Marvel character Thor can be spotted at Stonehenge in a story called Day of the Deadly Druid and both Scooby-Doo and Xena: Warrior Princess have also cavorted around cartoon versions of the monument.
(20) A semiautomated method is described for the determination of total 11-deoxy-17-oxo-steroids (11-DOOS: androsterone, etiocholanolone plus dehydroepiandrosterone) in urine.