What's the difference between goldeneye and plumage?

Goldeneye


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adele will be following in the shoes of Shirley Bassey (who sang the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker), Tina Turner ( GoldenEye ) and Madonna (Die Another Day).
  • (2) Goldeneye, the first of Brosnan’s efforts, heralded a dramatic renewal: not simply because of a new actor, but more significantly who was behind the camera.
  • (3) Martin Hollis: Ex-Rare designer and co-creator of Goldeneye, now working on smaller indie projects.
  • (4) While Santorum struggled through much of the early part of the debate, choosing for instance to discuss the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the US – a WMD which features in the plot of the James Bond movie Goldeneye – he gained momentum in his closing statement.
  • (5) The justly renowned opening scene of Goldeneye – during which Bond freefalls into a pilotless light aeroplane’s cockpit – did much to reinvigorate and modernise the series on its own.
  • (6) Recorded discussing a rendering of the James Bond theme GoldenEye by that other vocal heavyweight Tina Turner , Shirley was less than impressed.
  • (7) He sneered at Pierce Brosnan’s Bond in GoldenEye, shouted at Nicolas Cage in National Treasure and threatened Harrison Ford in Patriot Games.
  • (8) He spent his final years at the Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, where he had been living for three months annually for more than a decade to write.
  • (9) Moreover, a whole new generation was reached through a hugely successful Goldeneye video game spinoff , making a significant contribution to perceptions that the Bond film was no longer stale and old-fashioned.
  • (10) It was the darkly brilliant TV drama Cracker that mesmerised the critics, but cheesy British film comedies such as Nuns On The Run and The Pope Must Die made Coltrane a global movie star, appearing in two consecutive James Bond films ( GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough ).
  • (11) The risk of increased exposure to metals for a vertebrate predator foraging on aquatic insects in acidified lakes was investigated through analyses of the content of Al, As, Ca, Cd, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Pb, Ru, Se, and Zn in the liver tissue of 42 non-fledged Goldeneye, Bucephala clangula, ducklings from acidic, circumneutral, and limed lakes in South Sweden.
  • (12) Adults of Profilicollis botulus were found in 6 species of diving ducks in British Columbia including 3 new hosts: common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula (L.); Barrow's goldeneye, B. islandica (Gmelin); and greater scaup, Aythya marila (L.).

Plumage


Definition:

  • (n.) The entire clothing of a bird.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Body-plumage of hens moulted at 11 degrees C was 25% heavier than of hens moulted at 29 degrees C. 3.
  • (2) Distinctive for its embroidered yellow plumage, the honeyeater is considered a “flagship” species: the most marketable of a group of endangered animals that share a habitat.
  • (3) For all loci the genotype suppressing colour was associated with less plumage deterioration, this being highly significant for loci C and S. 5.
  • (4) The plumage represented 5-8% of the total body weight, and its iron content oscillated between 152-163 p.p.m.
  • (5) Recent studies have employed the plumage carotenoids to test hypotheses of genetic divergence, to relate plumage color to environmental process, and to demonstrate the influence of synthetic changes on color.
  • (6) Afterward, as the ducks began to acquire adult feathers, short-chain wax esters composed of 2- and 4-monomethyl fatty acids began to appear with 2-methylhexanoyl and 4-methylhexanoyl as the major acyl components; esters of short-chain monomethyl fatty acids (less than or equal to C12) constituted 90% of the lipids when the ducks were 2 months old and had acquired adult plumage.
  • (7) Back in early 2013, shortly after Cruz’s arrival in the Senate, McCain had deemed him and colleagues with similarly flamboyant conservative plumage “wacko birds”.
  • (8) The negative influences comprise disorders in social behaviour, loss of typical plumage functions and disabilities of normal mobility, as well as genetic defects and pathogenic predispositions.
  • (9) An investigation was conducted among the progeny from crosses between Exchequer Leghorn and Ancona bantams into the relationship between two plumage phenotypes, pied and mottled, both of which are arrangements of non-pigmentation expressed on a background of eumelanin.
  • (10) The genetic basis for plumage color of the Blue Andalusian breed was studied.
  • (11) Data are presented on the genetics of the plumage color of the Villafranquina, a breed of Spanish chicken representing a black-tailed red type of the columbian restriction pattern.
  • (12) Groups of 3-5 homing pigeons individually recognizable by different colours of their plumage were followed by helicopter on their way home.
  • (13) Changes in testicular size and plumage molt were monitored at regular intervals during the 12-week period.
  • (14) Heart weights, plasma corticosterone levels, durations of tonic immobility (TI), and plumage conditions were compared for top and bottom birds in the dominance ranks.
  • (15) The greater part of these plumage modifications is generally of interest for exhibition poultry fancy.
  • (16) Modifications of the plumage and specific feather malformations, as developed during the domestication process of different poultry species are described.
  • (17) Mercury exposure in Western Europe is not excessive, as shown by the relatively low levels in the summer plumage.
  • (18) Growth rate, egg number, egg and adult body weight, plumage condition, food intake and efficiency of laying hens were compared in birds differing in plumage colour genotype at five loci (C, I, S, Ig, B).
  • (19) All birds on long days moulted into adult plumage, whereas those on short days retained juvenile plumage.
  • (20) Some birds lack colored spots and show pure white plumage.

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