What's the difference between manx and wrongness?

Manx


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants; as, the Manx language.
  • (n.) The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mark Cavendish, the flash "Manx Missile", who has won 25 stages of the Tour de France, thanks his "sprint train" with expensive watches and designer clobber when they lead him out to victory.
  • (2) On the one hand, the desire to preserve languages and their cultural heritage is a highly commendable endeavour — it is the reason why languages such as Manx, Livonian and Cornish have been brought back from the brink of extinction.
  • (3) In the Manx shearwater, it is found that this novel area projects visually into the binocular field below the bill.
  • (4) The retinal ganglion cells in five species (Manx shearwater, Puffinus puffinus, Kerguelen petrel, Pterodroma brevirostris, great shearwater, Puffinus gravis, broad-billed prion, Pachyptila vittata, and common diving petrel, Pelecanoides urinatrix) were examined by Nissl staining and also by silver staining in the case of the common diving petrel.
  • (5) The Manx shearwater, Puffinus puffinus, is a pelagic sea bird which feeds from the surface of the sea and by shallow surface and plunge dives.
  • (6) Cook, who was born in Dorchester, will now fight in the European and world championships under a Manx flag, after he followed through on his promise to switch his allegiance unless the GB Taekwondo selectors responsible for his omission resigned.
  • (7) A progressive, apparently inherited corneal dystrophy is described in an inbred line of Manx cats.
  • (8) During studies on the etiology of puffinosis, a disease of the Manx shearwater, 1 to 4% of full-grown birds were found to have dry, non-pigmented lesions on the webs of the feet.
  • (9) Manx of these infants has additionally dermatological symptoms and some respiratory symptoms.
  • (10) Decreased serum and CSF chloride concentrations were documented in a 5-year-old Manx cat referred for evaluation of anorexia.
  • (11) This summer the Manx cyclists Mark Cavendish and Pete Kennaugh represented Team GB in London.
  • (12) The roads of Yorkshire are still marked with graffiti urging on the Brit favourite, Mark “Cav” Cavendish – a poignant reminder that the Manx sprinter didn’t even make it to stage two after crashing at the first finish in Harrogate.
  • (13) Verbs tend to ascribe benign agency to the parts of a dead animal, as with the announcement by the waiter at L'Enclume who, in Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's TV series The Trip , introduces a dish thus: "You've got some little manx queenies which are baby queen scallops.
  • (14) Are Manx, Jersey and Guernsey coins legal tender in the UK?
  • (15) News of the chancellor's tax grab on the Isle of Man was read out by the island's chief minister, Tony Brown, in front of a sombre Tynwald, the Manx parliament.
  • (16) Scotland data are similar to Cumbrian and Manx results and dissimilar to the Irish data.
  • (17) The mononuclear retinal field of the Manx shearwater eye is 148 degrees wide and is asymmetric with respect to the optic axis.
  • (18) In Manx shearwater eyes, the ratio of focal length:axial length and the ratio of lens refractive power:corneal refractive power may be correlated with a nocturnal life style.
  • (19) The Manx population has higher Esterase D 2 gene frequencies than neighbouring populations.
  • (20) Saliva specimens were collected from 163 Manx and 994 Cumbrian individuals and tested for secretor group.

Wrongness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
  • (2) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
  • (3) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
  • (4) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
  • (5) No malignant tumour failed to be diagnosed (100% reliable), the anatomopathological examination of specimens in benign conditions was never wrong (100% reliable).
  • (6) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
  • (7) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
  • (8) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
  • (9) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
  • (10) Other details showed the wrong patient undergoing a heart procedure, and the wrong patient given an invasive colonoscopy to check their bowel.
  • (11) Mulholland and others have tried to portray the Leeds case in terms of right or wrong.
  • (12) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
  • (13) And I was a little surprised because I said: ‘Doesn’t sound like he did anything wrong there.’ But he did something wrong with respect to the vice-president and I thought that was not acceptable.” So that’s clear.
  • (14) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
  • (15) "I don't think that people are waiting for the wrong solution."
  • (16) I can’t hear those wrong notes any more,” she says.
  • (17) "This crowd of charlatans ... look for one little thing they can say is wrong, and thus generalise that the science is entirely compromised."
  • (18) Eleven women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, with 20 listed as critically ill, after a state-run mass sterilisation campaign went horribly wrong.
  • (19) in horses is imputed to the small numbers of people involved in the work, to the conservation of the authorities responsible for breeding, to the wrong choice of stallions for A.I.
  • (20) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".

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