What's the difference between dreamer and mooncalf?
Dreamer
Definition:
(n.) One who dreams.
(n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
(2) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
(3) The two-year institution’s enrollment includes about 1,200 so-called Dreamers – undocumented students who were brought to the US illegally by their parents.
(4) If you are a DREAMER, immigration rights experts are suggesting that you do not apply for a temporary work permit if you don’t already have one as it could open up undocumented young people to possible deportation under a Trump administration.
(5) Three judges attempted to sort randomly selected dreams of normal college students and schizophrenic patients according to dreamer, night of occurrence, and sequential order within a night.
(6) As a sport, we mourn for Kirsty and remember her great contribution to swimming and the Loxton community.” Boden was a keen traveller and said she was “just your average dreamer, with a full-time job and a constant longing to go where I haven’t been”.
(7) The various forms that these dreams take and their characteristic thematic content were described for 154 dreams by 60 dreamers.
(8) Significant differences were found between the two groups, with eating-disordered women having more dream scenarios depicting themes of: impending doom at the end of the dream, attitudes of 'whatever I do I won't succeed', and images of the dreamer being attacked, and being watched.
(9) In dreams in which the dreamer was either the aggressor or victim, dreamers from the East coast were more likely to be the aggressor than those from the Midwest and West coast.
(10) He's a dreamer with a tendency to be unrealistic about things, which is a great quality for a director but less useful when it comes to crossing the road.
(11) "By GOD," Hilary gasps in episode one, possibly realising she has signed up for months of sitting in this dusty 90s hellhole with Perfect Peter Jones and know-it-all Theo having to entertain a dismal tribe of jabberers, snake-oil salesmen, "mumpreneurs" and emotionally adrift dreamers who researchers found in mid-afternoon Wetherspoons.
(12) An attempt is made to show how personal concerns of the dreamers are mediated through the culturally shared idiom of the saint.
(13) It was these motley collections of dreamers and bean-counters who began constructing massive, complex systems for seemingly private communication inside games.
(14) He also contends that the president’s deferral of deportations of young people who were brought to the US as children illegally by their parents – known as Dreamers – has acted as a magnet for illegal migrants.
(15) A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory.
(16) She has played middling singers and capricious interns, dancers, dreamers and damsels in distress, and she has done so with such ease and abandon that the actor and her alter egos have a tendency to blur.
(17) Being able to make something physical makes an individual’s experience of being a fan unique,” says Erin Fae, a 33-year-old New Yorker who recently published the 96-page Mess of a Dreamer: A Taylor Swift Fanzine .
(18) Apart from wish fulfillment attributed to its content by Freud himself, this dream contains themes of the dreamer's creativity and points out the developmental state of psychoanalysis existing at that time.
(19) Most of the dreamers and visionaries had been shot in 1916, and a more pragmatic and conservative leadership concentrated totally on the nationalist goal of separation from the UK.
(20) It's known from the construction of one of Babbage's simpler machines, The Difference Engine No 2 , that he was no foolish dreamer.
Mooncalf
Definition:
(n.) A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.