What's the difference between nugget and tidbit?

Nugget


Definition:

  • (n.) A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gallinari will miss the entire 2013-14 Nuggets season, unlike most Nuggets fans who, at its end, probably won't miss it all.
  • (2) Playing with what one imagines to be a huge chip on his shoulder, Aldridge put up a career-high 44 points, and the Trail Blazers beat the Nuggets 110-105 .
  • (3) 'Park' and 'Nugget' Kentucky bluegrass turfs were grown in controlled environment chambers and inoculated with Klebsiella pneumoniae (W-2, W-6, and W-14), Erwinia herbicola (W-8), and Enterobacter cloacae (W-11).
  • (4) Andersen, who has a 'mohawk' hairstyle and a past which includes a drugs ban, joined the Miami Heat after leaving the Nuggets.
  • (5) Last year, when Andersen was playing for the Denver Nuggets , the Colorado Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children team seized property from Andersen's home, leading to widespread speculation.
  • (6) We'll be here until then and beyond, sharing every rumour nugget, insightful news line and weighty analysis we can muster.
  • (7) You may lose a life in a game when you make a mistake, but good games brilliantly balance the inconvenience of this with the provision of power-ups and health packs – little nuggets of grace in the learning system.
  • (8) Among those might be the Denver Nuggets, who had to play the Trail Blazers a few hours after the NBA All-Star announcements.
  • (9) This was no abstract essay, but a speech written in concrete, packed with what the wonks call "crunchy" nuggets of policy.
  • (10) There is one family group sharing a tray of chicken nuggets - a Thai mother and father with a fat little boy bursting from a designer leather jacket, but the other patrons are all alone, disconnected, eating their fast food with silent efficiency.
  • (11) Why doesn't it just flood out when it is turned into a takeaway or a ready meal or a chicken nugget?
  • (12) The story was swiftly denied, but many observers felt there might be a nugget of truth in it, underlining how febrile the mood had become.
  • (13) Grampian, supplier of fresh chicken and nuggets to all the main British supermarkets, has just closed down a factory in Scotland and ended its contract with some of its British farmers, while buying two huge factories outside Bangkok.
  • (14) The survey is good fun, discarding old chestnuts such as washing-up and dusting in favour of fresher nuggets such as: who organises playdates?
  • (15) Pools of ticks, Ixodes (Ceratixodes) uriae collected between 1975 and 1979 at Macquarie Island, yielded 33 strains of at least 4 different viruses: Nugget virus (Kemerovo group), 1 strain; Taggert virus (Sakhalin group) 9 strains; a previously undescribed flavivirus, related to Central European Tickborne encephalitis virus, for which the name "Gadgets Gully" is proposed, 9 strains; a virus serologically related to the Uukuniemi serogroup, family Bunyaviridae, for which the name "Precarious Point" is proposed, 10 strains.
  • (16) And as long as that audience is there to be fought for, then, yes, Jonathan Ross will be paid gold nuggets per second.
  • (17) McDonald’s posted relatively healthy returns in the third quarter, egged on by the continued popularity of its all-day breakfast and new chicken nuggets without added preservatives.
  • (18) The Miami Heat didn't see their streak end in a blowout loss, which is more than the Denver Nuggets can say after their comparably modest 15-game win streak ended in a blowout loss to New Orleans.
  • (19) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
  • (20) Served in school dining halls, fast-food outlets, at hospital bedsides, and on the tables of harassed parents, nuggets have become ubiquitous.

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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