What's the difference between jumbo and rumbo?

Jumbo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
  • (2) Chief executive Louis Gallois said Beijing's refusal to allow Hong Kong Airlines to complete a $4bn order for the A380 super-jumbos amounted to "retaliation measures" over the policy, which came into force at the beginning of the year.
  • (3) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
  • (4) Jumbo Records in Leeds has been in business for 43 years.
  • (5) Talked up as "Britain's proudest creation", it was housed in a tent so big and strong that its roof could, apparently, support the weight of a jumbo jet.
  • (6) Another group of art students is in, and Wilson is giving them a talk, telling them how a jumbo jet crash inspector visited and identified at once that the plane had been crushed deliberately rather than crashed - the sort of technical detail that he appreciates.
  • (7) Hofland gave the LottoNL-Jumbo team their first victory of the season as he edged out IAM Cycling’s Matteo Pelucchi on the final stretch in the shadow of York racecourse.
  • (8) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
  • (9) At Jumbo Records, seven bands will be playing in a pop-up venue put together in a vacant unit next door.
  • (10) This is better than the Jumbo Jet, which can only fly for 12 h.
  • (11) She could see a hole that ripped open at the back of the jumbo jet where the bathroom had been and carried her son to safety.
  • (12) Rolls-Royce, which makes engines for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners and Airbus A380 superjumbos, has been betting on wide-bodied aircraft and by 2020 half the world’s jumbo jets will be powered by its engines.
  • (13) I always remember the startled look of the platitudinous young vicar who visited our house after my grandad died, when my mum said, "Don't come round here with your mumbo-jumbo.
  • (14) The world he inadvertently summoned into being persists - in nuclear arsenals, and 747 jumbo jets and B52s, the direct descendants of the Boeing B29.
  • (15) The high fuel costs and narrow profit margins that characterised much of the previous ten years made an underoccupied jumbo economically unviable, and airlines have taken to scheduling multiple slots on popular routes to meet consumer demand, rather than one big take-off.
  • (16) Jumbo problems The most interesting part of the whole affair is what it says about all forms of technological regulation in the future.
  • (17) gets such a massive response they'll need a Jumbo Jet, not a tour bus.
  • (18) Finally grounded in 2006 after a period flying under the European Aviation banner, parts of this jumbo have been turned into the signature metal tags of the environmental campaign.
  • (19) Wouldn't it be better to accept it now rather than let this defendant get tangled up in a messy trial for the sake of some legal mumbo-jumbo?"
  • (20) It comes at the same time as farmers are stepping up exports of live breeding pigs to China, packing up to 900 at a time into a jumbo jet for a 12-hour non-stop flight.

Rumbo


Definition:

  • (n.) Grog.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You think they’ll figure it out?’ Eljuan Pistolas (@EljuanPistolas) Amanecemos con la nueva que se fugó #ElChapo y @EPN va rumbo a Francia!

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