What's the difference between boggy and dank?

Boggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Men characteristically present with lower tract symptoms, often epididymitis, a cystic or boggy periprostatic mass on rectal examination and ipsilateral nonvisualization on excretory urography.
  • (2) Richard Boggis-Rolfe, chief executive of Odgers Berndtson, said: "I have accepted Johnny's resignation as an adviser with regret.
  • (3) Emma Boggis, chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance , which represents more than 320 sports governing bodies and about 8,000 sports clubs, said she was pleased the government was wasting no time in developing a new approach.
  • (4) Patients presented with thick-roofed blisters and denuded, red, boggy areas of mucosa.
  • (5) It crosses a flat boggy area and then descends steeply to the shore where you will find a pebbly beach; the far end is sandy.
  • (6) Boggy congestion was present in two with cystoid edema.
  • (7) The crash site was surrounded by water and boggy land, hampering access, Smith said.
  • (8) For the release the new beavers, both around two years old, were carried in separate crates through a boggy field down to the riverbank, where the team of wildlife experts had constructed two lodges for them in a quiet spot under willow trees.
  • (9) But it was a profitable marriage in 1677 that secured boggy farmland in what became the Mayfair and Belgravia areas of London that really cemented the family fortunes.
  • (10) Instead, continue on your grassy, often boggy, path, heading south then southwest.
  • (11) We performed 16 synovectomies of the knee in 14 children, adolescents, and young adults with hemophilia A for boggy synovium due to hemophilia.
  • (12) Builders laid logs and brushwood on the boggy ground before building it up in layers, finishing with gravel and rammed clay still so solid and sound it looks modern.
  • (13) The Forest of Bowland , a striking landscape of boggy, open upland carpeted with heather and bracken, is home to some of the last breeding pairs of hen harriers in England.
  • (14) Though the route is relatively easy it can be very boggy beyond Blea Tarn, so wear appropriate footwear.
  • (15) We then scaled boggy slopes on tank-style metal treads.
  • (16) We recommend retrograde urethrography in male patients with a pelvic fracture or significant lower abdominal or perineal trauma without a fracture when associated with gross hematuria, a bloody urethral discharge, inability to void, swelling, ecchymosis or hematoma of the perineum or penis, or a "high-riding" or boggy prostate.
  • (17) At the end of the Nanjing Road, the buildings seemed to part like curtains, and there was the Huangpu river and, beyond, Pudong, until 1990 a boggy swampland, but now packed tight with skyscrapers of every imaginable, and some unimaginable, shape and size – Shanghai's iconic and totemic billboard for the restlessness and energy that is modern China.
  • (18) The progression of upper airway edema in 14 patients was characterized by obliteration of the aryepiglottic folds, arytenoid eminences, and interarytenoid areas by boggy, edematous tissue that prolapsed to occlude the airway.
  • (19) Phil Burston, water policy officer at the RSPB, said: "Wading birds like lapwings, redshanks and avocets rely on shallow pools and boggy marshes.
  • (20) They hate tap water, but need a boggy environment; in summer, sit plants in a tray with rainwater half an inch up their plastic pots.

Dank


Definition:

  • (a.) Damp; moist; humid; wet.
  • (n.) Moisture; humidity; water.
  • (n.) A small silver coin current in Persia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And with the grimy dual carriageway of the Cromwell Road cutting across it, it's no wonder that many pedestrians preferred to take the dank Victorian tunnel that runs under Exhibition Road from the tube station to the Science Museum.
  • (2) Last year, the winner was Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz , for a sound installation she created in the seedy, dank shadow of a bridge over the Clyde.
  • (3) Mayor Boris Johnson, whose default setting has been relentless and sometimes improbable cheerleading in the face of serious concerns and minor niggles, promised with typical restraint that as the flame "spreads through the city its radiance will dispel any last clouds of dankness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media".
  • (4) I got quite emotional when I finished the book because I thought…" He lets the sentence hang and looks out of the window at the murky drizzle of a dank November evening.
  • (5) Come on Man City, you know you want him ..." Danke schon, dear readers, and auf wiedersehen.
  • (6) The men work on nearby construction sites, while the women spend their days in the dank, artificially lit alleys, stripping wire for copper and selling trinkets from closet-sized stalls.
  • (7) Danke!”) It rubs hard against an England fan’s sensibilities; to say nothing of an England Jewish-from-refugee-stock fan’s sensibilities.
  • (8) With the dank, fetid winds of manmade climate change blowing our way and worries over Russian military ambitions there has been much talk of Armageddon.
  • (9) Players of Philipp Lahm’s remarkable stature cannot be replaced; square pegs and round holes come to mind, but even during a period of some transition, these are the world champions – and in case anybody was forgetting, the players were greeted by a mosaic at one end of the ground reading “Danke” when they made their way on to the pitch.
  • (10) 8.00pm BST How far into the dank confines of the House Republican brain would you like to climb?
  • (11) Make no mistake about it: I was touched that 14 people would bother to come watch me in a dank, dark cave on a wet Wednesday afternoon.
  • (12) "Danke" says one in his native language in St Peter's Square.
  • (13) A severely mentally retarded girl is presented, with symptoms as described by Pitt, Rogers, and Danks (pre- and postnatal growth retardation, and unusual facies).
  • (14) She is played by Marion Bailey , and it is no exaggeration to say that when she arrives on screen, it is as if a column of soothing sunlight has fallen upon a dank meadow.
  • (15) From the look of recent production stills (grim pedestrian subways, dank council estates, McKay looking haunted): really not that easy.
  • (16) If you're a large corporation looking to wring the UK government for every penny it has and then some, these are the places you look – away from the main traffic of public discourse, in the dank side streets, where careers get lost and battles become too dirty to yield a clear victor – probation, adult social care, prisons, tagging, court interpretation.
  • (17) We showed previously that nuclear extracts from teniposide (VM-26)-resistant sublines of the human leukemic cell line, CCRF-CEM, exhibited decreased DNA topoisomerase II activity and ability to form drug-stabilized covalent protein-DNA complexes (Danks et al., Biochemistry 27:8861-8869; 1988).
  • (18) Most of the lines resemble atypical MDR cells (Danks et al., 1987; Beck et al., 1987).
  • (19) From the movies, you’d think Manhattan to be riddled with dank, dangerous, trash-strewn back-alleys, complete with rusting fire escapes and crumbling, graffiti-covered brick walls.
  • (20) European stock markets are inching higher on a dank morning in London, with traders warmed by the news that China's trade surplus swelled to its highest level in almost five years.