What's the difference between melee and melene?

Melee


Definition:

  • (n.) A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The original referred to Meles Zenawi as president of Ethiopia.
  • (2) Meles Zenawi , the cerebral ruler of Ethiopia for the last 21 years, is a man with many reputations.
  • (3) August 1995 After poorly contested elections, the EPRDF swept to power; the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was proclaimed, and Meles became Ethiopia's first prime minister.
  • (4) Meles introduced a controversial form of ethnic nationalism and, from 1998-2000, went to war with neighbouring Eritrea, a conflict that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths.
  • (5) Some analysts have claimed that Meles will not return to power at all, after a senior member of the TPLF, Sibhat Nega, stated that the party was working on a power succession and that the regime could continue in the event of "individuals" dying or leaving the government.
  • (6) There have been a flurry of searches and social media interactions on the fate of Meles by Ethiopians – including a popular #WhereIsMeles hashtag on twitter, but his absence from government is of concern to donors, who pump almost $4bn (£2.6bn) of aid into Ethiopia every year.
  • (7) Two months later, an interim government was formed with Meles as transitional president.
  • (8) When it sounded the United goalkeeper leapt to his feet and grabbed Martin Skrtel, sparking a post-match melee, before collapsing in pain once again.
  • (9) True enough, the driving force behind the dam is former prime minister Meles Zenawi , who ran the country for more than two decades.
  • (10) The broadcast said Meles died just before midnight on Monday after contracting an infection.
  • (11) In the ensuing melee, Giles described Westra van Holthe as not having the “capacity, capability or the tenacity or the professionalism to be the chief minister”.
  • (12) At the same time, however, Meles's clampdown on dissent – particularly in the media, among civil society groups and from opposition politicians – has caused widespread discontent, especially in urban centres.
  • (13) Meles had not been seen in public for about two months.
  • (14) crescens) was demonstrated as the causative agent in 5 cases of disease-in the badger (Meles meles), the otter (Lutra lutra) and the fox (Vulpes vulpes).
  • (15) As any graduate will remember, those years at university were just as much about juggling a melee of friendships as it was about studying.
  • (16) The result meant a fourth term as prime minister for Meles, but human rights groups questioned the poll's validity, citing reported irregularities .
  • (17) On the vexed issue of longer term finance, the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi presented an offer to reduce developing country demands by 75% to $100bn a year from 2020, in return for guarantees of how the money would be distributed.
  • (18) One plan from the Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, sets out how developed countries could scale up their funding to $50bn by 2015 and $100bn by 2020.
  • (19) Meles, now 57, came to power in 1991 after his Tigray People's Liberation Front waged a successful war, alongside the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, that toppled the dictatorship of the Soviet-backed Mengistu Haile Mariam.
  • (20) However, Meles had begun a generational shift in the EPRDF’s leadership, bringing new leaders to the fore – including Hailemariam as his deputy – in the two years preceding his death.

Melene


Definition:

  • (n.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C30H60, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax; -- called also melissene, and melissylene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The raccoon was weak, ataxic and had melenic soft feces.
  • (2) A new microsporidian, Loma camerounensis, was found in the Cichlidae Oreochromis niloticus from the Melen fish-rearing station in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

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