What's the difference between lech and satyr?

Lech


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
  • (2) Positive reactions were recorded in the following game species: impala (Aepyceros melampus), lechwe (Kobus leche), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) and tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus).
  • (3) Kaczynski is the co-founder, along with his late twin brother and former Polish president Lech, of the Law and Justice party – the second largest member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group after the Tories.
  • (4) A Committee was appointed in 1973 by the National Board of Health and Welfare, which initiated a number of breast feeding promoting activities: the editing of a Manual for health personnel, and booklets for mothers, the systematic arranging of workshops for key personnel in each county, stimulation to more flexible and breast feeding favouring maternity routines, backing of working groups of La Leche League-type, etc.
  • (5) "Jaroslaw Kaczynski was practising politics from the 19th century, fighting with Germany and Russia and going on about Smolensk," he said, a reference to the plane crash in 2010 that killed Kaczynski's twin brother Lech, a former Polish president.
  • (6) The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a regional airport in Russia early this morning.
  • (7) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
  • (8) Zych also remembered the late president Lech Kaczynski and MPs who died with him in a plane crash last year.
  • (9) Positive reactions were also recorded in lechwe (Kobus leche), tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), red hartebeeste (Alcelaphus buselaphus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), sable (Hippotragus niger) and impala (Aepyceros melampus).
  • (10) Lech Walesa, the first democratically elected president of post-communist Poland, has criticised David Cameron for acting "irrationally and shortsightedly" over immigration from eastern Europe.
  • (11) Ninety-six people died including the country’s president, Lech Kaczyński, who was the twin brother of leader of PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński.
  • (12) A historical witch hunt for “communist agents” has even extended to hero trade union leader Lech Wałęsa .
  • (13) In the early 1990s he was initially a close collaborator with president Lech Walesa, but later, after a sharp rupture, became his fierce political opponent.
  • (14) To increase the range of the feeding and caretaking behaviors hypothesized to be relevant determinants of early crying, home observations and diary records were analyzed from samples of two subcultures of American middle-class women (La Leche League and "standard care" mothers; each n = 16) differing primarily in such practices.
  • (15) Lech Kaczynski, who has died aged 60, had been Poland's president since 2005, its fourth since the country broke free from the Soviet bloc in 1989.
  • (16) Lech Walesa, Poland's former president and leader of the Solidarity trade union in communist times, said Palikot had successfully tapped into issues neglected by other parties.
  • (17) His political home is the Law and Justice party of the Kaczynski twin brothers, Lech, the Polish president, and Jaroslaw, former prime minister.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński in 2005.
  • (19) The received wisdom says St Anton is for the young ski-and-party-hard set, Lech and Zürs are playgrounds for the European elite and Stuben is a good-value family option.
  • (20) In neighbouring Poland, the founder of the anti-communist Solidarity movement and former president Lech Walesa called Havel "a great fighter for the freedom of nations and for democracy".

Satyr


Definition:

  • (n.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
  • (n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.
  • (n.) The orang-outang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when he laughed – which was a lot – he looked like an elderly satyr.
  • (2) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
  • (3) Picasso is wheeled on too, but his print of a satyr contemplating a nymph is a homage to Rembrandt, not Rubens.
  • (4) The director of the notorious 1991 French folly Les amants du Pont-Neuf has been away from feature films for more than a decade, and returned at Cannes with the nuttiest offering on display, featuring that wonderful French actor Denis Lavant – part acrobat, part mime artist, part satyr – as Monsieur Oscar, who plays 11 different parts, changing in the back of a white limo as it glides around Paris from one rendezvous to another.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest V&A Collection Andrea Riccio Satyr and Satyress (1510-1520) V&A, London In Greek and Roman mythology satyrs are goat-legged followers of the wine god Bacchus, hairy votaries of sex, dance and ecstasy.
  • (6) Did I actually fancy this rather strange little satyr of a man in his funny heels?
  • (7) Comparison of these four patients suggests a characteristic phenotype in the 4q- syndrome: cleft palate, satyr deformity of the pinnae, snub nose, retrognathia and micrognathia, hypertelorism, oropharyngeal hypothonia or upper airway obstruction, cardiac defect, clinodactyly of the fifth fingers with absence of a flexion crease, simian lines, displaced or clinodactylous toes, and mental retardation.
  • (8) It's a big silver dish decorated with scenes of satyrs and other worshippers of Bacchus, a good theme for a boozy Roman banquet.
  • (9) My favourite scene is a very hot and very sweet threesome with Mouse, Ben and a beautiful youth dressed as a satyr.
  • (10) Here, however, the brilliant craftsman Riccio imagines a satyr couple, tenderly embracing in some balmy woodland nook.
  • (11) However, in a few species, including the ostrich, rheas, kiwis, some tinamous, the red-throated loon, screamers, the satyr tragopan, the great bustard, and the pin-tailed sandgrouse, the ceca are sacculated or have diverticula.
  • (12) The whole work is crammed and crowded with the Dadd mixture of intricate plant life and small figures on all scales – a miniature bacchanal with satyrs, and a dead deer on a pole that rushes along above Titania's head.
  • (13) The proband shows the full spectrum of anomalies, including imperforate anus, prominent perineal raphe, rectoperineal fistula, triphalangeal thumb, preaxial hexadactyly, syndactyly, clinodactyly, preauricular protuberances, hypoplastic satyr ears, sensorineural hearing loss and urorenal anomalies.