What's the difference between earthing and earthling?
Earthing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Earth
Example Sentences:
(1) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
(2) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(4) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(5) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
(6) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
(7) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
(8) Its first two features, Earth and Oceans , together took nearly $200m worldwide.
(9) How on earth do you follow a 5-1 victory over Spain ?
(10) The Rio+ 20 Earth summit could collapse after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest UN summit ever organised, WWF warned on Wednesday.
(11) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(12) Alternatively, they were provided with a small foveal target, either fixed with respect to earth (earth-fixed target: EFT condition), or moving with them (chair-fixed-target: CFT condition).
(13) For a start, why on earth was Platini being paid in February 2011 for work he did at Fifa, as Blatter’s special advisor, which finished nine years earlier?
(14) Dr Michael P. Taylor is a computer programmer with Index Data and a research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol
(15) "Astronauts have said that you step off the Earth and look back and you see things differently.
(16) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
(17) Yasuni is among the most biodiverse regions on Earth, with each hectare containing more tree species than the US and Canada combined.
(18) In front of his family, friends and close colleagues stood the man who founded Apple, was fired from Apple and came back to lead Apple to a greatness, reach and influence that no one on earth imagined.
(19) It's not Greenpeace , it's not Friends of the Earth , it's not, for the most part, the Sierra Club .
(20) Two dogs, Dezik and Tsygan, survived a sub-orbital flight after their capsule parachuted them back to earth.
Earthling
Definition:
(n.) An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1997 he arranged an ambitious live ‘cybercast’ of his Earthling concert in Boston – although the limits of internet access at the time meant that capacity was quickly reached, and most viewers received only stuttering images and error messages.
(2) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
(3) 11.04am BST So Costa Rica has certainly endeared itself to the its fellow Earthlings throughout this World Cup, speaking its people's reputation as a happy, dignified and talented bunch.
(4) Outside (1995) found him reunited with Eno and was another commercial success, despite its laborious concept and clumsy adoption of grungy, industrial sounds, while Earthling (1997) borrowed elements of the drum’n’bass style practised by such UK artists as Goldie and Asian Dub Foundation.
(5) We're earthlings – Europeans, in fact – and the preservation of our language is something we care deeply about.
(6) The other Pythons are being lined up to voice the roles of a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything".
(7) But while astronomers believe that it "probably" also possesses water and land, earthlings secretly harbouring hopes that such a planet could potentially host new colonies from our own increasingly overpopulated home may be in for a disappointment.
(8) The experience of being in space is magnificent," he says, "but only in the context of being an Earthling and knowing that you’re coming back to Earth."
(9) Not surprisingly, when the moonwalkers returned to earth, many earthlings asked this very same question.
(10) The absolute necessity of the bedroom tax, for example, has never been explained to any earthling using ordinary words.
(11) The artist also promised further exclusive tracks and webcasts, including footage from the Earthling tour.
(12) It's a little bit Minecraft, in the way you craft buildings from raw materials, with elements of city-building and resource management games added on as you build a space-base, complete Earthling-rescuing missions and play and chat with friends online.