What's the difference between goblin and ogre?

Goblin


Definition:

  • (n.) An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With armed gunmen surrounding the regional parliament, Crimea, heretofore a part of Ukraine with slightly more independence than other regions, voted in a new government of pro-Russian figures (including a man nicknamed 'Goblin') and decided to hold a referendum on Crimea's future.
  • (2) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
  • (3) Rogue: Beyond The Shadows (Free) And some more dungeon-crawling in this polished action-RPG, with more goblins and golems than you can shake a (magical) stick at.
  • (4) Aksyonov, reputedly known as "Goblin" in Ukrainian crime circles, was officially named acting governor of Crimea.
  • (5) Seizure of Crimea's parliament and the referendum • Out with the old, in with the new: After gunmen seized the Crimean parliament on 27 February, it quickly began ousting government chiefs and installing new ones including a new regional prime minister, Sergei Aksyonov, whose alleged ties to Ukraine's criminal underworld have bestowed him the moniker " the Goblin ".
  • (6) Observations were made on 12 Columbian families who were haunted by 'el duende' (a special kind of imp, goblin, or poltergeist) and other spirits.
  • (7) With this method, it has been demonstrated that goblin is located in the plasma membrane.
  • (8) While OA markedly increased overall phosphorylation of many erythrocyte membrane proteins, including goblin, it did not affect goblin phosphorylation at specific cAMP-dependent sites.
  • (9) Useful” is Roberts’ favourite adjective to describe the site, and in the course of our conversation at the company’s bright north London office (where the most obvious decoration is a giant poster of fairytale goblin Rumpelstiltskin spinning flax into gold), she uses it several times.
  • (10) While Foxx was front and centre in that leaked Comic Con trailer from July , there has been a sense ever since that the villain in the piece might really be Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin of the Marvel comics.
  • (11) He also wrote five songs for Jim Henson’s fantasy film Labyrinth, as well as taking the role of Jareth the Goblin King.
  • (12) The data are compatible with a possible role for goblin in the hormonal control of ion movements across the plasma membrane.
  • (13) Goblin Valley boasts a campground with hot showers, a rarity in this dry desert state.
  • (14) He also unveiled a number of other castings, including Australian comic Barry Humphries as the goblin king and Evangeline Lilly from TV series Lost as an Elf named Tauriel.
  • (15) But should he throw in a couple of gratuitous love-interest types to distract from the incessant dwarf-goblin-elf-human-warg ultraviolence?
  • (16) Adult chicken skeletal muscle cells express polypeptides that are antigenically related to alpha-spectrin (Mr 240,000) and beta-spectrin (Mr 220,000-225,000), the major components of the erythrocyte membrane-skeleton, and to ankyrin (Mr 237,000; also termed goblin in chicken erythrocytes), which binds spectrin to the transmembrane anion transporter in erythrocytes.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest David O Russell on Joy: ‘If you’re going to live a fairytale you’ve got to go through the goblins’ – video interview Joy review: Jennifer Lawrence cleans up in amiably messy mop biopic Read more It was a strong weekend for the film industry all round in North America.
  • (18) The offending video clearly states that Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn, a character who in the comics and previous big screen versions has doubled as villain The Green Goblin, has died as the film's events unfold.
  • (19) Goblin phosphorylation at these sites was increased by norepinephrine and cpt-cAMP and rapidly reversed by K-252a and H-9, confirming that both inhibitors do block cAMP-PK activity.
  • (20) Crimea map Many express irritation with Aksyonov, who is rumoured to have past links to criminal groups – which he has denied – and who apparently went by the nickname “the goblin” in the 1990s.

Ogre


Definition:

  • (n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Then the European commission and the council will start looking like an ogre here, and what the Daily Mail says – which is not true now – about hostility to the Brits inside the institutions will start being true."
  • (2) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
  • (3) We have constructed a P2 ogr deletion mutant by in vitro techniques.
  • (4) Phages carrying Cys or Ala in place of Tyr-42 gave burst sizes at least as high as P2 ogr+ in a rpoA+ strain; a Gly substitution also allowed P2 to grow in either a rpoA+ or rpoA109 background, but markedly reduced the burst size.
  • (5) There, proprietorial and remorselessly downbeat, like the ogre in Shrek, stands MigrationWatch UK.
  • (6) Essebsi has dismissed the word “taghaoul” (power grab) that the Marzouki camp has deployed, evoking the ogre (“ghoul”) of north African Berber and Arab legend.
  • (7) The repeat is not present in the promoter region of P2 ogr.
  • (8) We propose that the P4 delta and P2 ogr gene products bind the -55 region of the P4 and P2 late promoters.
  • (9) We have inserted the ogr gene into a plasmid under control of the leftward promoter and operator of bacteriophage lambda.
  • (10) The bacteriophage P2 ogr gene product, a 72-residue basic protein rich in cysteine and histidine, is a positive regulatory factor for phage late gene transcription in both P2 and satellite phage P4.
  • (11) Thermal induction of ogr gene expression in this plasmid results in overproduction of a small protein that has been shown by complementation to possess Ogr function.
  • (12) The bacteriophage P2 ogr gene encodes an 8.3-kDa protein that is a positive effector of P2 late gene transcription.
  • (13) P2 mutants (P2 ogr) able to overcome the gro109 block have been isolated in which synthesis of late P2 mRNA and phage proteins Is restored.
  • (14) It seems reasonable to assume that mutants which strongly affect development of the imaginal-specific central nervous system may evidence abnormalities during the late larval or pupal stages when the adult central nervous system is undergoing final assembly and might show a lethal phase prior to eclosion (as is true for mutations at the previously defined l(1)ogre locus).
  • (15) The cryptic ogr genes are constitutively transcribed, apparently at a higher level than the wild-type ogr gene in a P2 lysogen.
  • (16) We have made null mutants of the P2 ogr and P4 delta genes.
  • (17) Seen up close in Helsinki earlier this year, Putin did not look the ogre his critics sometimes make him out to be.
  • (18) The P2 ogr gene encodes a 72-amino-acid protein required for P2 late gene expression.
  • (19) Neither GDH or OGR mobility alone clearly differentiated all species, but their combined use provided unambiguous discrimination of all species except F. varium and F. mortiferum.
  • (20) The DNA sequence of the ogr gene containing the ogr1 mutation was determined.