What's the difference between blacksmith and smithy?

Blacksmith


Definition:

  • (n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
  • (n.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The son of long-time Republican senator John Chafee, Lincoln Chafee worked as a blacksmith at harness-racing tracks and served as mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, before he was appointed to the US Senate in 1999, after his father’s death.
  • (2) Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies trace the meteoric rise of Cromwell from the lowly son of a blacksmith to a ruthless political leader.
  • (3) Appearance: Mountains, forests, fast-flowing rivers, picturesque castles, sleepy villages, horse carts, elderly peasants ploughing land with age-old implements, blacksmiths sloshed on the deadly local brew palinka plying their time-honoured trade.
  • (4) The investigation of sanitary working conditions of stampers and blacksmiths revealed that intense impulse noise of complex time and stochatic structure was a major health adverse factor.
  • (5) It is the religious aspects of enigmatic Persia that helped put an 80-year-old exiled ascetic at the head of state 30 years ago, then the charismatic cleric Khatami in office 12 years ago, the honest son of a blacksmith – Ahmedinejad – four years ago, and the same yesterday.
  • (6) Analysis of hearing of 140 blacksmiths from three workships (280 ears) revealed considerable differences in the development of occupational perception deafness between different individuals and also as regard the affection of the right and left ear.
  • (7) The quaint village of Bevans now stands as the Peters Valley School of Craft , where blacksmithing, woodworking and weaving are taught and practised.
  • (8) A total of 328 blacksmiths was examined so as to obtain and analyse the physical parameters of noise exposure for its hygienic evaluation and norm setting.
  • (9) Further along I met a group of people hammering red hot metal in a blacksmithing workshop.
  • (10) For the broadest level of classification, no excess risk was observed among craftmen and related manufacturing workers, but within this group significant excess risks were observed for specific occupations of textile weavers and knitters; metal smelting, converting, and refining furnacemen; boiler firemen; blacksmiths, hammersmiths, and forging-press operators; bakers, pastry cooks, and confectionery makers; welders and flame-cutters; and metal grinders, polishers, tool sharpeners, and machine-tool operators.
  • (11) When the blacksmith's daughter tearfully pleads with Pulgasari to "go on a diet", he seems to find his conscience, and puzzlingly shatters into a million slow-motion rocks.
  • (12) Comparative study of hearing loss in the blacksmiths according to a standard 1999 revealed a hyperaggressiveness of impulsive noise in close connection with both noise level and length of service.
  • (13) But the same things happened when the automobile replaced the horse, and all the blacksmiths had to adapt, spending their time making garden gates rather than horseshoes.
  • (14) The risk for metal workers is specially high in the case of turners, metal fitters, blacksmiths, stokers and workers exposed to hot metal.
  • (15) This year’s Venice work draws from his exhibition called All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (the title derives from a passage in the Communist Manifesto) that toured the north of England in 2013-14, and featured family trees of musicians that found the ancestors of Bryan Ferry, Noddy Holder and Shaun Ryder included a blacksmith, a button filer and a clogger’s apprentice.
  • (16) Since then his only medical problem has been mild graft-versus-host disease; he is well and is working full time as a blacksmith.
  • (17) found out that the workers of high risk were butchers, blacksmiths, masons, drivers, electricians and railwaymen.
  • (18) Its blacksmiths are the scientific community, and while they may be able to make that key in the future, it is not available yet.
  • (19) And for a few months more it will be at its best - filled with bird lovers, blacksmiths and children with henna-stained fingers playing in the alleys.
  • (20) Physical working capacity in blacksmiths was found interrelated with the direct and indirect trace element exchanges: hemoglobin in the blood, blood serum iron levels, peroxidase activity and copper content in blood cells.

Smithy


Definition:

  • (n.) The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subgroup 2 fell between subgroups 1 and 3 including serovars dakota, naam, bogvere, birkini, smithi, ndambari, gem, ndahambukuje and mwogolo.
  • (2) Their paths to showbiz acclaim have been intricately linked, from their on-screen depiction of the loudmouthed rapping brother-sister duo Smithy and Rudi in Gavin and Stacey to their subsequent two-year relationship off-screen.
  • (3) Blood smears obtained from wild turkeys in winter, spring and summer, and from sentinel domestic turkeys throughout the year were examined for Haemoproteus meleagridis and Leucocytozoon smithi.
  • (4) Haemoproteus meleagridis was transmitted from May through November, while L. smithi was transmitted only from January through April.
  • (5) E4B7D4 reacted also similarly with all serovars except serovars birkini, ndambari, bogvere, smithi and tonkini.
  • (6) Poults naturally infected with L. smithi demonstrated a significant (P less than 0.01) decrease in arterial PO2 (mm.
  • (7) The body temperature of turkeys exposed to continuous light remained relatively constant while L. smithi gametocytes exhibited asynchronous behavior.
  • (8) The second centrifugation separated the white cells containing the gametocytes into 5 distinct layers: 1) thrombocytes; 2) gametocytes of L. smithi; 3) lymphocytes; 4) a band of monocytes; and 5) granulocytes.
  • (9) For local people, Smithy Wood is freighted with stories.
  • (10) Ten-week-old Broad-breasted White turkeys were exposed for 2 weeks to a natural infection of Leucocytozoon smithi in Marlboro and Sumter Counties in South Carolina.
  • (11) As the new Zimbabwe effectively became a one-party state under the gifted but autocratic Mugabe, as terrible droughts undermined the economy and confidence of what was so recently one of the richest and most fertile African countries and as Aids cut a swathe through the population, the old pariah, defiant and bigoted to the last, could not resist saying, with the familiar Smithy whine: "I told you so."
  • (12) No alternate hosts were found for Leucocytozoon smithi of turkeys.
  • (13) The bizarre sense of occasion that led him to choose the precise anniversary moment of the 1918 armistice to seize power on behalf of the white 5% of the Rhodesian population was nevertheless a useful reminder to his British "kith and kin" of his wartime service as an RAF fighter pilot - when "Smithy" was shot down, lost an eye and had plastic surgery for facial burns.
  • (14) The sporogonic development of Leucocytozoon smithi in its black fly vector was studied by light and electron microscopy and was compared with that of other haemosporidians.
  • (15) Gametocytes of Leucocytozoon smithi exhibited a cyclic activity both in cardiac and peripheral blood of domestic turkeys during a given 24-hr.
  • (16) Eighteen turkeys naturally infected with Leucocytozoon smithi were separated into 3 groups of 6 each and were respectively exposed to conditions of natural, reversed, or continuous light.
  • (17) We would spend hours talking about the kind of TV we wanted to make and what we wanted to do with our careers and our lives.” In 2009, after Corden had won plaudits at the National, on Broadway and later on film for his role in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys , and become wildly famous overnight thanks to Gavin & Stacey, the pair worked together for the first time in a short film for Comic Relief , directed by Winston, in which Corden’s sitcom character Smithy encounters the England football team.
  • (18) Blood smears, stained with Giemsa's stain, were prepared at regular intervals to determine the presence of gametocytes of L. smithi after a single natural infectional exposure.
  • (19) Nessa is about to give birth and there are endless rehearsals in which Smithy, Gavin, Stacey, Pam, Mick (Gavin's father, played by Larry Lamb), Gwen (Stacey's mother, played by Melanie Walters) and Bryn rush into the labour ward.
  • (20) Visitors will also see a smithy and a ceilidh house.

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