What's the difference between anyway and though?

Anyway


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Anyways

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But if they spurn it, Scotland can continue using sterling anyway.
  • (2) This is bad constitutional reform, but it is a reform anyway.
  • (3) Of course, when you're bloody nearly 80 it's depressing, because you've had it anyway."
  • (4) Having women in top jobs doesn't make any difference anyway If this were the case, why would some of the best brains, both male and female, in the government, including Sir Bob Kerslake , head of the civil service, be concerned about it?
  • (5) Many of them didn’t observe the requirements of JI on ‘additionality’ as they would probably have happened anyway, and I would even doubt the physical existence of some of these projects,” said Vladyslav Zhezherin, one of the report’s authors.
  • (6) Kuyt tries to smash a first-time sidefoot goalwards from the penalty spot, but doesn't connect properly, and Garay blocks anyway.
  • (7) Photograph: Vatican TV 4.21pm GMT Why does the pope choose a new name anyway?
  • (8) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
  • (9) Now the case is made that: given the information is collected anyway, why not use it in real time?
  • (10) Here, anyway, is what increasingly seems to be the future: slick corporate logos flashing from prisons, hospitals, schools, detention centres, defence facilities, police stations and more, and a cut-price society pitched somewhere between Margaret Thatcher and Philip K Dick .
  • (11) However, the research shows that the great majority of free swimmers were swimming already, and would have paid to swim anyway.
  • (12) Oh, heavens no, it would be too depressing, and it was East German territory anyway.
  • (13) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
  • (14) Those who claim to do nothing, miss a basic point that renewable energy and all the things we need to do to stop this, are also good policy anyway.
  • (15) Anyway, he was showing us around and he was saying 'this is the Roosevelt Room – that would be where CJ and Josh [characters from the West Wing] would have been talking' and I thought why not say that's where this president or that president did this or that.
  • (16) "We have done it very cheaply anyway and are not performing for long, but I do know people who have been put off by the intensely commercial atmosphere of the fringe."
  • (17) Anyway, tallies of positive and negative pieces are a dangerous measure, as the Guardian should not be a fanzine for any side.
  • (18) "But lots of this data is held for a short period anyway - so the increased risk comes from being able to look back 12 months for this information."
  • (19) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
  • (20) There's a persuasive argument that politicians used R&R to justify policies they wanted to impose anyway.

Though


Definition:

  • (conj.) Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.
  • (adv.) However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
  • (2) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
  • (3) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (4) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
  • (5) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
  • (6) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
  • (7) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (8) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
  • (9) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (10) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (11) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
  • (12) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (13) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (14) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
  • (15) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
  • (16) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
  • (17) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (18) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
  • (19) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (20) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.