What's the difference between dragoon and pigeon?

Dragoon


Definition:

  • (n.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
  • (n.) A variety of pigeon.
  • (v. t.) To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
  • (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Strange memories will be triggered by North Korea’s stunningly effective fatwah against the Hollywood movie The Interview, in which James Franco and Seth Rogen play two dopey guys dragooned by the CIA into an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-un.
  • (2) Plenty of Tories had plainly been dragooned into supporting the Gove policy in the Gove absence.
  • (3) The soldier from the Light Dragoons cavalry regiment died on Saturday during an operation in the Nahri Saraj district of Helmand province.
  • (4) Historic regiments that have been spared include the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the Queen's Dragoon Guards, Royal Dragoon Guards, the Rifles and the Parachute Regiment.
  • (5) He joined the Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards because it was the same regiment as Lisa’s father.
  • (6) The Russians dragooned some 75,000 Latvians into their ranks, the Germans conscripted about 150,000.
  • (7) Sgt Maj Robert Mansel, 37, from Swansea, of 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards, lost comrades in earlier tours and is relieved to be returning from this one without any casualties.
  • (8) We appear to possess an almost limitless ability to sit back and watch as political life is seized by plutocrats; as the biosphere is trashed; as public services are killed or given to corporations; as workers are dragooned into zero-hours contracts.
  • (9) Our country has a phenomenal future and people are waking up to that.” “Whatever his merits as a former prime minister, this is the guy who would have taken our country into the euro, this is the guy who dragooned our country into the Iraq war on a completely false prospectus with consequences foreign ministers here [at the G20 summit] are still trying to deal with,” he said.
  • (10) Turnbull was in charge of the civil service at the start of the Iraq war: on his watch the evidence in the notorious dossier was used to dragoon public support.
  • (11) We're also going to see a return of Xbox title Phantom Dust, a card-based action strategy romp developed for the original Xbox by Panzer Dragoon creator, Yukio Futatsugi .
  • (12) The Ministry of Defence said 60 Light Dragoons, based at the Swanton Morley Army base in Norfolk, were helping with the effort.
  • (13) The Ministry of Defence said 60 Light Dragoons, based at the Swanton Morley Army base in Norfolk, were involved.
  • (14) Under the punitive regime of Iain Duncan Smith at the Department of Work and Pensions, hundreds of thousands are being dragooned to work for free, often for months at a time, for private companies, local authorities and charities.
  • (15) Confined to the classroom, stuffed with rules and facts, dragooned into endless tests: there could scarcely be a better formula for ensuring that they become bored and disaffected.
  • (16) • Historic regiments spared include the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the Queen's Dragoon Guards, Royal Dragoon Guards, the Rifles and the Parachute Regiment.
  • (17) Garland, from the Queen's Dragoon Guards, was in a coma for three and a half weeks and had half of his neck muscles removed but returned to work after nine months.
  • (18) The units represented are the Royal Gurkha Rifles, the Mercian Regiment, the Royal Dragoon Guards and the Parachute Regiment, and he also wears the army air corps tie.
  • (19) This man, a lieutenant colonel who was at the time commanding the Queen's Dragoon Guards, identified at the inquiry by the cipher SO09, said that he regarded what he saw to be both wrong and illegal.
  • (20) This strikes me as a rather patronising argument, this contention that Len McCluskey of Unite or Paul Kenny of the GMB will be able to dragoon individual trade unionists to all vote the same way.

Pigeon


Definition:

  • (n.) Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.
  • (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.
  • (v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the characteristics of pigeon atherosclerosis at other vascular sites have not been extensively studied.
  • (2) There are thus clear similarities in the overall pattern of somatosensory projections in the pigeon and in many mammalian species.
  • (3) The behavioral effects of phenytoin, phenobarbital, clonazepam, valproic acid, and ethosuximide were evaluated in food-deprived pigeons performing under automaintenance and negative automaintenance procedures.
  • (4) The pigeon's metapatagialis muscle consists of three slips, two twitch and one tonic, and these slips are distinguishable at the gross anatomical level.
  • (5) The gain of anterior SC primary afferents at 0.25 Hz is similar for anesthetized (2.93 I X s-1 X deg-1 X s-1, n = 14) (11) and for unanesthetized (3.01 I X s-1 X deg-1 X s-1, n = 14) pigeons.
  • (6) A series of seven experiments related amplitude and latency of the pigeon's startle response, elicited by an intense visual stimulus, to antecedent auditory and visual events in the sensory environment.
  • (7) Immunohistochemical techniques were used to survey the distribution of several conventional transmitters, receptors, and neuropeptides in the pigeon nucleus of the basal optic root (nBOR), a component of the accessory optic system.
  • (8) Immunoglobulin G (IgG), A (IgA) and M (IgM) antibody activity against pigeon serum was demonstrated in the patient's serum by a solid phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) technic.
  • (9) The activities of choline acetyltransferase and acetylcholinesterase were assayed in submicrogram samples from layers of pigeon retina.
  • (10) Erythrocytes from pigeons and 1-day-old chicks gave similar antigen and antibody titers, but goose erythrocytes gave lower titers.
  • (11) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
  • (12) The serratus metapatagialis (SMP) muscle of the pigeon has been studied histochemically and ultrastructurally.
  • (13) Pigeon Type I horizontal cells are Cajal's "brush-shaped" cells, and their axon terminals resemble Cajal's "stellate" cells.
  • (14) The mechanism of pyruvate-2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol (2,6-CPI) reductase reaction catalyzed by the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex from pigeon breast muscle and by its pyruvate dehydrogenase component was studied.
  • (15) Most of the time when we talk about pollution people think about Beijing or other places, but there are some days in the year when pollution was higher and more toxic in London than Beijing, that’s the reality.” He said he was inspired by the use of pigeons in the first and second world wars to deliver information and save lives, but they were also a practical way of taking mobile air quality readings and beating London’s congested roads.
  • (16) The local pigeon crop-sac assay was used to test the direct effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and several other growth factors and hormones on the growth of mucosal epithelial cells in vivo.
  • (17) Nine pigeons in a matching-to-sample task with 5 alternative stimuli were exposed to 4 dose levels of sodium pentobarbital.
  • (18) In pigeon liver, only purine nucleoside phosphorylase was increased but xanthine dehydrogenase activity was not detected after feeding a high protein diet, while both enzyme activities were increased in the pigeon kidney.
  • (19) The authors report an epizootic form of toxoplasmosis observed among the crowned pigeons (Goura cristata Pallas and Goura victoria Frazer).
  • (20) Pigeons are able to home from unfamiliar sites because they acquire an olfactory map extending beyond the area they have flown over.

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