What's the difference between arris and arse?

Arris


Definition:

  • (n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Normally a very friendly fellow, the reasons for 'Arry's lack of chivalry remain unknown, but it's thought he may have been preoccupied by the prospect of bringing triffic fellas Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Essou-Akotto to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (2) "A bit disappointed in 'Arry," sighs Shooby Taylor.
  • (3) 3.34pm GMT "Have you cleverly photoshopped 'Arry's ead onto a colleague sitting next to you in your Guardian company car?"
  • (4) "In a 10 minute journey he managed to tell me: - has been running ‘Southampton lads around all day’, - He spoke to Osvaldo earlier and he is off to Juventus, Juventus just need to find some cash… - He’s ‘run Danny (Fox) from the training ground for his move to Birmingham this morning’, - he had a call earlier from ‘Arry about a potential deal, he couldn’t tell me who though - Man Utd had been planning a sensational £80m raid for Llalana, Shaw and Rodriguez - …but he told ‘Lukey’ he shouldn’t move to Man Utd until they had Champions League football.
  • (5) Updated at 7.07pm GMT 6.59pm GMT 'Arry's QPR are in talks to sign Jermaine Jenas from Spurs.
  • (6) 11.23am GMT "The gentleman in the car with 'Arry looks suspiciously like this feller ," says Matt Reed.
  • (7) IT'LL BE ALL WHITE ON THE NIGHT At the time of writing, the biggest news this deadline day is that QPR manager 'Arry Redknapp didn't stop his Range Rover and roll down the window to say hello to Gail Davis on his way into work this morning.
  • (8) 'Arry Redknapp: "We played with pace, we got after them, we pressed them, there wasn't a weakness in the team."
  • (9) "Arry's never had any time for Samba, but he's affectionately regarded by QPR fans for being, well, bonkers.
  • (10) 7.05pm GMT Another former player 'Arry was after, Peter Crouch, is not signing for QPR.
  • (11) Defoe may be seen as one of 'Arry's boys but he could hardly sound more positive about André's ways.
  • (12) But thank you for the pic of 'Arry in the passenger seat, at least we now know what Kevin Bond does."
  • (13) Like Jamie Redknapp pointed out earlier, 'Arry is looking for a new Merson - a player with too much quality for that level and one you could build a team around."
  • (14) 'Arry Redknapp (BBC): "We played with pace, we got after them, we pressed them, there wasn't a weakness in the team."
  • (15) Fresh from ruffling a few feathers in the England camp , ’Arry fancies a slice of his old chum Rio Ferdinand , and according to the Daily Mail the 35-year-old will put pen to paper at Loftus Road in the next 24 hours.
  • (16) This week, anti-HS2 groups and an arry of councils began a challenge to the plans in the supreme court.
  • (17) Although the two men sat side by side as defendants, the gaze of both public and press fell not on the self-made Serbian-American tycoon Milan Mandaric, but on Henry James Redknapp , better known as Harry – or 'Arry, depending on your paper of choice.
  • (18) In 2012 Google sold Motorola Home, which made set-top boxes and cable modems, to Arris for $2.35bn.
  • (19) 9.28pm BST Andrew Johnson is staying out west Here's my colleague and QPR watcher Michael Hann on why a Selhurst Park return for Andrew Johnson is unlikley: "Can't see Arry letting him go.

Arse


Definition:

  • (n.) The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (2) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (3) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
  • (4) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
  • (5) With Veep , rather than striving young idealists, you have cowardly egomaniacs and bunglers who are involved in endless arse-covering exercises.
  • (6) Matilda, he says, plays to "the classic kids' fantasy that one day they just turn up and kick everyone's arse".
  • (7) New Zealand 0-1 McMillan c Harbhajan b Zaheer 0 A half-arsed shout for lbw first ball, and then this: McMillan clips the ball lazily off his legs to square leg, and it's an easy catch for Singh.
  • (8) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
  • (9) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
  • (10) "Hiddink should stop sticking his head up other players' arses," opined Davids to one foreign journalist afterwards.
  • (11) The ball gone, he connects with Armero's arse instead!
  • (12) A mysterious form of ill-fortune, it seems – possibly a "condition" but not needful of medicalisation, and certainly not of funding; just pity, maybe, or sometimes giggling, or a judicious kick in the arse.
  • (13) Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse!
  • (14) My dear) and that Solange piled in on her sister's behalf, all the better to persuade him to get his sorry arse home.
  • (15) Aside from the sheer filth factor, not washing your jeans means they will lose their shape (two words: baggy arse), smell and look dirty, because they are dirty.
  • (16) Certainly not Sean DeLoughry, Steven Smith and Seamus McCann, all of whom correctly recalled how, after blazing his way through Germany (Stuttgart), Italy (AC Milan), and Spain (Espanyol), Raducioiu blasted three goals in West Ham colours before half-arsing his way back to Espanyol, and eventually on to Monaco in France.
  • (17) It was very difficult, because I fundamentally believe that we have a problem with representation that needs to be tackled and feminism needs to be for everyone, but having a platform means that people without one direct their anger at you, at your face and at your writing, and, as a half-arsed feminist, I'm still learning how to cope with the pressure to represent everyone, all the time.
  • (18) Can't make it all out, but it does include the charming line 'He slipped on his fucking arse.'
  • (19) "Both my Mum and my Dad, who began having contact again, made it clear I wouldn't be allowed to just sit on my arse."
  • (20) Maloney goes over in the box under heat from Asatiani, but he knows full well there's nothing in the challenge and his appeals for a penalty are nearly as half-arsed as Scotland's overall performance.