What's the difference between matador and mobile?

Matador


Definition:

  • (n.) The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.
  • (n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
  • (2) Photograph: Rex Features On arrival in Brussels last week, Renzi was greeted by Angela Merkel as "the matador".
  • (3) As dusk fell in the Catalan capital, sequin-clad local matador Serafín Marín dispatched the last of six bulls on the sand of the packed La Monumental bullring – where touts had been offering tickets at eight times their original price.
  • (4) The odds of the game may be stacked against the Tories, but the bloodied bull keeps charging and it is the nervous matador who is gored.
  • (5) Once you just open your mind to not knowing how it will turn out and just be like a receptor to the whole thing, eventually, hopefully, it will be OK." Wakin On A Pretty Daze is Vile's second album for major indie label Matador, who released Smoke Ring For My Halo, and in style and format (the shortest song here is nearly six minutes long; the longest, over 17) it sounds very much like an artist seeking to reassert his identity.
  • (6) I knew nothing about the rules and intricacies of the sport so all I saw were crowds of well-fed, well-dressed people baying for blood, roaring and cheering at the sight of pain and demanding more of it as picadors on horses and a matador in a brilliant costume ritually tormented and tortured a bull.
  • (7) The quote from Cobi was this: ‘I don’t have to put balls in the air or send crosses to Hermosillo because I am a striker myself.’ That headline was in La Opinion: ‘I am a striker myself.’ The last was Luis Hernandez, a forward with flowing blond hair and the nickname El Matador .
  • (8) Wakin On A Pretty Daze is out in the UK on 8 Apr on Matador.
  • (9) Most meet their death when a sequin-suited matador finally thrusts a sword into their neck.
  • (10) Darcey wants more arm curve to make him a "more convincing space matador".
  • (11) In 2005’s The Matador he was a drunken, well-past-it hitman, though the wrinkles and crows-feet were already tightening in 1999’s The Thomas Crown Affair .
  • (12) Horseback bullfights had been popular in medieval times, but in 1726 matador Francisco Romero began fighting on foot with a cape and a sword – sparking a new fashion.
  • (13) A kind of unshaven, post-watershed, post-divorce and redundancy Johnny Bravo whose style inspiration sits somewhere between matador and gimp.
  • (14) 7.33pm GMT Bruno thought it was more space cadet than matador, and I couldn't agree more.
  • (15) Ceepak Chopra (@SoNotLightSkin) Who the hell let this little matador sing the national anthem ?
  • (16) Something Good is about "the death of a matador as an analogy for the slow mending of a broken heart through fun distractions".
  • (17) Pierce Brosnan's washed-up hitman in The Matador is forever ill-shaven, often calamitously drunk and bereft of discretion.
  • (18) That is not the fashionable view, not least because the opposition leader makes an unlikely matador.
  • (19) Which is why Sky Germany advertised their coverage of this week's return legs with a not-too-subtle short clip about a matador.
  • (20) As actor-manager, Gassman had continued to choose appealing roles, but, after a successful season appearing in Irma La Douce in 1959, and, in the same year, winning national popularity by exploiting his over-the-top versatility on a television series, Il Mattatore (something between "matador" and "madman"), he decided the time had come to launch a long-cherished project, his Teatro Popolare Italiano (TPI), which made him one of Italian television's first nationwide stars.

Mobile


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
  • (a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
  • (a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
  • (a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
  • (a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
  • (a.) The mob; the populace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
  • (2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
  • (3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
  • (4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
  • (5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
  • (6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
  • (7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
  • (8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
  • (9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
  • (10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
  • (11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
  • (12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
  • (13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
  • (14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
  • (15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
  • (17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
  • (18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
  • (19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
  • (20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.

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