What's the difference between plage and plague?

Plage


Definition:

  • (n.) A region; country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The long, curving, sandy Plage des Chevrets is one of the prettiest on Brittany's Emerald Coast.
  • (2) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
  • (3) • enjoythecoast.it Plage de Bon Secours, Saint-Malo, France Facebook Twitter Pinterest On calm days, there is a striking contrast between the mirror-like surface of Saint-Malo sea pool and the ruffled sea beyond, between the order of its geometric walls and the random rocky outcrops behind them.
  • (4) Le Club Farret Vias Plage is on its own exclusive-use beach and with unfancy but functional units clustered in themed areas (pirate has pool, a waterfall and rope bridges; Pacific has a tiki vibe with straw roofs on the cabins).
  • (5) The first hotel to open in the Landes region is a converted manor house in Mimizan Plage.
  • (6) • +33 2 98 51 94 94, trimen.fr , hoteldubac.fr , Villa Tri Men doubles from €120 room only, Hotel du Bac from €90 Les Mouettes, Larmor-Plage The restaurant at Les Mouettes comes highly recommended.
  • (7) While this section of the Seine closes every summer to host the Paris Plages – in which temporary artificial beaches are created along the right bank of the river – this time the expressway has not been reopened.
  • (8) Thus a cytological study of selectively isolated antigen recognizing cells which form rosettes and antibody producing cells which form hemolytic plages has been performed during oxazolone and lipopolysaccharide stimulations.
  • (9) South-west of Bordeaux, the Côte d’Argent begins at Mimizan Plage, where a river splits the beach in two.
  • (10) Our data support the origin of lambda rev plages by recombination between lambda and the Rac prophage following excision of the Rac prophage from the E. coli chromosome.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Seine-side holiday: Paris Plages lasts for four weeks during the summer.
  • (12) Daytrippers stay on Mimizan Plage Sud for surfing, or the riverbank Plage du Courant for swimming.
  • (13) Before it closed earlier this year for the annual Paris Plage city beach project, 43,000 cars a day passed over the stretch of road.
  • (14) The campsite has a bar with music nights and a seafood restaurant overlooking the beach, but La Trinité and Carnac-Plage have plenty more family-friendly seafood restaurants and creperies.
  • (15) This white art deco hotel wouldn't look out of place on Miami's South Beach, but it's on the far less crowded Plage de Locqueltas on Brittany's Morbihan coast.
  • (16) Huts from €60 a night Le Club Farret Vias Plage, near Béziers, Languedoc Yelloh!
  • (17) It's a pricey place to eat, though: you may prefer to take the wooden pathway east across the dunes and along the sea wall to Larmor-Plage, a resort with a popular Sunday market and a beachfront promenade of affordable seafood restaurants.
  • (18) She said the plan involved handing over the right bank of the Seine to pedestrians after the annual Paris Plage festival.
  • (19) Nor is there the playfulness of Paris Plage , the annual conversion of the banks of the Seine into a beach, or the floating swimming pool that was installed in Copenhagen.
  • (20) The next entry point is a shady picnic area at Plage de Lespécier, where a plank of wood stuck in the sand announces there’s wifi available.

Plague


Definition:

  • (n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
  • (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.
  • (v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, uncloned NJ12508 stock virus killed 1 of 24 hens and FL27716 stock virus killed 4 of 24 hens, and neither produced the complete spectrum of lesions associated with fowl plague.
  • (2) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
  • (3) Thus, has been shown a leading role of transmission of plague microbe by fleas in the maintenance of natural nidality of this zoonosis.
  • (4) The adsorption capacity of microgranulated polyacrylamide magnetic immunosorbents has been studied by the method of quantitative immunofluorescence as applied to the causative agents of plague, cholera, and melioidosis.
  • (5) Processing of plague plasminogen activator (p36 to p33), responsible for hydrolysis of Yops, required 2 h. Avirulence of mutants with inserted Mu dl1 (Apr lac) in yopE was verified and shown to occur independently of introduced fusion-dependent peptides.
  • (6) Their creation in 2006 marked a turning point in stem cell research , because iPS cells suffer from none of the ethical issues that plague embryonic stem cells.
  • (7) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
  • (8) Attention is focused on the Railways' campaigns against malaria, plague and infectious diseases.
  • (9) He is an expert on the public health problems that plague El Paso and the other cities along the international border, all of which are exacerbated by abject poverty and a burgeoning population.
  • (10) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
  • (11) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
  • (12) In the natural foci of plague and tularemia, as well as on the territories outside such foci, the causative agents of intestinal yersiniosis, pseudotuberculosis, salmonellosis, erysipeloid, staphylococci and streptococci, arena- and arboviruses have been isolated from the rodents and ectoparasites under study.
  • (13) The infection, confirmed by viral culture, was produced by Dutch strain (Hav 1 Neq 1) of fowl plague virus.
  • (14) The lytic activity of plague phage II, serovar 3, with respect to 1,800 bacterial strains has been studied: 760 Yersinia pestis strains, 262 Y. pseudotuberculosis strains, 252 Y. enterocolitica strains, 166 Escherichia coli strains, 90 Shigella strains and 270 strains of other species.
  • (15) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
  • (16) The sera from plague patients recognized Y. pestis and Y. enterocolitica antigens ranging from 15 to 72 kilodaltons (kDa), whereas sera from immunized subjects recognized four antigenic components in Y. pestis ranging from 17 to 64 kDa and five antigens in Y. enterocolitica ranging from 16 to 68 kDa.
  • (17) But the project has been plagued by cost problems since it was first mooted under the last Labour government.
  • (18) Mourinho’s interest in Gomes and Jõao Mário suggests Bastian Schweinsteiger, who has suffered an injury-plagued first season at United and who is 32 in August, may be under threat.
  • (19) You’ve plagued her life and the life of her family.” Maitlis was not in court for the sentencing.
  • (20) In South Sudan, where civil war broke out a year ago, 1.5 million people are severely food insecure, while the sectarian violence that has plagued CAR since March has left a quarter of the population – more than 1 million people – displaced within its borders or in neighbouring countries.

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