What's the difference between any and anybody?

Any


Definition:

  • (a. & pron.) One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.
  • (a. & pron.) Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it?
  • (adv.) To any extent; in any degree; at all.

Example Sentences:

Anybody


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
  • (n.) A person of consideration or standing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
  • (2) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
  • (3) There are Christians coming from Syria, it doesn’t matter who it is, we would help anybody.
  • (4) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
  • (5) It's possible to go out and about, and not talk to anybody apart from the person you purchase goods from."
  • (6) It was difficult to engage anybody in conversation.
  • (7) The spokeperson said of Blair's role as the Middle East envoy: "The truth, and anybody who knows anything about the situation in respect of Palestine knows this, is that transformational change is impossible unless it goes hand in hand with a political process.
  • (8) He is an Anglican bishop who has shown his moral strength to the world better than anybody.
  • (9) Jews when they get successful, they will help their people, and some of the African Americans – maybe I'll get in trouble again – they don't want to help anybody," he said.
  • (10) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
  • (11) Scotland Yard and the Press Complaints Commission also found no evidence of the involvement in hacking of anybody at the paper other than Goodman.
  • (12) It's not anybody's fault, but it does need to change."
  • (13) Anybody who wants to take O-levels, in the fourth year, and has parents who can afford it, must go to Soroti.
  • (14) When did anybody ever cry out in wonder at the sight of a new radio or television set?
  • (15) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
  • (16) Then there was his finish – it came off his shin but did anybody in Wales really care how he scored?
  • (17) We will never allow teenage tearaways or anybody else to turn our town centres into no go areas at night times.
  • (18) But now it transpires that getting bombed by fighter jets in your own home is not part of anybody’s culture.
  • (19) I can't think of anybody who loved her job that much.
  • (20) Everybody went to their homes, they wouldn't talk to anybody, they were afraid of each other – because who knew who might turn the other in?