What's the difference between manta and mantra?

Manta


Definition:

  • (n.) See Coleoptera and Sea devil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Praia do Cabeço is popular with clammers but also families and strollers, and runs from Monte Gordo to Manta Rota.
  • (2) The parameatal foreskin flap, both in the form of a manta-wing and in extended circumferential form, appears to have an enough microcirculation suitable for one-stage repair (OUPF II and OUPF IV, respectively) of hypospadias.
  • (3) The trade is on the increase, with Mozambique recording an 86% decline in sightings of the fish over the past eight years, but manta rays are very important for tourism and attract divers who will pay a lot to see them.
  • (4) Anderson-TAMVEC (Houston and College Station, Texas), University of Washington (Seattle, Washington), and MANTA (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.).
  • (5) Conservationists have called for legal protection of species such as sharks and manta rays, the banning of gillnets – which create a wall of netting to catch fish – and greater education of and alternative livelihoods for fishermen.
  • (6) The determination of the RBE for the MANTA fast neutrons produced by NRL is inprogress, with the model system using tumor cell population kinetic response patterns assayed in vitro after irradiation in vivo.
  • (7) Those looking for a tapering would welcome the forthcoming drop in the monthly purchase amount,” said Grant Lewis and Mantas Vanagas, at Daiwa Capital Markets.
  • (8) There is a manta ray inside the tank who is a music producer called Tony Reason.
  • (9) Photograph: Alamy She continued: "People come from all over the world to enjoy diving with sharks and manta rays, but if this goes on, they won't be there any more.
  • (10) The Cites meeting is also considering protection for manta rays, which are being fished for their gill plates, sold in China as medicine and claimed to treat a range of health complaints from asthma to chicken pox and even cancer.
  • (11) Marshall, principal scientist for the manta ray programme, said: "We're looking at decimation in the next decade or decade-and-a-half.
  • (12) I am keen to see trade controls introduced for vulnerable and endangered species like porbeagle, hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks and manta rays."
  • (13) A system has been developed for the computer generation of dose distributions for the MANTA-NRL fast-neutron radiotherapy beam.
  • (14) Helen got scuba qualified, and we spent hours diving alongside whale sharks and manta rays, but the sea lions stood out as our finest animal encounter.
  • (15) But this burgeoning trade along the Mozambican coast is putting precious species such as manta rays in existential danger, according to local conservationists.
  • (16) But it is an open secret that Chinese syndicates are supplying improved fishing nets, buying shark fins and manta ray "wing" tips and shipping them back to Asia, where there is increasing demand for delicacies such as shark fin soup.
  • (17) Time is running out for the manta ray, a beautiful fish with big, triangular pectoral "wings" that has a meagre reproductive cycle.
  • (18) The displacement correction factor to be used for analysis of fast-neutron dosimetric measurements using air-filled EG and G tissue-equivalent ion chambers in a tissue-equivalent phantom has been investigated using the MANTA neutron radiotherapy beam generated by 35-MeV deuterons on a thick Be target.
  • (19) There’s whale watching, swimming with dolphins, and diving with manta rays to be had, plus canyoning and kayaking.
  • (20) First, the centrality of the state as the driver of modernisation, a tenet linked to anti-imperialism vis-a-vis the US (closing the Manta military base; the aggressive struggle against American energy group Chevron and the environmental destruction it caused in the Amazon; and granting asylum to Julian Assange).

Mantra


Definition:

  • (n.) A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To find life as we know it, Nasa's mantra is "follow the water".
  • (2) Questioned as to whether Google needs to alter its mission statement, which was twinned with the company mantra “don’t be evil, for the next stage of company growth in an interview with the Financial Times , Page responded: “We’re in a bit of uncharted territory.
  • (3) If you’re a congressional Republican, you consider Obamacare a “failure”, and “repeal and replace” is your mantra.
  • (4) His party colleague and new fellow MEP Janice Atkinson said her own mantra in Brussels would be "No and no and no."
  • (5) However, she was also clear that she was sticking to the mantra of the EU27 when it came to Brexit – that there would be no negotiation without notification , even on the issue of EU citizens.
  • (6) Yet despite this, the mantra is that there is significant waste to cut – a mantra not just coming from policymakers remote from action, but from staff within the NHS who can see it for themselves every day yet feel powerless to do anything.
  • (7) Together we can reject the coalition's mantra that there is no alternative.
  • (8) From child migrants to the doctors’ dispute, principled compromise should be the mantra of the shrewd politician.
  • (9) Disney's proposals for Star Wars would appear to be a continuation of a mantra that says popular franchises should be mined for everything they are worth.
  • (10) Despite the fragile state of what Sir Mervyn King has called the "zigzag" economy, Osborne will repeat his mantra that there is no alternative to stringent spending cuts.
  • (11) It was during this meeting the All Black manager, Sir Brian Lochore, coined what would become a mantra for Henry and his team: “Better people make better All Blacks”.
  • (12) Play less tournament golf and practise more for the majors has become the Australian's mantra, and all the homework had been done as he began his 14th Open Championship challenge.
  • (13) "The Blair-Brown era is over," he repeats as a mantra.
  • (14) There are so many little gems that are clearly mantras of people who have been through meetings.
  • (15) The mantra of "fewer, better" will become a watchword across the BBC's output – as will collaboration with other broadcasters: a reinvented Call The Midwife is relocated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
  • (16) Osborne knows only too well that many of his colleagues believe the Tory mantra about the party’s “long-term economic plan” is the cause of jokes and despair among MPs who believe that it symbolises what is being seen as a dull and managerial campaign.
  • (17) Repeating Tepco's mantra of the past two years, Takahashi apologised "to the world" for the "inconvenience" caused by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
  • (18) In these education systems, high expectations for all students are not a mantra but a reality; students who start to fall behind are identified quickly, their problems are promptly and accurately diagnosed, and the appropriate course of action for improvement is quickly taken."
  • (19) In fact the mantra of "green growth" has been a central component of President Lee's policy platform since 2008, and this month – even as Japan backed away from its own climate commitments – Korea's legislature unanimously passed a new climate act which will enforce carbon caps and an emissions trading scheme among its heavy industry and electricity sector.
  • (20) The present article in particular focuses on the relaxation exercises, made up of Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Autogenic Training elements as well as of phantasy travels, mantras, and periodic music.

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