What's the difference between gran and grandma?

Gran


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
  • (2) End-point detection was made easier by treating titration data by the Gran's Plot method.
  • (3) This allowed scientists to time the arrival of the neutrinos at Gran Sasso with greater accuracy.
  • (4) The antibodies B13.9 and CLB-gran 10 may be useful to detect neutrophil activation.
  • (5) Neither the percentages nor the absolute numbers of host PBMC or GRAN were significantly affected by HLA-matching, TBI dose-intensity, pretransplant remission status, subsequent development of acute or chronic graft-versus-host disease or relapse after transplantation.
  • (6) Ribosomes from two Gram-negative bacteria translated f2 RNA, T4 early mRNA, mRNA from three Gran-negative bacteria, and mRNA from six Gram-positive bacteria; ribosomes from three Gram-positive bacteria translated mRNA from the Gram-positive strains, but did not translate the other mRNAs.
  • (7) A new equation is derived for the data treatment of very weak bases, where the Gran's original method can not be applied directly.
  • (8) Her new Barrio Gran Reserva is wowing Phoenix with its fine dining, tasting menu take on Mexican cooking.
  • (9) The latter in combination with Gran's equations allow the determination of acid-base impurities in pharmaceuticals--weak protolytes.
  • (10) Mientras que el gobierno nacional considera que esta política es un gran paso hacia adelante en la lucha contra la obesidad, la industria de alimentos y bebidas aún no termina de aceptar la iniciativa.
  • (11) Cilla Black and Paul O'Grady are teaming up in a sitcom pilot about long-lost siblings, by Birds of a Feather writing team Marks & Gran , and Rhod Gilbert is trialling a new comedy format that pries into the internet history of special guests .
  • (12) Mientras que sus causas directas comúnmente se relacionan con los hábitos alimenticios y la actividad física, un gran número de factores subyacentes pueden influenciar las preferencias de las personas.
  • (13) This is especially marked in the skeletons from Gran Canaria.
  • (14) It's a huge, ugly thing to cross, and we make the journey longer by doing a 30-minute detour to use the loo at a cafe, the Gran Sometta, which turns out to be closed.
  • (15) The genetic polymorphism of eight red cell enzymes was examined in three samples from Gran Canaria and one from Equatorial Guinea.
  • (16) In their original experiment scientists fired beams of neutrinos from Cern to the Gran Sasso lab and the neutrinos seemed to arrive sixty billionths of a second earlier than they should if travelling at the speed of light in a vacuum.
  • (17) First time around, the Cern scientists fired pulses of neutrinos lasting around 10 microseconds each through the rock to Gran Sasso.
  • (18) Percentage frequencies for molar-size sequence of first and second molars, as well as the statistical parameters for the individual differences between the measurements of these molars, were calculated in two human prehistoric aboriginal samples from Gran Canaria and Tenerife Islands using mesiodistal and buccolingual dimensions.
  • (19) One of the possible errors lies with a faulty optical fibre connection in the mechanism used to time the arrival of the neutrinos at Gran Sasso.
  • (20) To the hardliners, including many of Miami’s Cuban-born elected politicians, his mere presence on the stage at El Gran Teatro de la Habana on Tuesday was an outrage, a betrayal by the leader of the world’s greatest democracy, who caved in to a communist regime charged with more than five decades of human rights abuses.

Grandma


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Grandmamma

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (2) They even accused him of wanting to pull the plug on grandma .
  • (3) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
  • (4) In the second (and final) series of Grandma's House last year, the career of "the character" Simon Amstell couldn't even get a gig presenting his aunt's local charity quiz; his only chance of going to America was as his semi-boyfriend's lackey.
  • (5) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
  • (6) Ask every grandma who is standing out there,” said Allard, who owns land where some of the activists have been camped for months.
  • (7) I don’t think I even listened to them.” In 2013, while Hebden was making the album Beautiful Rewind , his grandma passed away.
  • (8) We couldn't put on programming that would offend grandma as that might lose us a subscription.
  • (9) You’ve done more for women in cinema than you take credit for.” Lovely speech, topped with the grace note of Grandma.
  • (10) The 1992 election, with Clinton competing against America’s grandma Barbara Bush for the role of first lady, is when the national sexist spotlight began to shine.
  • (11) And that because she came out of Grandma's vagina and so on, it makes that relationship harder, too.
  • (12) Apart from our scientists, there is a "Lady Robot" (who exists mainly to party), a "Pretzel Girl", a "Diner Waitress" (who will boss you about if you don't agree with her recommendation of which burger is best for you), and "Grandma".
  • (13) When a black preacher makes sweeping pronouncements about whites, that's clearly racism; when your relative whispers about a stereotype whose roots go back as far as the preacher's rage, well, that's just grandma.
  • (14) To Be Free, the fourth show from the ex-Grandma’s House man, promises to explore “freedom, joy, love, death, adventure, art, peace, sex, regret, success, eating, suffering, dreaming, healing, forgiving and other areas”.
  • (15) But, with becoming heavyweight champion of the world comes responsibility, because you’ve got people from kids to grandmas watching you.
  • (16) Limited care If you remember anything from the 2009 and 2010 Obamacare debates, it's probably the "death panels": the notion that the government is going to restrict care and decide whether grandma lives or dies.
  • (17) My grandma was running me to the hospital.” Carson, who in some years performed more than 500 pediatric brain surgeries, received the patient.
  • (18) When asked to namecheck his favourite shows, however, Preston reels off a list of BBC programmes: Sherlock, Simon Amstell's sitcom Grandma's House and Rev, while he "can't wait" for The Apprentice to return.
  • (19) My grandma, a working-class street trader, would never have tolerated the old-style Glastonbury lavatories.
  • (20) Grandma got any more medals?” When Monroe, who is from an armed forces family, responded furiously and demanded £5,000 for a migrants’ charity on threat of a libel action, Hopkins deleted the original tweet but followed it up with one asking what the difference was between “irritant Penny and social anthrax Monroe”.

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