Tardis vs Dalek - What's the difference?
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* 1995 , Liz Stanley, The Auto/Biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto-Biography , page 54:
* 1999 , in The Organic Way , issues 157–174, page 53:
* 2009 , Dominic Varadi, The Credit Crunch Conspiracy , page 214:
(science fiction) A member of a race of extraterrestrial mutants who appear in the television programme and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and being bent on exterminating other beings mercilessly.
* 1964 , , Doctor Who and the Daleks , chapter 6 (based on the tele-script by Terry Nation):
* 1987 , Barry Norman, The Movie Greats? , page 144:
* , Together with English Core , fourteenth edition (Rachna Sagar Pvt. Ltd., ISBN 81-87414-92-8), page 234:
* 2000 , Rosie Parnell (Rosie White), The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook (co-written with Charles Doidge, Rachel Sara), page xii:
* 2003 , Siân Preece, Country Cooking Countdown'', in ''Scottish Girls About Town (2004), page 19:
* 2006 , , I Am a Dalek , chapter 9:
* Peter Bazalgette, quoted in the Funniest Thing You Never Said: 2 , page 333:
* 2011 , Colin Neill, Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land , page 166:
As nouns the difference between tardis and dalek
is that tardis is alternative form of Tardis|lang=en while Dalek is a member of a race of extraterrestrial mutants who appear in the television programme Doctor Who and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and being bent on exterminating other beings mercilessly.As a proper noun TARDIS
is the time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.tardis
English
Noun
(es)- The photograph 'the romance of the auto/biographer's desk' is a tardis ; when I enter the photograph I can move through time, move through a variety of times indeed.
- This small paperback book is a veritable tardis of tips on how to preserve the harvest glut. It covers 51 types of fruit and vegetables, including herbs.
- 10 Downing Street is a tardis of a property. Behind its famous black door lies a maze of corridors, offices and reception rooms. In one such room, decorated with oak panelling and oil paintings
dalek
English
(wikipedia Dalek) .Noun
(s)- 'But Alydon,' I persisted, 'the Daleks aren't human beings. They're just evil, half creatures, half machines, determined to destroy you.'
- what kind of courage it must have taken for Hawkins, an actor renowned for the quality of his voice, to go back onto the set to deliver lines in that oesophageal monotone, what he called his "Dalek voice".
- This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and does not speak like a Dalek .
- My voice still insisted on disappearing into my shoes every time it happened so that I sounded like a Dalek , but with a bit of experience behind me I felt marginally more confident.
- One man was skiting around on a big, wheeled camera like a Dalek , dodging the scurrying assistants and clipboard-wielders,
- Then the Dalek turned and picked off the other passengers one by one. It screamed... 'Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!'
- Gordon Brown sounds like a Dalek' with about three stock phrases... Remember, ' Daleks always want world domination but they always lose.
- And Peter was so focused too: like a Dalek in a track suit.