What's the difference between english and southdown?

English


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
  • (a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.
  • (n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
  • (n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
  • (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
  • (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
  • (v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
  • (v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
  • (2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (3) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (5) Three short reviews by Freud (1904c, 1904d, 1905f) are presented in English translation.
  • (6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (7) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (8) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
  • (9) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (10) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
  • (11) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
  • (12) To our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported in the English literature.
  • (13) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (14) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
  • (15) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
  • (16) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (17) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (18) This is the second report in the English literature on the familial occurrence of chronic active hepatitis type B.
  • (19) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
  • (20) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.

Southdown


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England.
  • (n.) A Southdown sheep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Genotype frequencies in a flock of Southdowns do not deviate significantly from those predicted under the assumption of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
  • (2) Photograph: Southdown Housing I don’t only focus on a person’s immediate housing need.
  • (3) Seasonally anoestrous Southdown ewes were exposed to rams for 24 h, 40 h, 3 days, 10 days or 20 days before ovariectomy.
  • (4) Formerly chief executive, Southdown Housing Association.
  • (5) Fatty acid composition of fat from the outer and inner regions of subcutaneous tissue taken from the rib region of eight Southdown rams fed pasture were determined.
  • (6) Eight pregnant Southdown ewes were treated (by drench) with 12.5 ml of 3.3 M urea solution per kilogram of body weight, and ammonium nitrogen concentrations of blood and tissues of these ewes and their fetuses were measured and compared with those of control ewes (given water by drench) and their fetuses.
  • (7) Carcass data from more than 4,400 Southdown x Romney ewe and wether lambs collected over a 16-yr period were analyzed for the effects of sex, rearing status, and growth rate.
  • (8) Kidneys from 7 mutant Southdown sheep with congenital hyperbilirubinemia, aged from 1 to 5 years were examined.
  • (9) Approximately 4,400 crossbred lambs from Southdown sires and Romney ewes were slaughtered at approximately 18, 23, and 28 wk of age over a 16-yr period.
  • (10) Adult Southdown ewes were surgically prepared with pituitary stimulating electrodes, carotid and jugular cannulae, and a cranial platform-cylinder arrangement for chronic single unit recording.
  • (11) It applied for its first cage trapping licence from Natural England and funding from International Animal Rescue and the Southdowns Badger Group has paid for five vaccinators to be trained over the past 12 months.
  • (12) High affinity polyclonal rabbit antibodies to ovine (o) pituitary LH [anti-oLH-immunoglobulin G (IgG) Ab1] were used to immunize young Southdown lambs.
  • (13) Top 10 benchmarked employers (alphabetically) Barclays BT Citi Deloitte Hogan Lovells International LLP KPMG LLP National Assembly for Wales Royal Bank of Scotland Southdown Housing Association UBS Best for mothers Deloitte Best for fathers Citi and the London School of Economics and Political Science Best for carers Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • (14) When these and other effects were allowed for significant breed differences were found, the concentrations being relatively high in Finnish Landrace, Welsh Mountain and Soay lambs, and relatively low in Border Leicester, Oxford Down and Southdown lambs.
  • (15) Southdown ewes in mid-seasonal anoestrus were exposed to rams for 0 h (control group), 2 h, 24 h, 40 h, 3 days, 10 days or 20 days.
  • (16) The observation that the subcutaneous fat of pasture-fed Southdown rams consists of two distinct regions is reported.
  • (17) Eleven Southdown male lambs averaging 19.8 kg were randomly allotted to two groups and fed diets containing 7.7% (low-N) or 15.8% (high-N) crude protein.
  • (18) I work in West Sussex for housing provider Southdown as a floating support officer in the MyKey service .
  • (19) Finnish Landrace x Southdown ewes were ovariectomized (OVX) and subjected to daily photoperiods of 16L:8D (Group I) or 8L:16D (Group II) for 84 days.
  • (20) Merino, Scottish Blackface, Cheviot, Southdown, Border Leicester, Finnish Landrace and Finnish Landrace x Dorset Horn lambs were removed from their mothers before sucking and bottle-fed with measured amounts of colostrum, either from individual ewes, or from pools of colostrum, some of which had been frozen for up to two years.

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