What's the difference between jinx and jonah?

Jinx


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It took us 35 hours to get to London because of delays, so I think we’re jinxed,” said Jillian Masselos, who is pregnant.
  • (2) "Very serious allegations have been made and this is no run-of-the-mill, high jinx affair," he said this afternoon.
  • (3) 4.21am BST Red Sox 8 - Cardinals 1, top of 9th May Low (@TeamMassMayhem) @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid YOU JINXED IT!
  • (4) "Do I switch the lights on and risk jinxing the Reds?
  • (5) I'm not saying this was a jinx or anything, I'm just saying.
  • (6) Imagine the high-jinx when a man who likes meatballs has to eat, um, cod.
  • (7) Over the course of a jinxed shoot and a mixed critical reception he discovered that being King of the World was not all it was cracked up to be.
  • (8) Ah now, it'd be unfair for me to try to jinx one team over the other.
  • (9) I’m sitting in a windowless room with two gigantic pictures of [The Jinx’s villain] Robert Durst on the wall,” he explains on the phone from New York.
  • (10) Although given that my only other bet was on England beating Algeria 5-1, I think I've probably jinxed them."
  • (11) She chose her university, in part, because of its strong reputation for sport and Rosenfeld names the tennis star Martina Navratilova as an inspiration, although an injury jinxed her own hopes of competing at a top level.
  • (12) But the crowd are prepared to wait... 10.09pm BST I don't normally publish emails like this, but we've had a lot of them in the past week I'm banned by my highly superstitious family from watching live coverage of the Olympics because I jinx Team GB," says Claire Robins.
  • (13) "After such a victorious and uplifting welcome of Lima love, the contaminated jinx had its way via a simple restaurant meal of penne pasta and tomato," he wrote.
  • (14) But the resurgence would never be complete, the jinx not entirely broken, until they had defeated their rivals.
  • (15) When the San Francisco 49ers seemed to respond to the power outage by starting to play like they could actually steal the game away from the Baltimore Ravens, we wanted to give a certain amount of credit to the lights, call it momentum or a jinx or whatever.
  • (16) Fielding says the new book is about "a whole new idea for a phase of her life that I can't jinx by describing it".
  • (17) 1.53am GMT Kansas City here we come Of course in the other game last night, Sporting KC finally overcame their Houston Dynamo jinx to not just get to the MLS Cup final but to ensure that they'll be hosting it (having been to a great All Star Week there, I can tell you they'll do a great job too).
  • (18) They've been rather spoiled this week after lifting that home elimination game jinx.
  • (19) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
  • (20) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.23pm GMT 90 min +5: “Okay, with three minutes to go I think I’m just about ready to put my Niall Mullen voodoo doll away after his fate enticing attempt to jinx things at half time,” writes Phil Sawyer.

Jonah


Definition:

  • (n.) The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jonah RNA encodes a 28-kDa translation product or products for which we consider a possible function.
  • (2) And special education will also get hurt, to the tune of $978mn according to Jonah Edelman, the CEO of Stand for Children.
  • (3) In the third-instar larva the Jonah genes are abundantly expressed as transcripts of a single size class, located exclusively in the midgut.
  • (4) Her feature film debut was auspicious and striking – she played the sassy buddy of Jonah Hill in Superbad – and rapidly followed it with roles in The Rocker and The House Bunny .
  • (5) Last July, it destroyed the tomb of the prophet Jonah in Mosul .
  • (6) As recently as in August, 39-year-old founder Jonah Peretti sent a memo to staff, ecstatic about a then traffic record of 85 million users .
  • (7) They have grown up as the sons of Jonah and it’s a daunting task trying to explain to them what I achieved.
  • (8) Aziz Ansari cuts down comedians Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Nick Kroll, Jeffrey Ross and Andy Samberg at the Comedy Central roast of James Franco.
  • (9) Islamic State (Isis) militants have blown up a revered Muslim shrine traditionally said to be the burial place of the prophet Jonah in Mosul, residents of the city said.
  • (10) The Jonah genes were initially defined by homology to a reference cDNA clone.
  • (11) 🎉😂💘🎉😂💘🎉😂@raisingmalawi.org A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Nov 27, 2016 at 9:34am PST Other lots up for auction include a private game of poker with actors Edward Norton and Jonah Hill, a week in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Palm Springs home, a private dinner performance by the magician David Blaine, and artworks by Ai Weiwei, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel , Marilyn Minter and Damien Hirst.
  • (12) Borrowing from Rousseau's treatise Emile, or On Education – and inspired by the accessibility of Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer – he decided to write up his research as a novel, featuring an imaginary couple called Harold and Erica, who are guided through their lives by an omniscient and somewhat smug narrator.
  • (13) 3.33pm BST LSE student Jonah Werth sends us his take on Clearing.
  • (14) "I joined the London Irish academy too late," says Okoye, who as a schoolboy was nicknamed Jonah Lomu.
  • (15) Comedians I know, like Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin , are some of the best human observers.
  • (16) Jonah Sachs, co-founder and CEO of Free Range, said that beneath the surface of the decision to leave the conservative group might be a concern over the economics of tackling climate change.
  • (17) Evidence that different Jonah genes are under different control with respect to both spatial and temporal patterns of expression has been provided.
  • (18) Elsewhere: Jon Bernthal gets more fun to watch in every new thing he shows up in; this movie might make you want to murder Jonah Hill; and Margot Robbie in the nude, oiled up, golden and shaven, looks scarily like an Oscar statuette.
  • (19) However, the structural heterogeneity within this gene family is so large that Jonah genes that fail to hybridize to the reference cDNA, yet hybridize to other members of the family that do hybridize to that cDNA have been subsequently identified.
  • (20) Returning to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Fox used opening-weekend screenings to show trailers for The Sitter, in which Jonah Hill, the Superbad star and sidekick to Russell Brand in the truly horrendous Get Him to the Greek , plays a terrible babysitter.

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