What's the difference between bushy and pushy?

Bushy


Definition:

  • (a.) Thick and spreading, like a bush.
  • (a.) Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although the globular bushy cell axons were not completely filled from the soma of origin to terminal fields in the contralateral brainstem, a number of consistent anatomical features were distinguished in the population.
  • (2) Sadly there's a distinct lack of bushy facial features on show in Germany this summer, although should Gennaro Gattuso steer clear of a razor and Italy go all the way, then he'll surely be eligible to join Batista in the pantheon of hirsute legends.
  • (3) A symptom-modulating RNA associated with tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) was investigated with respect to physical and biological properties.
  • (4) The man – a middle-aged commando with a bushy beard – said he had come to Slavyansk "to help".
  • (5) Raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) has isometric, 33 nm diameter particles and a bipartite RNA genome.
  • (6) In vitro translation of tomato bushy stunt (TBSV)-RNA in a rabbit reticulocyte system resulted in synthesis of five proteins P 18, P 25, P 34, P 35, and P 40.
  • (7) Human rhinovirus 14 has a pseudo T = 3 icosahedral structure in which 60 copies of the three larger capsid proteins VP1, VP2 and VP3 are arranged in an icosahedral surface lattice, reminiscent of T = 3 viruses such as tomato bushy stunt virus and southern bean mosaic virus.
  • (8) Bushy” is the word used most; “nappy” and “kinky” are harsher, coarser words.
  • (9) In contrast, the nuclei of the spherical bushy cells are the same size regardless of presynaptic fiber SR.
  • (10) Applications to negatively stained 50S ribosomes and to cryo-electron micrographs of thin vitrified layers of unstained and unsupported tomato bushy stunt and Semliki Forest viruses are described, and the resulting reconstructions are presented.
  • (11) Criteria were established for identifying unimpregnated bushy and stellate perikarya by means of Nomarski optics, and these criteria were checked by Momarski observations on neurons which had either impregnated dendrites and unimpregnated cell bodies or impregnated portions of perikarya.
  • (12) No sensitive cells were located in the most anterior region of the AVCN, where large spherical bushy cells are located.
  • (13) Both bushy and stellate cells are targets of the inhibitory projection.
  • (14) The man was said to have a long face and bushy eyebrows and he lived in a big house at the end of a dead-end street.
  • (15) Northern blot analysis with cDNA probes to RNA-3 (1 kb) of raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) revealed extensive sequence homology with RBDV RNA-2 (2.2 kb).
  • (16) A nucleotide sequence is reported for RNA-3, the smallest of the three major RNA species found in particles of raspberry bushy dwaft virus (RBDV).
  • (17) Only bushy-eyebrowed former Chinese premier Zhou Enlai – Zheng Jianshan to friends – actually belongs to the party.
  • (18) Naseer conducted his own defense in articulate, polite English, dressed in a green and black button-down shirt and sporting a large, bushy black beard.
  • (19) The bushy receptors of the frog urinary bladder respond to the effect of 60-minute-long anoxia with a complex combination of morphological.
  • (20) Ultrastructurally, all cases showed vacuolated cells bearing long bushy microvilli and the features were not those of endothelial cells.

Pushy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sandberg's book essentially gives us permission to be pushy broads.
  • (2) He knew what he wanted, but he was never too pushy.
  • (3) Then I was seen as someone who, when she was in power, didn’t want anything to do with them.” She was portrayed as meddlesome and pushy, with an undue influence on both Hollande’s policies and his wardrobe.
  • (4) At worst, they say, it would pave the way for the privatisation of the school system - in Sweden they are allowed to make a profit - and at best the system would simply be exploited by pushy middle-class parents who would exclude disadvantaged children by dint of their address.
  • (5) Prince Charles is much more pushy and writes letters about his views which are on the edge of the mainstream.
  • (6) In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665.
  • (7) "There have been books written about why people do things and don't do things, and they point to things like: I am second generation, my grandparents came from Russia in 1907, you can go through it all … I think I had a pushy mother, a pushy Jewish mother," he laughs, "who used to wrap everything in plastic."
  • (8) In addition, women who ask for more money are often punished for what is seen as breaking out of their stereotype of “communal, caring and submissive” , and accused of being pushy or aggressive.
  • (9) It's not those with pushy parents who think they should study maths for the sake of it.
  • (10) But I take some comfort from his suggestion that I would possibly be easier to train to IAM standards than my husband (if I could keep my pushiness under control).
  • (11) Bellingham reported it was because Hall believed that “even if I was the worst actress in the world, I would always work because I was so pushy”.
  • (12) These effects were specified by leadership self-concept (little difference between groups when confronting pushy followers, more when confronting passive ones), prompting an interpretation in terms of role incongruity.
  • (13) I was put across as the pushy parent who wanted a grammar school place for her son and nothing else.
  • (14) True to stereotype, the caller is a pushy salesman, trying to work an angle.
  • (15) It's not particularly powerful, which makes it easier to drive in a less pushy way, keeping speed limits in mind.
  • (16) But it may not be right for everyone and I’d hate to have a system in which pushy parents demanded home births, overriding the professionals’ advice.
  • (17) They are not, generally, short, pushy, vulgar, uncultured, impetuous, shamelessly admiring of money and those who have it, or married – three months after divorcing his last wife, two months after meeting the new one – to ex-supermodels whose past conquests reportedly include Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger.
  • (18) And sometimes I say "sorry" because, if I don't, the person to whom I'm apologizing will think I'm a pushy bitch.
  • (19) Speculating aloud, I hazard a guess that it has something to do with her character, that she is not pushy enough, not an attention-seeker.
  • (20) Yes he's a good little runner but I'm certainly not going to be a pushy parent – I'm just going to see what he enjoys."