What's the difference between madge and owl?

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).

Owl


Definition:

  • (n.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits.
  • (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
  • (v. i.) To pry about; to prowl.
  • (v. i.) To carry wool or sheep out of England.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to carry on any contraband trade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Owls were more hypnotizable than larks in the morning, and larks were also significantly more hypnotizable in the evening than owls.
  • (2) In owl monkeys, elevation of intracranial pressure to 500 mm.
  • (3) Inadequate availability of hematological reference data seriously restricts optimal utilization of the owl monkey (Aotus lemurinus griseimembra) as an experimental model.
  • (4) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
  • (5) The sulfinyl- and sulfonylquinazolines also retained antimalarial effects against chloroquine-, cycloguanil-, and DDS-resistant lines of P. berghei in mice and against chloroquine- and pyrimethamine-resistant strains of P. falciparum in owl monkeys.
  • (6) Matched, binocular displacing prisms were mounted over the eyes of 19 barn owls (Tyto alba) beginning at ages ranging from 10 to 272 d. In nearly all cases, the visual field was shifted 23 degrees to the right.
  • (7) Results described in this report identify a region of the viral genome that is required for oncogenicity in owl monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus); this region is not required for replication of the virus.
  • (8) A highly organized myoelectric event in the fasting avian small intestine, the ROC is demonstrated in detail in chickens (Gallus); it is also found in other gallinaceous birds but not in owls (Strix) or mammals.
  • (9) WR-158,122 and WR-159,412, against Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections in owl monkeys, were seriously impaired when infecting strains were pyrimethamine-resistant; and 2) that primary treatment failure with either agent led frequently to emergence of parasites resistant to these derivatives.
  • (10) The owl processes time and intensity components of the auditory signal in separate pathways, and each pathway has a distinctive pattern of GAD- and GABA-like immunoreactivity.
  • (11) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
  • (12) Connections between the primary motor cortex (MI) and the corpus striatum were studied in the owl monkey.
  • (13) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
  • (14) Thus I wound up on 13 February calling a London taxidermy shop and asking if they had any owls.
  • (15) The standard metabolism of Aotus trivirgatus (Night monkey, Owl monkey) is 22.5 to 46.2 per cent below Kleiber's prevision curve for mammals, which applies to other cebid monkeys like Saimiri sciureus and Alouatta.
  • (16) A person who's that out of it deserves both an owl and chocolate, so I got off the train at Piccadilly Circus and picked him up a box.
  • (17) Recordings from conscious owls plus simultaneous radiographic observations revealed characteristic gastrointestinal motility patterns associated with egestion.
  • (18) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
  • (19) The fitting procedure showed that the shape of the owls' binaural temporal window could be described by the same algorithms as the human monaural temporal window.
  • (20) In squirrel and owl monkeys, extensive reciprocal connections were made with cortex throughout the caudal half of the lateral fissure and, to a much lesser extent, cortex around the superior temporal sulcus.

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