What's the difference between maidenhead and virginity?
Maidenhead
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
(n.) The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.
(n.) The hymen, or virginal membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Official papers released at the Public Records Office in Kew last year explained how Mr Simpson covered for his wife's adultery and took responsibility for the failure of the marriage by arranging to be found with a woman in a bedroom of a hotel in Maidenhead.
(2) Mrs Turney, who lives near Maidenhead, Berkshire, downloaded a model complaint letter from a website after watching a TV documentary about bank charges.
(3) "It wasn't as successful as we hoped," he said at the headquarters of Intuit, a financial software and services firm, in Maidenhead.
(4) It would be nice to see my old mate Michael Parkinson there but he doesn't come to games any more - he lives down near Maidenhead and supports Reading these days.
(5) The events surrounding his doomed bid were the subject of the BBC documentary called Campaign Confessions: Losing My Maidenhead.
(6) OS Map: Explorer OL6 – Lake District: south-western area Henley-on-Thames to Maidenhead Chilterns Cliveden estate along the Thames Path national trail, Buckinghamshire.
(7) The 24-year-old, from Maidenhead in Berkshire, who has cerebral palsy, also secured a British Paralympic record 11 medals in one Games for the equestrian team.
(8) Pumping hope into the economy is now considered worth alienating every Conservative council and MP whose voters live under the flightpath of planes using the new runway, including Mrs May’s own Maidenhead constituents.
(9) But hey, I grew up in maidenhead, so what do I know?
(10) In Windsor and Maidenhead, the attainment gap between white British pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) is around 12 percentage points, whereas in nearby West Berkshire it’s 33 percentage points.
(11) She also voiced concern about how local groups would cope with extra demands, saying grants to the voluntary sector had been frozen for the last five years in Windsor and Maidenhead and an expected "performance reward grant" of £100,000 for increasing volunteer numbers was likely to be halved or removed completely.
(12) "This year's formula grant – the main general grant from government to local authorities – was on average £300 per head more in the north-east than the south-east with Newcastle receiving £653 per head, compared for example to £150 per head in Windsor and Maidenhead.
(13) In Windsor and Maidenhead the Conservative council leader, David Burbage, was more forthcoming.
(14) Grammar schools attract considerable support from Maidenhead families.
(15) The carbonised reek of the weekend barbecue was unknown, except in the riverside gin palaces of Maidenhead and Bray.
(16) Let’s be clear, the 0.7% commitment remains and will remain,” she said during a factory visit in her Maidenhead constituency.
(17) AbbVie operates in Britain out of Maidenhead, Berkshire.
(18) Dr Jonathan Romain, of Maidenhead synagogue, said: "I am totally sympathetic to the black depression that overtakes those who commit suicide, and certainly want to prevent any future ones, but Clarkson has done everyone a favour by saying out aloud that, while people have the right to end their lives, they should not do so in a way that scars others.
(19) Billy bookcases and the definitive meatball – inside the new Ikea museum Read more Rory Firth, 40, from Maidenhead, said: “It was just bedlam.
(20) Staff who have worked on the preparatory stages have described it as an "unbelievable" engineering challenge, which stretches from Maidenhead on the western fringes of London through the centre of the capital to Canary Wharf in the Docklands and Shenfield in Essex.
Virginity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.
(n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) Tritium-labeled ribonucleic acid precursors, including cytidine, uridine, and orotic acid, were injected into rats with dated pregnancies (14 to 21 days) and virgin rats.
(3) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
(4) The hepatic balance for valine, leucine and isoleucine has been measured in anaesthetized virgin controls and 9 and 12-day pregnant rats.
(5) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(6) In the early, middle and late periods of pregnancy, axonal swelling, agglutination of axonal cytoplasm and mitochondrial breakdown were observed, but no marked degeneration appeared in virgin rat uteri.
(7) The Virgin train service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derailed on the west coast mainline near Grayrigg on 23 February 2007, with 109 people on board.
(8) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
(9) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
(10) These results suggest that HTB-9.3 clone represents virgin T cells and CB-11.4 clone-primed T cells at least in alloreactivity.
(11) Previous studies using anti-CD45R monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have shown that normal CD4+ T cells can be separated into virgin and memory cells based on their level of expression of CD45R.
(12) Overall, only 26% of respondents considered virginity at the time of marriage to be important.
(13) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
(14) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(15) Second, female preintervention Comparison program virgins used effective contraceptive methods more consistently than those who attended the HBM-SLT program (p less than 0.01); among males, the intervention programs were equally effective.
(16) Germfree colostrum-deprived piglets are immunologically "virgin" and extremely susceptible to microbial infection due to lack of passive maternal immunity.
(17) In contrast to their inability to stimulate virgin, alloreactive CD4+ T cells, astrocytes were able to specifically stimulate an alloreactive CD4+ T cell line.
(18) I’ve had run-ins with Virgin train lavatories too.
(19) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
(20) The occurrence was highest, the degree most severe, and the location exclusively myocardial in C3H and C3Hf mated females, irrespective of parity, whereas virginal females of these strains were entirely free of disease even after administration of exogenous progesterone.