What's the difference between mineralogist and smithsonian?
Mineralogist
Definition:
(n.) One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
(n.) A carrier shell (Phorus).
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mohs scale is a relative scale used by geologists and mineralogists to describe minerals and goes from one, which is super soft, to 10, which is super hard,” explained Alford.
Smithsonian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports.
(n.) The Smithsonian Institution.
Example Sentences:
(1) All was very accomplished; her award-winning photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and her articles and pictures were published in books, periodicals, and newspapers around the world.
(2) Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, who heads the advisory board, said that to power the spacecraft, researchers have to work out how to link lasers into one massive array.
(3) Willie Soon is a Smithsonian staff researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a collaboration of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,” a Harvard spokesman, Jeff Neal, said.
(4) His trademark white shirt and red tie are on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.
(5) As is common among Harvard-Smithsonian scientists, Soon is not on a salary.
(6) A meeting on Marine Biomedical Research, sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health and the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, was attended by approximately 125 scientists, directors and representatives from many of the country's marine biological laboratories, and government agencies whose interests and responsibilites are in the marine biology and health areas.
(7) As did last month’s story about the sunken slave ship headed for the Smithsonian.
(8) Cosby and his wife, Camille, appeared on NPR to speak about their donation of more than 60 pieces of art to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, in Washington DC.
(9) Discussions have also been held about the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC opening a London outpost on the Olympic site The former BP executive Sir William Castell is chair of the Foundation for FutureLondon, which has been tasked with generating philanthropic support for the project.
(10) "I'm glued to the new panda cams and thrilled to hear the squeals, which appear healthy, of our newborn cub," said Dennis Kelly, director of the Smithsonian's national zoo.
(11) The Smithsonian’s curators have their work cut out for them.
(12) Over the last 14 years Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics , received a total of $1.25m from Exxon Mobil, Southern Company, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and a foundation run by the ultra-conservative Koch brothers, the documents obtained by Greenpeace through freedom of information filings show.
(13) As Sarah Zielinski from Smithsonian magazine , Kristen Philipkoski on Gizmodo and Mel Robbins on cnn.com state ringingly, while freezing may kill some germs, it most certainly won't kill all, and the germs will return with a vengeance once you wear those jeans again and heat them up to body temperature.
(14) Other remains from collections in Berlin, at Washington's Smithsonian Museum, Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum have been repatriated directly to Australian Indigenous communities.
(15) We either believe in places like the Louvre in Paris, the Smithsonian in Washington, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the National Gallery of Canberra as cultural centres of education and scholarship, addressing an international audience, or we hold that their collections should be redistributed and their purpose reduced to showing only French, American, Canadian and Australian art and artefacts.
(16) The Butte County Native American Cultural Committee started to press for the return of the brain three years ago after it emerged that it might be held in the Smithsonian Institution.
(17) I measured the bodies of vertebrae L3 and L4 of 338 skeletons from the Terry collection in the Smithsonian Institution, including Blacks and Whites, males and females, aged from 20 to 90 years.
(18) Two centennial CD releases encapsulate the arguments: one out this week is a 3CD set from the Smithsonian Institution and the other is an extraordinary project in the pipeline at Rounder Records that will culminate in seven CDs and a book by the label's founder, Bill Nowlin.
(19) Rumours have been rife in the physics community about an announcement due on Monday from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
(20) Dolores Piperno, who led the study at the archaeobiology laboratory at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, said the work showed Neanderthals were more sophisticated diners than many academics gave them credit for.