What's the difference between mom and mommy?

Mom


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, welcomed Target’s shift in policy.
  • (2) This modification of DNA is controlled by the Mu modification function (mom), which acts in conjunction with the dam (DNA-adenine methylation) function of Escherichia coli.
  • (3) A ngelina Jolie sends young women all sorts of messages: that you can both be a mom and successful businesswoman, that it’s important to take a stand on issues you care about, and that making a healthy choice “in no way diminishes [your] femininity”.
  • (4) Findings are surprising in that the SES was more actively involved in all forms of OM than had been thought, especially in MOM and COM.
  • (5) I was crying ‘ I don’t want to walk, Mom.’ And so she carried me,” said Maria, now 29.
  • (6) When my mom found crack, that’s when the walls started coming in on me.
  • (7) And that’s the thing about substance abuse – it doesn’t discriminate.” Authorities report 74 heroin overdoses in three days in Chicago Read more “It touches everybody, from celebrities to college students to soccer moms to inner-city kids – white, black, Hispanic, young, old, rich, poor, urban, suburban, men and women.” Among the Obama administration’s proposals were to improve training among prescribers for opiate painkillers and to expand access to medication-assisted treatment.
  • (8) In those pregnancies uncomplicated by either fetal exomphalos or neural tube defect the midtrimester maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (MSAFP) levels were markedly reduced, the median value for 38 such pregnancies being 0.6 multiples of the median (MoM).
  • (9) Insept Mom" (a notice attached to her five-year-old grandson's door), a short inventory of clubs she'd encountered that wouldn't allow girls or women.
  • (10) "My mom had just died, which had been incredibly traumatic," Mills recalls, "and a few months later, my dad said to me: 'Tomorrow I'm going to throw you a ball and I want you to catch it.'
  • (11) "We are grateful for what he and my mom have done for us," Rafael says.
  • (12) According to her, she is just a mom – a mom forced to defend the decision to save her daughter’s life.
  • (13) Such imaginary groups, when compared to the sum as a whole, are about as worrisome as America's hockey moms turned out to be.
  • (14) If anything, the danger to Trump’s ambitions is coming from inside the house, with his frothingly deranged spokesperson Michael Cohen, a man 30 years out-of-date on spousal rape laws who sounds like a Queens mook in a tracksuit who traps a mom in her car in the Stop & Shop parking lot because he thinks she took his space, beats on the hood and screams, Do you know who my uncle is?
  • (15) Whether he was helping a mom with a carriage or bringing someone to their seats, he did it with so much love and so much vigor and so much joy,” Castillo said.
  • (16) AFP base and limiting values (2.5 MoM and 0.5 MoM) are found.
  • (17) A bit like Godfather II, only with mom's apple pie for tea.
  • (18) "They are the ones who sign my cheque Mom, they are the ones who help me support my family."
  • (19) Michelle Obama, once a distinguished lawyer, calls herself a "mom-in-chief" and does not shy away from schmaltz.
  • (20) The good news for Tigers fans is that they are out of that big hot mess of a ballpark and are back home in the Motor City, where mom makes porridge for breakfast and everybody is nice.

Mommy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
  • (2) Perhaps the most sensational competition debut is the 25-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan with his black-comedy-cum-Oedipal heartbreaker Mommy .
  • (3) He dubbed Marco Rubio “Little Marco”; said Jeb Bush needed the help of his “mommy” to get elected; and referred to the size of his own penis in a televised debate.
  • (4) More than a decade later when Lesléa Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies was published in the US a similar outcry followed, and the book was banned from libraries in many states.
  • (5) "It's made of a hard-coated polycarbonate" (isn't that plastic , mommy?)
  • (6) The first stimulus (MOMMY AND I ARE ONE) was intended to activate unconscious symbiotic fantasies that in a number of prior studies reduced pathology in groups of relatively differentiated schizophrenics.
  • (7) The other stimuli were intended to activate reassuring unconscious fantasies about "mommy" that were not specifically symbiosis-related.
  • (8) The Jury prize is shared by Xavier Dolan's Mommy and Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language Whoops and cheers in the press room as Dolan's name is called out.
  • (9) Only the MOMMY AND I ARE ONE stimulus led to more adaptive behavior and did so on all three dependent variables.
  • (10) Then, in different sessions, in counterbalanced order, each patient received one of three experimental (or "critical") stimuli: a) a neutral control stimulus; b) a message--CANNIBAL EATS PERSON--intended to activate aggressive ideation; c) a message--I AM LOSING MOMMY--intended to activate fantasies of object loss.
  • (11) • Gallery: how the night unfolded • Peter Bradshaw's take Reviews of the winners • Winter Sleep • The Wonders • Mommy • Goodbye to Language • Foxcatcher • Mr Turner • Maps to the Stars • Leviathan
  • (12) The control stimulus for all groups was the message PEOPLE ARE WALKING and the experimental stimuli were the messages MOMMY AND I ARE ONE, MOMMY IS ALWAYS WITH ME, MOMMY FEEDS ME WELL, and I CANNOT HURT MOMMY (one for each group).
  • (13) The two appear in a corner of the exhibit while visitors yell, “Somebody call the zoo!” and “Mommy’s right here!” The station did not air portions of the video showing the gorilla dragging the boy.
  • (14) She closed the show with a tour-de-force medley from Beyoncé , the “visual album” she unexpectedly dropped in December, before accepting the Video Vanguard Award from husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy, who – with her adorable, mommy-inspired dance moves – was arguably the MVP of the night.
  • (15) In the subliminal condition (4 ms exposure time), subjects shown the experimental message "Mommy is Leaving Me" ate significantly fewer crackers than those exposed to the neutral message "Mona is Loaning It" (p = .04).
  • (16) Another gay couple I speak to say they go by "Mommy and Mommy2".
  • (17) "I share Aronowitz's concern that mommy bloggers aren't flying the feminist flag, but that's just the tip of the iceberg," wrote one new mom and feminist .
  • (18) Britain's Sam Taylor-Johnson has been named as the surprise choice to direct the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of "mommy porn" literary sensation Fifty Shades of Grey .
  • (19) The result is that at times Battle Hymn reads like an American-Asian version of Mommie Dearest .
  • (20) I can remember being home one day and there was a knock at the door – a guy selling something – and he said, 'Hon, is your mommy home?'

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