What's the difference between wig and wing?

Wig


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.
  • (n.) An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.
  • (v. t.) To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
  • (n.) A kind of raised seedcake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of scalp hypothermia in connection with chemotherapy was evaluated as hair protection in 61 women with disseminated breast carcinoma, where earlier treatment routines had caused wig-requiring alopecia in nearly all patients.
  • (2) Which sounds fun, but not when you’re in fourth grade, doing homework Facebook Twitter Pinterest With his mother, wearing her chemotherapy wig, in New York, 1997.
  • (3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
  • (4) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
  • (5) Police said they found wigs, glasses and other disguises in his room.
  • (6) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
  • (7) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (8) I was reflecting on Trump’s momentum partly because he went from a reality TV wig-joke, to an outspoken liar, to a Republican candidate who didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination, to a Republican nominee who didn’t stand a chance of winning the election, to the winner of the election who doesn’t stand a chance of destroying the world.
  • (9) It is tempting to think of Sherman’s own face in among them as a 13th wig stand.
  • (10) "It's mainly about big government contracts, for the big wigs," he said.
  • (11) At least I think they're wigs – her hair changes colour and style quite often.
  • (12) Over the last eight days the ersatz wig has tumbled from his head.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elizabeth Banks parodies Donald Trump’s entrance at DNC “Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket – a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia,” she said.
  • (14) In his most famous self-image , as he sits, ill and emaciated, holding a cane with a carved skull, he is doing more than acknowledge mortality: he is claiming to be the new King Death, inheriting the title Andy Warhol whose fragile head he portrayed with a transcendental clarity, in a portrait so real you feel you could reach into it and hold it, stroke the silver wig.
  • (15) The resulting theatre work revolves around an attempt, also entirely true, by a Quebecois filmmaker called Yves Simoneau to make a movie about the murder, in which the script's homicidal leading character disguises himself with false eyebrows and a wig.
  • (16) Kearns, 26, performs his eccentric show in a monk's tonsure wig and Dick Emery-style protruding false teeth.
  • (17) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
  • (18) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
  • (19) Excellent aesthetic results were obtained with the use of a wig.
  • (20) Many actors merely go on the principle of "being their age" and trusting to a wig.

Wing


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.
  • (n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
  • (n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.
  • (n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.
  • (n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.
  • (n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
  • (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
  • (n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
  • (n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
  • (n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
  • (n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
  • (n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
  • (n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
  • (n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.
  • (n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.
  • (n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
  • (n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.
  • (n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
  • (n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.
  • (v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.
  • (v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
  • (v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.
  • (v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (2) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
  • (3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (4) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
  • (5) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
  • (6) Changes of mineral content in the approximal enamel of the teeth were determined in situ with quantitative bite-wing radiography.
  • (7) 'The right-wing bloc will now be able to unify around one leader,' said Robert Misik, a senior Austrian journalist and commentator.
  • (8) "The influence of private companies is getting ever bigger, and the right-wing government has been in favour of more privatisation."
  • (9) Jamat-ud Dawa, the social welfare wing of LeT, has been blacklisted in the wake of the Mumbai attacks although it continues to function.
  • (10) In terms of physiology and favourable maternal and foetal outcomes, the best age for childbearing is 20-35, but in my 20s I ran from any man who might clip my wings.
  • (11) The resection included the skin, globe, sphenoid wings, and orbitofrontal bone.
  • (12) Wing muscles were removed and examined histologically at various times after stretch.
  • (13) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
  • (14) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
  • (15) Matteo Renzi, the Italian leader who has argued it would be a disaster if Britain left the EU, suggested defensiveness about freedom of movement led to nowhere apart from opening the door to “right-wing xenophobia and nationalism” in Europe .
  • (16) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
  • (17) So again, they did what they had to and should do.” Aakjaer’s Facebook account also contained other derogatory references to eastern Europeans, a message of support for the right-wing Dansk Folkeparti’s views about border control and a photograph of six pigs with a caption: “It’s time to deploy our secret weapons against Islamists.” When Aakjaer was contacted by the Guardian in January, he said that he was not “a racist at all”.
  • (18) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
  • (19) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (20) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.

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