What's the difference between morsel and tidbit?

Morsel


Definition:

  • (n.) A little bite or bit of food.
  • (n.) A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He has been feeding the press morsel by juicy morsel to keep the story alive, and the fear within the PP is not only that he has more information but that he is holding back the most damning evidence.
  • (2) Roy Jenkins, the Chancellor, was desperate for some reassuring morsel to feed the bankers hungrily circling the floundering pound.
  • (3) These 12-peso morsels are pure corazón Mexicano (heart of Mexico).
  • (4) It was found in the first experiment that monkeys with total removal of the inferotemporal visual area (TIT monkeys) showed a significant elevation of the discrimination limen for visual patterns of reduced sizes even when compared to monkeys with removal of lateral striate cortex (LS monkeys); yet in a food-morsel (raisin) detection test the TIT monkeys performed as well as normal monkeys, although the LS monkeys showed significant deficits.
  • (5) The removed femoral head is morselized in the bone mill and packed into the prepared femoral canal to enhance a tight fit.
  • (6) These were combined with four different bone augmentation constructs, using nonstructural morselized fresh-frozen allograft or segmental freeze-dried allograft.
  • (7) Demineralization increased with increasing sucrose content of the cookies and reached a plateau when cookies containing 1.08 g sucrose per morsel were administered.
  • (8) As Hazan notes, the Italians like to describe such dishes as "un bocone da cardinale", or a "morsel for a cardinal".
  • (9) Here is a list of 10 morsels that, I hope, give a taste of the pleasures to be had.
  • (10) Customers from all walks of life happily devour their succulent char-roasted morsels of goodness, while downing ice-cold beer or horchata , a milky-looking drink made from rice.
  • (11) On many occasions bulk graft requires conversion to cancellous morselized graft to fill defects.
  • (12) The results of eighteen acetabular reconstructions in which a bipolar prosthesis and morseled bone grafts were used for a major acetabular defect were evaluated.
  • (13) The papers also show how MI5 appeared to seek a trade of information about Libyan dissidents in London for morsels of intelligence gleaned from Tripoli – despite Libya's reputation for torturing prisoners.
  • (14) Javier Gomez sucks the last morsels of meat from the leg bone of an agouti , a large Amazonian rodent, his creased face belying his 44 years.
  • (15) Worse for Tsvangirai, there is at least a morsel of truth in the accusations against him.
  • (16) Van Gaal's press conference here, after a training session with his Netherlands-based players in the hotel grounds, was a breezy affair but when questioned about United he offered only the odd morsel in response.
  • (17) Newly formed bone was observed in the marrow spaces and along the morselized autograft bone chips, which had been surgically placed in the medullary canal at the time of implantation.
  • (18) Clearly, the greatest thing on TV right now is Channel 4's Homeland ( Sun, 9pm ), a strong acquisition, currently being fed to the UK in measly weekly ad-filled 45-minute morsels.
  • (19) One-hundred percent morselized HA-TCP, a 50:50 mixture of morselized HA-TCP, and autogenous cancellous bone, and 100% autogenous cancellous bone were used to bridge 2.5-cm defects in the left ulnae of three groups of six dogs each.
  • (20) In return for surrendering their country – the essence of Aboriginality – communities will receive morsels of rent, which the government will take from Indigenous mining royalties.

Tidbit


Definition:

  • (n.) A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike Indian officials, who have slipped anonymous tidbits and soundbites to the news agencies, RIM has remained tight-lipped about its negotiations.
  • (2) Cliches are often useful tidbits of wisdom imparted too often to have any remaining emotional impact: “live every day as though it is your last” being a prime example.
  • (3) But plenty of quirky facts and peculiar tidbits turned up as well.
  • (4) 4.32pm GMT Here’s a spicy tidbit: The CIA general counsel who filed the crimes report targeting Senate staff is himself a target of sorts of the Senate report on CIA torture.
  • (5) That's a new freedom – the idea that a story can have long segments and short segments and that you don't have to end each 42-minute segment with a tidbit of the next one because you know that people are going to be watching several in the row.
  • (6) It is not, fair to say, as it is billed: the reporter – Amy Chozick, on the paper's media business beat – calls up on the off-chance of a revealing interview and, failing that, settles for tidbits from Wendi's chatty friends: "Through a family spokesman, Mrs Murdoch declined to be interviewed for this article, as did other members of the Murdoch family.
  • (7) But it will provide buyers with tidbits from the film ahead of its release in December, and then reveal more features and personality after the film’s release.
  • (8) Benjy Sarlin has rounded up 10 tidbits the former governor has to choose from, including "Show us your plan!
  • (9) Here are some of the tidbits gleaned from our comprehensive look at the cables: • Between 2007 and 2009, annual cables were distributed to "encourage the use of agricultural biotechnology", directing US embassies to "pursue an active biotech agenda".
  • (10) This is why they fall upon any tidbit of information that might hint at "installed base" eagerly.
  • (11) 2.30pm: "Here's a tidbit for you," points out Neil Bennun.
  • (12) Frequently displaced, especially if distortion of the hollow point has occurred, this tidbit of trace evidence is worth recovering and analyzing.
  • (13) Though the peddlers of memoirs and mid-market newspapers have scavenged every last tidbit from this affair, sensible historians admit knowing little about it.
  • (14) Read the full report here , including this tidbit: Iran has yet to declare its hand about who should lead Iraq.
  • (15) This thunderous tidbit was actually the last gasp of an epic Warner Bros panel that featured plenty of surprises on Saturday morning.
  • (16) The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking.
  • (17) But the splashy nature of that intrusion – a person or people using the online handle Guccifer 2.0 distributed tidbits from the breach to reporters – revealed a second intruder, codenamed Cozy Bear by ThreatConnect.
  • (18) 9.53pm BST The Atlantic's Jordan Weissmann picks out what he thinks is "the saddest paragraph" in all today's coverage of the government shutdown: But so far, nothing I've read about the government shutdown has been nearly as gut-wrenching as this tidbit from The Wall Street Journal (paywall): "At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed.
  • (19) 9.03pm BST Cardinals 0 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 4th Behind the scenes tidbit: I've spent the last inning trying to find any workable photos to show some in-game action and then I realized that there hasn't been any in-game action.
  • (20) Their fourth release, Random Access Memories , is the most hysterically anticipated record in years: every tidbit disseminated online over the past two months has been scrutinised like a fragment of the true cross.

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