What's the difference between mama and mommy?

Mama


Definition:

  • (n.) See Mamma.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an outfit that previously operated under the banner of iEngage until controversy forced a rebrand , has decided that the worst it can say about Tell MAMA, the best means it can find of turning it into a satanic organisation, is to say that it associates with gays and Jews.
  • (2) The minimum audible movement angle (MAMA) thus defined was observed to increase as the source velocity increased.
  • (3) Between January 1, 1989, and April 7, 1989, 2,237 blood donors were enrolled in the study at the transfusion centre of the Mama Yemo Hospital.
  • (4) Ninety-eight (40%) of 243 acquired immune deficiency syndrome inpatients at Mama Yemo Hospital, Kinshasa, Zaire, presented with a history of diarrhea for at least 1 month.
  • (5) Urea derivative recovery by the sampling system, isocyanate-MAMA reactivity, and linearity of the calibration curve were evaluated in the laboratory.
  • (6) Of 207 online perpetrators of anti-Muslim abuse, 63 followed Nigel Farage’s Twitter account, according to Tell Mama analysis.
  • (7) With a back catalogue including Mexican road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien, dystopian near-future parable Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cuarón has been nominated for Oscars before, but not in this category.
  • (8) In the seven days before the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris on 7 January, in which 12 people were killed, there were 12 incidents reported to Tell Mama, but there were 45 in the seven days that followed.
  • (9) MAMAs were higher for a 3000-Hz tone than for tones of lower or higher frequencies, as has been previously reported [D. R. Perrott and J. Tucker, J. Acoust.
  • (10) The possible associations between Plasmodium falciparum malaria and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) seropositivity were investigated in 1986 at the Mama Yemo Hospital in Kinshasa, Zaire.
  • (11) The two women have worked together pretty much throughout their careers, from Saturday Night Live (highlights include Poehler playing Hillary Clinton to Fey's Sarah Palin) to their forays into film, Baby Mama and, of course, Mean Girls .
  • (12) system was used to develop a rapid, sensitive, and quantitative kinetic-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (k-ELISA) for detecting antibodies against Schistosoma mansoni adult microsomal antigens (MAMAs).
  • (13) Between July 1973 and December 1974, 304 autopsies were done at Hopital Mama Yemo, Kinshasa, Republic of Zaire.
  • (14) Fiyaz Mughal, from Tell Mama , an organisation that monitors Islamophobic incidents, said about 60% of victims were women who wear a headscarf or hijab.
  • (15) And tensions in the town, which elected two BNP councillors in 2008, have been reflected in a spike in reported instances of Islamophobic abuse nationally, according to the monitoring group Tell MAMA .
  • (16) In addition, 5 (19%) of 27 controls admitted to Zaire's Mama Yemo Hospital for causes unrelated to AIDS were found to be positive for antibodies to HIV.
  • (17) Mughal said Tell MAMA had recently submitted research into far-right networks’ use of Twitter to the company but nothing was done.
  • (18) In August 1984 an ORT service was established at Mama Yemo Hospital in Kinshasa, Zaire.
  • (19) A former rebel who uses a pseudonym, Colonel Mama, said ex-combatants emerge scarred from the invasive treatments of witch doctors.
  • (20) Hits like Fujiyama Mama and Let's Have a Party appealed to a wider audience, and she was inducted into the Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame in April 2009.

Mommy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
  • (2) Perhaps the most sensational competition debut is the 25-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan with his black-comedy-cum-Oedipal heartbreaker Mommy .
  • (3) He dubbed Marco Rubio “Little Marco”; said Jeb Bush needed the help of his “mommy” to get elected; and referred to the size of his own penis in a televised debate.
  • (4) More than a decade later when Lesléa Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies was published in the US a similar outcry followed, and the book was banned from libraries in many states.
  • (5) "It's made of a hard-coated polycarbonate" (isn't that plastic , mommy?)
  • (6) The first stimulus (MOMMY AND I ARE ONE) was intended to activate unconscious symbiotic fantasies that in a number of prior studies reduced pathology in groups of relatively differentiated schizophrenics.
  • (7) The other stimuli were intended to activate reassuring unconscious fantasies about "mommy" that were not specifically symbiosis-related.
  • (8) The Jury prize is shared by Xavier Dolan's Mommy and Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language Whoops and cheers in the press room as Dolan's name is called out.
  • (9) Only the MOMMY AND I ARE ONE stimulus led to more adaptive behavior and did so on all three dependent variables.
  • (10) Then, in different sessions, in counterbalanced order, each patient received one of three experimental (or "critical") stimuli: a) a neutral control stimulus; b) a message--CANNIBAL EATS PERSON--intended to activate aggressive ideation; c) a message--I AM LOSING MOMMY--intended to activate fantasies of object loss.
  • (11) • Gallery: how the night unfolded • Peter Bradshaw's take Reviews of the winners • Winter Sleep • The Wonders • Mommy • Goodbye to Language • Foxcatcher • Mr Turner • Maps to the Stars • Leviathan
  • (12) The control stimulus for all groups was the message PEOPLE ARE WALKING and the experimental stimuli were the messages MOMMY AND I ARE ONE, MOMMY IS ALWAYS WITH ME, MOMMY FEEDS ME WELL, and I CANNOT HURT MOMMY (one for each group).
  • (13) The two appear in a corner of the exhibit while visitors yell, “Somebody call the zoo!” and “Mommy’s right here!” The station did not air portions of the video showing the gorilla dragging the boy.
  • (14) She closed the show with a tour-de-force medley from Beyoncé , the “visual album” she unexpectedly dropped in December, before accepting the Video Vanguard Award from husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy, who – with her adorable, mommy-inspired dance moves – was arguably the MVP of the night.
  • (15) In the subliminal condition (4 ms exposure time), subjects shown the experimental message "Mommy is Leaving Me" ate significantly fewer crackers than those exposed to the neutral message "Mona is Loaning It" (p = .04).
  • (16) Another gay couple I speak to say they go by "Mommy and Mommy2".
  • (17) "I share Aronowitz's concern that mommy bloggers aren't flying the feminist flag, but that's just the tip of the iceberg," wrote one new mom and feminist .
  • (18) Britain's Sam Taylor-Johnson has been named as the surprise choice to direct the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of "mommy porn" literary sensation Fifty Shades of Grey .
  • (19) The result is that at times Battle Hymn reads like an American-Asian version of Mommie Dearest .
  • (20) I can remember being home one day and there was a knock at the door – a guy selling something – and he said, 'Hon, is your mommy home?'