What's the difference between midget and munchkin?

Midget


Definition:

  • (n.) A minute bloodsucking fly.
  • (n.) A very diminutive person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The macaque midget cells, like the beta cells of the cat's retina, showed no evidence of tracer coupling when injected with Neurobiotin.
  • (2) Type a midget ganglion cells appear to be in a one-to-one relationship with flat midget bipolar cell axon terminals ending in distal inner plexiform layer.
  • (3) Nomberg-Przytyk also recounts the death of Avram Ovitz, the leader of the group: "The old midget wanted his wife" and tried to slip through the barbed wire; a guard spotted him and, when Avram got close enough, shot him.
  • (4) This is the characteristic position for flat midget bipolar cells.
  • (5) While both midget and diffuse cone bipolar cell types were clearly glutamate-IR, rod bipolars were not noticeably stained.
  • (6) We confirm previous reports (Trujillo-Cenóz 1965; Boschek 1971) that monopolar cell bodies in the lamina form three structural classes: Class I, Class II, and midget monopolar cells.
  • (7) There are two distinct morphologic types of midget cells which differ from each other in the pattern of dendritic branching.
  • (8) According to their depth of stratification, there are two types of parasol cells (termed a-parasol and b-parasol), and two types of midget ganglion cells (a-midget and b-midget).
  • (9) The method collects the aerosol in a midget impinger containing dimethyl formamide, which inhibits the curing reaction between the epoxy and curing agent, preserving the unreacted epoxy functional groups present in the aerosol.
  • (10) 41:427-483), that the type a midget ganglion cell and its exclusive connectivity with a flat midget bipolar cell forms a single cone connected OFF-center pathway, whereas the type b midget ganglion cell with its exclusive connectivity to an invaginating midget bipolar cell forms a single cone connected ON-center pathway, through the retina to the brain.
  • (11) It is shown to have great similarity to the basic subunits of related toxins from the venoms of the South American and midget faded rattlesnakes.
  • (12) It is likely that 2C bipolars are a variant of the midget bipolars; and that they contact some members of the same population of cones, instead of the midgets.
  • (13) Finally, a hypothetical pathway is proposed for color-opponent surrounds of midget ganglion cells using both horizontal cells at the outer plexiform layer and amacrine cell pathways at the inner plexiform layer.
  • (14) Impoverished, monochrome, Depression-era Kansas beats candy-coloured Oz, with its midgets and flying monkeys?
  • (15) These epidemiologic studies were based on particulate concentrations determined by the midget impinger.
  • (16) GABA+ amacrines must play significant but different roles in ON and OFF midget and parasol pathways as well as the rod pathway.
  • (17) In her autobiography, Auschwitz: True Tales From A Grotesque Land , Sarah Nomberg-Przytyk describes in appalling detail the horrible death of two members of the Ovitz group, one of them an 18-month-old baby boy who died as a result of one of Mengele's experiments: "Around him, like pillars of stone, stood a large woman, along with the child's mother, slim and frail; the three midgets sat in miniature chairs."
  • (18) Both type a (with dendritic trees in distal inner plexiform layer) and type b (with dendritic trees in proximal inner plexiform layer) midget ganglion cells have been studied.
  • (19) Atmospheric air samples are collected in fritted midget bubblers containing aqueous sodium carbonate solution; wastewater samples are treated directly with sodium carbonate.
  • (20) Type b midget ganglion cells are in a one-to-one synaptic relationship with invaginating midget bipolar cell axon terminals in proximal inner plexiform layer.

Munchkin


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She doesn't feel a responsibility to be a role model just because she's a female artist ("I don't like that whole idea of idols, or artists calling their fans 'munchkins'.
  • (2) Buiter said the shutdown was an irresponsible act, telling CNBC this morning: It really is scandalous that the world’s largest economy looks like the Land of Oz run by the munchkins.
  • (3) The DCSF's branding – a rainbow emblem and giant cartoon characters reminiscent of children's story books nicknamed "munchkins" by civil servants – are being taken down this morning.
  • (4) Not the comparatively ancient generation that once produced Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling and Christina Aguilera, but the new breed, who are primped and propagated like prize roses; toothy munchkins given TV shows and then slapped on backpacks, pencil cases and, if they can carry a tune without significant wobble, album covers.
  • (5) Of course, human nature being what it is, part of the collective Tory psyche at present resembles a cross between the Munchkin scene in The Wizard of Oz and Ali’s final attack on Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle .
  • (6) Jessica's GCSEs were disappointing, to put it mildly … On a brighter note, Munchkin, our two-year-old Siamese, got rid of a nasty tapeworm."

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