What's the difference between genie and jinx?

Genie


Definition:

  • (n.) See Genius.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
  • (2) Other controversial voices were Barry Norman, who wondered if Williams’s battles with mental health led him to take on sentimental film projects, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose tweet reading “Genie, you’re free” was seen as glorifying suicide .
  • (3) He aims to put his newspapers, including the Times and the Sun, behind a paywall, something described by the co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, as a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle".
  • (4) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.
  • (5) For the mesh-base bracket in tension and shear, Bond-Eze, Adaptic, and Solo-Tach were the most retentive materials when used with the 60-mesh base, and Genie was the least retentive.
  • (6) James Monroe Iglehart, who plays the manic Genie in Aladdin, won for best featured actor in a musical and could barely contain his glee as he thanked a long list of people that included God and his wife.
  • (7) Genus Apodemus s. lato can be divided into two different geni (Apodemus s. str.
  • (8) Because questions have been raised about the accuracy of rapid anti-HIV-1 assays, the sensitivity, specificity, interobserver and intraobserver variability of the Genie HIV-1 assay (Genetics Systems, Seattle, WA) were determined.
  • (9) The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco has been getting a lot of play this week—as William Shatner’s secret daughter in the new Priceline ads , and now as a goofy genie who mishears wishes Emily Litella -style while promoting the Toyota RAV4 .
  • (10) Like Geni, he ended up installing a safe to secure the drugs.
  • (11) August 12, 2014 Barack Obama also issued a statement: Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between.
  • (12) Of course there are signs of a backlash but the genie won't go back in the bottle.
  • (13) "I don't think after this election it will ever be possible to put the genie back in the bottle.
  • (14) In addition, sera from five patients with repeatedly reactive enzyme immunoassays and negative western blots tested negative by the Genie system.
  • (15) This is a genie that cannot be put back in the bottle, with different variations for a wide range of applications emerging around the globe.
  • (16) That genie needs to be put back in the bottle.” But not all Labor MPs were as supportive of the amendments or of offshore processing.
  • (17) With its teen address, deep androgyny and dancehall imperative, the song was very much in line with previous Bowie hits such as "John, I'm Only Dancing" and "The Jean Genie".
  • (18) Then watch him take to the stage and bellow Jean Genie at the audience and marvel at his vocal strength and power; it’s a strongly masculine rock voice that comes from this supposedly ethereal being.
  • (19) Either way, the genie is now out of the bottle, and the issue, and the newly empowered citizens it has created, certainly will not be going away.
  • (20) The purpose of this study was to use a laboratory testing model to evaluate the ultimate shear and tensile strengths and fracture sites of five bonding adhesives: unfilled (Bracketbond and Genie); filled (Unite, Excel, and Concise).

Jinx


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It took us 35 hours to get to London because of delays, so I think we’re jinxed,” said Jillian Masselos, who is pregnant.
  • (2) "Very serious allegations have been made and this is no run-of-the-mill, high jinx affair," he said this afternoon.
  • (3) 4.21am BST Red Sox 8 - Cardinals 1, top of 9th May Low (@TeamMassMayhem) @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid YOU JINXED IT!
  • (4) "Do I switch the lights on and risk jinxing the Reds?
  • (5) I'm not saying this was a jinx or anything, I'm just saying.
  • (6) Imagine the high-jinx when a man who likes meatballs has to eat, um, cod.
  • (7) Over the course of a jinxed shoot and a mixed critical reception he discovered that being King of the World was not all it was cracked up to be.
  • (8) Ah now, it'd be unfair for me to try to jinx one team over the other.
  • (9) I’m sitting in a windowless room with two gigantic pictures of [The Jinx’s villain] Robert Durst on the wall,” he explains on the phone from New York.
  • (10) Although given that my only other bet was on England beating Algeria 5-1, I think I've probably jinxed them."
  • (11) She chose her university, in part, because of its strong reputation for sport and Rosenfeld names the tennis star Martina Navratilova as an inspiration, although an injury jinxed her own hopes of competing at a top level.
  • (12) But the crowd are prepared to wait... 10.09pm BST I don't normally publish emails like this, but we've had a lot of them in the past week I'm banned by my highly superstitious family from watching live coverage of the Olympics because I jinx Team GB," says Claire Robins.
  • (13) "After such a victorious and uplifting welcome of Lima love, the contaminated jinx had its way via a simple restaurant meal of penne pasta and tomato," he wrote.
  • (14) But the resurgence would never be complete, the jinx not entirely broken, until they had defeated their rivals.
  • (15) When the San Francisco 49ers seemed to respond to the power outage by starting to play like they could actually steal the game away from the Baltimore Ravens, we wanted to give a certain amount of credit to the lights, call it momentum or a jinx or whatever.
  • (16) Fielding says the new book is about "a whole new idea for a phase of her life that I can't jinx by describing it".
  • (17) 1.53am GMT Kansas City here we come Of course in the other game last night, Sporting KC finally overcame their Houston Dynamo jinx to not just get to the MLS Cup final but to ensure that they'll be hosting it (having been to a great All Star Week there, I can tell you they'll do a great job too).
  • (18) They've been rather spoiled this week after lifting that home elimination game jinx.
  • (19) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
  • (20) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.23pm GMT 90 min +5: “Okay, with three minutes to go I think I’m just about ready to put my Niall Mullen voodoo doll away after his fate enticing attempt to jinx things at half time,” writes Phil Sawyer.