What's the difference between gipsy and tramp?

Gipsy


Definition:

  • (n. a.) See Gypsy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results are regarded as a probable confirmation of the Indian origin of the Gipsies, as the percentage of non-tasters in the majority of the different Indian tribes is higher than that of the European populations.
  • (2) The results of inoculation of gipsy moth cell culture with mosquito iridovirus are presented.
  • (3) We thus add a new perspective to Corot's Gipsy Girl With Mandolin-a subject with arthritis, a painter knowledgeable about arthritis, and a painting that therefore might be understood at least in part from an appreciation of the artist's specific illness.
  • (4) The similarities in the allotype frequencies of C3 and Bf among Gipsy and Gaddis (India) populations supports the Indian origin of the former ethnic group.
  • (5) The propositus is a 25-year-old gipsy female presenting with a recessively inherited haemolytic anaemia.
  • (6) A boy aged 2 years, born prematurely to Gipsy parents, presented with hypopigmentation severe encephalopathy with athetoid movements, bilateral ocular anomalies including cloudy corneas, iris atrophy and cataracts, as well as dental defects.
  • (7) The fact that a group of the later Egyptian gipsies, who were also called Ghawãzĩ, still bear the name Barãmika can perhaps be better understood on the following grounds.
  • (8) Based on a clinical and immunogenetical study of three Gipsy and two partly Gipsy patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) it is concluded that clinically the MS of pure Gipsies resembles the Eastern form of MS and that of the partly Gipsy patients the Caucasian form of the disease.
  • (9) The high endogamy was proved by the gipsy origin of male partners in 90% of couples.
  • (10) Gipsy Kings ' Savor Flamenco tied with Ladysmith Black Mambazo 's Live: Singing For Peace Around The World.
  • (11) Executive Headteacher, Gipsy Hill Federation, London.
  • (12) The authors investigated the growth of 1208 gipsy and non-gipsy children living with their families and in childrens homes.
  • (13) By taking into account the data on the frequency of the HLA antigens in the healthy Gipsy population the genetic factors determining MS are probably only indirectly related to the B and DR loci inside the complex HLA system.
  • (14) When Sarkozy sent riot police with teargas to dismantle Roma gipsy camps in the summer of 2010 and banned Muslims from praying in the streets just weeks after Le Pen likened the sight to the Nazi occupation, it seemed clear some far-right ideas had entered mainstream policy.
  • (15) Bf*F occurred more frequently among Gipsies, while frequencies for the other three allotypes was lower in this group than in Hungarians.
  • (16) The author describes a protracted epidemic of measles in the district of Liptovský Mikulás in the Central Slovakian region where between May 5, 1988 and July 11, 1988 30 children, mosth of them not immunized against measles, mostly from the gipsy community in Vazec contracted the disease.
  • (17) Interestingly, the prevalence of IgA deficiency among Gipsies living in Hungary was significantly higher.
  • (18) "It is a stunning school," said Craig Tunstall, executive head of the Gipsy Hill federation, which runs five local authority schools in the area, all formerly judged as failing.
  • (19) Campylobacteriosis affects significantly more frequently children of gipsy origin.
  • (20) Ultrastructural findings of biopsy materials of four gipsy first cousin infants suffering from late infantile type of ceroid lipofuscinosis (Jansky-Bielschowsky) were investigated.

Tramp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
  • (v. i.) To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
  • (v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
  • (v. i.) To travel; to wander; to stroll.
  • (n.) A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
  • (n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
  • (n.) The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
  • (n.) A tool for trimming hedges.
  • (n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Communist party mouthpiece newspaper the People’s Daily said in an editorial that the tribunal had ignored “basic truths” and “tramped” on international laws and norms.
  • (2) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
  • (3) They left him with an enduring sympathy for the poor and marginalised, embodied in his Little Tramp character .
  • (4) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
  • (5) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
  • (6) May, the provincial vicar’s daughter, has done her time tramping the streets, stuffing envelopes, working the local Conservative association circuit.
  • (7) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
  • (8) "Personally I longed for human society and for exercise (a good long tramp for example), but no doubt Odilo had his reasons".
  • (9) Instagram photos showed them tramping around New York, bowler hatted and hand in hand.
  • (10) This tireless, Glasgow-built cargo ship has been tramping between Kampala and Mwanza, Tanzania's second most populous city, for more than 40 years.
  • (11) The Clos was created in 1933 by the city of Paris on what was previously, according to a municipal tin placard, "a waste land, the refuge of tramps and a playground for local children".
  • (12) Diplomats and staff tramped across the rain-soaked grass of the UN’s Rose Garden on the banks of the East River to watch.
  • (13) A tramp who smacks himself repeatedly about the body.
  • (14) But as we tramp back to the village, it’s worth mourning that golden age of privacy, and the city that allowed people to reinvent themselves like the characters in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side.
  • (15) His work has often been obliquely autobiographical – never quite his story, but yes, he was a history boy back in the day preparing for Oxford; yes, you could draw comparisons with the repressed gay man he plays in A Chip in the Sugar; yes, he did give refuge to a tramp who parked her van in his driveway for 15 years, and so it goes.
  • (16) Gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel.
  • (17) And I can tramp through snowstorms late at night when no one is stirring and feel the kind of excitement John Muir (father of the US national parks) must have felt when he spent a stormy night up a tree just to embrace it and know what it endured in the absence of reportorial creatures.
  • (18) And, like tramps, we expect to be moved on, sooner or later, as more and more of London’s public space becomes private.
  • (19) Richard, a long-time mountain devotee, agrees: "As someone who's tramped over its slopes many, many times, I simply don't understand how a mountain can be valued at £1.75m to pay off tax.
  • (20) Elevated affective excitability was the most common of all psychopathy-like disorders, followed by the syndrome of home leaving and tramping, the aggressive-sadistic syndrome, and mental instability.

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