What's the difference between groundling and loach?
Groundling
Definition:
(n.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
(n.) A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shakespeare definitely knew how to keep the groundlings happy – that's something we all strive for as writers.
(2) While actorly logorrhea flows into the outstretched mics of the presenters – the usual effluvia of "gifts", "blessings", "journeys", "privileges" and "honours" – my fellow groundlings turned their attention to their McDonald's and Doritos instead.
(3) From the outset, reviewers were nonplussed by this new-old space, especially the tendency for its groundlings (standing audience members) to exercise a form of mob rule.
(4) Williams said the jig is not an exhibition of dance skills, not a take-a-bow presentation, give ’em ye olde razzle-dazzle, but the actors’ generous sharing of the play experience with the audience, especially the Globe’s crowd of groundlings who have stood still throughout.
(5) For a moment, as he gathered up his possessions and rejoined the groundlings wondering if they will ring in the new year never mind Christmas at the airport, Michael's zen-like calm almost shattered.
Loach
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) That, roughly, was the theme of the Wednesday Play, Cathy Come Home, (BBC1) directed by Kenneth Loach, produced by Tony Garnett.
(2) Some of the fishes had six-banded electrophoretic patterns not observed in other loach species (e.g.
(3) Two distinct coding sequences (A and B) were elucidated for rainbow trout metallothioneins but single isoforms were encoded by genes isolated from the stone loach and pike.
(4) The original Wednesday Play, succeeded by the long-running Play for Today, is fondly remembered by many of today's best-known writers and directors as the experimental breeding ground for the likes of Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, Mike Leigh and Alan Bleasdale.
(5) The quantitative and qualitative composition of DNA-bound lipids of loach spermatozoa changes during the transition from the superhelical to the relaxed conformation of DNA.
(6) But there was much applause for Ken Loach , another surprise victor, this year of the Jury Prize (which ranks just below the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix).
(7) Obviously the film is a specific critique about the recent changes in the welfare system, I get that, but I think Loach could have made an almost identical movie 20 years ago, prior to Iain Duncan Smith ’s reforms.
(8) The dynamics of protein synthesis in the loach embryos has been studied by means of autoradiography at the stages of cleavage, blastula and gastrula.
(9) So in that sense I prefer the days of Cathy.” In the 60s and 70s, Loach belonged to small leftist groups: the Socialist Labour League (forerunner of the Workers Revolutionary Party ), the International Socialists , the International Marxist Group, all critical of both western capitalism and the Stalinism of the Soviet Union.
(10) The gradual change of enzymes of glycogen metabolism proceeds during the skeletal muscle differentiation in the loach.
(11) The effects of LHRH-A and sGnRH-A alone and in combination with the dopamine receptor antagonists pimozide (PIM) and domperidone (DOM) on stimulation of gonadotropin (GtH) secretion and ovulation in Chinese loach (Paramisgurnus dabryanus) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) were studied.
(12) This film, though, doesn't tell it, nor (quite properly) will Loach allow that the earlier sufferings of British soldiers can mitigate their role in Ireland.
(13) The tunica muscularis of the proximal intestine of the loach consisted of intermingling striated and smooth muscle cells without forming any distinct sublayers.
(14) Eventually, he says he wants Loach to enjoy his time however he chooses.
(15) Loach has spent his career depicting ordinary people, telling working-class stories as truthfully as possible, and he works distinctively – filming each scene in order, often using non-professional actors, encouraging improvisation.
(16) The cytosol aspartate aminotransferase is represented by one protein with the same mobility at all developmental stages both in the loach and in the hybrids.
(17) Political decisions are allowing this to happen and this needs to change.” Supporters of the march include the Labour MPs Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Loach, the film director, who made the 1966 TV play Cathy Come Home, about a family who lose their home and face a life of poverty.
(18) Histopathological investigations of taste organs of loaches (Noemacheilus barbatulus, L.) taken from creeks with differing grades of pollution demonstrate variable degrees of damage to taste bud structures.
(19) Loach says: "There's a very interesting story to be told from the point of view of working-class lads who were supposedly coming back to a land fit for heroes, but who were offered money to go to Ireland and pursue the only trade they knew, which was soldiering."
(20) When I ask whether Loach would describe his politics as socialist, he says it's a difficult word, because it's much devalued, and you can't "make sense of it without Marx – but if you say you're a Marxist, then the rightwing press just uses it as a brick to hang around your neck."