What's the difference between norma and norman?

Norma


Definition:

  • (n.) A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard.
  • (n.) A mason's or a carpenter's square or rule.
  • (n.) A templet or gauge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile some residents feel that Norma 26 , a policy meant to incentivise the construction of much-needed low-income housing, is actually driving gentrification.
  • (2) His approach was to view BBC2 as a channel of serendipity: a place where you might chance upon a nice surprise, such as the history series World War Two: Behind Closed Doors, Simon Schama's The American Future: A History, and, most recently, Norma Percy's acclaimed series Iran and the West.
  • (3) Severe macroorchism (1.8-4.5 times more, then anthropometric norma for this years) was found at 5 males in first group (10%), and in 8 males in second group (8%).
  • (4) Four of these seven also had hypocomplementemia, and this hypocomplementemia was characterized by decreased serum CH50, C3 beta1A or C3-C9 but norma serum C1, C4 and C2 by hemolytic assay.
  • (5) Then the Daily Telegraph reported this week that the DPP, Lloyd Babb, had “come under fire” after recently advising Norma’s family that his office’s position on charging the men was the same as in 2012.
  • (6) Norma said she had driven from Plano, near Dallas, to look after the 83-year-old, who suffered a cut and bruising.
  • (7) Margaret Attwater said her son, then 36, whose “on-again, off-again” relationship with Norma carried over about nine months, was “brought up not to hit women”.
  • (8) Norma Hulme, a 72-year-old from Northenden, says the prime minister would probably get chased away if he returned to the area.
  • (9) Margaret Attwater recalls her son being “in shock” in the aftermath of Norma’s death.
  • (10) Norma Raynes and colleagues describe a Department of Health-sponsored study which investigated the quality of care delivered in four key sectors of community residential care.
  • (11) Barnes rejected Attwater and Maris’s claims that Norma did not cry out in pain, that she remained conscious after the sex and only later collapsed after going for a swim to wash the blood from her legs.
  • (12) The best answer probably lies in something his wife says minutes earlier – again, a sentiment likely shared by Norma’s family: “It’s been a nightmare for years.
  • (13) That seems simple enough, but Norma King of High Barnet wrote five times asking Abbey to close her account.
  • (14) She stayed here for weeks on end.” Margaret Attwater says she tried to talk Norma into seeing a doctor about her drinking, which was constant.
  • (15) Algunos residentes opinan que la Norma 26, una política pública diseñada para incentivar la construcción de viviendas muy necesitadas para personas de bajos recursos, está de hecho promoviendo el aburguesamiento.
  • (16) An inquest in November 2014 found Norma bled to death after a sexual encounter with Attwater and his friend Paul Maris on an overnight camping trip on Ten Mile Beach, half an hour’s drive from Maclean.
  • (17) The courts might not hold him responsible for the calamity that took place on the beach in the early hours after Australia Day in 2011, but others would attempt to take matters into their own hands, provoked by the circumstances around the death of the woman who can only be legally identified as “Norma”.
  • (18) Neither Norma’s dismayed family nor police were satisfied with the DPP’s dropping the case and immediately pressed for the inquest.
  • (19) A sex act performed by Attwater in the back of Maris’s 4WD ruptured an artery inside Norma.
  • (20) Norma Torres had prepared the paperwork and was ready to apply.

Norman


Definition:

  • (n.) A wooden bar, or iron pin.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
  • (2) The then party whip, Norman Lamb, who is now a health minister, expressed his reservations at the time, although Clegg was able to restore his authority by forcing through changes to the original bill.
  • (3) These data indicate that hallucinations (i.e., believed-in imaginings) can be elicited from a minority of "norman" subjects with brief instructions.
  • (4) In the request for reconsideration, Gissendaner’s lawyers cite a statement from former Georgia supreme court chief justice Norman Fletcher, who argues that Gissendaner’s death sentence is not proportionate to her role in the crime.
  • (5) Other controversial voices were Barry Norman, who wondered if Williams’s battles with mental health led him to take on sentimental film projects, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose tweet reading “Genie, you’re free” was seen as glorifying suicide .
  • (6) New ITV chairman Archie Norman will launch a strategy review this month as he seeks to "accelerate the transformation" of the broadcaster.
  • (7) Norman also once again dismissed any notion that ITV would look at selling off its programme-making operation, despite reports that some shareholders would like to see that happen .
  • (8) They’re peculiarly British but the appeal of the humour and the ever-present message that good people always win is absolutely global.” “These films are a part of British culture and to be carrying on the legacy of [original Carry On writers] Norman Hudis and Talbot Rothwell is a thrill and a responsibility,” said Dawson.
  • (9) At a press conference in New York , Norman Siegel, lawyer for Eunice Huthart, Angelina Jolie's sometime stunt double, said they had spoken to a number of people who claim they have been hacked by journalists working for News Corp.
  • (10) But Rubio’s Pac, Reclaim America, hopes to benefit from wealthy individual donors including the Miami car dealer Norman Braman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, who is believed to have pledged at least $10m.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I’m Jewish but I see him as being a very inclusive kind of person that could really unite this country,’ said Norman Kayton, with his wife, Ellen.
  • (12) The observation of generalized GM1 gangliosidosis type 1 (Norman-Landing disease) is reported.
  • (13) The same refusal to back down characterised his dispute with Norman Mailer, whose attitudes towards women had brought rebukes from Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.
  • (14) Garrett, C. Clayberger, A.M. Krensky, A.M. Norman, D.R.
  • (15) Archie Norman , ITV's chairman, said Crozier, who is the former head of the Football Association, had the "steely resolve we need at ITV", which was looking for a "great leader".
  • (16) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
  • (17) This pressure, by a letters campaign to the FCO, was initiated by Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine with human rights organisation Adalah-New York , followed by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, former BBC correspondent Tim Llewellyn and hundreds of others.
  • (18) ITV said that Archie Norman, the former Tory MP and party chief executive, had not had any direct involvement with the programme.
  • (19) Equally, the award made to Norman Foster's striking 30 St Mary Axe (aka the Gherkin) was at a time when there was great excitement about the latest development in new City skyscrapers, an excitement somewhat deflated now that City money appears to be as trustworthy as a Bob Maxwell pension scheme.
  • (20) Imagine if our Norman had been born in Calcutta and chosen to live in India.