What's the difference between madden and midden?

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.

Midden


Definition:

  • (n.) A dunghill.
  • (n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outbreaks of coccidioidomycosis and isolation of Coccidioides immitis have been reported from Amerindian middens.
  • (2) Results showed that a high percentage of the midden soils contained C. immitis, whereas none of the adjacent, nonmidden soils yielded the fungus.
  • (3) Physicochemical analyses revealed that the dark color and alkaline pH of the midden soils were due to past organic contamination.
  • (4) 'We are protectors, not protesters': why I'm fighting the North Dakota pipeline Read more Kandi Mossett, an organiser with the Indigenous Environmental Network explains: “There are sacred sites out here, there are midden pile sites, historic sites.
  • (5) In Chile in 1962, two Italian journalists wrote pieces comparing the host country to a midden – not particularly tactfully, as there had been an earthquake two years previously killing 6,000 people – and so the home team responded to the slight by hoofing the Azzurri around like old socks in the infamous David Coleman baiting Battle of Santiago .
  • (6) The shell midden habitation and cemetery site originally yielded the remains of 390 individuals.
  • (7) The physicochemical properties of the midden soils were compared with nonmidden soils and positive soils.
  • (8) The pathogens do not survive very long in stored farmyard manure because of the temperatures and biological and biochemical activities prevailing in the middens.
  • (9) Not that global warming is a reality for anyone but a few scaremongering communists who want us all to eat nettles and live in middens.

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