What's the difference between clary and clavy?

Clary


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a loud or shrill noise.
  • (n.) A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cresswell set up his first production company, Wonderdog Productions, with Julian Clary and Paul Merton, and Clary's Channel 4 show Sticky Moments was one of his first big hits.
  • (2) No differences in muscular pattern (IDANCO system: Clarys and Cabri, 1988) or activity between the indoor distances and between the outdoor distances were found.
  • (3) Unfortunately, Hollywood has now reached the stage of late Julian Clary, where everything he says sounds as if it might be double entendre.
  • (4) Expert panel Jonathan Spruce , vice chair of the national transport expert panel at the Institution of Civil Engineers Isabel Dedring , deputy mayor for transport, Greater London Authority Greg Marsden , director of the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds Susan Claris , associate director at Arup , an engineering and design consultancy Jason Torrance , head of policy at Sustrans , a charity which focuses on sustainable transport Stephen Joseph , chief executive of the Campaign for Better Transport Abby Hone , principal transport planner for Brighton & Hove city council Rupert Fausset , principal sustainability adviser at Forum for the Future Hugh Sumner , senior transport adviser for London Gatwick Simon Warburton , head of policy and strategy for Transport for Greater Manchester A representative from Transport Systems Catapult will also be taking part To be updated as panellists confirm.
  • (5) The weekly Julian and Sandy sketches made it easier for camp or gay comics like Julian Clary, Larry Grayson and Graham Norton to be accepted.
  • (6) – Susan Claris , associate director at Arup , an engineering and design consultancy 6.
  • (7) Among the untreated control mice, when the mean CFU per spleen increased to a level greater than 10(8), small numbers of organisms resistant to clarithromycin (CLARI) were isolated from some of the spleens; the frequency of CLARI-resistant mutants was estimated to be between 10(-8) and 10(-9).
  • (8) In mice treated with 200 mg of CLARI per kg of body weight six times weekly, however, CLARI-resistant organisms were isolated from the spleens of all mice examined after treatment for 8 weeks; the mean CFU per spleen and the frequency of resistant mutants were significantly greater than those of control mice and increased further after treatment for 16 weeks.
  • (9) Through the prisms of Louise Cazalet (beautiful, angular, selfish, dramatic), her cousins Polly (beautiful, kind), Clary (unbeautiful, clumsy, a writer and idealist) – all three, in fact, aspects of herself – Howard traces the damage such silences can cause: the shock when ignorance results in unwanted pregnancy; the passivity engendered by always feeling they had to say yes – which is perhaps one of the reasons why Howard found herself embroiled in so many affairs with married men.
  • (10) Or the way in which, as Clary puts it in Marking Time , "when one wanted everything to be good with somebody, one started not telling them everything."
  • (11) Absorption of iron in the intestine of three different species of fishes, namely; Claris batrachus, Channa striatus and Esomus danricus has been described.
  • (12) YA book adaptations can be treacherous This film publicity image released by Screen Gems shows Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace, left, and Lilly Collins as Clary in a scene from "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
  • (13) "I work for the Home Office, and the build-up to this is making me more nervous than George Osborne with a red briefcase," writes Alex Warwick, veering dangerously close to Julian Clary territory.
  • (14) The hardware required for the operation of this system includes a Macintosh PowerBook 170 and FilemakerPro software by Claris.
  • (15) A psychopharmacology testing package was generated by Multiple Choice, a Claris HyperCard 2.1 based software application.
  • (16) You’ll pop up in Cinderella, next to Julian Clary’s Dandini (maybe).
  • (17) Neither is the fact that both Julian Clary and Graham Norton are on BBC1 on the same night (it's a mistake, but PC it ain't).

Clavy


Definition:

  • (n.) A mantelpiece.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a result, subungual clavi, unguis incarnatus, unguis convolutus, or laterally turning onychogryposis like a cork-screw develop.
  • (2) A thirty-seven year old man presented with volar lesions resembling widespread clavi.
  • (3) No arthritic recurrences were observed, callosities, clavi and mild pain were rarely found.
  • (4) Repetitive frictional insults over years to human skin result in lichenification, callosites, and clavi (corns).
  • (5) The clavi-pectoral route provides a limited approach to the axillary vessels as they emerge from the costal-subclavian outlet.
  • (6) The spaces are: "Pleural suspensory Apparatus", interscalene spaces (vascular and neural), costo-clavicular, clavi-pectoral, retro-pectoralis minor, pre-humeral head, median nerve roots compass, pre-scalene space.
  • (7) All three deliberately present themselves in a very Roman way - the woman has her jewellery and the men wear clavi , white tunics with red stripes.

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