What's the difference between miskin and siskin?

Miskin


Definition:

  • (n.) A little bagpipe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Beragam skema dan desain untuk memperbaiki daerah miskin, dengan tidak melakukan penggusuran, telah diajukan.
  • (2) Jol Miskin Sheffield • There are three, not two, credible options for UK membership of the EU.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Muslim-owned fish shop stands looted in the Miskin district of Bangui.
  • (4) A girl walks through the rubble of demolished Muslim homes in the Miskine district of Bangui.
  • (5) Dalgliesh is a frustrated poet, a graduate capable of the sort of introspection that, for the last three books, has been offset by the more modish preoccupations of kate Miskin.
  • (6) Photograph: Peter Bouckaert Bleasdale said: "Jerome was taking pictures in Miskin, which is the Muslim quarter where Fosso lived – although he's not a Muslim himself.
  • (7) I was concentrating on Dalgliesh, and also by this point had Kate Miskin [Dalgliesh's sidekick], who's very like Cordelia – a gutsy girl from a deprived background.
  • (8) Two of your own advisers, Ruth Miskin, who has been such a stalwart supporter of some of your other ideas, and grammar expert Prof Debra Myhill, of Exeter University, have told you that too.
  • (9) Jol Miskin Sheffield • I see that the governance of schools is to be put exclusively in the hands of those with the “right skills” – thereby leaving out those (parents) with the greatest interest in their proper running.
  • (10) The violence that has left CAR verging on anarchy showed few signs of abating in the Miskine district of the capital, where about a dozen Muslim men with machetes faced off against a group of Christian youths.
  • (11) A photograph by Jerome Delay of a woman running for cover as heavy gunfire erupts in the Miskin district of Bangui on 3 February.
  • (12) James's vehicle is Adam Dalgliesh, a chief inspector on his first outing in Cover Her Face (1962), now a commander at the Met aided by two detectives, Kate Miskin and Piers Tarrant, characters through whom James has tried to modernise her gentle depiction of the police force.
  • (13) For the purposes of balance, Miskin was brought up on a predominantly black council estate in south London after being abandoned by her mother.

Siskin


Definition:

  • (n.) A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine.
  • (n.) The American pinefinch (S. pinus); -- called also pine siskin. See Pinefinch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was no effect of B on basal metabolic rate of either species, but nocturnal metabolic rate varied significantly less over the 3-h period of measurement in B-treated sparrows and siskins than in control birds.
  • (2) Resting metabolic rates of Gambel's white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii) and pine siskins (Carduelis pinus) were evaluated at thermoneutral temperatures before and after administration of corticosterone (B) at physiological doses.

Words possibly related to "miskin"

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