What's the difference between mama and mum?

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.

Mum


Definition:

  • (a.) Silent; not speaking.
  • (interj.) Be silent! Hush!
  • (n.) Silence.
  • (n.) A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
  • (2) The outstanding morphologic feature of cortical cells exposed to microunit ACTH concentrations for 40 min was the abundance of electron-dense granules (0.2-0.4 mum).
  • (3) This inclusion, an aggregate 0.3-0.7 mum in size, consists of small membrane-bounded vesicles with a single dense granule associated with other non-membrane bound small dense droplets.
  • (4) Saturation kinetics typical of a carrier-mediated transport system (Kt = 870 muM)were observed, and concentration of fatty acids against a gradient was achieved.
  • (5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (6) Km values for each substrate were: pregnenolone 10 muM, 17alpha-hydroxypregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone 2.5 muM and androstenediol 3.0 muM.
  • (7) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
  • (8) I met a mum there who said to me – this is what I’ve dreamed of for my child... ...proper uniforms, high standards... ...this is going to give my child a good start in life.
  • (9) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
  • (10) The type I neurons (27 X 43 mum) with four to seven primary dendrites were located mainly in the rostral and ventral areas of the LH.
  • (11) Heavy tracks have LET values in excess of 4 keV mum-1 in water.
  • (12) sp., from Chalcophaps i. indica, has three or four testes, and a cirrus pouch 93 to 108 mum long, 28 to 45 mum wide, and its egg capsules are 10 to 12 mum long, seven to nine mum wide, each containing four to six eggs.
  • (13) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
  • (14) If the ionophore (10 muM) is perifused for 5 min at low extracellular calcium and magnesium, and physiologic calcium is then added, a sudden spike of insulin release occurs in the absence of cyclic AMP generation.
  • (15) This week, after much soul-searching, she is packing up her house to move to Shropshire so that “my mum can look after me”.
  • (16) I'm having a civil partnership ceremony in six weeks and don't know whether to invite my mum.
  • (17) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
  • (18) When deformability was measured by filtration through 3-mum polycarbonate sieves, marked decreases in deformability were found in complement-coated erythrocytes.
  • (19) Short segments of portions of taenia coli of the guinea-pig averaging 54 mum X 219 mum X ca.
  • (20) Smooth muscle cells of taeniae fixed under 1 gram load were about 515 mum long.

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