What's the difference between cosy and nosy?

Cosy


Definition:

  • (a.) See Cozy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (2) You can be very cosy with someone but, at the end of the day, it’s about the bottom line.
  • (3) 2D NMR techniques such as mono and hetero-COSY, NOESY, COLOC as well as 1H-NMR line broadening effect were utilized for structure elucidation.
  • (4) The classical two-dimensional COSY, HOHAHA, and NOESY experiments benefit from both good resolution and high sensitivity, allowing the detection of long-range dipolar connectivities.
  • (5) All backbone and side-chain proton resonances of FB (60 amino acid residues), except the amide proton resonance of Ala2, were assigned by the sequential assignment procedures by using double-quantum-filtered correlated spectroscopy (DQF-COSY), homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn spectroscopy (HOHAHA), and nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (NOESY).
  • (6) Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the nationalist Liberal Democrat party, which enjoys a cosy relationship with the Kremlin, said he suggested beginning a campaign designed to help Berezovsky return to Russia when the two men met "by chance" in January at a hotel near the Red Sea.
  • (7) He was "cosy" – a favourite Trumpington word of praise – and they just gelled.
  • (8) As it has elevated "hygge" (cosiness) into a way of life, Copenhagen has elevated the humble bicycle into a cultural icon, a pillar of its image.
  • (9) We applied multiple relayed COSY and 2D homonuclear Hartman-Hahn spectroscopy to globoside, a glycolipid purified from human red blood cells.
  • (10) Analyses of the through-bond and through-space connectivities in the alpha H-NH fingerprint regions of the correlated spectroscopy (COSY) and nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY) spectra lead to the assignment of resonances to specific amino acid residues in the polypeptide.
  • (11) Its structure was elucidated by IR, UV, FAB-MS, and various NMR spectra (including NOE, BBD, INEPT, SR, COSY, NOESY etc.
  • (12) 155, 311-319], individual spin systems were identified by J-correlated spectroscopy (COSY) supplemented, where necessary, by relayed coherence transfer spectroscopy (RELAY).
  • (13) The spin systems of the 79 amino acids were identified by DQF-COSY and HOHAHA spectra in H2O and D2O.
  • (14) In addition, two-dimensional 1H[1H] J-correlated spectroscopy (COSY) experiments as well as theoretical ring-current calculations have confirmed the spectral assignments obtained by the one-dimensional NOE experiments.
  • (15) When all four fractions consisting of A, B fractions, factor I, and SV40 infected CosI cytoplasm were mixed together, the system was reconstituted, meaning that initiation and subsequent elongation were completed to generate the full sized daughter molecules.
  • (16) Honor & Folly ( honorandfolly.com , one bedroom $165 a night, both bedrooms $215, plus a sofabed for children) is a home away from home with a fully stocked kitchen and a cosy living area decorated with vintage and locally crafted furniture.
  • (17) Both David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, also posed with a copy of the Sun, but many Labour supporters have pointed out the inconsistency between Miliband's tough stance on the need for a public inquiry into phone hacking with cosying up to the newspaper.
  • (18) The current labour system in this country, with its cosy series of meetings in which all the people concerned know and understand each other, is over.
  • (19) Two-dimensional scalar correlated spectroscopy (COSY), two-dimensional dipolar correlated spectroscopy (NOESY) and two-dimensional relayed coherance transfer spectroscopy (RCT) experiments were recorded, allowing most resonances arising from the aromatic and methyl-containing residues to be assigned in the spectrum.
  • (20) The structure determination was based upon spectroscopic analysis (UV, IR, CD, MS, 1HNMR, 13CNMR, COSY) and derivative preparation.

Nosy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since 1977, the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar has been studying, during six surveys, the arboviruses of Nosy-Be area, in the north-west of Madagascar.
  • (2) In that study, assessments of the subjects were carried out with two psychiatric rating scales, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (BPRS and NOSIE), and two clinical evaluations (psychiatrist and nurse).
  • (3) In a double-blind trial of chlorpromazine and thiothixene conducted with 79 acutely ill, newly hospitalized schizophrenic patients, chlorpromazine and thiothixene were shown to be equally effective in producing meaningful symptomatic improvment over an average period of approximately 3 weeks, as measured by Global Assessments (CGI), BPRS, and NOSIE.
  • (4) We don’t want to just be a nice video player for kids: it’s an incentive for us to really invest in the curriculum in the games, and new features like offline viewing, which we added earlier this year.” Hopster is part of a flurry of British startups exploring digital entertainment for children: there is also digital books store Me Books ; the creativity-focused Night Zookeeper ; and apps and books publisher Nosy Crow to name just three.
  • (5) HVA levels correlated positively with social interest and total positive scores on the Nurses Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (NOSIE-30) and negatively with lassitude and slowness of movements on the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS).
  • (6) And so I set off to do a little detective work of my own, to discover whether Maigret’s Paris, full of squalid, storied hotels with communal bathrooms, apartment buildings with nosy concierges and, most importantly, characterful regional bistros and hyper-provincial bars, could still be found.
  • (7) The predictive value of the NOSIE, a ward behaviour rating scale, was investigated in a group of long-stay patients.
  • (8) Psychometric data were obtained by use of three external-assessment schemes (HAMD, BPRS, and NOSIE) and two self-assessment procedures (TSD, POMS).
  • (9) The factor structure and its invariance of the Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient evaluation (NOSIE) were investigated in a Dutch psycho-geriatric population (N = 247) and compared with those of a short stay psychiatric population (N = 177).
  • (10) Forty schizophrenic patients were rated both by nurses (using the NOSIE) and by themselves on days soon after they had completed a period of activity.
  • (11) Read this interview for more on Nosy Crow’s strategy.
  • (12) Like previous Nosy Crow apps, Jack and the Beanstalk swerves some of the elements of the story: the giant doesn't get killed on-screen, just as the first two little pigs didn't die in the company's first fairytale app – they ran to shelter in the third little pig's house of bricks instead.
  • (13) "I wasn't covered up because I was just basically following the crowd to be nosy … there was all different kinds like: black girls, white boys, vice versa, they was just of all ages, from 14, 15 to big adults … You're in shock really, because … everyone was just starting to smash out the windows of every shop around them.
  • (14) One case of clinical AIDS was diagnosed in 1988 in a Franco-Malagasy subject living in NOSY BE.
  • (15) Clinical examinations were performed by the doctor, using the EACG rating scale (a French version of the Sandoz Clinical Assessment Geriatric scale), and by the nurse, using the NOSIE scale, when patients entered the trial and repeated after 2, 4 and 6 months.
  • (16) Global therapeutic effect was confirmed and illustrated by effects on specific variables (List of Cerebral Symptoms, function test, NOSIE) evaluated by analysis of covariance.
  • (17) GAS, NOSIE, and BPRS scores all showed significant improvement.
  • (18) A stepwise regression analysis showed BPRS Activation and NOSIE Manifest Psychosis to be of significance, the BPRS subscale displaying a positive and the NOSIE subtest a negative partial correlation to SF frequency.
  • (19) It was concluded that most of the NOSIE was cross-culturally robust and relevant to its declared purpose.
  • (20) TRH 600 mug or placebo was administered intravenously on 4 consecutive days in a double-blind cross-over design and the schizophrenic symptoms were scored daily by use of two rating scales (CPRS and NOSIE).