What's the difference between demi and demy?

Demi


Definition:

  • (n.) See Demy, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Demi Restaurant, Rruga Butrinti, Saranda (+355 85 224 636) Rozafa Castle, Shkodra, Albania If you like horror stories, you'll love Rozafa Castle.
  • (2) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
  • (3) A '"demi-alien", he began, in his solitude, to write a novel.
  • (4) These simulations permit us to follow the sequence of events accompanying haemodilution, and to assess the qualities of a plasmatic substitute: oncotic strength, demi-vie, effect on the extravascular mobilisation of proteins.
  • (5) Online, Boyle has been one of the top five most talked-about subjects on the microblogging site Twitter all week, with the Hollywood actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore - who between them have nearly 1.5 million followers - raving about her.
  • (6) However, there was a significant difference in embryonic development between nucleated (10.4%) and enucleated (22.6%) demi-oocytes (P less than 0.05).
  • (7) The two-year-old artificial intelligence startup was founded by former child chess prodigy and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis alongside Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.
  • (8) The majority of the demi-embryos (n = 122) were reinserted into separate zona pellucidae (ZP) before non-surgical transfer to 113 synchronized recipients, as singles (n = 98) (DE-S) or in pairs (n = 30) (DE-P).
  • (9) Conversely, nucleate demi-oocyte controls were at the late telophase II stage of meiosis.
  • (10) The heifers were recipients of Day 7 demi-embryos collected from donors with normal fertility and transferred 8 days prior to tissue sampling.
  • (11) Netherlands: 1-Maarten Stekelenburg; 12-Khalid Boulahrouz, 3-John Heitinga, 4-Joris Mathijsen, 5-Giovanni van Bronckhorst; 7-Dirk Kuyt, 6-Mark van Bommel, 10-Wesley Sneijder, 14-Demy de Zeeuw, 11-Arjen Robben; 9-Robin van Persie.
  • (12) Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s founder, says that “ultimately we want to apply these techniques in important real-world problems, from medical diagnostics to climate modelling”.
  • (13) Demi Lovato has accused Lady Gaga of “glamorising eat[ing] disorders” at a recent SXSW concert .
  • (14) Ballet dancers frequently stand on the tips of their toes in the en pointe and demi pointe positions, resulting in compression of the posterior structures of the ankle during repeated plantar flexion of the foot, producing the talar compression syndrome.
  • (15) The centriole adjunt differentiates into dense bodies as a "demi-lune" shape in the mature sperm.
  • (16) Notoriously, the networks of homosexuality seemed to transcend many more formal social and political boundaries, reifying crossovers not only between national and ethnic cultures, but between high society and the demi-mondes of bohemian artists, and so forth.
  • (17) "Unless you're lucky enough to be Uncle Albert on Only Fools And Horses, Demis Roussos or Abu Hamza, the BBC is generally as pogonophobic as the late-lamented Albanian dictator, Enver Hoxha.
  • (18) "Vampires: Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Robin van Persie, Demy de Zeeuw.
  • (19) To put this into context,” White adds, “we often feature behind-the-scenes videos with celebrities, such as Jessie J or Demi Lovato, that don’t get nearly as many views.” In the black studio (one of a selection of editing suites and voice-over booths, free for any YouTuber who signs up), the group tentatively put their hands up to volunteer for a lighting masterclass.
  • (20) In the second experiment, Brahman (B. indicus) and Hereford-Shorthorn (HS) (B. taurus) demi-embryos were aggregated.

Demy


Definition:

  • (n.) A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
  • (n.) A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Demi Restaurant, Rruga Butrinti, Saranda (+355 85 224 636) Rozafa Castle, Shkodra, Albania If you like horror stories, you'll love Rozafa Castle.
  • (2) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
  • (3) A '"demi-alien", he began, in his solitude, to write a novel.
  • (4) These simulations permit us to follow the sequence of events accompanying haemodilution, and to assess the qualities of a plasmatic substitute: oncotic strength, demi-vie, effect on the extravascular mobilisation of proteins.
  • (5) Online, Boyle has been one of the top five most talked-about subjects on the microblogging site Twitter all week, with the Hollywood actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore - who between them have nearly 1.5 million followers - raving about her.
  • (6) However, there was a significant difference in embryonic development between nucleated (10.4%) and enucleated (22.6%) demi-oocytes (P less than 0.05).
  • (7) The two-year-old artificial intelligence startup was founded by former child chess prodigy and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis alongside Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.
  • (8) The majority of the demi-embryos (n = 122) were reinserted into separate zona pellucidae (ZP) before non-surgical transfer to 113 synchronized recipients, as singles (n = 98) (DE-S) or in pairs (n = 30) (DE-P).
  • (9) Conversely, nucleate demi-oocyte controls were at the late telophase II stage of meiosis.
  • (10) The heifers were recipients of Day 7 demi-embryos collected from donors with normal fertility and transferred 8 days prior to tissue sampling.
  • (11) Netherlands: 1-Maarten Stekelenburg; 12-Khalid Boulahrouz, 3-John Heitinga, 4-Joris Mathijsen, 5-Giovanni van Bronckhorst; 7-Dirk Kuyt, 6-Mark van Bommel, 10-Wesley Sneijder, 14-Demy de Zeeuw, 11-Arjen Robben; 9-Robin van Persie.
  • (12) Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s founder, says that “ultimately we want to apply these techniques in important real-world problems, from medical diagnostics to climate modelling”.
  • (13) Demi Lovato has accused Lady Gaga of “glamorising eat[ing] disorders” at a recent SXSW concert .
  • (14) Ballet dancers frequently stand on the tips of their toes in the en pointe and demi pointe positions, resulting in compression of the posterior structures of the ankle during repeated plantar flexion of the foot, producing the talar compression syndrome.
  • (15) The centriole adjunt differentiates into dense bodies as a "demi-lune" shape in the mature sperm.
  • (16) Notoriously, the networks of homosexuality seemed to transcend many more formal social and political boundaries, reifying crossovers not only between national and ethnic cultures, but between high society and the demi-mondes of bohemian artists, and so forth.
  • (17) "Unless you're lucky enough to be Uncle Albert on Only Fools And Horses, Demis Roussos or Abu Hamza, the BBC is generally as pogonophobic as the late-lamented Albanian dictator, Enver Hoxha.
  • (18) "Vampires: Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Robin van Persie, Demy de Zeeuw.
  • (19) To put this into context,” White adds, “we often feature behind-the-scenes videos with celebrities, such as Jessie J or Demi Lovato, that don’t get nearly as many views.” In the black studio (one of a selection of editing suites and voice-over booths, free for any YouTuber who signs up), the group tentatively put their hands up to volunteer for a lighting masterclass.
  • (20) In the second experiment, Brahman (B. indicus) and Hereford-Shorthorn (HS) (B. taurus) demi-embryos were aggregated.

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