What's the difference between pigsty and shelter?

Pigsty


Definition:

  • (n.) A pigpen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 81.5% of the cowsheds, but only 20% of the pigsties were found to be infested.
  • (2) The samples with the highest aflatoxin concentrations came from metallic storage containers for complete feed mixtures in front of the pigsties.
  • (3) Cowsheds and pigsties were studied for infestation with the stable fly.
  • (4) He had to leave the rusty old laboratory he affectionately calls the Pigsty.
  • (5) He then reopened his long-running feud with Forbes and David Milne, another prominent objector who owns a former coastguard station on a headland overlooking the North Sea, describing their properties as "slums" and a "pigsty".
  • (6) Wild house mice (Mus domesticus) captured in a Flemish pigsty were infected intravenously with 4 x 10(6) variable units of Mycobacterium bovis BCG and examined by Western blot analysis for IgG secretion against BCG culture filtrate (CF) antigens.
  • (7) The germ density of the air during 2 cycles each of the rainy and dry seasons was investigated in the empty pigsty as well as after the 6th day of occupation by means of sedimentation in endo agar.
  • (8) The variables used in the experiment were found to exert a favourable effect on the state of health and growth of pigs but they had no essential influence on the level of immunoglobulins and increase in the titre of antibodies against E. coli (0141, 0149), isolated from pigs kept in the same pigsty.
  • (9) The area in which O. moubata is found in pigsties includes much of the African swine fever (ASF) enzootic area, and it seems likely that the enzootic area could become larger in future.
  • (10) Trump has described Forbes's home and decrepit outbuildings as a "pigsty" and a "slum".
  • (11) Also investigated was the position of the litters in the middle or one of the marginal rows of boxes of the pigsty.
  • (12) It was demonstrated that Candida carriers accounted for 2.6 per cent among the animals raised under primitive pigsty conditions, and for 2.5 per cent of those raised under industrial conditions.
  • (13) It is reported about two pig-breeders with the typical symptoms of an exogen allergic alveolitis after having worked in a pigsty.
  • (14) So too is Michael Forbes, the obstinate quarryman who became Trump’s most famous opponent after the property magnate described him as a “disgrace” for refusing to sell to him his “pigsty of a home” which sits in the middle of the Trump estate.
  • (15) If we thought it was necessary we’d be for it,” said Pauline Harkin, the tenant at Blackgrounds Farm, a low farmhouse and a cluster of pigsties converted into stables where the only sound was the atonal chirp of sparrows.
  • (16) It’s a corbelled pigsty,” says Duane Fitzsimons next day, pointing out a tiny medieval stone building near the lighthouse.
  • (17) Life of Brian ended up being banned in Harrogate, parts of Surrey, east Devon (where councillors refused even to watch it, arguing, "You don't have to see a pigsty to know that it stinks") and Cornwall (where, after one screening, a local councillor rather overstated the case by arguing for all the participants in the film to be locked up in Broadmoor).
  • (18) Trump had blasted Forbes on national television for “living like a pig” and his working farm “a pigsty”.
  • (19) The distribution of ticks of the Ornithodoros moubata complex in different habitats in Malawi, particularly pigsties and houses, was established from a four-phase survey undertaken between 1982 and 1985.
  • (20) In the period from January 1983 to December 1985 we examined thirty-five samples of commercial feed mixtures for pigs and thirty samples of pigsty dust deposition from large pig-houses in a region with extensive mining (lignite extraction) situated in the Hodonín district.

Shelter


Definition:

  • (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
  • (n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
  • (n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
  • (v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
  • (v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
  • (v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. i.) To take shelter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
  • (2) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
  • (3) Housing charity Shelter puts the shortage of affordable housing in England at between 40,000 and 60,000 homes a year.
  • (4) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
  • (6) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
  • (7) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
  • (8) Around a third of Gaza's 1.8 million people have been displaced, many now living in United Nations shelters.
  • (9) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
  • (10) The UK donated £114m which funded shelter for 1.3 million people and clean water for 2.5 million.
  • (11) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
  • (12) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
  • (13) For services to Elderly People through the Minnie Bennett Sheltered Accommodation Home for the Elderly in Greenwich South East London.
  • (14) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
  • (15) She is just one of many people who have contacted Shelter about cuts to SMI payments.
  • (16) After leaving the RCA, the pair continued to work on the idea of shelters that could be dropped into disaster zones or areas of military conflict and swiftly assembled.
  • (17) The discrimination in the policy of successive South African governments towards African workers is demonstrated by the so-called 'civilised labour policy' under which sheltered, unskilled government jobs are found for those white workers who cannot make the grade in industry, at wages which far exceed the earnings of the average African employee in industry.
  • (18) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
  • (19) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
  • (20) The only way for the government to turn this crisis around is to urgently invest in genuinely affordable homes Campbell Robb, Shelter The Land Registry – whose data is viewed by many as the most comprehensive and accurate – said the typical price of a home reached £181,619 in June.

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