What's the difference between earthing and farthing?
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.
Farthing
Definition:
(n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
(n.) A very small quantity or value.
(n.) A division of land.
Example Sentences:
(1) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
(2) valedemoses.com B £ Wellbeing in the raw, North Yorkshire Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: PR The women-only Healthily Happy Retreat, led by raw food expert Dr Claire Maguire at Split Farthing Hall, the 18th-century countryside base of Raw Horizons , mixes a daily 90-minute class of kundalini yoga with two daily 90-minute sessions covering wellbeing coaching, chakra balancing, aromatherapy and healthy chocolate-making.
(3) The one at Blists Mill, part of the Ironbridge Gorge world heritage site in Shropshire, lets children pay in Victorian shillings and farthings (which you can get in the bank on arrival).
(4) Michael Farthing: 'I celebrate our active student body' Read more “Group work came up time and time again as a problem,” he says.
(5) She is being treated by the Queen's current surgeon-gynaecologist, Alan Farthing, and his predecessor, Marcus Setchell.
(6) On 5 August 1878, the Bicycle Touring Club – one of Britain's first cycling clubs – was formed inside the pub when a Scotsman called Stanley Cotterell pedalled his penny farthing all the way from Edinburgh to meet like-minded "velocipede enthusiasts" from around the UK.
(7) Barrow, who also pressed by another Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, to say whether the UK would pay “a brass farthing” to the EU, replied that a recent Lords committee report asserting there was no legal need to pay any exit fee to the EU was “very helpful and had been noticed in Brussels”.
(8) Clearly customers need to take advice, but millennials are not going to take kindly to the authorities using a law that pre-dates the penny-farthing to tell them what they can or can’t do on the streets of Britain”.
(9) "Direct response television campaigns such as the one featuring baby Miles in a cot, that clearly and simply state the problem of child abuse and the need for people to donate in a clear and powerful way, have been proven to resonate most with our donors," Farthing says.
(10) Whistler won, but was awarded risible damages of one farthing.
(11) But director of fundraising Paul Farthing says the charity has tested a range of approaches and advertising styles for television and its observations are conclusive.
(12) Sophie Farthing from the civil rights pressure group Liberty said the recommendations appeared "very strong".
(13) Walsh added: "The boys in the band didn't receive a farthing, the Christian Brothers pocketed the money.
(14) In 1961, the farthing ceased to be legal tender in the UK.
(15) Also in attendance were Marcus Setchell, the Queen's former gynaecologist, who delivered both the Earl and Countess of Wessex's children, and also performed the Duchess of Cornwall's hysterectomy, and Alan Farthing, the current Queen's gynaecologist.
(16) The high-wheel bicycle, called the penny-farthing in Britain, had wire spoke tension wheels and proved hugely popular with the Victorians.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cyclists prepare their penny-farthings for the Great Knutsford Penny Farthing Race.
(18) The Queen's gynaecologist, who is treating the duchess, is Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered TV presenter Jill Dando.
(19) This flow--not taken into consideration so far--may explain caloric nystagmus in weightlessness as well as some difficult problems in caloric excitability on farth.