What's the difference between doings and social?

Doings


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Doing

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The author did not originally devise this new frame of reference to account for the observable 'doings' of one-celled organisms.
  • (2) But it is also possible that the government will have hatched a legislative strategy to minimise the possible disclosure of Charles’s doings and to make absolutely sure that the impact of today’s decision is decreased.
  • (3) "The Sunday Times has given me the freedom of speech over the last 46 years to criticise world leaders for what I see as their wrong-doings.
  • (4) But then the gothic, right from its nightmare beginnings, was about colonial anxiety and fears of what comes back to haunt from nefarious doings overseas.
  • (5) Walter Bagehot in 1867 described how the British constitution was divided into dignified and efficient parts, but now the dignified area has extended to many of the doings of Parliament, of embassies and of the boards of big companies.
  • (6) The fund managers at F&C call on banks "as a whole" to be accountable for "past transgressions" even when management has left after wrong-doings: "This means that regulatory or legal penalties should impact the incentive pool that is distributed to its executives."
  • (7) Yadier Molina’s 2006 Game Seven NLCS home run against the Mets - there’s more - a lot more, including Tony La Russa's devilish doings - it goes on and on and on.
  • (8) Conservative MPs arguing that Ukip's vote is all about a sudden surge of critical voter interest in the doings of Brussels ignore that their current leader has already taken a more stridently Eurosceptic line in word and deed than any prime minister in history, including withdrawing from the main centre-right party group in the European parliament; vetoing the EU treaty designed to deal with the eurozone crisis and promising an EU referendum in the next parliament.
  • (9) The righteous reaction will get stronger to smash the evil doings.” Some cybersecurity experts say they’ve found striking similarities between the code used in the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment and attacks blamed on North Korea that targeted South Korean companies and government agencies last year.
  • (10) This is nothing to do with exposing evil doings by the powerful, for which there are public interest exemptions.
  • (11) Given all this, it seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.
  • (12) Had regular strikers Bobby Zamora or Andrew Johnson been available, then Fulham would probably have done just that; it was unfortunate that both should have been ill. A minute's applause in memory of Blake Melbourne, a 14-year-old Albion academy player who lost his life to cancer recently, having put the Premier League and all its over-blown doings firmly into context, it was Fulham who began more brightly.
  • (13) The media, for reasons I have similarly yet to fathom, have an outsized interest in the doings of hipsters, even though they represent a tiny-to-the-point-of-non-existent proportion of the populace.

Social


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.
  • (a.) Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
  • (a.) Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
  • (a.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.
  • (a.) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
  • (a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (2) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (3) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (4) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (5) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
  • (6) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (7) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
  • (8) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
  • (9) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (10) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (11) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (12) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (13) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (14) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
  • (15) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
  • (16) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
  • (17) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (18) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
  • (19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
  • (20) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.

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