What's the difference between evergreen and redwood?

Evergreen


Definition:

  • (a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
  • (n.) An evergreen plant.
  • (n.) Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
  • (2) C. minuticornis was found in these and in tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen rain forests of S. Thailand and N.W.
  • (3) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
  • (4) riversi was confined to evergreen forest and its adjacent area.
  • (5) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
  • (6) The three greatest concerns for Australia in the recent draft include provisions that would further entrench secondary patenting and evergreening, lock in extensions to patent terms, and extend monopoly rights over clinical trial data for certain medicines.” The lead author of the report and a public health lecturer at La Trobe University, Dr Deborah Gleeson, said the consequence was the extra cost of medicines could get passed on to the consumer through increasing the co-payment on government-subsidised drugs, or by restricting access to expensive drugs to those who could afford them.
  • (7) Her pragmatism is unusual, but then Liu is director of Evergreen, a state-owned old people's home in north Beijing.
  • (8) But the Evergreen State is not known for its clear days; rain and fog are persistent here year round.
  • (9) From the sociopathic capitalist machine by way of Mr Burns and the relentless religious optimism of Ned Flanders to the working-class, tense but sometimes faux-sexual interracial relationship between Lenny and Carl, for anyone that wants to look at America under a comedy microscope, you have to start with 742 Evergreen Terrace.
  • (10) Efforts to prevent sporotrichosis among persons handling evergreen seedlings should include the use of alternate types of packing material (e.g., cedar wood chips or shredded paper) and protective clothing such as gloves and long-sleeved shirts.
  • (11) It seems impossible – surely she was ageless, like one of those very old, tiny, trees in the Arctic, gnarled and tough as a nut, but nonetheless evergreen.
  • (12) The evergreen Churchill Arms on Kensington Church Street becomes one enormous conifer each December.
  • (13) Minnelli has been out of fashion for a while, despite having directed – alongside Meet Me In St Louis – some of the truly evergreen musicals of the middle 20th century, especially at MGM under Arthur Freed.
  • (14) Stephanie Coontz, a faculty member at the Evergreen State College in Washington state and a frequent contributor to publications including the New York Times, agrees, saying that writing for the public forces researchers to work in unfamiliar ways.
  • (15) Evergreen striker Paul Ifill, playing his 100th game for the Phoenix, provided an injection of pace and guile when he came on after 65 minutes but, although opportunities were created, the finishing wasn't there.
  • (16) The antimicrobial activities of seven Epicoccum purpurascens strains isolated either from evergreen oak leaves (Quercus ilex) collected over a period of one year, or from the atmosphere were compared in vitro.
  • (17) 66,000), central Finland, was carried out in 1990 as part of the EVERGREEN-project.
  • (18) But even if you can afford Evergreen's fees of up to 5,100 yuan (£510) each month, it has just 600 beds, and a waiting list of 1,300.
  • (19) Evergreening could delay generic competition for up to 20 years, the report found.
  • (20) While, for many, work might become redundant, its value and the virtues it can cultivate are evergreen.

Redwood


Definition:

  • (n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
  • (n.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
  • (2) The ability to use cyclitols as a sole source of carbon can explain the high cell densities of Klebsielleae in redwood water reservoirs and in redwood lumber.
  • (3) Redwoods are taller, but giant sequoias win for sheer mass: the General Sherman's trunk has a volume of 1,487 cubic metres and is estimated to weigh over 2,000 tonnes.
  • (4) Vicky Redwood, UK analyst at Capital Economics , said that once special factors were taken into account the economy had been "pretty flat" in the third quarter.
  • (5) Vicky Redwood, senior UK economist, Capital Economics August's UK Inflation Report echoes yesterday's message from the US Fed that interest rates are likely to stay very low for a long time yet .
  • (6) Redwood said: "Through meticulously drawing together specific information, the team has been able to refocus the timeline and now places more significance on events that night.
  • (7) Marketing any product will only take an organisation so far.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vicki Hughes at work in the Redwood coffee house In much the same way that the craft beer phenomeneon has helped breathe some much-needed life into the dying pub trade, so it is that the independent or ‘artisan’ coffee shops appear to be reinventing the way people now take their caffeine.
  • (8) Detectives led by Redwood will meet with their Polícia Judiciária counterparts in Faro on Tuesday to discuss the request.
  • (9) Labour said the Commons education committee should hold an inquiry and Gove faced implicit criticism from his own party in the form of Tory backbencher John Redwood, who said he was "unsure of what is going on" and that it was "unfair" for exam criteria to change at the last moment.
  • (10) John Redwood appeared to criticise the government's plans recently when he attacked the "myths" of housing shortage on his blog.
  • (11) If there is any example that shows how ridiculous Redwood’s claims are, it is the Scottish referendum, when 16 and 17-year-olds were allowed to have a say.
  • (12) Redwood is leading the £5m British investigation into the suspected abduction of Madeleine.
  • (13) Lattes are now a daily part of running our business and an increasing proportion of our expenses go towards supporting the local coffee economy.” App developer Mark Brown favours Redwood and Mange Tout, both on Trafalgar Street.
  • (14) An atopic patient with adult onset of asthma due to sawdust from redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is described.
  • (15) Fly to Cleveland Hopkins airport Stay at The Inn at Brandywine Falls , from $129 Gary Lewis, director of education, Geological Society of America Klamath River Overlook, Redwood NP , California People come here for the redwoods – the tallest trees on the planet – but, for me, the view from this overlook near the town of Requa is a spectacular reason to visit.
  • (16) Not just human existence but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
  • (17) In his blog last week, former Tory cabinet minister John Redwood – who Cameron has appointed to lead a review of competitiveness – drew an analogy with England's World Cup team to make the case for lower taxes on business and swingeing cuts to spending.
  • (18) A formulated preparation of trichosanthin (GLQ223, Pharmaceutical Development Group, Genelabs Inc., Redwood City, California, USA) has been shown to selectively inhibit HIV replication in vitro in lymphocytes and macrophages.
  • (19) As the former Tory leader and arch-Eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith described Douglas Carswell as a backbench loner, Redwood said the "so-called eight" had been plucked from the dining list of the Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler who used to support the Tories.
  • (20) July 6, 2016 John Redwood, a leading Eurosceptic, expressed hope that Labour’s motion “would not be opposed”, though the opposition day debate and vote is non-binding and has no effect on government policy Burnham, whose wife is Dutch, said the issue would “directly affect the lives of millions of people living in this country”.

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