What's the difference between chappy and dry?

Chappy


Definition:

  • () Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a cheeky chappy side to Mr Duterte that can be engaging.
  • (2) The humans in Chappie take great pleasure in introducing their new friend to art and culture, while encouraging his own efforts to create.
  • (3) However, when Olly Murs releases cheeky-chappy ska-lite single, Hooray!
  • (4) Pitch Strenuous workouts leavened by lots of cheeky-chappie banter.
  • (5) 3.16am BST 4 mins: We're hearing that the referee tonight is something of a red card happy chappy.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patel, best known for Slumdog Millionaire, plays a scientist who has programmed Chappie with artificial intelligence, and yet the relationship between the robot and his creator is more akin to father and son.
  • (7) Meanwhile March’s Chappie is District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s return to the streets of metropolitan South Africa in the company of a Short Circuit-style sapient robot and Die Antwoord members Yolandi and Ninja.
  • (8) A cheerful chappy Carlosh, looking very like that king the Portuguese threw a bomb at.
  • (9) He stands squarely in the British tradition of cheeky chappies."
  • (10) The audience lap up his cheeky-chappie shtick (in Scotland, we’d call him gallus ), because he’s acknowledged that he’s one of them, and they feel ownership.
  • (11) 11.07pm GMT More on this chappie West Brom have signed, courtesy of publishing sensation Sid Lowe : Sid Lowe (@sidlowe) Thievy to WBA an interesting one.
  • (12) Updated at 7.16pm BST 6.47pm BST Roger Kirkby emails from SoCal: Well me and my stat happy chappies are watching the game in a bar with bloody Mary's and breakfast sandwiches.
  • (13) says Sue Robinson of Hillier nursery, bringing out "Woodland Wilf", a fluorescent pink, pointy-headed chappie with two lurid orange buckets.
  • (14) It can’t always be cheeky fucking chappie and in your face.
  • (15) Now comes the long-awaited Chappie , which promises to be a 21st century Short Circuit – if the cult 1980s action-comedy romp had been set in Johannesburg and co-starred Die Antwoord .
  • (16) We’re charming chappies generally, we’ve made an institution of being nice to people.” • A midlife crisis “I’ve learned how to use the Twitter.” “We’re listening to you.
  • (17) Chappie sees the film-maker back on the streets of South Africa, with a cast that mixes local talent including Die Antwoord’s Yo-Landi Visser with Hollywood stars Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver.
  • (18) The Prince of Wales, who believes the Luftwaffe did less damage to London than modern architects , has been sniping at One New Change since 2005, when he wrote to the developers, Land Securities, hoping to get Nouvel off the job and have him replaced by one of his "traditionalist" chappies .
  • (19) Before I picked up Moby ’s new memoir, Porcelain , I thought of him as a small, bald, cheeky chappy who made tuneful dance music.
  • (20) When Jackman, playing a mulleted meanie named Vincent, expresses concern that Chappie might be unpredictable, he is presented as a villain rather than the voice of reason.

Dry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
  • (superl.) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
  • (superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
  • (superl.) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
  • (superl.) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
  • (superl.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
  • (superl.) Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.
  • (superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.
  • (superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
  • (a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.
  • (v. i.) To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.
  • (v. i.) To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.
  • (v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
  • (2) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (3) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
  • (4) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
  • (5) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
  • (6) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
  • (7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
  • (8) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
  • (9) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
  • (10) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
  • (11) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
  • (12) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
  • (13) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
  • (14) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
  • (15) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
  • (16) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
  • (17) Percentage of dry tissue and protein concentration increased in parallel during the whole period.
  • (18) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
  • (19) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
  • (20) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.

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