What's the difference between cosier and tailor?

Cosier


Definition:

  • (n.) A tailor who botches his work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Have I Got News for You on BBC television and The News Quiz on Radio 4 are its obvious, much cosier, successors.
  • (2) The maths of stellar decline dictates that the man should now only be able to play ever cosier venues.
  • (3) There’s lights, temporary overlay.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest London 2012 gold medallist Hannah Cockroft says the new Olympic Stadium ‘looks different but just as nice, a bit cosier’.
  • (4) Persimmon says a Space4 home is 50% more energy efficient than a traditional house, and cosier to live in.
  • (5) The friction between Halloween Town, ruled over by Jack Skellington, and the far cosier Christmas Town, which lies outside Jack's dominion and comprehension, is for Elfman symbolic on several levels.
  • (6) But some critics believe Lebedev's relationship with the Russian government is cosier than he likes to make out.
  • (7) Line of Duty, which provoked some controversy with its on-screen violence, was up against the second half of a far cosier detective drama in ITV's Midsomer Murders, which celebrated its centenary episode with a trip to Copenhagen featuring stars of Danish dramas (Ann Eleonora Jorgensen from the The Killing and Borgen's Birgitte Hjort Sorensen).
  • (8) What’s wrong with moderates is that they lack militancy.” Astor was “far too worldly, too steely, too tactful to hark back with nostalgia to the cosier heyday of the late 1940s and early 1950s,” recalled John Thompson, who joined the paper as its news editor in 1962, but he regarded the years between 1948 and Suez as the Observer ’s golden age.
  • (9) The new archbishop will have to manage a graceful retreat from the pretentious fantasy that the Anglican communion is something like the Roman Catholic church, only nicer and cosier.
  • (10) The back rooms, where reading and singing groups meet, are cosier.
  • (11) By the end of the 1940s people were becoming seriously fed up, epitomised by the transformation of the black market spiv from a demonised figure into something altogether cosier – but it did much to ease the worst years of austerity.
  • (12) But critics claim that HMRC is hiding the scale of the tax gap, as it finds itself dragged into ever cosier relations with big business.
  • (13) And we mustn't fall into the trap of using "domestic violence" to imply a kind of cosier or lesser violence.
  • (14) "By stimulating billions of pounds of private-sector investment, the green deal will revolutionise the way that we keep our homes warm, making them cosier, more efficient and all at no upfront cost."
  • (15) M&S sells 40 styles ranging from cosy shearling to suede moccasin boasting hi-tech fabrics such as Thinsulate (which claims to makes slippers cosier) and Freshfeet which is "capable of combating the bacteria that cause odours".

Tailor


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
  • (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
  • (n.) The silversides.
  • (n.) The goldfish.
  • (v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When each overburdened adviser has an average caseload of 168 people, it is virtually impossible for individuals to be given any specialised support or treatments tailored to particular needs.
  • (2) Since no single procedure can correct all the different forms of mandibular prognathism, each case is individually planned and a "custom-tailored" technique is applied.
  • (3) As more data are obtained on the use of such tailored therapies in critically ill patients, a new generation of parenteral and enteral diets will be developed to reduce inflammation and immune dysfunction.
  • (4) Modern analytical techniques allow their detailed analysis in terms of the humoral antibody responses and afford the possibility of the future development of control and disease management procedures tailored to each individual host-parasite system.
  • (5) Insertion of the material after careful tailoring to the individual patient's own mandibular size and configuration requires a generous posterior lower buccal sulcus incision.
  • (6) This strategy should encompass environmental measures, self-care activities, and health education; it should carefully weigh the prospective costs and benefits of proposed preventive measures; and it should see that such measures are tailored to the needs of the various specific groups within the general population.
  • (7) (4) Proper vein-to-artery size ratio and "cobra-head" vein tailoring are desirable.
  • (8) Treatment must be tailor-made to fit the patient, and the physician needs to consider other professional opinions and emphasize follow-up care.
  • (9) The program is well into the survey phase, where the main emphasis is on tailoring the neutron spectrum.
  • (10) The wide variety of neurobehavioral effects produced by chemicals found in the environment argues for a rationale of tailoring test selection in many situations, particularly those where the range of expected effects has been fairly well established for the chemical under study.
  • (11) In the early days of the downturn, the then work and pensions minister, James Purnell, promised to tailor help to the worst-affected groups.
  • (12) In the current study, 70 endometrial cancer patients with suspected cervical involvement based on a positive endocervical curettage or punch biopsy were treated with initial surgery followed by tailored radiation or chemotherapy.
  • (13) The aim of this review is to discuss how treatment may be tailored to reduce the risk of sudden death in high-risk patients.
  • (14) The above applies to well, preterm babies: sick preterm infants are much more variable in their Na and water requirements than well infants of comparable gestation and weight and each needs an individually tailored regimen based on frequent clinical assessment and laboratory measurement.
  • (15) Here was the leader of the “indispensable nation” dressed in clothes tailored to mirror a post-western world, or rather, a very China-centred environment.
  • (16) The plastic operations which were Anderson-Hynes method for UP stricture and submucosal tunnel method with tailoring of dilated ureter for UV stricture were performed at the same time.
  • (17) It will be years before the hard-won knowledge from the human genome project is translated into new, precise treatments tailored for both the disease and the patient.
  • (18) Specific primers, deduced from the aminoterminal sequence of the purified protein, were tailored to facilitate direct expression of plasmic clones, and the large fraction of positive clones obtained, revealed the presence of isogenic variation.
  • (19) Younger women with persistent localized breast symptoms should undergo a tailored mammographic examination, but negative findings or findings of a benign lesion should not preclude biopsy of a palpable solid mass.
  • (20) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.

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