What's the difference between cruet and cruft?

Cruet


Definition:

  • (n.) A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.
  • (n.) A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today he has brought his own dictaphone, and places it side by side with mine on the restaurant table, where they sit like an uneasy cruet set.

Cruft


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I don't understand why parties don't do that – they could turn it into a "meet the team" exercise, or make it more like Crufts.
  • (2) Rupert looked well bred but wounded, like something coming last at Crufts.
  • (3) Stubbs had even less to go on for the dingo, which is no doubt why Portrait of a Large Dog looks more like something you might enter for Crufts than a feral beast from the outback.
  • (4) First, though, is the inevitable "career highlights" montage: Mark riverdancing in socks at the Super Bowl; Mark motioning frantically to his genitals at Crufts; Mark clopping jubilantly across the churned sod of Ascot, clackers swinging like pork hammocks in a gale.
  • (5) Birtwhistle, a former dog trainer who competed at Crufts, is the second outsider to win the show after Frances Quinn’s victory last year .
  • (6) Elsewhere, dog show climax Crufts: Best in Show, had 1.4 million viewers, a 5.5% share, between 7pm and 9pm on Channel 4 .
  • (7) "Google Play isn't a vetted app store - it tends to have a lot of cruft," said Morgan.
  • (8) TGBBO stuffed the gaps with some biographical “sugar work”, mini-profiles of the finalists, in which the wives of both men cried, and Nancy’s husband said that she was the sort who could turn her hand to anything; when she trained a dog, it ended up at Crufts.

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