What's the difference between hella and mad?

Hella


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Iceland’s people, wildlife and scenery is the subject of Iceland – Land of Ice and Fire, broadcast at 9pm, Friday, 1 May, BBC2 • This article was amended on 30 April 2015 to adjust the approximate amount of time it takes to drive between Hella and Reykjavik.
  • (2) ITALY Juventus Derived from iuventus , or youth in Latin Hellas Verona As opposed to Grecia Verona.
  • (3) While it’s just over an hour’s drive from Reykjavik, Stracta is a practical alternative to city-based accommodation: it’s an easy ride on Route 1 back to the capital for attractions and nightlife, while being in the village of Hella gives you a head start on tourist coaches visiting the nearby Golden Circle hotspots of Geysir, Thingvellir national park and Gullfoss .
  • (4) "One of his first games upon being sold to Hellas Verona in 1984 was against Juventus.
  • (5) Throughout the shootout the Costa Rica team, or those not actively involved at the time, watched from their knees in the centre circle; at its end Los Ticos took flight, and it was Hellas on earth.
  • (6) The archives show that the Academy's permanent secretary, Anders Österling, felt "that there now was an opportunity to pay a beautiful tribute to modern Hellas, a language area that so far had been waiting too long [to be] honored in this context", and Seferis's eventual citation praised the poet's "eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture".
  • (7) Football, bloody Hellas, as someone almost once said.
  • (8) • Doubles from £80 room-only, 4 Rangárflatir, 850 Hella, +354 531 8010, stractahotels.is • The trip was provided by Wow air (0118 321 8384, wowair.co.uk ) which flies Gatwick to Reykjavik on Monday, Thursday and Sunday from £49 one-way.
  • (9) 12.20pm BST Hellas on Earth continued – this just in from Reuters: Outgoing Greece coach Fernando Santos has angered sections of the local media and soccer figures by claiming that some of his players were more interested in personal success than following instructions.
  • (10) She then went on to admit that "he was hella good at making films and his work has made billions of people happy.
  • (11) • Doubles from £200 room-only, Posthusstraeti 11, +354-551 1440, hotelborg.is Stracta Hotel Hella Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nature and some of Iceland’s most dramatic landscapes are right on your doorstep at this hotel co-owned by former Portsmouth FC footballer Hermann Hreiðarsson.
  • (12) The first curveball came when the head of the ethics commision, Peter Zevenbergen, attackedcriticised a letter sent by McQuaid to member federations attacking Cookson as anti-democratic, then, as if to ensure balance, detailed allegations from two days ago that the Cookson camp had attempted to bribe the Greek vote with €25,000 (£21,000), had asked them to canvas the Balkan countries, and had hoped that Igor Makarov would sponsor the Tour of Hellas.
  • (13) Macedonia, West Epirus, south-east Thessaly, north-east Sterea Hellas and the Aegean Islands produce corn deficient or low in selenium, but only sporadic selenium-deficiency diseases in animals have been observed in many of these areas, probably because the farm animals are given mixed food or they are free to graze.
  • (14) A year later, in July 1992, an investigation into the collapse of the Italian club, Hellas Verona, led to Caliendo, among others, being arrested and remanded in custody, but, after a long investigation, he was not prosecuted.
  • (15) From this, we conclude that the RSL are generated by water interacting with perchlorates, forming a brine that flows downhill.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest These channels, which are between 1 metre and 10 metres wide, are on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin.

Mad


Definition:

  • (n.) A slattern.
  • (n.) The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.
  • () p. p. of Made.
  • (superl.) Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
  • (superl.) Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.
  • (superl.) Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.
  • (superl.) Extravagant; immoderate.
  • (superl.) Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
  • (superl.) Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
  • (superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
  • (v. t.) To make mad or furious; to madden.
  • (v. i.) To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.
  • (n.) An earthworm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
  • (2) Right from the beginning, I had been mad about movies.
  • (3) "This will be not only be a postcode lottery, but a States vs Europe lottery and that would be madness."
  • (4) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (6) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
  • (7) If you’re against the RFS, you’re going to make Iowans mad, you’re going to [have] some Iowans question you but the beauty of Iowa is you can take your case to the people,” said Kaufmann.
  • (8) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
  • (9) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
  • (10) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
  • (11) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
  • (12) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
  • (13) Maleic acid dimethylester (MAD) was investigated in acute and subacute dermal toxicity studies, for sensitization potential, and for in vivo and in vitro genotoxicity.
  • (14) Or maybe it's the other way round - the constant touring is a manifestation of their madness.
  • (15) And while one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it.” While the bishops stress that their letter is not intended as “a shopping list of policies we would like to see”, they do advocate a number of specific steps, including a re-examination of the need for Trident, a retention of the commitment to funding overseas aid and a reassessment of areas where regulations fuel “the common perception of ‘health and safety gone mad’”.
  • (16) He still thinks Labour was mad to get him of all people to work inside the system.
  • (17) That has changed over the past few years as wallpaper has made a comeback and women have remembered that they like wearing madly patterned dresses – particularly leopard-print ones, or ones with huge flowers.
  • (18) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
  • (19) It would be hard to allow working from home if I thought that they were all watching box sets of Mad Men.
  • (20) People thought she'd gone mad, but in retrospect it's clear that this was precisely what she needed in order to move forward.

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