What's the difference between chilly and icy?

Chilly


Definition:

  • (a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (2) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
  • (3) In fact the aim for many of those braving increasingly chilly nights inside the tents is to be here until Christmas at least.
  • (4) It’s going to be harder in Zurich, because there’s going to be a lot more eight-metre jumpers,” he says, citing the reigning champion, Christian Reif, who has jumped 8.49m this season, as his main opposition Rutherford won gold in Glasgow with a modest leap of 8.20m but, as he points out, the chilly conditions were hardly conducive to leaping far.
  • (5) Two litres is not big enough for most vegetables; perhaps windowsill chillies, but that is it.
  • (6) A chilly vision of the past and, maybe, the future too.
  • (7) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.
  • (8) Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester City: Premier League – as it happened Read more On a chilly day both teams lined up in a new-school 4-4-2.
  • (9) Pour on to a large platter or individual plates, spoon the cauliflower and chickpeas on top, followed by the egg, tomatoes and chilli sauce.
  • (10) Bild’s deputy editor Bela Anda, wrote in an editorial to accompany the open letter: “They [the signatories] are saying no to xenophobia and yes to diversity and tolerance … We should not hand over our streets to hollow rallying cries.” Angela Merkel called for people to turn their backs on Pegida in her New Year’s speech, saying the group was “full of prejudice, a chilliness, even hatred”.
  • (11) 10.05pm GMT Ice Bowl So it's not as cold in GB today as it was in 1967, but Kaepernick looked a bit chilly out there without sleeves.
  • (12) Boiling the hand warmers redissolves the sodium acetate in the water in the water released from the crystals, recreating the supersaturated solution, so you are ready for another chilly evening walk.
  • (13) One of the sharing plates at Polpo in London sees moscardini (aka baby octopus) cooked for 10 minutes in stock, left to cool and then marinated for 24 hours in a powerful mixture of olive oil, red-wine vinegar, fennel seeds, shallots, fresh oregano, garlic and finely sliced chilli.
  • (14) Time being elastic on Culatra, lunch lasts long enough for me to floor plenty of chilly vinho verde and to make friends with just about everyone on the terrace.
  • (15) I make ful cobi with my cookery students: carrot, peas, cauliflower and sweetcorn, gently stir-fried with mustard seeds, ginger, garlic and green chillies, and they're amazed how tasty it is.
  • (16) However, Vitamin A levels do not seem to be linked causally with the effect on the eyes of chilli-treated hamsters, because these hamsters had circulating levels of Vitamin A comparable to those observed in untreated and alcohol-treated groups.
  • (17) The Spanish classic arroz negro pays homage to both old country and new: instead of the standard squid ink and fish stock, it’s made with crab bisque and chilmole (the blackened chilli sauce of the Yucatán) and crowned with calamari stuffed with pork scratchings.
  • (18) Only 6% of the samples namely maize and red chillies were found to be contaminated with aflatoxin B1 and B2 respectively.
  • (19) "I do a mean ceviche with it – coconut milk, lime juice and chilli.
  • (20) Davey said he was fully prepared to spend some of his time as a renewable energy consultant working abroad because the climate for investment in Britain had become so chilly.

Icy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.
  • (superl.) Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
  • (2) The second experiments entailed use of the nonspecific opiate antagonist, naloxone, as well as the specific delta antagonist, ICI 154,129, against seizures induced by icv-administered morphine, morphiceptin, DADL, or DSLET.
  • (3) Leading clinical candidates have emerged from Smith Kline and French, Lilly, Merck-Frosst, ICI-Stuart and other groups.
  • (4) ICI 74 205, a synthetic analogue of prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2a) with an alkyl side chain extended by an ethyl group, was administered intravenously in 6 patients using normal saline as the vehicle.
  • (5) However, the pressor response to the stressors was greater in ICI 118,551- than vehicle-treated F1, but the tachycardia was equivalent for both groups.
  • (6) Rapid cellular uptake and metabolism of polyglutamate forms that are approximately 100-fold more potent as inhibitors of TS can translate a modest TS inhibitor such as ICI D1694 into a very potent inhibitor of cell growth (approximately 500- and approximately 10-fold more potent than CB3717 or ICI 198583, respectively).
  • (7) Naloxone affected CS levels in control mice and appeared to reduce the CS response to stress: ICI 154,129 and ICI 174,864 did not produce consistent effects on plasma CS levels.
  • (8) Treatment of hamsters with the same protocol and doses of ICI 200,880 for 8 wk prevented the destructive lesion induced by a single intratracheal dose of HNE.
  • (9) Tamoxifen (ICI 46474) is the trans-isomer of 1(p-beta-dimethylaminoethoxy-phenyl)-1, 2-diphenylbut-1-ene.
  • (10) However, with 50 nM ICI 118551 there was a reduction in the maximum response to isoprenaline.
  • (11) The effect of methallibure (ICI 33828) on spermatogenesis was studied in the gerbil, hedgehog, and mouse.
  • (12) The two LTD4 receptor antagonists (MK-571 and ICI-204,219) significantly reduced the permeability changes induced by indomethacin, while the two LTB4 antagonists (SC-41930 and LY-255,283) were without significant effect.
  • (13) Using a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover design, we tested the hypothesis that the LTD4 receptor antagonist, ICI 204,219, could inhibit LTD4-induced bronchoconstriction in normal subjects.
  • (14) However, a glutamate antagonist (MK801) and three serotonin antagonists (ritanserin, ketanserin and ICI 170,809) were all unable to alter the MPTP effects, at the doses used in our study.
  • (15) However, the ICI-ER complexes that remain are in sufficient quantity to bind to gene activation reporter constructs, and in these cells, ICI still behaves as a pure antagonist of gene transcription and does not activate reporter genes.
  • (16) Only ICI 111,581 (5 mg kg-1) and propranolol (1 and 10 mg kg-1) prolonged P-R interval.
  • (17) After 7 injections of Zoladex Depot (ICI Pharma, Heidelberg, Germany), the uterus was reduced to normal size carrying dorsally a myoma of the same size.
  • (18) Pulse-chase experiments indicate that the half-life of the receptor is reduced from approximately 5 hr in the presence of estradiol to less than 1 hr by ICI 164,384.
  • (19) Plasma concentrations of AUC for ICI 169, 369 were low.
  • (20) The compound ICI 164,384 [N-n-butyl-N-methyl-11-(3,17 beta-dihydroxyoestra-1,3,5(10)-trien-7 alpha-yl) undecamide] was entirely devoid of oestrogenic activity in the rat and mouse uterus but completely blocked the uterine stimulatory effects of oestradiol and of tamoxifen.