What's the difference between roddy and twig?

Roddy


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of rods or twigs.
  • (a.) Ruddy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
  • (2) After running the 49ers close at Candlestick Park last weekend, they are giving Carolina everything they’ve got here at the Georgia Dome, Matt Ryan hitting Roddy White down the seam for a 39-yard score.
  • (3) The FA and Premier League are often seen as being at loggerheads but a Premier League spokesman stressed that, as Roddy's work emphasises, this is not the case.
  • (4) When he was at Heinemann in the 1980s, he was rummaging through unsolicited manuscripts and came across Roddy Doyle's The Commitments and the first chapter of Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent.
  • (5) "It is something Ged Roddy [the Premier League's director of youth], Dan Ashworth [the FA director of elite development] and I have worked closely on with the EPP [Elite Player Performance Plan].
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No helmets required: Scotland’s Roddy Grant is tackled by New Zealand’s Scott Curry at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
  • (7) She seemed to have been on screen for ever, with Lassie, National Velvet, Mickey Rooney and Roddy McDowall.
  • (8) There are certainly some who see a little irony in Facebook demanding more privacy for users ... Roddy Mansfield (@roddymansfield) @GuardianJessica @jamesrbuk all that is 'huge' is the hypocrisy of tech firms who colluded with the NSA for years.
  • (9) The first resulted in the deaths of McKerr, Burns and Toman; the second led to the death of Michael Tighe, shot on a farm near an IRA arms cache; and the third involved the killing of two INLA members, Seamus Grew and Roddy Carroll, at another checkpoint.
  • (10) Forearm vasodilation occurred promptly as previously observed by Roddie and Shepard (7).
  • (11) The show, presented by Thornton and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, featured C-list celebrities such as former EastEnder Marc Bannerman, James Hewitt, athlete Iwan Thomas, Big Brother winner Kate Lawler, TV presenter Jenny Powell and glamour model Victoria Silvstedt.
  • (12) I had 50 people I could invite to this game but I only have one friend who’s a Cubs fan and I knew what it would mean to him,” said Roddy, 28, sporting an Indians cap and shirt.
  • (13) Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch and company are well balanced on offense, but will have to play without sack man defensive end Chris Clemons who suffered a season ending injury - that will put more pressure on a strong secondary that will have its hands full with Julio Jones and Roddy White.
  • (14) Like the men shot dead in Lurgan, Seamus Grew, 30, and Roddy Carroll, 21, were terrorists: members of the Irish National Liberation Army.
  • (15) Falcons 20 - Seahawks 0, 4:16 2nd quarter Ryan goes for it all and HAS RODDY WHITE!
  • (16) Roddy McCuish, the council leader, told BBC Radio 4 that he had ordered an immediate reverse of the ban, imposed earlier this week.
  • (17) Frank Roddy supports the Cleveland Indians and Donald Trump.
  • (18) The receiving tandem of Julio Jones and Roddy White remains one of the best in the league, and on defense Osi Umenyiora could help upgrade the pass rush.
  • (19) When Roddy had a pair of tickets for game 2 of the World Series in Cleveland, Ohio, he knew who to call.
  • (20) (Roddy Hawkins, via email) They seemed like radical consumerism.

Twig


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
  • (v. t.) To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?
  • (v. t.) To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
  • (n.) A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.
  • (v. t.) To beat with twigs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
  • (2) The twig was removed, and calcium-dextrose and penicillin G were administered.
  • (3) At least 114 of the women at UTH induce abortion themselves by inserting plants or twigs into the cervix.
  • (4) But let’s talk about twigs (Formerly Known As Tahliah).
  • (5) These findings suggest that the inflow of blood into the common carotid body artery may be regulated by its constriction, especially of its arterial cushion, and that the subsidiary branches of the common carotid body artery and the accessory twigs of the proper carotid body artery may act as bypass-routes to eliminate the excessive inflow of blood into the carotid body.
  • (6) All recordings showed abnormal jitter, many (75%) displayed intermittent blocking, and most had abnormal fibre density (mean 4.3), demonstrating considerable degrees of collateral sprouting supported by the fasciculating motor units, and varying degrees of functional immaturity of the new axonal twigs and the motor end plates.
  • (7) Responses of single muscle fibres to electrical stimulation of the tibial nerve trunk or of the intramuscular nerve twigs were detected in young volunteers without evidence of neurological disease.
  • (8) The double afferent arterioles arose separately from a terminal twig of the interlobular artery and reached the vascular pole of a subcapsular glomerulus which possessed a single efferent arteriole.
  • (9) The bulbospongiosus and the transversus perinei superficialis receive several twigs from the medial and intermediate cutaneous branches of the perineal nerve.
  • (10) Except for one patient the accessory renal arteries missed at angiography were tiny twigs; the small renal infarcts caused by ligating them did not impair transplant survival.
  • (11) The shape of the lobulus testis is indicated by the centripetal branch with its centrifugal twigs.
  • (12) That’s a specialised form of garden work they’re wanting,” he told me with a wink, and when I still didn’t twig, he explained that Garberville is the capital of Californian marijuana culture.
  • (13) A ventral twig of SO innervates the ventral snout (normally IO territory) and projects into the electroreceptive lateral line lobe in an IO pattern.
  • (14) Eleven months old and with a squidgy layer of puppy fat still on show, she’s busy tying me in knots with a lead and is clearly no dummy – within minutes she has twigged that I have a stash of dog-chews in my bag and is clearly hatching a plan to get at them.
  • (15) If the prosecutor asked the court to burn Pussy Riot at the stake, I can just picture the courtroom staff running around, gathering twigs and lighter fluid.
  • (16) An olfactory nerve twig produced a different magnitude of responses to the various odor stimuli.
  • (17) If coracoid mobilization is necessary, the musculocutaneous nerve and its twigs should be identified and protected, keeping in mind the variations in anatomy and the level of penetration.
  • (18) A preparation has been developed in the pigeon which allows recording of the electrical activity from an olfactory nerve twig containing the nonmyelinated axons of a small group of olfactory receptor cells.
  • (19) Gamma irradiation resulted in pale, foamy cytoplasmic vesicles, the separation of smooth muscle cells and changes in the structure of the luminal aspect of arterial blood vessels while neutron irradiation produced dense cytoplasmic vesicles and electron dense bodies within the substance of peripheral nerve twigs.
  • (20) Morphological adaptations to climbing (a scansorial mode of quadrupedal, arboreal locomotion practised on twigs and small branches) are identified by relating anatomical details of limb bones to a sample of 6,136 instantaneous observational recordings on the positional behavior and support uses of 20 different free-ranging, adult red howlers.

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