What's the difference between shirley and surname?
Shirley
Definition:
(n.) The bullfinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) She lives in Brooklyn, where she is currently an MFA candidate at Pratt Institute, co-host of SHIRLEY and a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative.
(2) Epstein had heard Anyone Who Had a Heart (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David ) in New York and recommended it to Martin, who later admitted: “I wanted it for Shirley Bassey, but Brian insisted that Cilla could do it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cilla Black singing Anyone Who Had a Heart Black’s singing sometimes caused controversy.
(3) Shirley and David Musgrove are both blind but have been treated very differently in their applications for DLA.
(4) Adele will be following in the shoes of Shirley Bassey (who sang the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker), Tina Turner ( GoldenEye ) and Madonna (Die Another Day).
(5) Among the victims are the Carradale, Broadmore and Normanton brickworks, which have shut recently along with Jesse Shirley, a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm, which had been trading for 191 years.
(6) Darren Shirley, retail analyst at Shore Capital We have now lost count of the number of times that we have downgraded our forecasts for Tesco over the last three years.
(7) The first edition of the novel to appear under Plath's name, published in 1967, featured a cover designed by Shirley Tucker, with a bold type face and urgent concentric circles.
(8) The cells were subjected to uniform hydrodynamic shear stress in a Ferranti Shirley Cone and Plate Viscosimeter.
(9) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
(10) Police again asked her mother, Rebecca Stadhams, if the blue-eyed golden-locked child, described by her aunt as looking “like a miniature Shirley Temple”, was indeed her daughter and also suggested she had gone walkabout.
(11) When I am asked who I consider a role model (another ghastly word), Shirley usually comes to mind.
(12) "I leave, with a heavy heart, the party I helped to found with such high hopes with Roy Jenkins, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams and David Owen at Limehouse in 1981.
(13) In response, Gaiman cited writers including Ursula Le Guin, Shirley Jackson, Mary Shelley, Angela Carter, Dorothy Parker and E Nesbit, as well as Enid Blyton.
(14) His papers, which are stored in more than 200 slate-grey boxes, describe fascinating connections to a roll call of the great and the good: Shirley Williams, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, Henry Kissinger, Trevor Huddleston, Nelson Mandela , Anthony Crosland, Michael Heseltine, Ted Heath, John Cleese, David Cornwell (John le Carré) and many more.
(15) As for the inspiration for behind the film, she is similarly cryptic: "A copy of Story Of The Eye by George Bataille , an advert for ice cream with a little girl wearing a bikini, and Shirley Temple."
(16) His diatribes against Jimmy Goldsmith (on the possible size of whose "organ" he once dilated in print), or Shirley Williams, at any rate had no personal basis.
(17) Downton Abbey would qualify even though two of its stars – McGovern and her fictional mother Shirley MacLaine – are American.
(18) Southcliffe, a Channel 4 drama about the aftermath of a series of shootings in a small town, also picked up supporting actor and actress nods for Rory Kinnear and Shirley Henderson and is in the running in the mini-series category.
(19) His mother Shirley Sotloff teaches preschool there.
(20) Some years earlier, Dr Stone also began the process that culminated in the fall of Dame Shirley Porter in the Westminster gerrymandering scandal.
Surname
Definition:
(n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
(n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
(v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.
Example Sentences:
(1) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
(2) 7.20pm BST An email from Artie Prendergast-Smith This could be a long night of long surnames.
(3) However, the overall pattern of results for rare surnames showed a measure of agreement with what is already known of the genetics of twinning.
(4) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
(5) Both the father and mothers' surnames are passed on in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, but the father's name is more often used day-to-day.
(6) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
(7) Because many Southern California Indians have Spanish Surnames and most do not reside on an Indian reservation it is shown that the suicide statistics may represent an over-estimation of actual Mexican-American suicidal deaths while simultaneously representing an under-estimation of the suicides among American Indians of the region.
(8) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
(9) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
(10) There was a convergence of Spanish surname rates toward the other White rates for nearly all sites, regardless of whether other Whites showed increasing, decreasing, or stable rates.
(11) Great news for Arsenal fans, who, if the summer transfer of Mesut Özil was anything to go by, love nothing more than to pull people up on the internet for accidentally forgetting to add diacritics to people's surnames.
(12) The following March, it was ceremonially opened by none other than Tony Blair, who was presented with a Middlesbrough FC shirt bearing his surname.
(13) But it clashed with other things.” Asked what his reaction would be now, he said: “I’d jump at it.” Blessed – who is also fondly remembered for another sci-fi role, appearing as Prince Vultan in the movie Flash Gordon – appeared to be a little confused about the Doctor’s surname, inaccurately suggesting the “Who” of the title was actually the character.
(14) To some the disadvantages of having a famous surname can be almost as significant as the advantages.
(15) On the example of 7 populations of the regional level allowability of using surnames with frequencies exceeding 0.001 in adequate estimation of the population structure indices is shown.
(16) Since given names show none of the localisation seen in surnames, the surname geography is ascribable to genetic rather than cultural factors of personal naming.
(17) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
(18) This study examined the correlations between academic achievement and factor specific, as well as global, measures of self-concept for 314 fourth and sixth grade boys and girls divided into grade level groups with and without Spanish surnames.
(19) Valid contrast studies were possible in only one region within the city for all three groups and in six regions for white excluding Spanish-surnamed and nonwhite.
(20) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.