What's the difference between gorgon and gorgoneion?
Gorgon
Definition:
(n.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.
(n.) Anything very ugly or horrid.
(n.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu.
(a.) Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face.
Example Sentences:
(1) The blue and the black wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus and C. gnou, are currently classified as congeneric, but previous reports have placed C. taurinus in its own genus, Gorgon.
(2) That, suggest Gorgon City, is the one thing they need to be careful of – label politics getting in the way of making music.
(3) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(4) The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles".
(5) She has got an only child and she is concerned that if she doesn't have another one, her currently happy and well-balanced three year old is somehow going to mutate into a gorgon of bitterness and despair.
(6) Reputex says the detailed rules, signed off by cabinet on Tuesday, confirm that none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new LNG processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(7) Jess and Sinead are working on solo records that have more of a soul and R&B sound; MNEK writes and produces for other pop stars including Kylie and Little Mix, and is readying his own album of quirky electro-funk for release later in the year; Gorgon City have been working on an album “that’s timeless, not just a 2014 house record”; and Duke Dumont still spends most of his time DJing underground house.
(8) Madonna is portrayed as a baby-grabbing gorgon, lambasted by everyone from Saturday Night Live to Graham Norton.
(9) MNEK has sung on tracks for Duke Dumont and Gorgon City; Gorgon City produced the new single by Jess Glynne; Jess Glynne is lifelong best mates with Sinead Harnett.
(10) Everyone round this table has that same pressure, they don’t want to be known as just a pop-house act,” adds Kai of Gorgon City.
(11) We’ve set things changing now, and though it’s scary, I’d be happy if it all changed again.” Gorgon City’s Here For You is out on Mon
(12) On the US side, there were more than 100 CIA-led drone strikes in Pakistan last year and the Pentagon is about to deploy its intimidatingly named Gorgon Stare airborne surveillance system, a multi-image video device for tracking suspects across large areas.
(13) First and foremost, we’ve all partied with each other,” explains Matt from Gorgon City.
(14) The party always comes first.” “I was with Gorgon City in Ibiza last year,” recalls Jess.
(15) The dredging involved the removal of 7m cubic metres of seabed to create a channel to accommodate ships for the Gorgon natural gas project.
Gorgoneion
Definition:
(n.) A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head.