What's the difference between madge and midge?

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).

Midge


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. Their larvae are usually aquatic.
  • (n.) A very small fly, abundant in many parts of the United States and Canada, noted for the irritating quality of its bite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In order to control adult midges, the distribution of larvae in the lake, the period and quantity of emergence from water, the time of flight, and the dispersal range of T. akamusi midges were studied.
  • (2) The radioallergosorbent inhibition test, however, suggested that there may be no cross-reactivity or, if any, only very low cross-reactivity between midge allergens and mite, house dust (HD), silk, shrimp, or mosquito allergens.
  • (3) Some chironomid (non-biting) midges contain potent human allergens, principally in the form of insect haemoglobins.
  • (4) A large proportion of the microfilariae ingested by the midges penetrated into the haemocoel and migrated first to the thoracic flight muscles and then to the head.
  • (5) The peak seasonal incidence of the BTV vector C. imicola and the EHDV vectors C. schultzei (group) midges at Rumais in Northern Oman correlated closely with the spring rains in that area.
  • (6) It starts to feel like it’s a process where if you give money you solve the problem, and really sometimes giving money creates another problem.” When he was told there was just one African-born performer on the track, he said: “That’s great, just a few more would be nice and also maybe go there – all those people who are making that.” Ultravox’s Midge Ure said the song was by no means a masterpiece, but is more about getting people as engaged with the fight against Ebola as they were in 1984, when a total of £8m was raised.
  • (7) The damages "nuisances" were "running laundry or defacing walls (67.1%) and "contamination of food (15.3%)", suggesting that chironomid midges influenced the daily life of the residents.
  • (8) Whole body extracts of this midge induced hypersensitivity reactions upon injection into susceptible horses and in this study attempts were made to define components of C. imicola which have immunogenic and allergenic properties.
  • (9) The possibility of other vectors, as well as C. brevitarsis, was suggested by the presence of cows possessing antibodies at Alice Springs, where this biting midge has not been found.
  • (10) Each population of a vector species of Culicoides has a variable proportion of these so-called refractory midges.
  • (11) (1) Female and male specific types of underreplication were found in the chironomid midge Prodiamesa olivacea.
  • (12) Positive ELISA reactions were detected with formalin-preserved midges collected from the south of Spain during the 1988 AHSV epizootic.
  • (13) Many adult midges were collected by light trap at the top of a building with a height of 45 meters.
  • (14) A 2-yr field study evaluated the effects of selected insecticides on Bembidion obscurellum Motschulsky and Bembidion quadrimaculatum L., carabid predators of the wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin).
  • (15) The attraction of adult midges to lamps of various colors and wattages was studied.
  • (16) nov. can be locally abundant, may result in the cycling of certain arboviruses between this biting midge and the elephant.
  • (17) Chronic effects of Cd on the growth and reproduction of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) were studied using a food chain model, midge larvae as prey and guppy as predator.
  • (18) To redirect the insect flights away from the residential area, and to decrease the number of adult midges coming from the lake, are thought to be the most important measures for the resolution of this problem.
  • (19) It was used to establish that the dark gut contents of individuals of five genera of insectivorous midges (Ceratopogonidae) was not blood.
  • (20) Of the 116 bacterial isolates obtained from their body surfaces 6% were from parasites (mosquitoes), 59% from eusynanthropic arthropods (Tenebrionid beetles, flies, German cockroaches, wasps), 16% from hemisynanthropic arthropods (ants, spiders) and 19% from occasionally encountered insects (non-biting midges, moths, beetles).

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