What's the difference between phenix and phoenix?

Phenix


Definition:

  • (n.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.
  • (n.) A southern constellation.
  • (n.) A marvelous person or thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phenix appears to be Houser’s last permanent address, but he had been in Lafayette, a city of 124,000 roughly 500 miles west, for long enough to make an impression on local business owners.
  • (2) A user named Rusty Houser of Phenix City, Alabama, commented on a thread on PoliticalForum.com: “Any meaningful change in the US will have to be backed up with guns.
  • (3) Police said Houser, who was from Phenix City, Alabama, had been in Lafayette since early July and was living at a local motel.
  • (4) Reached by the Guardian, Floyd said: “I have talked all I want to talk about John Houser for one day.” Houser’s work history on LinkedIn stops in 2008, when he listed his last employment as a real-estate developer in Phenix City, Alabama, across Lake Oliver from Columbus.
  • (5) The documents said Houser had driven an hour and a half north from Phenix City to Carroll County, Georgia, and there “perpetrated various acts of family violence”.
  • (6) A profile on Tea Party Nation bore his name and where he was believed to have last lived, in Phenix City, but no posts.
  • (7) Thanatophobic regression metamorphosizes into courage for life, the ability to face transitoriness and to discover the power of phenix in it which creates new creations.

Phoenix


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Phenix.
  • (n.) A genus of palms including the date tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phoenix will next be seen in James Gray's Lowlife, a historical drama about immigrants in 1900s New York.
  • (2) Fines’ best actor nod fell in the comedy movie category, which he shared with Michael Keaton in Birdman, Bill Murray in St. Vincent, Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice and Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes.
  • (3) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
  • (4) The needles were from a commonly grown palm, Phoenix canariensis.
  • (5) SUNS 104, TIMBERWOLVES 95 In Phoenix, Grant Hill scored 15 of his season-best 20 points in the second half as Phoenix pulled away to beat weary Minnesota.
  • (6) Stanton had come, along with a senior representative of BP, to address the people of Phoenix, a small community on the east bank of the Mississippi.
  • (7) It was found that controlled studies are few in number and available only for correctional institutions, not for Daytop, Synanon, or Phoenix House.
  • (8) Phoenix is also said to be considering a role in Gus van Sant's next film, Sea of Trees , which would tally more closely with his recent career trajectory.
  • (9) He would like to have $10m a year to charter a new boat, a 45-knot Australian-built catamaran ferry named HSV-2 Swift, which is two and half times the size of the Phoenix.
  • (10) All jokes aside, we hope his music’s an art project along the lines of Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here, otherwise it’s just embarrassing.
  • (11) For example, Phoenix Community Housing, a housing association in Lewisham, south-east London, retains only a small proportion of the proceeds from each right-to-buy sale under current legislation.
  • (12) Her agent, Max Eisenbud, confirmed on Thursday that the former British No1 will play in two ITF $25,000 tournaments, in Surprise, near Phoenix, Arizona from 16 February, then Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, the following week.
  • (13) Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: “We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.” Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013 , where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system.
  • (14) A systematic evaluation comparing the hand-pumped device with a new, pneumatic external pressure device (Infusor-1, Medical Innovations, Inc., Phoenix, AZ) is presented.
  • (15) In the Boston, Buffalo, Dallas, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, Phoenix, and Washington, DC, areas cocaine-related ER episodes decreased for at least the last two consecutive semiannual periods.
  • (16) Flagstaff in Arizona had 11 inches of snow early Sunday, while metro Phoenix and other parts of central Arizona were drenched with several inches of rain, causing the cancellation of sporting events and parades.
  • (17) Yes, because my mum was out with Phoenix, shopping, and I didn’t want to shock her.
  • (18) Observations at the urban site were compared with similar measurements at nearby non-urban sites and with the results of studies at two larger cities in the desert southwest, Phoenix and Tucson, AZ.
  • (19) The Australian Skills Quality Authority announced on Tuesday it had decided to cancel Phoenix’s registration as a provider of VET services, a move the ACN plans to challenge in the administrative appeals tribunal.
  • (20) Nobody does inner turmoil better than Phoenix, who's excelled at angst ever since his troubled teen in 1989's Parenthood, and he's exceptional in Her.

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