What's the difference between mega and million?

Mega


Definition:

  • () Alt. of Megalo-

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results are discussed in the light of previous evidence suggesting the presence of several oxidases and a branched electron transport system in T. mega.
  • (2) In April last year, thousands of Christians in Wenzhou – a nearby city known as “China’s Jerusalem” – tried to save their mega-church from demolition by forming a human shield around the building.
  • (3) The latest title in the mega-selling military shooter series is set in a distopian near-future where a private military contractor has turned against the US and started a war against its old employer.
  • (4) That's what CDC has to do if it is going to justify its investments in houses and shops for the mega-wealthy, and it won't be easy.
  • (5) But critics see that happy, hippyish public image as a potential trojan horse for a mega-powerful industry hellbent on pursuing its self-interest.
  • (6) The authors compare their results with those taken from international literature: microcolon with reflux into mega-ileum (2 out of 6 cases) appears to be the most suggestive X-ray finding for total colonic aganglionosis.
  • (7) I-A k purified from cell membranes using MEGA 8 and MEGA 9 detergent mixtures and acid elution from 10.3.6.2 Sepharose was efficiently labeled by IASA-46-61.
  • (8) As with Mega, Dotcom is not actually running Baboom himself: its chief executive is media and entertainment lawyer Grant Edmundson.
  • (9) We residents are paying a very high price for these mega-events,” he says.
  • (10) Australia is already the globe’s biggest coal exporter and “mega-mine” plans in Queensland for more extraction are identified as the world’s second biggest “ carbon bomb ” threatening runaway global warming.
  • (11) The failure rate was reduced to 5.8% when a single injection of 2.4 mega units of procaine penicillin was given.
  • (12) The Labour MP Frank Field , chair of the work and pensions committee, whose role in the MPs’ inquiry into the collapse of BHS has put him into the role of Green’s nemesis, said the businessman appeared willing to lose his reputation rather than “surrender a modest part of his mega-fortune” to aid BHS pensioners.
  • (13) Although we argue a deal is on the cards, we do not believe it will be a mega-merger.
  • (14) MEGA-9 is clearly different from octyl glucoside, despite its chemical similarity, in terms of its temperature sensitivity and vesicle forming characteristics.
  • (15) The Indian mining giant Adani has rejected a report that found its proposed Carmichael mega-mine in Queensland was financially unviable.
  • (16) Unfortunately for Ban, however, his leadership at the UN is indelibly associated with precisely the kind of diplomatic dysfunction put on display at such mega-conferences.
  • (17) So what they do: the apps connect with Mega in the back-end, for storage," he said.
  • (18) Imran Khan, cricket star turned politician, hoping to pull off the unlikely coup of going from zero seats in parliament to enough to lead the next government, is banking heavily on young people who flock to his mega rallies .
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hick's team first identified the existence of the Bili chimps in 2007 but their new survey, published this week in the journal Biological Conservation , reveals a vast, thriving mega-culture.
  • (20) To watch more videos in this series please click here From there, we head south into the countryside where the mega-highways give way first to single-lane roads through rolling hills and then, steeper slopes of eucalyptus plantations.

Million


Definition:

  • (n.) The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred.
  • (n.) A very great number; an indefinitely large number.
  • (n.) The mass of common people; -- with the article the.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
  • (2) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (3) Couples applying to in vitro fertilization were admitted into this project when the sperm concentration was greater than 20 million per mL and motility greater than 30 per cent.
  • (4) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
  • (5) The dose response initially resembled that described by Scholer (1959) in which one million spores killed the majority of mice.
  • (6) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (8) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
  • (9) After an interim of no treatment for swine dysentery, sodium arsanilate was fed at a level of 220 parts per million for 21 days.
  • (10) But its population has since grown to 2.8 million people, meaning the region would have one police officer for every 530 people if the force was to be cut back to 1974 levels.
  • (11) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
  • (12) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
  • (13) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (14) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
  • (15) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
  • (16) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
  • (17) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (18) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (19) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
  • (20) The Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) genome is a double-stranded DNA molecule of about 5 million daltons.