(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.
Phoenix
Definition:
(n.) Same as Phenix.
(n.) A genus of palms including the date tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phoenix will next be seen in James Gray's Lowlife, a historical drama about immigrants in 1900s New York.
(2) Fines’ best actor nod fell in the comedy movie category, which he shared with Michael Keaton in Birdman, Bill Murray in St. Vincent, Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice and Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes.
(3) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
(4) The needles were from a commonly grown palm, Phoenix canariensis.
(5) SUNS 104, TIMBERWOLVES 95 In Phoenix, Grant Hill scored 15 of his season-best 20 points in the second half as Phoenix pulled away to beat weary Minnesota.
(6) Stanton had come, along with a senior representative of BP, to address the people of Phoenix, a small community on the east bank of the Mississippi.
(7) It was found that controlled studies are few in number and available only for correctional institutions, not for Daytop, Synanon, or Phoenix House.
(8) Phoenix is also said to be considering a role in Gus van Sant's next film, Sea of Trees , which would tally more closely with his recent career trajectory.
(9) He would like to have $10m a year to charter a new boat, a 45-knot Australian-built catamaran ferry named HSV-2 Swift, which is two and half times the size of the Phoenix.
(10) All jokes aside, we hope his music’s an art project along the lines of Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here, otherwise it’s just embarrassing.
(11) For example, Phoenix Community Housing, a housing association in Lewisham, south-east London, retains only a small proportion of the proceeds from each right-to-buy sale under current legislation.
(12) Her agent, Max Eisenbud, confirmed on Thursday that the former British No1 will play in two ITF $25,000 tournaments, in Surprise, near Phoenix, Arizona from 16 February, then Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, the following week.
(13) Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: “We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.” Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013 , where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system.
(14) A systematic evaluation comparing the hand-pumped device with a new, pneumatic external pressure device (Infusor-1, Medical Innovations, Inc., Phoenix, AZ) is presented.
(15) In the Boston, Buffalo, Dallas, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, Phoenix, and Washington, DC, areas cocaine-related ER episodes decreased for at least the last two consecutive semiannual periods.
(16) Flagstaff in Arizona had 11 inches of snow early Sunday, while metro Phoenix and other parts of central Arizona were drenched with several inches of rain, causing the cancellation of sporting events and parades.
(17) Yes, because my mum was out with Phoenix, shopping, and I didn’t want to shock her.
(18) Observations at the urban site were compared with similar measurements at nearby non-urban sites and with the results of studies at two larger cities in the desert southwest, Phoenix and Tucson, AZ.
(19) The Australian Skills Quality Authority announced on Tuesday it had decided to cancel Phoenix’s registration as a provider of VET services, a move the ACN plans to challenge in the administrative appeals tribunal.
(20) Nobody does inner turmoil better than Phoenix, who's excelled at angst ever since his troubled teen in 1989's Parenthood, and he's exceptional in Her.