What's the difference between guy and shark?

Guy


Definition:

  • (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
  • (v. t.) To steady or guide with a guy.
  • (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.
  • (n.) A person of queer looks or dress.
  • (v. t.) To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
  • (2) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
  • (3) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
  • (4) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (5) If you’ve been to a red brick university in the past 10 years then chances are you know the guy.
  • (6) As for Scotland Soccer Club, Altidore's deputy at franchise level, Steven Fletcher, is gonna be the guy that the hosts will look to kick the soccer ball in to the soccer goal interior.
  • (7) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
  • (8) Opposition spokesman Matthew Guy said it was unclear how the government intended to fund the project given the federal government was yet to come to the table.
  • (9) How many other countries celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
  • (10) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
  • (11) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
  • (12) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
  • (13) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
  • (14) There are three kinds of motivation: the intrinsic motivation which means the guy is naturally demanding of himself that he wants to be the best, and he has always that inner dissatisfaction with what he has achieved.
  • (15) He's the sort of guy who takes form every experience something good and uses it in the future.
  • (16) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
  • (17) If I’m the bad guy because I’m not the guy they want me to be, then so be it.” Over the last year he resolved his promotional woes in court and has since signed with Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports – along with Miguel Cotto the nascent sports agency’s highest-profile signing in boxing.
  • (18) Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys [Official Music Video] Oh boy!
  • (19) Still, he reiterates that he'd never heard of "this guy," Mayor Sokolich, until yesterday.
  • (20) Romney contends the president is a nice guy who has failed to make things better.

Shark


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
  • (v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
  • (v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
  • (v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
  • (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
  • (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
  • (2) I had loan sharks turning up at the training ground when I was at Ipswich [2011-13].
  • (3) Although small amounts of AFP are synthesized by sharks in the liver, the greatest site of synthesis is actually the stomach, with smaller amounts synthesized in the intestinal mucosa; no synthesis was observed in the shark yolk sac.
  • (4) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).
  • (5) Little, if anything, is known about shark litter sizes, making it very difficult to conserve this species.
  • (6) Normal shark plasma contains numerous natural antibodies reactive with a variety of antigens, including the target employed.
  • (7) 5) The SC-binding site is present on high molecular weight immunoglobulin in species as primitive as the nurse shark.
  • (8) Microfinance has clearly deviated from its original goal , it’s given rise to “its own breed of loan sharks,” as Yunus says.
  • (9) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
  • (10) In contrast to dogfish sharks, stringrays with high spinal transections do not locomote.
  • (11) The spiracular organ is a tube (skate) or pouch (shark) with a single pore opening into the spiracle.
  • (12) Statistical tests were carried out on the results of chemical analysis for total mercury concentrations of replicate samples of muscle tissue of school shark Galeorhinus australis (Macleay) and gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus Guenther from six independent analytical laboratories.
  • (13) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
  • (14) That would eliminate a shark because they have cartilage, and on that basis it was likely one of the billfish."
  • (15) The perceived immunity of sharks to cancer has led to their slaughter to harvest the allegedly curative cartilage ; not only is this no good for sharks, it's no good for humans either.
  • (16) The shark GH isolated from pituitary glands by U. J. Lewis, R. N. P. Singh, B. K. Seavey, R. Lasker, and G. E. Pickford (1972, Fish.
  • (17) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
  • (18) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
  • (19) The N-terminal 19 amino-acid residues of IP-1 of trout CNS- and P0 of frog PNS myelin were sequenced and proved to be homologous on one hand with the P0 analogue of CNS of the shark, a cartilage fish, and on the other hand with P0 protein of PNS of birds and mammals.
  • (20) Labour's competition and consumer affairs spokeswoman, Stella Creasy, has been given special responsibility to lead a campaign against abuses by legal loan sharks, Miliband said.