What's the difference between midday and tiffin?

Midday


Definition:

  • (a.) The middle part of the day; noon.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (2) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
  • (3) Now he must go | Momodou Musa Touray Read more As midday and 4pm deadlines to go passed on Friday, two regional leaders arrived in the capital, Banjul, in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to persuade him to step down.
  • (4) It is important that the daily tablet is taken at midday because the maximum effect on the cervical mucus of the mini-pill therapy is most pronounced 4-6 hours after tablet intake.
  • (5) He said the Health Services Executive informed him that he could pick up the child at a HSE centre around midday on Wednesday.
  • (6) By midday the group said it had surrounded Sheikh Zuwaid’s police station, a move reportedly confirmed by the station’s commander in a phonecall with a local newspaper.
  • (7) Residents of Aden’s central Crater district told Reuters that Houthi fighters and their allies were in control of the area by midday on Thursday, deploying tanks and foot patrols through its otherwise empty streets after heavy fighting in the morning.
  • (8) In the midday sun, young women and girls around Accra’s Makola market take a break from walking the streets carrying their wares to seek solace under the shade of a tree, napping with their babies in their laps.
  • (9) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
  • (10) The tourists ambling down Ledra Street in the hot midday sun are a welcome sight – and not just for crisis-hit Cyprus's shopkeepers.
  • (11) By midday on Monday, workers had managed to clear landslides from one lane of the main highway connecting Sikkim with the rest of India , and an initial convoy of 75 paramilitaries had started moving toward Mangan, the village closest to the quake's epicentre, officials said.
  • (12) The demonstrators ended their protest shortly after midday and were arrested.
  • (13) A tendency to sunburn after 0.5 h midday summer sun exposure increased risk for uveal melanoma (burn with tanning RR = 1.5, P = 0.02; burn with little tanning RR = 1.8, P less than 0.001; burn with no tanning RR = 1.7, P = 0.002); as did exposure to UV or black lights (RR = 3.7, P = 0.003); and welding burn, sunburn of the eye, or snow blindness (RR = 7.2, P less than 0.001).
  • (14) I don’t want Tunisians to go there, it would be a horrible back-pedalling.” The attack began just after midday as gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs opened fire in front of the Bardo museum, the country’s largest and an important tourist attraction, which houses one of the world’s biggest collections of Roman mosaics and is built in a 19th-century palace adjacent to parliament.
  • (15) A proteinuria of more than one gramme per litre in spontaneously voided midday urine indicated a high probability for the presence of urinary tract obstruction and was considered an urgent indication for antischistosomal treatment.
  • (16) The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for parts of north Texas from noon Sunday until midday Monday.
  • (17) As has been the case in much of the recent unrest in Yemen, the protests were already winding down by midday and the streets around the university were empty by 2pm.
  • (18) The PTA is now trying to persuade parents to contribute 15,000 (£4.24) a term so the students can eat at midday.
  • (19) After midday if you crack an April Fool, the joke is on you.
  • (20) A news blackout was imposed until he appeared alongside Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace at midday local time after flying in from Abu Dhabi on an RAF C130 Hercules aircraft.

Tiffin


Definition:

  • (n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Miller, the former husband of Angelina Jolie, is from Kingston, Surrey, and was educated at Tiffin, a local grammar school.
  • (2) Tony Rice, a Ferguson resident and protester, said “the shots came from up Tiffin Avenue” – an upwards-sloping street directly opposite the police department.
  • (3) Two unmarked police cars pulled up near the corner of Clark and Tiffin.
  • (4) Tony Rice, a Ferguson resident and protester, said: “The shots came from up Tiffin Avenue” – an upwards-sloping street directly opposite the police department.
  • (5) Lunch for thousands of office workers in Mumbai is the opposite of what takeaway means for most of us – a network of couriers known as dabbawalas collect tiffin boxes packed with home-cooked food from about 200,000 homes every day and deliver them to workers.
  • (6) • artigianopdx.com Tiffin Asha Tiffin Asha, Portland Photograph: Marina O'Loughlin for the Guardian Foodie author Karen Brooks says: "Only Portland can offer you pakora-fried chicken wrapped in a dosa and served from a colourful food cart window.
  • (7) Karen's recommendation is to try Tiffin Asha , at North Beech Street, on an arty stretch of historic Mississippi Avenue (a rare, non-pod cart).
  • (8) Next runs 14-18 June, scandoir.com Heavenly Himalayas, India Facebook Twitter Pinterest Run by Tamsin Chubb, founder of popular Little French Retreat, this fabulous adventure features a two-hour classical hatha yoga class each morning, plus mountain walks, tiffin-style packed lunches, sunset meditation and workshops on local bio-diversity, organic farming, cooking and yoga philosophy.
  • (9) On Tiffin Avenue, which slopes uphill away from the Ferguson police department, life goes on with contrasting scenes of normalcy and oddness.
  • (10) So does India's Subodh Gupta, who makes various $1m skulls, wheels and nuclear explosions out of amalgamations of Indian tiffin cookware.

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