What's the difference between metro and metropolis?

Metro


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (2) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
  • (3) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
  • (4) Despite the claims, the Pyongyang metro is indeed a functional system, running along two bisecting lines in the central and outer-western parts of Pyongyang.
  • (5) During the past 11 years, the Metro Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry has prospectively followed all cases of glomerulonephritis starting from the time of biopsy.
  • (6) Current sanitary surveillance at the Moscow Metro was analyzed under the conditions of scientific and technical revolution.
  • (7) Moments later, Deputy Chief Tom Roberts, of Las Vegas Metro, defused the situation by delivering the announcement that Cliven Bundy's cattle would be returned within 30 minutes.
  • (8) Pearson's father, a retired air pilot, has been killed by a deranged mental patient who opened fire, apparently at random, on the crowds shopping at the Metro-Centre, a massive mall in the middle of this town.
  • (9) The first study examined the performance of 911 children, with histories of perinatal risk events, on a restandardized Philippine (Metro-Manila) version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) which was developed in 1980.
  • (10) Belgian special forces arrested four people in the capital’s Place du Grand Sablonon Saturday afternoon, while the Brussels Metro system is expected to be shut down until Sunday afternoon at the earliest.
  • (11) Helena writes: First it was striking metro workers, now it is seamen.
  • (12) Back in 2001, the Guardian Media Group partnered with Associated to print Metro in Manchester, while Trinity Mirror joined forces with Associated in a similar arrangement in Liverpool and Cardiff in 2006.
  • (13) A British man missing in Brussels since suicide bomb blasts rocked the city’s airport and metro system has been confirmed dead.
  • (14) Setting off to the demonstration, he tweeted from the metro: “Yes, there is this house arrest.
  • (15) The England pilot – which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region – will be contested by ITN's consortium, which is backed by Melvyn Bragg , which includes Johnston Press, Newsquest, Metro Radio and ITV Tyne Tees and Borders news staff.
  • (16) There is therefore an "urban bias" of food supply to Metro Manila, that is, there is a much higher demand capacity for Metro Manila to draw food supply because of its higher income level and bigger population.
  • (17) It has been twinned with London’s St Pancras Old church – close to the St Pancras Eurostar terminal – since 2007 • 5 rue de Belzunce, paroissesvp.fr Secrets Temple Ganesh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy At the north end of the Gare du Nord, just past the elevated metro line, is a colourful Hindu temple dedicated to the god Ganesh.
  • (18) Most major cities sell travel cards valid for multiple journeys or a specific number of days that can be used across buses, trams and metros and result in small savings that really add up.
  • (19) He travelled into Brussels on the Metro every day and after we’d texted he must have gone straight out and got on the Metro that was attacked.
  • (20) Alstom, the French electricity generation and rail transport firm, is seeking contracts to work on expansion of the metro in Tehran, build two more lines in the city of Mashhad and participate in the electrification of the 600-mile Tehran-Mashhad railway.

Metropolis


Definition:

  • (n.) The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
  • (n.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His ideas had their biggest trial in 2012 during a three-week series of games, involving over 1,000 players, that fed recommendations about transport and zoning into Detroit’s Future City study , which maps out the next 50 years for the embattled metropolis.
  • (2) It has been known that tsutsugamushi disease, so-called "Shichito-fever", is widely spread among the Izu Islands, Tokyo Metropolis.
  • (3) Supporters say Luzhkov transformed Moscow from a crumbling communist shell into a vibrant metropolis.
  • (4) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
  • (5) For both men and women, single people had a lower survival rate than married, and patients living in a metropolis had a higher survival rate than those living in other areas.
  • (6) A preliminary survey was conducted for the prevalence of HIV infections in pulmonary tuberculosis and melioidosis patients in Ubon Ratchathani province, in Thailand, the second largest province in population which supplies labors to Bangkok metropolis.
  • (7) Under the glamorous billboards and ubiquitous skyscrapers of this fast-paced metropolis, the city is home to nine – soon to be 10 – universities, attended by hundreds of thousands of pupils.
  • (8) Very little effective effort went into the planned growth of the metropolis.
  • (9) Now Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen – not to mention cities such as Copenhagen, Münster and Seville – have become pioneers for a pro-cycling urban culture with extensive networks of cycle paths, as well as other clever ideas to make cycling around the metropolis easier.
  • (10) In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665.
  • (11) Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found on Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the US border, in the latest suspected outburst in an escalating war among drug gangs.
  • (12) Saadiyat Island ("Happiness Island" in Arabic), a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to Abu Dhabi's city centre, is steadily being converted by tens of thousands of migrant workers into a $27bn (£16.5bn) cultural metropolis.
  • (13) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
  • (14) 5) The model is studied by the Monte Carlo method of Metropolis et al., which simulates a kinetic process approximately.
  • (15) There are so many possibilities to conceive a different kind of metropolis, for cities that are yet to be built.
  • (16) Long after the monastery had been dissolved and Clerkenwell swallowed by the growing metropolis, the east tower was home to Hogarth’s coffeehouse, opened by Richard, father of the famous artist, in 1703.
  • (17) This would have a profound ripple effect across the country, for health care access, universal coverage and even immigration reform.” The 'medical home' idea Getting to that point means creating a program that can handle the health problems of a sprawling metropolis.
  • (18) London's size is stifling; it's too sprawling a metropolis to regularly agree to go funk-ass crazy over a particular band en masse.
  • (19) He believes the multibillion-dollar project could transform daily life for millions of people in this uniquely challenging metropolis, and potentially expand west from Nigeria to Ghana.
  • (20) - diddoit This is all the result of centralisation of spending and planning in the metropolis and “market forces” being allowed to control everything ...