What's the difference between mead and meadow?

Mead


Definition:

  • (n.) A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel.
  • (n.) A drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. It is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
  • (n.) A meadow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ed Mead, a director of estate agency Douglas & Gordon, says the recent pace of price rises has been deterring some homeowners from selling up in case they miss out on more growth.
  • (2) Con A and two serine proteases also raised both cAMP and 1-MeAde production.
  • (3) "I just wanted to go out there and enjoy it," said Dujardin, who is only the second British rider to win double gold at one Games, following the eventer Richard Meade 40 years ago.
  • (4) Wendy Mead, who chairs the corporation’s environment committee, said: “Diesel was sold as an environmental solution but it is in fact an invisible killer.
  • (5) It is hypothesized that the increase of reactance in these patients can be explained by an increase of capacitance due to an increase of airway compliance or a decrease of peripheral resistance according to Mead's analogon of the lungs.
  • (6) Surprisingly high levels of the Mead acid (20:3 n-9) were found, with the highest appearing in the artery from the baby with the lowest birth weight.
  • (7) Mead (5,8,11-icosatrienoic) acid was found to be metabolized by the cyclooxygenase enzyme system of ram seminal vesicle microsomes in a calcium-dependent manner.
  • (8) Production of 1-MeAde by GSS was inhibited by ethionine and selenoethionine, competitive inhibitors of methionine.
  • (9) Wyndham Mead , an American who has lived in Berlin for the past three years, joined because he was looking for an alternative to "impersonal gay dating sites".
  • (10) With respect to 1-MeAde production, the effect of GSS on follicle cells results in the receptor-mediated formation of cyclic AMP (cAMP).
  • (11) George H. Mead's conception of though as internal dialogue between the "I" and "me" aspects of the self and his notion of the "generalized other" were foreshadowed by some of the Scottish moralists, particularly Adam Smith.
  • (12) Thus, in repair-proficient cells, 3-MeAde is efficiently removed from DNA and does not contribute in a major way to mutagenesis.
  • (13) Ed Mead, executive director of realtor Douglas & Gordon in London, said his firm had seen two buyers from China looking to buy whole blocks of flats.
  • (14) Nothing gets a publisher’s chequebook out faster than a memoir, to the point that nonfiction books that are ostensibly about a specific subject (butchery, say, or George Eliot) are now styled and sold as memoirs (respectively Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell; and The Road to Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead.)
  • (15) Compared with method 1 the TLCO and related indices by method 2 were lower using the procedure of Jones and Meade and higher using the procedure of Ogilvie et al.
  • (16) The absence of this "anti-atelectasis" factor was proposed by Avery and Mead in 1959 to be the cause of hyaline membrane disease of premature infants.
  • (17) The N(6)-methyladenine (MeAde) and 5-methylcytosine (MeC) contents in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of bacteriophage lambda has been analyzed as a function of host specificity.
  • (18) Use of [methyl-14C]methionine showed that a radiolabel was incorporated into 1-MeAde during incubation with GSS and IBMX, but not with 1-MeAde-R.
  • (19) As a final show of support ahead of the court martial, pro-Manning activists staged a demonstration at the gates of Fort Meade near Baltimore over the weekend.
  • (20) We compared Konno-Mead diagrams derived from isovolume calibrated magnetometers and RIP in the DC-mode during room air and CO2 rebreathing in the sitting and supine positions.

Meadow


Definition:

  • (n.) A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
  • (n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
  • (2) The results are negative in swampy meadow -- habitats on siliceous soils.
  • (3) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
  • (4) The effect of irrigation of meadows with the water of the river.
  • (5) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
  • (6) Meadow voles exposed to house dust mites from the homes of patients did not develop serologic or pathologic evidence of infection due to rickettsiae in the spotted fever and typhus groups or Coxiella burnetii.
  • (7) Land reclamation measures carried out on the territory of a flood-plain-paludal focus of tularemia change the ecological and biocenotic links, which leads to the formation of a meadow-field focus with other-than-before sources and vectors of tularemia infection.
  • (8) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
  • (9) The site of the crash was in the marshy Ruhr meadows.
  • (10) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
  • (11) Anna asks, practically hanging a bell round Jill's neck and herding her into a meadow.
  • (12) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
  • (13) He is thought to live in the Boreham Wood area, and featured in the match at Meadow Park, although he was unable to get on the scoresheet as the hosts lost 5-0.
  • (14) Do I think it gives the president a loss?” asked Mark Meadows, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus.
  • (15) Mycocarriers were most frequently found among small mammals living in corn fields (5.9%), less frequently in water meadows (0.9) and sporadically in forests and bushes (0.1%).
  • (16) Back in the meadow I followed a worn path that was most likely part of the badger’s nightly beat.
  • (17) The results of a serological survey of a free-living population of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in Pinawa, Manitoba (Canada) showed that these animals possessed antibodies to six of the eleven viruses tested for, namely: reovirus type 3, murine encephalomyelitis agent, ectromelia virus, murine adenovirus, murine hepatitis virus and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.
  • (18) "Embarking on new projects, we sometimes encounter unexpected challenges, and Street View has been no exception," said Google spokesman Taj Meadows, adding that "Street View abides by Thailand's local laws and only features imagery taken on public property".
  • (19) A New Yorker cartoon portrays a woman in an elegant boutique asking whether they have something to, “Fill that dark empty space in my soul.” As Dana Meadows observed , we seek to meet non-material needs with things.
  • (20) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.