What's the difference between grandmother and mimi?
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July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.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.
Mimi
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the Guardian A cross-party report in December pointed to structural issues such as delays to benefit payments and harsher sanctioning policies (cutting payments to those who haven’t complied with jobcentre rules), combined with low wages and high living costs.
(2) At the end of 2013, the Mimi Foundation created a film documenting what happened when a group of cancer patients underwent "blind" makeovers , and were only allowed to look at the results when they were completed.
(3) Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the Guardian “I had to come a few times after that.
(4) Three years ago I met Jamie, who lived under a bridge, and his cat, Mimi.
(5) This was Holmes's first marriage and the third for Cruise, who was previously married to the actor Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two children, and Mimi Rogers.
(6) Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the Guardian Antonino Vaccarino, a sprightly, bespectacled 68-year-old, today runs a small cinema in the back streets of town, but once served as mayor before being jailed for five years for mafia membership – on the basis, he claims, of false accusations made by a turncoat.
(7) Next day, I team up with James Gandolfini and Mimi Kennedy, two of the US cast.
(8) Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the Guardian But despite long-standing rumours that he enjoys the protection of police and politicians, the net is finally tightening.
(9) Therefore, chicken heart mitoplasts can maximally bind about 1 mol of MiMi-CK per 3 mol translocase; in normal chicken heart mitochondria about 1 mol of MiMi-CK is present per 13 mol translocase.
(10) When I posted their pictures and wrote about their story , people sent me blankets for Jamie and advice and offers to help get Mimi fixed.
(11) Cook, Get-Togethers - Burns night at Su Moore's flat Photograph: Mimi Mollica Makes 36–48 2 tbsp sunflower or rapeseed oil 225g vegetarian haggis (about half a packaged vegetarian haggis, such as Macsween vegetarian haggis) 3 garlic cloves, chopped 1 tbsp chopped ginger to taste 5 spring onions, diced Fresh coriander, finely chopped to taste (mint or Thai basil are good alternatives) ½ tsp nutmeg ½ tsp cumin Salt and pepper 48 (2 packs) ready-made gyoza wrappers (thawed as per instructions on packaging) A small glass cold tap water Hot tap water in a measuring jug 1 Begin by making the filling.
(12) Cook, Get-Togethers - Burns night at Su Moore's flat Photograph: Mimi Mollica What did you talk about?
(13) Hoffman is survived by his partner, the costume designer Mimi O'Donnell; their three children, Cooper, Tallulah and Willa; Gordy and his sisters, Jill and Emily; and his parents.
(14) Cook, Get-Togethers - Burns night at Su Moore's flat Photograph: Mimi Mollica What was on the menu?
(15) Patients were randomized to one or the other nebulizer and received alternatively, once every other week, the two pentamidine salts in the IMIM or MIMI order.
(16) John Carvel Scott Thomas to play Lennon's aunt in biopic She is best known for roles which are quintessentially English and more often than not quite posh but now Kristin Scott Thomas is to take on hard-as-nails Scouse after being cast as John Lennon's tough-minded Aunt Mimi in artist Sam Taylor-Wood's debut feature film.
(17) "When my mother, Mimi [her sister] and I went to jail for aiding and abetting the draft resistance movement, my father ran the institute.
(18) Titrating mitoplasts with homogeneous MiMi-CK at different pH values shows a pH-dependent equilibrium involving a group(s) on either the membrane or the enzyme with a pKa = 6.
(19) MiMi-CK was solely demonstrated in the ellipsoid portion of the photoreceptor cells.
(20) Life for her revolves around home and her family: she and her husband John have two daughters, Mimi, six, and Ria, nine, and she also has two older children by previous relationships and a three-year-old granddaughter, Imogen.