What's the difference between madden and maiden?

Madden


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.
  • (v. i.) To become mad; to act as if mad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both Keilloh and Madden face further hearings: the doctor will be examined by a General Medical Council disciplinary tribunal over his role in Iraq and the priest is to be interviewed by the archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley.
  • (2) While focusing criticism on a few members of the regiment – particularly Corporal Donald Payne, Lieutenant Craig Rodgers and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca – the report also passes scathing comment on the role of the unit's regimental medical officer, Dr Derek Keilloh, and its padre, Father Peter Madden.
  • (3) The Milan goalkeeper then forced away Xavi's shot after Iniesta had wriggled free with some maddeningly good footwork.
  • (4) Also, this would have probably required some sort of voodoo, as Smith and Jennings are the same type of maddening player that should never be on the court together.
  • (5) The first series of Heston's Great British Food was maddening.
  • (6) The study has the purpose of evaluating, by the analysis of ten years surviving curves, the effectiveness of different types of interventions: Halsted radical mastectomy (98 patients), Patey radical mastectomy (245 patients) and Madden radical mastectomy (151 patients), quadrantectomy (260 patients).
  • (7) There was also stinging criticism of Father Peter Madden, the unit's Catholic padre, who visited the temporary detention facility (TDF).
  • (8) And those in his shadow cabinet and beyond remained resolutely – and maddeningly – on-message.
  • (9) It’s maddening that the administration constantly talks about the ‘irreducible’ number of Guantánamo detainees when it takes such slow steps to reduce the numbers itself,” Kebriaei said.
  • (10) In this wildly unpredictable season, one of the few constants has been Everton’s maddening inconsistency.
  • (11) During the campaign she maddened them by refusing to firmly back the remain camp.
  • (12) The main features of the lymphatic down flow ways of this colon segment justify extended exeresis operations as described by Madden and Welti: they also mention colon resection, removal in one block of the spleen and the caudal corporal portion of the pancreas with the lymph node stations of the pancreatico-lienal group invaded by cancer.
  • (13) Sophie-Jane Madden said on Tuesday: “About 8,000 people crossed yesterday from Serbia to Croatia.
  • (14) The patient should be 'rescued' from these bonds linking the self with the maddening objects.
  • (15) Paddy Madden and Gary McSheffrey fired the goals to strengthen the Iron’s league position.
  • (16) Neither carried quite the emotional whack of Madden's departure.
  • (17) One hundred and eleven cases underwent Auchincloss and Madden modified radical mastectomy (MRM), and the remaining 126 cases received Halsted radical mastectomy (RM).
  • (18) This maddened one of his booking agents, who exclaimed: “I’d talk to him and all he’d say was ‘bells’ or ‘ding, ding’!” Young was the originator of the term “bread” as an expression for money, and habitually called both men and women “lady”.
  • (19) In an episode watched by half a million UK viewers on Sky Atlantic in June, Madden was killed off savagely and with so little warning that some (honestly, there's video proof ) leapt off their sofas.
  • (20) The General Medical Council declined to comment on the forthcoming hearing into Keilloh but Peter Jennings, press secretary for the archdiocese of Birmingham, said of the criticism of Madden: "The Catholic church takes this matter extremely seriously.

Maiden


Definition:

  • (n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
  • (n.) A female servant.
  • (n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
  • (n.) A machine for washing linen.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
  • (a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
  • (a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
  • (a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
  • (v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her maiden speech in parliament celebrated the diversity of her beloved Yorkshire constituency, and passionately made the case that there is more that unites us than divides us.
  • (2) In case you've managed to avoid gatherings where it's been discussed (which is a long shot, but perhaps your friends are hard, angry, silent drinkers, in which case, you've got lucky), this involves combining the name of your first pet with your mother's maiden name to create the pseudonym you'd use if you were a porn star.
  • (3) Restricted franchise in EU referendum would make a mockery of democracy | Letters Read more My own interest in this matter goes back many years – including devoting my maiden speech in the House of Commons in 2001 to the case for lowering the voting age to 16 across the board.
  • (4) Breakthrough as US and China agree to ratify Paris climate deal Read more The prime minister used her maiden speech at the United Nations in New York to say the UK remained determined to “play our part in the international effort against climate change … In a demonstration of our commitment to the agreement reached in Paris, the UK will start its domestic procedures to enable ratification of the Paris agreement and complete these before the end of the year,” she said.
  • (5) Experiences in practice in an area with a high infection rate have shown an obvious protection in 700 maiden heifers.
  • (6) Search options include an individual veteran's name (either maiden or married) and section, location or building choices.
  • (7) He is the third major summer recruit for Bilic before West Ham’s maiden season at the Olympic Stadium following the arrivals of the midfielder Havard Nordtveit and the Algerian international winger Sofiane Feghouli .
  • (8) That's been good for small towns like Maiden, which has sold itself to tech companies as a "data centre corridor" by offering cheap electricity.
  • (9) It prompted him to field nine changes, giving debuts to Seb Lletget, Danny Whitehead and Callum Driver, with George Moncur making a maiden start.
  • (10) He joined the upper house and made his maiden speech, another clue to the future Cantuar.
  • (11) After the wedding, she found herself at the receiving end of good ol’ southern disapproval when she decided to keep her maiden name – an act that was seen as virtually seditious in unreconstructed 1970s Arkansas.
  • (12) • You can invest in a co-operative formed to help finance the restoration and regeneration of Unity Hall in Wakefield , which, during its lifetime, has hosted everything from silent movies to gigs by Bauhaus, Captain Beefheart, the Human League and Iron Maiden, among others.
  • (13) Talking og maidens, here's Ravi Nair confiding in us: "You asked for our worst defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory stories so maybe this'll make you feel better.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mhairi Black gives her maiden speech Students and other young people on Twitter and Tumblr said they were inspired by Black’s age and example.
  • (15) Murray earned $1.9m (£1.1m) for his maiden major victory to go with career earnings of $21.5m (£13.4m) and is worth £24m through endorsements and prize-money; Perry turned pro after beating Budge and made much more through his famous shirts than he ever did with a tennis racket.
  • (16) Between 1982 and 1985, 1015 mares were evaluated using the following parameters: age, mare status (maiden, barren, lactating), Caslick index, Caslick operation, ovarian cycle, ovarian and follicular size, treatments (hCG and intrauterine infusions), number of ovulations after mating (184 mares), number of conceptuses present, dimensions of embryonic vesicles, and pregnancy status 45 days after mating.
  • (17) Nine galleries narrate the tale, from context-setting in boomtown early 1900s Belfast, through construction and fitting-out, all the way to the launch and catastrophic maiden voyage.
  • (18) The brothers moved in different circles; the elder is a self-confessed “metalhead” who had been to the Manchester arena to watch Iron Maiden a week before Martyn – a Coronation Street superfan described by one friend as a “one-man hen party” – went to see Ariana Grande.
  • (19) Grainge was bullish that the enforced asset sale – which will include EMI operations in nine European countries and labels such as Chrysalis, Mute and Sanctuary, home to artists including Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode and Iron Maiden respectively – will draw premium bids and that Universal will not lose out by offloading them.
  • (20) Tracing would be easier and less expensive if standard identifying information, including maiden name, social security number, and date of birth, were included in the medical records for all women.