What's the difference between madge and magpie?

Madge


Definition:

  • (n.) The barn owl.
  • (n.) The magpie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The linear (first-order) kernels of wild type, and of single and double mutants affected in genes madA to madG were determined previously with Gaussian white noise test stimuli, and were used to investigate the interactions among the products of these genes (R.C.
  • (2) But even if she feels that those particular days are behind her, as another member of the generation that grew up with Madge as the example of everything we wanted to be (and our parents didn't), I feel quite disappointed that she doesn't feel inclined to throw her substantial clout behind such a cause.
  • (3) Paglia accuses Gaga of stealing from Madonna, but Madge pilfered sounds and imagery from everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Daft Punk .
  • (4) The madH gene product was found to interact with those of madC and madG.
  • (5) Half of firewood supplier Keith Madge's stock is underwater.
  • (6) Britain’s staycationers can expect temperatures in the high teens or low 20s this weekend, said Graham Madge, spokesman for the Met Office.
  • (7) The white-noise method of system identification has been applied to the transient light-growth response of a set of seven mutants of Phycomyces with abnormal phototropism, affected in genes madA to madG.
  • (8) A new gene, tentatively designated madG, was segregated from a cross involving that strain.
  • (9) The light-growth response of Phycomyces has been studied with Gaussian white-noise test stimuli for a set of 21 double mutants affected in all pairwise combinations of genes madA to madG; these genes are associated with phototropism, the light-growth response, and other behaviors.
  • (10) Specifically, we have investigated interactions of the madH ("hypertropic") gene product with the madC ("night blind") and madG ("stiff") gene products.
  • (11) What about the tantric sex with Trudie, the networking events they hold in their Tuscan villa for spiritual gurus and creative thinkers, the biodynamic vineyards and the fact they were responsible for introducing Madonna to Guy Ritchie at one of their glitzy celebrity parties and, by extension, for subjecting us to all those photographs of Madge in tweed caps and tracksuits?
  • (12) The second of four children of Madge (nee Hutley) and Jack, a Methodist minister with conservative theological views, Hull was born in Corryong in the state of Victoria, Australia.
  • (13) For most it’s going to be fairly bright and clear,” Madge said.
  • (14) The kernels for C110 (madE), C316 (madF), and C307 (madG) have a shallow and extended negative phase.
  • (15) "This is a very worrying situation to have at this time of year," said Grahame Madge, an RSPB official.
  • (16) Founded that year by the anthropologist Tom Harrisson , the poet and journalist Charles Madge and the surrealist painter and film-maker Humphrey Jennings , Mass Observation's aim was to study the ordinary lives of ordinary people in order to counteract the stereotypes that held sway in the British media of the time.
  • (17) Instead, its spokesman Grahame Madge accepts removing the currently small population is prudent.
  • (18) These so-called "stiff" mutants are affected in four genes (madD to madG).

Magpie


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Isaac Julien, artist I have a magpie attitude to inspiration: I seek it from all sorts of sources; anything that allows me to think about how culture comes together.
  • (2) It was determined that MAGPI can be performed safely and cost-effectively on an ambulatory basis.
  • (3) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
  • (4) Capital One Cup: QPR lose to Carlisle and Watford lose to Preston Read more The beating of Huddersfield Town away in the first round was proof the new-look Magpies had the capacity to embarrass higher division opposition though, and a similar upset looked to be on the cards when Genaro Snijders’ long-range shot took a deflection that looped past the wrong-footed Villa goalkeeper Mark Bunn in the 16th minute.
  • (5) Fame Academy – the Blue Peter-like BBC attempt to ape Cowell's more Magpie-esque shows – built Sneddon up because, unlike those ITV poppets, he wrote his own songs.
  • (6) Moving swiftly on, Dominic Hart reminds us of an even more painful experience, physically at least, suffered by Newcastle supporter Robert Nesbitt, who chose to have a large image of Andy Cole in full Magpies garb tattooed on to his right thigh ... two days before Cole left for Manchester United.
  • (7) Lesions, grossly and histologically typical of pox infection, occurred in a white-backed magpie from Melbourne, Australia.
  • (8) De Jong joins the Tenerife striker Ayoze Pérez and Sunderland midfielder Jack Colback in signing for the Magpies this summer.
  • (9) As we stand by the edge of the Eaton Square Gardens, I can see a magpie or two hopping around, squawking at the hawk.
  • (10) The M inverted V glansplasty was designed to address the factors leading to meatal retraction and the abnormal glans shape sometimes seen after the MAGPI.
  • (11) In the long term, it is our experience that the MAGPI operation does not maintain a terminal position for the external urinary meatus, but the functional and cosmetic results are satisfactory.
  • (12) But maybe you have: maybe you’ve glanced out of the window and seen there, on the lawn, a bloody great hawk murdering a pigeon, or a blackbird, or a magpie, and it looks the hugest, most impressive piece of wildness you’ve ever seen, like someone’s tipped a snow leopard into your kitchen and you find it eating the cat.
  • (13) The daily organization of sleep and wakefulness was examined electrographically under natural conditions in captive juvenile and adult magpies, Pica pica.
  • (14) Over a one-year period, 96 consecutive children with distal hypospadias underwent mental advancement and glanuloplasty (MAGPI) for hypospadias repair.
  • (15) Glandular or coronal hypospadias have been repaired by MAGPI procedure (65 cases, 1 fistula, 1 meatal stricture), and distal penile hypospadias by Mathieu's urethroplasty (32 cases, 1 fistula), since 1981.
  • (16) He made his last appearance for the Swans, who are one point better off than the relegation-threatened Magpies, in Sunday’s 3-2 FA Cup third-round defeat at League Two Oxford , after which he became involved in a row with a disgruntled fan as he left the pitch.
  • (17) We have treated hypospadia that is strictly glandular either with Duckett's Magpi procedure (54 cases, 49 long-term follow-up, 47 good results, retraction of the meatus in two), or Koff's advancement procedure if there is a grow in glans (13 cases, 12 good results, on requiring meatostomy).
  • (18) The MAGPI procedure routinely is performed on an outpatient basis without any urinary diversion.
  • (19) Duckett's innovative meatoplasty and glanuloplasty (MAGPI) procedure has become a standard operation for the correction of these lesions.
  • (20) "Alternatively, draw up a contract between you absolving each other of liability if an accident occurs," advises Jasmine Birtles, author of The Money Magpie.

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