What's the difference between highlander and tartan?

Highlander


Definition:

  • (n.) An inhabitant of highlands, especially of the Highlands of Scotland.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
  • (2) As interest and participation in the athletics of Scottish-American Highland games has increased throughout the United States, the aim of this study was to define injury patterns and risk factors.
  • (3) The increase in movement of people both within the highlands of New Guinea and also to and fro between holo- and hyperendemic lowland areas and the highlands by policemen and semi-skilled personnel in one direction and by labourers in the other, together with a great increase in potential breeding sites, were virtually inevitable consequences of the development process as the intense communalism and geographical isolation of the highland people was broken down.
  • (4) Sometimes it's because of a personal connection - the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues my grandfather loved the most, which we listened to together, or the Bruckner symphony I associate with our family home in the highlands of Scotland - but the welling-up can also come completely out of the blue.
  • (5) In the highlands 90 sera were collected, in the lowlands 140.
  • (6) Emphysema appeared to be more prevalent in lowland than highland dwellers.
  • (7) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
  • (8) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
  • (9) An historical crisis movement from the highlands of Papua New Guinea re-examined from a psychiatric point of view raises the possibility that the two leaders suffered from mental disorder.
  • (10) Two pilot studies on malaria, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and intestinal parasites were carried out in 104 children 6-15 years old from villages in the lowland and highland areas of South Yemen in November 1988.
  • (11) The survey of a population including 40-59-old males, dwellers from the rural areas of the Tien Shan and Pamirs low- and highlands, has demonstrated that atherogenic dyslipoproteinemias are significantly more infrequently encountered among high-altitude dwellers than among low-altitude ones.
  • (12) Very few people in the highland area of Kigezi had antibody to any of the antigens used, whereas more than half of the sera from the Madi area near the Nile had antibody to several antigens.
  • (13) The results indicate that: (1) The so called adolescent spurt is not well defined among Bod highlanders.
  • (14) Morphological and structural rearrangement of resistant pulmonary vessels and alveolar capillaries was assessed in lowland animals (rabbits) during high-altitude adaptation, in aboriginal high-altitude species (yaks, mountain goats) and on native highlanders.
  • (15) Starting from the northernmost point of the island, it follows a varied course along high sea-cliffs and mountain ridges, taking in low lying crofts, villages deserted many years ago by the Highland Clearances, and modern day settlements, and gives a real taste of the island, its landscape, culture and heritage.
  • (16) The Dallas Morning News reported that the Highland Park school district sent a note aiming to reassure parents that their children could not contract Ebola through contact with the daughter of Clay Jenkins, a judge who is in charge of emergency management for Dallas County and who drove Troh and her family from her apartment to a temporary home in an undisclosed location.
  • (17) An ultrastructural study of lung biopsy specimens from an adult mestizo highlander from La Paz (3800 m) and three lowlanders from London showed no significant difference in the thickness of the alveolar capillary wall, the thickness in the highlander being 0.65 micron and the range in the lowlanders being 0.57-0.69 micron.
  • (18) The predominantly Maya town of Santiago Atitlan is in the Guatemalan highlands in the Department of Solola.
  • (19) In lowland (760 m above sea level) and highland (3200 m above sea level) of Tien Shan, the measurements of blood pressure and blood flow in the large vessels as well as the mass of heart ventricles of 75 rabbits have been made.
  • (20) The highland migrants at sea-level share none of the 'altitude' characteristics of the highland residents and, after size-adjustment, correspond with the lowlanders.

Tartan


Definition:

  • (n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
  • (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
  • (2) If the scenes in Faro are anything to go by he has the Tartan Army’s backing to do precisely that.
  • (3) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
  • (4) The fact is, you can’t quite see the tartan rainbow when you’re living right under it.
  • (5) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
  • (6) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
  • (7) Tom Young, 63, a retired British Gas worker wearing a red tartan scarf, said Berwick was "the forgotten area of Northumberland".
  • (8) As is regularly observed by the tartan twitterati, Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs, so Tories popping north to advise the natives on their voting duty are liable to prove counter-productive.
  • (9) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
  • (10) Next in line was the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, that’s IHMC, in Pensacola, and in third place was Tartan Rescue from Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center.
  • (11) "What she seems to be is a bridge between 1950s nationalism, which might be regarded as old-fashioned tweed and tartan SNP, and the modern social democratic SNP that is being forged in Holyrood."
  • (12) Oscar Marsh, aged 10, already has plans for the panda toy he has just been bought from the gift shop at Edinburgh zoo, which is filled with row after row of pandas in tartan skirts, panda toffees, panda-shaped shortbread tins, panda hats and earmuffs.
  • (13) But by dint of iron discipline and a little luck, we made it to the ground on time and found the Tartan Army in good heart; as ever, it was full of booze, hope and humour.
  • (14) The Tartan Army, as its fans are collectively known, is well-known for its open and passionate rivalry with the ancient and traditional foe, England, although one recent opinion suggested more Scots are either neutral or back England than don't.
  • (15) Then over the cardigan you wear a gold leather bodice and then a giant tartan coat.
  • (16) That tartan rug is a heather-hued heath before my hearth (alliteration too!).
  • (17) Jogging on forest grounds and cinder paths is less strenuous compared to asphalt tracks or tartan paths.
  • (18) "We want a striker" was the next chant to emanate from the Tartan Army; Mackie was operating in that lone role after the withdrawl of Miller.
  • (19) Tartan, for instance, for all its treasured place in the royal family's dressing-up box, appears to be as innocuously iconic to nationalists, in the approach to the referendum, as are tributes to William Wallace and celebrations of Bannockburn, in which around 11,000 English soldiers died.
  • (20) 11.35am: My colleague Kevin McCarra also believes England fans have turned over a new leaf: I have been watching the amiable England fans in Port Elizabeth and, troublingly for a a jock like me, I realised they have taken over the Tartan Army's determinedly good-natured approach now that Scotland no longer bother with major tournaments.

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