What's the difference between mews and news?

Mews


Definition:

  • (n. sing. & pl.) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Blairs' property portfolio already includes a £3.6m townhouse and an £800,000 adjoining mews house in Connaught Square, London, two flats in Bristol and the constituency home in Trimdon, Co Durham, which Blair bought when he was elected MP for Sedgefield in 1983.
  • (2) Map Neighbour Iwona Romek said Masood was a keen gardener, who lived in the modern mews house with his wife and young child.
  • (3) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
  • (4) Steven Wood, associate in social housing litigation at Coffin Mew LLP "The housing strategy for England is hailed as 'radical and unashamedly ambitious' but at first blush appears to predominantly be a recycling of ideas that are already out to consultation or at various stages of being enacted by changes in the law.
  • (5) So "out" becomes "iouuut", and "now" "niouuuw", a bit – with all due respect to her beloved dogs – like the mewing of a cat.
  • (6) Glutamine synthetase (GS) activity was used as a marker to examine differences in astrocyte development in mice selectively bred for ethanol sensitivity: long sleep (LS), short sleep (SS), mild ethanol withdrawal (MEW), severe ethanol withdrawal (SEW) and control ethanol withdrawal (CEW).
  • (7) A female infant presented at birth with hypotonia, growth retardation, distinctive facies, multiple congenital anomalies, and a high-pitched mewing cry characteristic of cri du chat syndrome.
  • (8) We meet once a week to make sure that Jason Mewes stays on the straight and narrow.
  • (9) Although it indicated the increase in heart water in the crystalloid group, it proved less reliable in the measurement of MEW in this dynamic situation.
  • (10) It claims that the changes include "wayfinder" signs to help staff find their way around named after BBC TV hits, such as Have I Got Mews, Little Britain's Passage, EastEnders Common, Who Do You Think You Arcade and The Great British Bake Wharf.
  • (11) A 12-year-old boy with a history of a mewing cry after birth, severe mental retardation, Marfanoid arachnodactyly, general osteomalacia and multiple bone fractures was found to have a de novo 5p;12q chromosomal translocation.
  • (12) These results indicate that the SCN-mEW circuit in birds may be involved in mediating increases in choroidal blood flow, possibly in response to the levels of retinal illumination.
  • (13) Anatomical studies in birds have suggested that choroidal blood flow may be regulated by a circuit involving the following serially-connected components: the retina-the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)-the medial subdivision of the nucleus of Edinger-Westphal (mEW)-the ciliary ganglion-the choroidal blood vessels.
  • (14) Now scaled back to a total of 8,000 homes, the "legacy communities" will be formed from familiar things: terraces and squares, mansion blocks and mews houses.
  • (15) The Peacock industrial estate, currently fully occupied with garages and other businesses, is to be knocked down in two of the options, and become Peacock Mews.
  • (16) The cri-du-chat syndrome is characterized by a peculiar high-pitched, mewing cry and can be differentiated from the Wolf syndrome by the different staining characteristics (banding) of chromosomes 4 and 5.
  • (17) With his wife, Frannie, he bought a mews cottage in Kensington, central London, where he stocked up with luxuries purchased by friends from Harrods and from Christopher's in Jermyn Street, where he had a regular order for a dozen bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne.
  • (18) The 24-year-old victim is recovering in hospital from injuries to her lower body after the attack, which happened at about 10.40pm on Wednesday night on Lord Street Mews, a cul-de-sac off the Beersbridge Road.
  • (19) Since moving out of Downing Street, Blair's London home has been a capacious cream and dark brick terrace in Connaught Square, near Hyde Park, with a substantial mews house behind and armed policemen perpetually guarding both.
  • (20) We found that 1) GS activity in MEW and SEW was higher than in LS and SS during the first 2 weeks of postnatal development, in the forebrain but not in the cerebellum; 2) lower GS activity was observed consistently in all areas examined with the SS mice as compared to the LS; 3) glutamine synthetase activity in MEW and SEW differed significantly from their controls (CEW) during the early developmental period regardless of the brain region examined; however, after 30 days of maturation, GS activity in SEW was higher than that in MEW and CEW in the forebrain.

News


Definition:

  • (n) A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intelligence.
  • (n) Something strange or newly happened.
  • (n) A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (3) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
  • (4) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (5) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (6) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (7) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (8) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (9) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
  • (10) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (11) The detail of all of that will come over the coming months,” Cormann told Sky News.
  • (12) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
  • (13) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (14) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
  • (15) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (16) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
  • (17) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (18) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (19) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
  • (20) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.

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