What's the difference between butte and butty?

Butte


Definition:

  • (n.) A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
  • (2) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
  • (3) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
  • (4) But in the case of what we were doing in the last few years, with bringing Nicky Butt into the fold, Ryan into the fold, Paul Scholes into the fold, and Gary Neville was offered a position but he decided to go into television.
  • (5) In one of his lunch breaks with Sleep, he told him that he had been tortured by the army, smashed over the head with the butt of an AK47 and left for dead.
  • (6) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
  • (7) Rainwater "harvesting" is the posh version of a water butt.
  • (8) The trial of the divorce suit brought by Captain O'Shea - Mr Parnell being the co-respondent - was resumed yesterday before Mr Justice Butt.
  • (9) He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin."
  • (10) Paris is to fine smokers who throw their cigarette butts onto the street, the latest effort to clean up the French capital.
  • (11) The tail butt, esutcheon, belly, dewlap and to a lesser degree neck and ear were all very suitable sites on which to find cattle ticks.
  • (12) We know we’re not far away.” Butt admits his new role is not something he had planned, despite his long-standing association with the club.
  • (13) 3.48pm: The Pakistan high commissioner has stressed the innocence of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, and spoken of their 'mental torture' 3.50pm: Tea at the Emirates ICG, where Durham are 170 for two, and now have a lead of 199, writes Andy Wilson .
  • (14) In 3 experiments, the activity of mainstream and sidestream Total Oarticulate Matter (TPM) and of butts and ash was determined.
  • (15) Three main groups of the sufferers were distinguished: with scalping of the I digit, with crushing of the digits and a skin defect of the butt-end of a hand stump, with totally scalped wounds of the hand and low third of the forearm.
  • (16) Each margin of the cavities was finished in one of three ways: butt joint and etching; butt joint and no etching, or; bevel joint and etching.
  • (17) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
  • (18) The Liverpool striker leaned his forehead into Chiellini, in what looked, initially, to be a butt before biting down on his opponent’s shoulder.
  • (19) Rich people glide across it on skis and 4X4s, between resorts at Aspen, Crested Butte and Breckenridge.
  • (20) My uncle glances at her nicely rounded butt: – Nice fit lady, eh?

Butty


Definition:

  • (n.) One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.

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) If there’s nothing new, there are always those alarming pictures of him doing battle with a bacon butty.
  • (3) Hopes that the first Briton to contract the deadly Ebola virus will make a full recovery have been raised after his father said he was doing "pretty well" and eating bacon butties.
  • (4) In the leader's office mistakes have been made, processes not followed, people excluded and details left unattended, and everyone will have their consequent un-Edifying moment, from bacon butties to posing with a copy of the Sun.
  • (5) Katie Hopkins’ call for gunships to send refugee “cockroaches” back to their own country, and Ukip’s ploughing of the anti-immigration furrow are entirely predictable appeals to the chip-butty and pint version of Little England.
  • (6) The Water's Edge restaurant has fab views of the Caribbean flamingos, but you can also just grab a bacon butty at one of the snack kiosks dotted about.
  • (7) Cary Grant himself could not have pulled off that bacon butty with elan.
  • (8) • nationaltrust.org.uk PatricC Padley Gorge, Derbyshire Starting at Padley Gorge, walk down to Burbage Brook, looking out across beautiful moorland to Carl Wark in the distance, across the rickety bridge and through ancient oak forest to Grindleford Station, where you can stop at the cafe famous for its chip butties and rude notices.
  • (9) He stands up for what he believes in” – and had a lot of time for McMahon, who often popped in for a butty.
  • (10) He also says how much he enjoys eating bacon butties.
  • (11) Buttie-licious With one episode left, I asked American friends how they were coping with the Yorkshire accents.
  • (12) The bacon butties are long gone by the time shadow business secretary Angela Eagle launches her attack on Tim Farron.
  • (13) how much he enjoys eating bacon butties • David Miliband does a 24-page photo spread in Hello!
  • (14) Replace your usual bacon buttie with its warm potato scone and pancetta – trust us, you'll never look back.
  • (15) Strangely, the actor has form when it comes to sandwiches, what with snaps of him seemingly laughing at his butties going viral on the internet, plus a bizarre appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, when he performed a song called Gonna Eat That Talkin’ Sandwich and told his host: “My favourite sandwich is a Primanti Brothers’ sandwich, it has the french fries in the sandwich and coleslaw.
  • (16) Unfortunately, they had achieved this by advising him to gobble a bacon butty on camera, while wearing a suit and tie.
  • (17) Victory over Newcastle, their now customary home win over Manchester City and away draws at Aston Villa and West Ham have not been enough to propel them up the table, but at least suggest the side has improved since Paolo Di Canio got his P45 and the players were allowed to start putting tomato ketchup on their bacon butties and pasta bake once again.
  • (18) We came back with a bacon butty one morning for breakfast and we took him a rogan josh one evening."
  • (19) "We moved 500 patients in 51 hours without an incident, other than the bacon butties that were on the way to me being nicked," she says.
  • (20) "Sheffield United fan Flea of the Red Chilli Peppers sang an impromptu blast of the Blades' Greasy Chip Butty Song at the band's gig at the Sheffield Arena last week," writes Owen Phillips.

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