What's the difference between gran and grandmother?

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.

Grandmother


Definition:

  • (n.) The mother of one's father or mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
  • (2) She said it could indicate Bernardi’s grandmother was Indigenous.
  • (3) As a mother and a grandmother I am deeply concerned about the impact that fracking will have on our environment, our water sources, air and way of life.
  • (4) (I leave it implicit, but that's the age the child would be when his — or her — grandmother completed two full terms in the White House.)
  • (5) "Everyone and their grandmother would have done it better, of course."
  • (6) I found it very moving,” she said, “an extraordinary period in our lives too that is now coming to an end.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Four-year-old Torin Weston, dressed as Richard III, waits with his grandmother outside the cathedral.
  • (7) Britain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
  • (8) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
  • (9) Presumably one of these "gangbangers" is Carmen Ortega (pdf), a 62-year-old grandmother of 14 with Alzheimer's who has been ordered deported to the Dominican Republic, a country where she has no remaining family, after living in the US for 40 years.
  • (10) The authors present three cases of multiple, intra-cranial meningiomatosis with contact hyperostosis affecting the grandmother, mother and daughter, in a very stereotypic manner.
  • (11) My grandmother doesn't understand unpaid internships .
  • (12) The origin of the defect arises spontaneously in the grandmother of the proband and must be assumed to be a de novo mutation.
  • (13) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
  • (14) He survived but two days later his 13-year-old sister died, followed by his grandmother eight days later.
  • (15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
  • (16) The paternal grandmother was thought to carry the abnormal Factor X I gene, although her Factor XI level was normal, because of a significant bleeding history.
  • (17) They had a grandmother, her daughter and her grandchild all in the same ward.
  • (18) Bond yields continue to soar and it's become increasingly clear that markets read the papers like my grandmother used to: only registering the bad news.
  • (19) There has already been speculation that the baby’s birth could coincide with the 89th birthday of its great-grandmother the Queen on 21 April.
  • (20) The members of this family have since been followed-up regularly by the author, examination of the corneas of the grandmother and the grand'daughter made by electron microscopy, the morphology compared, and an attempt made to establish the progression of the lesion.