What's the difference between campy and silly?

Campy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stockholm Facebook Twitter Pinterest A campy and thoroughly unsubtle attempt to attract gay tourists of all ages, by selling the idea that you can sleep with a Swede (“You'll LOVE my bed,” etc).
  • (2) These data suggest that the permeability of GJs in uterine smooth muscle may be regulated by [cAMPi] and physiologically relevant agonists.
  • (3) Myotubes were exposed to agents that enhance the concentration of cytosolic cyclic AMP (cAMPi) and their action on acetylcholine- (ACh) activated channels was investigated.
  • (4) A commercial latex agglutination test [Meritec-Campy (jcl), Meridian Diagnostics, Cincinnati, Ohio] was evaluated for identification of Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli, C. laridis, and other Campylobacter isolates.
  • (5) "Star Trek," he says, referring to the original TV series, "always felt like a silly, campy thing.
  • (6) However, application of these metabolic inhibitors to cells before heat treatment does not result in cAMPi levels greater than that observed in cells with heat alone.
  • (7) A few may still have been hanging around, of course, and Campi Flegrei may have delivered the coup de grace.
  • (8) 2-Deoxy-D-glucose (10 mM), NaN3 (10 mM) and 2,4-dinitrophenol (1 mM) also increase cAMPi in A-431 cells.
  • (9) The forskolin-induced action on the AChR function fully developed with a delay of 30-60 minutes from the peak of cytosolic cyclic AMP (cAMPi) concentration.
  • (10) He watched as Joy Division and New Order borrowed Low for their template, and the New Romantics borrowed his clothes His musical career interrupted by forays into stage and screen – The Elephant Man on Broadway , the campy first world war drama Just a Gigolo , described as “all my 32 Elvis movies rolled into one” – by the early 80s Bowie needed to reassert his authority, his brand.
  • (11) I'd really like to see the left try to reform Italy's labour market and pension system," said Alessandro Campi, a professor of political science at Perugia university.
  • (12) It was concluded that the action of forskolin on AChR-channel function of rat myotubes could be not associated with the cAMPi-dependent phosphorylation of AChR.
  • (13) One day I had unsupervised access to the family PC and, for reasons forgotten, an urge to hear the campy orchestral number from the film Austin Powers .
  • (14) The Campi Flegrei eruption not only gives us a date for the Neanderthals' disappearance, it may provide us with the cause of their extinction, though Stringer sounds a note of caution.
  • (15) ANP led to a dose dependent increase in the intracellular concentration of cyclic GMP and to a dose dependent decrease of cAMPi.
  • (16) Some researchers have even suggested that Campi Flegrei – the biggest volcanic eruption in Europe for more than 200,000 years – would have had a catastrophic impact.
  • (17) Therefore, the selective antibiotic method (Campy-BAP) with sheep blood under gas mixture at 42 degrees C is recommended for laboratories with limited supplies.
  • (18) While the conductance and the closed time was unaffected by forsokolin, cholera toxin, dibutyryl cyclic AMP and 8-bromo-cyclic AMP, these agents lengthened the ACh-activated channel life time with efficacy that paralleled with their capability to increase the cAMPi.
  • (19) These decreased from 34.9 mm on MH agar to 19.6 mm on Campy-BAP agar, suggesting that components in the FT growth medium ameliorated the toxic influence of CdCl2.
  • (20) Diarrheal stool specimens were inoculated into the following media: alkaline peptone water (APW), Bruce-Zochowsky medium (BZ), Campylobacter enrichment broth (CEB), Campy-thio broth (CT), and Skirrow blood-agar (SK) plate.

Silly


Definition:

  • (n.) Happy; fortunate; blessed.
  • (n.) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
  • (n.) Weak; helpless; frail.
  • (n.) Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
  • (n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
  • (n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
  • (2) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.
  • (3) As if to prove her silly dilettantism, when a journalist asked Dasha about her favourite artists, she replied, "I'm, like, really bad at remembering names."
  • (4) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
  • (5) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
  • (6) I had more fun with Matt Winning , delivering a silly set on the Free Fringe imagining himself the son of Robert Mugabe.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In an essay for the Hollywood Reporter, Camille Paglia writes that Swift promotes a ‘silly, regressive public image’.
  • (8) His selection on Twitter, he added, was “all in no particular order, off the top of my head, and the most incomplete of lists”, put together in response to Talese’s “silliness”.
  • (9) As soon as they saw how serious it was, they switched from being my silly, fun friends into being the most reliable and amazing people.
  • (10) They were all young, and it was a party house, devoted to games of hide and seek, music, silly practical jokes and food fights in the drawing room.
  • (11) As a result, one or two wrote some rather silly things in their reports,” Wilshaw said.
  • (12) ‘Silly things said by a silly man’ To be honest I really don’t care what BoJo says.
  • (13) People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they're motivated and working in a positive environment.
  • (14) Watching “our lads” pretending to mouth questionable lyrics about God giving the Queen near-immortal life, and her being the victor when she’s not really of fighting age, is silly.
  • (15) Imagine my relief this week then, when I found out that I can now let go of all my silly gay politics.
  • (16) We have referees who are unfamiliar with that silly "Goaltender Interference" technicality.
  • (17) The syndrome he described--a psychosis of early onset with a deteriorating course characterized by a "silly" affect, behavioral peculiarities, and formal thought disorder--not only adumbrated Kraepelin's generic category of dementia praecox but quite specifically defined the later subtype of hebephrenic, or disorganized, schizophrenia as well.
  • (18) "But they're so silly that I must say I never found them intimidating."
  • (19) Just as certain songs become inextricably associated in our minds with certain eras (before the invention of iPods, that is, after which everyone could walk around every day with all the songs in the world on shuffle), so too do silly trends.
  • (20) In 2014, she began working as a writer at Late Night with Seth Meyers; her first standup spot on that show began with a joke that typified both her silliness and confidence.