What's the difference between noddy and spring?

Noddy


Definition:

  • (n.) A simpleton; a fool.
  • (n.) Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.
  • (n.) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
  • (n.) An old game at cards.
  • (n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
  • (n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The oxygen consumption (MO2) of the semi-precocial Brown Noddy embryos at different stages of development was measured at 36 degrees C and again after 5-hr exposure to lowered ambient temperatures (30 and 32 degrees C).
  • (2) I believe that a lighthearted exchange could have taken place.” “PC Plod is the Toyland constable in the Noddy stories isn’t he?” Browne said.
  • (3) In Australia, levels of lead and mercury were higher in black noddy (A. minutus) and lower for sooty tern; and cadmium levels were highest for brown noddy (A. stolidus) and sooty tern, and lowest for black noddy.
  • (4) Even now, he's negotiating a treaty with Noddy Holder, the cultural attache for British Sausage Week , to establish an international standard for toad-in-the-hole.
  • (5) Alfie, Doodles, Lofty, Sooty (who won best individual), Noddy, Bentley, Pedro and Cracker are so well trained they walk in formation down the beach and back again without being led.
  • (6) This year’s Venice work draws from his exhibition called All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (the title derives from a passage in the Communist Manifesto) that toured the north of England in 2013-14, and featured family trees of musicians that found the ancestors of Bryan Ferry, Noddy Holder and Shaun Ryder included a blacksmith, a button filer and a clogger’s apprentice.
  • (7) The precocial chicken and semi-precocial noddy previously studied are intermediate in their metabolic response between the duck and the pigeon.
  • (8) British animation has been in decline in recent years as other countries have offered generous subsidies for cartoonists to move abroad, with Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine produced in the US and Noddy made in Ireland, and the industry believes the result is British pre-schoolchildren now see largely foreign-made content.
  • (9) In contrast to precocial chickens, the semi-precocial Noddy had no apparent metabolic response to cooling before hatching.
  • (10) But theimage of electric vehicles as dowdy "Noddy" cars has begun to change, due to luxury electric sports cars such as California's Tesla Roadster and the British-designed Lightning GT.

Spring


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To leap; to bound; to jump.
  • (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
  • (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
  • (v. i.) To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
  • (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
  • (v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out.
  • (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
  • (v. i.) To grow; to prosper.
  • (v. t.) To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
  • (v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.
  • (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
  • (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
  • (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
  • (v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
  • (v. t.) To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
  • (v. i.) A leap; a bound; a jump.
  • (v. i.) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
  • (v. i.) Elastic power or force.
  • (v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force.
  • (v. i.) Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
  • (v. i.) Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
  • (v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source;
  • (v. i.) A race; lineage.
  • (v. i.) A youth; a springal.
  • (v. i.) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
  • (v. i.) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
  • (v. i.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.
  • (v. i.) The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
  • (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
  • (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (2) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (3) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (4) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1983, pp.
  • (5) The anthropometric data of women in the spring and autumn group were similar.
  • (6) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
  • (7) The phage is also thermostable in water of the hot spring from which this phage was isolated.
  • (8) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
  • (9) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
  • (10) For the attachment of adherent cells, microcarriers or wire springs can be applied to increase the internal surface of the bioreactor.
  • (11) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
  • (12) The curved configuration of the cervico-thoracic vertebral column embedded in long spring-like muscles is interpreted to function as a shock absorber.
  • (13) However, in late fall, winter and early spring AC is not really necessary.
  • (14) As soon as you close down one company, another one will spring up in its place," she said.
  • (15) Differences between F3 or F4 and WP were lower in autumn than in spring.
  • (16) Such a heterogeneity in DNA content in the diploid part of HPR cell population could apparently suggest some differences in the nuclear chromatin arrangement to be always higher in spring before the frog spawning, and it seems to be characteristic of this type of cells.
  • (17) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
  • (18) The doses were calculated as average monthly doses for each of 454 municipalities during 36 consecutive months after the accident in spring 1986.
  • (19) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
  • (20) As corruption consistently ranks as a top concern for Spaniards, second only to unemployment, and with an eye on upcoming municipal and regional elections in the spring, Spain’s political parties have been keen to appear as if they are tackling the issue.