What's the difference between greenie and tyro?

Greenie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arsenal's Emirates Stadium also has excellent eco credentials and the fact that an estimated 70% of Gunners' supporters use public transport to get to games gives the club further brownie (or should that be greenie) points.
  • (2) But rather than admit his industry policy and fiscal policy has helped cruel economic growth the prime minister is pretending that rising unemployment is all the fault of the greenies and the courts.
  • (3) This is an issue that falls uneasily between his band of greenies, whose main job is to look after the countryside, and the techies at the business department whose job, under Lord Mandelson, is to drive forward British business.
  • (4) The real injustice is the terrible service they get for their cash; the fact that people who can't afford the train or own a car don't have a public transport option, are physically excluded from travel – and for me, greenie as I am, that the most sustainable form of transport is the most expensive, the most inaccessible and the one that our transport secretary is choosing to neglect.
  • (5) Well, I'm back with an extremely Guardian Bioware paper cup of volcanically hot, greeny-grey liquid that's passing for tea in our King's Place HQ these days.
  • (6) For a wider range, check out the online gardening site Crocus.co.uk , or real greenies might enjoy the range of ex-industrial food barrels at the Centre for Alternative Technology (0845 330 4592, cat.org.uk).
  • (7) Other greenies crippling US growth in opposing safe tracking for natural gas.
  • (8) He can try to use the mine’s fate as a way to recast the climate debate back to the familiar theme of “bad” (and now apparently unpatriotic) greenies jeopardising “good” Aussie jobs.
  • (9) "Grud on a Greenie" is an exclamation of surprise, "Drokk" is a legal expletive and "Boing" is a spray on rubber coating which solidifies into a giant ball which people keep putting themselves in.
  • (10) Look past the statistical comedy – the jobs figures are actually great news | Greg Jericho Read more While the focus groups might assure him that “blaming the greenies” and “wedging labour” are the right things to do, such political tactics have nothing to do with the actual economic problems Australia currently faces.
  • (11) The problem for the unemployed is that goading greenies is not actually a mechanism for creating jobs.
  • (12) Doing an audition with bronchitis and coughing up a greeny on to the script in front of me.
  • (13) Among other things, today’s agenda included an imminent event built around Miliband “and young Greeny people, on the millennium development goals” (this is one of two mentions of the “G” word, and global issues way beyond Labour’s beloved cost-of-living crisis – proof, perhaps, that the Green threat is being taken seriously).
  • (14) German Chancellor Angela Merkel is anything but a left-wing greenie.
  • (15) Such might have been the hope entertained for an independent Scotland, if it weren’t for the “far left” and “greenies” that Rupert Murdoch warned were empowered by the campaign.
  • (16) He leaned out of a helicopter to inspect "the greeny, browny gunge" in the sea below.

Tyro


Definition:

  • (n.) A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hence tyrO, tyrA, and aroF constitute an operon regulated by tyrR.
  • (2) When I first moved to Glasgow and was very much a tyro writer, I would occasionally wander off to Kelvingrove and potter.
  • (3) The radioligand [125I-Tyro]ovine CRF [( 125I] oCRF) was used to identify, characterize, and localize CRF receptors in a crude homogenate of mouse spleen.
  • (4) We have used PCR to identify 13 novel protein-tyrosine kinase genes (tyro-1 to -13), six of which (tyro-1 to -6) are preferentially expressed in the developing vertebrate nervous system.
  • (5) However, with 125I-Tyro-oCRF(34-41) as the radiolabeled ligand and Tyro-oCRF(34-41) as the standard, serial dilutions of CRF(1-41), CRF(36-41), and CRF(37-41) generated parallel displacement curves, and the molar cross-reactivities were 90%, 45% and 10% respectively.
  • (6) The rank order of potency of the unlabelled atrial natriuretic peptides for competing with specific 125I-ANF (101-126) binding sites was rANF (92-126) greater than rANF (101-126) greater than rANF (99-126) greater than rANF (103-126) greater than Tyro-Atriopeptin I greater than hANF (105-126) greater than rANF (1-126).
  • (7) In vitro receptor autoradiography, utilizing 125I-Tyro-ovine CRF, revealed correspondence between CRF binding sites and CRF-immunoreactive fibers in the cerebellar cortex.
  • (8) Rat, chick, and human CGRP and their synthetic analogues inhibited label binding in a dose-dependent manner with relative potencies as follows; chick greater than rat greater than human greater than [TyrO]rat CGRP.
  • (9) Yet the tyro managed to gather himself at two sets down, perhaps heeding the exhortations from his box to “Keep your head up Nick” (they might have omitted the up), and raced into a 3-0 lead in the third.
  • (10) 125I-Tyro rat CGRP binding sites were demonstrated throughout the rat central nervous system.
  • (11) But then Eriksen, the most understated of high-grade attacking midfielders, has always tended to operate by stealth, a gloriously talented 22-year-old who in his midweek post-training kit looks less like one of Europe's select band of tyro millionaire sportsmen and more like a trainee quantity surveyor just back from a lunchtime game of squash.
  • (12) Tyro-oCRF(34-41) was digested with trypsin and the reaction products were identified by amino acid analysis.
  • (13) The binding of 125I-[TyrO]rat CGRP to rat liver plasma membrane was time dependent, saturable and reversible.
  • (14) Rat CGRP and rat [Tyro]CGRP caused half-maximal effect at 2 nM, and were threefold more potent than human CGRP.
  • (15) In a pilot study, six postabsorptive young men received either 12- or 4-h infusions of [2H2]Phe and [1-13C]Tyr or [1-13C]Phe and [2H2]Tyro.
  • (16) The tyro-1 to -6 genes are all expressed during central nervous system neurogenesis and exhibit distinct and highly regionalized patterns of expression in the adult brain.
  • (17) Arya finally pitched up in Tywin Lannister's fastness, where she has become not just a poppet of a renegade tyro swordswoman but her dad's enemy's trainee cupbearer.
  • (18) The azide radical N3 reacts selectively with amino acids, in neutral solution preferentially with tryptophan (k (N3 + TrpH) = 4.1 X 10(9) dm3 mol(-1s-1) and in alkaline solution also with cysteine and tyrosine (k(N3 + CyS-) = 2.7 X 10(9) dm3 mol-1s-1) and k(N3 + TyrO-) equals 03.6 X 10(9) dm3 mol-1s-1).
  • (19) The nonhydrolyzable guanosine analogue guanosine 5'-(beta,gamma-imido)triphosphate was equipotent in causing a decrease in binding of 125I-[D-Tyro]NMB due to decreased receptor affinity in both cell types, without a change in receptor number, demonstrating that the NMB receptor remained coupled to a guanine nucleotide-binding protein in both native and transfected cells.
  • (20) In the present work, we have characterized by film radioautography the effects of divalent cations and guanine nucleotide on specific receptor for somatostatin (SRIF) using 125I-TyrO-DTrp8-SRIF14 (125I-ToD8-SRIF) as a ligand.

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