What's the difference between hotheaded and wild?

Hotheaded


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Getty Images Böhnhardt is said to have been more hotheaded.
  • (2) The deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, argued that the delivery of the S-300 system had been previously agreed with the Syrian government in Damascus and would be a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
  • (3) Since taking office as prime minister for the second time a year ago, stocky, tousle-haired Abe, 59, has avoided hotheaded actions and kept his political powder dry.
  • (4) In the next stage, more Israelis will take to the streets and take the law into their own hands, and we have no shortage of hotheads,” warned Alex Fishman, security correspondent for Israel’s top-selling daily, Yedioth Ahronoth.
  • (5) Make the opposition work for their concessions, and when the deal is struck make them feel that they have done well.” But some reflections may reassure sceptics worried that the British team is led by hotheads.
  • (6) In words apparently aimed at the UK, Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, described the missiles as a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
  • (7) Shogo Suzuki, an expert on Sino-Japanese relations and visiting associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, said: "All it takes is one hothead to pull the trigger and the whole thing spirals out of control.
  • (8) In Moscow, the foreign ministry said Lavrov had asked Kerry to "pressure Kiev to stop hotheads from provoking a bloody conflict and to encourage the Ukrainian authorities to strictly fulfil their obligations".
  • (9) Perhaps with a cry of "Put your dukes up, Obama", as the impetuous hothead hurdles over seats to uphold the family honour.
  • (10) Wise and venerable consultants, offering sympathy for those hotheaded kids, do actually have a horse in the race themselves.
  • (11) Michelle Dockery – now known all over the world as the frosty Lady Mary – has a successful career as a jazz singer and has performed with Sadie and the Hotheads, a band formed by Elizabeth McGovern , who plays her on-screen mother, the Countess of Grantham.
  • (12) Analysts, law enforcement sources and cartel contacts agree generational change is contributing to the unease: traditionalists often point to the hotheaded and exhibitionist tendencies of such narco “juniors”, whose inherited power and wealth contrast with the rags-to-riches struggles of their fathers.
  • (13) Prosecutors allege he intentionally killed her after a fight in the early hours of 14 February 2013 and have sought to paint him as a hothead with an inflated sense of entitlement and an obsession with firearms.
  • (14) Lippi threw his energies into creating a compact group of players with no room for hotheads, but pundits were quick to point out that the team he fielded against Slovakia showed no sign of team spirit.
  • (15) Abedi began wearing more traditional Arab dress and was seen by one neighbour saying Islamic prayers loudly in the street, but he remained hotheaded and volatile, picking fights with neighbours over issues such as where their cars were parked.
  • (16) It was the Vienna convention that in 1981 protected a young hotheaded diplomat by the name of Moussa Koussa , who publicly approved the planned assassination of Libyan dissidents.
  • (17) Sims may love food, family or mischief; they may be hotheaded bookworms, gloomy loners or goofball romantics; they could be driven by dreamy creativity or pure financial greed.
  • (18) But it'll be hard to beat opening for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival last year with my band, Sadie And The Hotheads .
  • (19) My new favourite Game Of Thrones castmember is now Cersei Lannister, for whom I didn't care much last time, but now she's out of the shadow of that wheezing hothead King Robert, is growlingly sublime.
  • (20) But we know that both Kennedy and Khrushchev believed it was important to de-escalate, important to control the hotheads in each of their governments, and important enough to risk their own leadership to do so.

Wild


Definition:

  • (superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
  • (superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
  • (superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
  • (superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
  • (superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
  • (superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
  • (superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
  • (superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
  • (n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
  • (adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
  • (2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
  • (3) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (5) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
  • (6) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
  • (7) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
  • (8) The kinetics of endocytosis and recycling of the wild-type and mutant receptors were compared.
  • (9) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
  • (10) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
  • (11) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.
  • (12) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
  • (13) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
  • (14) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
  • (15) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
  • (16) Addition of streptomycin restores much of the wild-type behaviour.
  • (17) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
  • (18) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
  • (19) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
  • (20) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.