What's the difference between henhouse and hutch?

Henhouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A house or shelter for fowls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If I were elected president, the foxes would no longer guard the henhouse,” he said.
  • (2) "When we go down this road of having executive branch insiders continually placed in charge of reviewing the executive branch, it is more of a fox guarding the henhouse situation."
  • (3) There’s a hungry fox guarding the henhouse at our Environmental Protection Agency,” said Donna Brazile, the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, in a statement.
  • (4) Although sister Nancy's claim that Debo could imitate a hen expelling an egg might have been a joke, Debo did drive the cart delivering the Mitford henhouse eggs to the station.
  • (5) These are the people who watch a wolverine devour a henhouse on Discovery HD and yell at the screen because the chickens “refused to compromise.” Which leaves us with Clinton, who refuses to apologize.
  • (6) Nigel Farage declared he had unleashed a "Ukip fox in the Westminster henhouse" and continued to predict a victory in the European elections, the results of which are due on Sunday.

Hutch


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
  • (n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
  • (n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  • (n.) The case of a flour bolt.
  • (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  • (n.) A jig for washing ore.
  • (v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
  • (v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It had only been told on Wednesday that Hutchings could not be there.
  • (2) Passersby were encouraged to sign a letter to Hutchings that stated: "You seem to be saying that our state schools are good enough for our kids but not for yours."
  • (3) Asked after the factory visit why Hutchings had not been at the hustings, David Cameron said: "She was with me at a very important meeting at a business that's the sort of beating heart of Eastleigh.
  • (4) The communities and local government secretary, Eric Pickles, met voters in the village of Hamble with the Tory candidate Maria Hutchings, who was forced to deny making potentially damaging remarks about immigration and gay people after launching her campaign on Friday.
  • (5) According to the Daily Mirror, Hutchings said on Friday: "William [her son] is very gifted which gives us another interesting challenge in finding the right sort of education for him – impossible in the state system.
  • (6) But while out campaigning with the home secretary, Theresa May, on Monday, Hutchings insisted her comments had been misinterpreted.
  • (7) The basic shortcomings of the method Belding-Hutch are mentioned: inaccuracies in the equation of the heat balance, incongruity of the accepted criteria with the up-to-date physiological data.
  • (8) "It's such a shame that Conservatives like Maria Hutchings want to do our education system down instead of sending the message that whatever your background, you can achieve what you set out to do in life."
  • (9) Smoke weed every day!” And in movies, Snoop’s been happy to play to his stoner persona, both in the pro-weed documentary The Culture High and as Huggy Bear in 2004’s Starsky and Hutch , where he displays an encyclopedic knowledge of actual grass varieties on a golf course.
  • (10) Outside, the wind and rain sends the school's pet rabbits into a retreat deep inside their hutches.
  • (11) Individual calf hutches or pens provide adequate isolation if sufficient spacing and good sanitation are maintained.
  • (12) A letter from cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, another surgeon and six named GPs states: "As GPs and surgeons who all started their education at state-funded schools, we are proof that Maria Hutchings' assertions are not true.
  • (13) A modification of the method Belding-Hutch is proposed.
  • (14) On the first day of her campaign , Maria Hutchings was asked about one interview in which she was quoted as saying she did not care about refugees and another in which she allegedly claimed that Labour had done more for "the immigrants, the gays, the bloody foxes" than for children with special needs.
  • (15) Hutchings, a local woman who makes much of her down-to-earth attitude in campaign literature, could be spotted at various points during the day being ushered around by a coterie of smart-suited, well-spoken young men brandishing shiny blue balloons like defensive weaponry.
  • (16) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said Hutchings had insulted "every pupil and teacher at our state schools", while a group of surgeons and GPs who had been state-educated wrote an open letter claiming they were living proof she was wrong .
  • (17) The Lib Dems, who are defending the seat in next Thursday's vote following Chris Huhne's resignation, seized on the Tory problems, presenting 10 questions that they said had to be answered about Hutchings, who has attracted headlines for forthright – and often off-message – views about subjects ranging from state education to the EU and gay marriage.
  • (18) While canvassing with Hutchings on a housing estate in the Hampshire constituency, Duncan Smith said he was glad she did not always toe the party line.
  • (19) Boyd was informed of Drake’s talents by Hutchings, went down to see for himself and at once became the third figure of the Drake-Kirby-Joe Boyd triumvirate which created … well first, of course, there was Five Leaves Left.
  • (20) It is not the first time during the campaign that Hutchings has claimed she has been misquoted or misinterpreted.

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