What's the difference between midget and shorty?

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.

Shorty


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s business as usual.” The Legend of Shorty will be shown on Film4 in November
  • (2) The lack of humoral immune responsiveness to either of these two antigens shorty after anti-L3T4 treatment responsiveness to either of these two antigens shortly after anti-L3T4 treatment was probably due to clonal depletion.
  • (3) To make The Legend of Shorty , they began with the methamphetamine distribution network in Chicago, well under Chapo’s control, and negotiated their way, perilous step by perilous step to Sinaloa, via Guzmán’s cocaine and meth-packing operation in Tijuana.
  • (4) Where to turn when you are smaller than one of the country's most famous "shorties"?
  • (5) There’s Shortie,” said Taylor, spotting a short-eared owl.
  • (6) The arrest of Guzmán (known as El Chapo, or Shorty) in the Pacific resort city of Mazatlán just before dawn on Saturday punctured the myth of untouchability that had enveloped the capo since his escape from a high-security jail in January 2001 and his rise to the status of world's most wanted trafficker.
  • (7) The Californian electricity market was the subject of scrutiny after the collapse of Enron when regulators produced documents showing that strategies named Fat Boy and Get Shorty were used to try to increase profits from trading power in the western US state,
  • (8) Unless the shorties step into the breach, I give the human race a couple of decades.
  • (9) His film credits included Get Shorty, The Mexican, Zero Dark Thirty and In The Loop .
  • (10) His arrest comes a year after the capture of Mexico’s most notorious drug lord , Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world’s most powerful drug-smuggling gangs.
  • (11) Homegrown talent Davide Shorty is a songwriter, beat-maker and rapper from Palermo who moved to London a few years ago.
  • (12) Smugger still is the accompanying (and relatively new) Instagram account – an endless stream of conspicuous consumption as Palermo enjoys yet more infinity pools (attentive readers might notice a theme emerging), luxury goods shopping ("I can't think of a better way to start the day in Paris than the ultimate girl's playground #DIOR") and interchangeable small dogs, usually flanked by at least one permatanned, ripped himbo henchman in shorty shorts.
  • (13) Stormzy and Michael need to be the same person.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kanye with, among others, Stormzy, Jammer, Skepta, Shorty, Krept and Konan, Novelist and Fekky.
  • (14) Gandolfini was then cast against type as shy guys in Mr Wonderful (1993) and Angie (1994), but returned to bad ways as an ex-KGB man in Terminal Velocity (1994), as a southern-accented stunt man turned bodyguard in Get Shorty (1995), as a corrupt cop who kills himself in Sidney Lumet 's Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) and a mafia man in The Juror (1996).
  • (15) But at the same period, Waterloo Road (1944) showed him robustly at home in a working-class role, echoing his unpatronisingly drawn lower-deck character, ordinary seaman Shorty Blake, in In Which We Serve.
  • (16) Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant, was convicted of murder in Quebec in 1895.
  • (17) Even the man nicknamed Shorty would have had to crouch as he felt and squelched through the fetid tunnels, the Guardian can testify, having joined Mexican reporters who later explored the escape route.
  • (18) "This song is a love song not for some of us but for all of us and tonight we celebrate the commitment to love by some very beautiful couples," said Latifah, before introducing the rap duo with Mary Lambert and jazz artist Trombone Shorty.
  • (19) Right there in Sinaloa, where Guzman’s mother was found and interviewed by British film-maker Angus McQueen for his movie The Legend of Shorty , and where the army, Guzmán’s bodyguards told McQueen, was paid to turn a blind eye.
  • (20) Like all Mexican dons, he has a nom de narco , and is known as El Chapo (Shorty) – ostensibly to describe his appearance.

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