What's the difference between deucedly and rather?
Deucedly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But Murray drags it back to deuce, a lob from him and a missed slice from Federer making it so.
(2) During deuce, we are treated to some absurdity from both players, but Kyrgios then misses a forehand to give Nadal another set point.
(3) He somehow scrambled to deuce and delighted in forcing Dimitrov to chase in vain from one side of the court to the other to go 6-5 up.
(4) In the first set Miss Round was at her best, in command of the match, and only two games went to deuce.
(5) A simple missed volley at deuce gives breakpoint and a gradually takes control of a long rally before forcing a Wawrinka error.
(6) Murray’s first double fault at deuce brought an angry response - and a pair of aces to hold for 2-1 - from one of the game’s most demanding perfectionists.
(7) Murray, who does not like wearing a cap, repeatedly caught the sun in his eyes on his ball toss to double-fault twice, aced and fought through three deuce points to hold in the eighth game.
(8) Djokovic, though, blew a cross-court forehand for deuce – but not the forehand he drilled for a winner and break.
(9) He misses three presentable forehands (see last tiebreak) as it goes to deuce and after more than 10 minutes Rafa breaks.
(10) 2.46pm BST First set: Djokovic*4-3 Nadal No sooner do I write that about Nadal's serve than Djokovic finds himself at 30-30 and then at deuce – the first time we've seen one of those.
(11) That takes it to 40-15, but a great crosscourt service return and an unforced error from Nadal later it's deuce, and Djokovic has a sniff, a chance.
(12) But we go to deuce and Dimitrov will be pleased to see how much he's making Murray scamper around the baseline.
(13) On deuce, a second serve from Murray is called out, only for the umpire to correct the call.
(14) A service down the line, into the deuce court, is too much for Djokovic, and another winner concludes the transaction.
(15) Giants up by a deuce, and here comes Jeff Jones, Tigers pitching coach to have a word with his man.
(16) Donovan in that role would probably step on Deuce's toes.
(17) A vicious forehand from centre to the deuce court saves one, and there follows the best point so far - a Nadal lob wins the advantage, as he can only flip it back - but he stays in the rally, and another winner saves another.
(18) He was artful and resolute, also, in getting to deuce on Murray’s serve in the fourth game but the Scot would not crack.
(19) She double-faulted to give Cornet two breakpoints only to recover before, at 1-1, deuce, the umpire called them off.
(20) Another ace at deuce gives Wawrinka game point, but Djokovic fights back with a brilliant double-hander down the line.
Rather
Definition:
(a.) Prior; earlier; former.
(a.) Earlier; sooner; before.
(a.) More readily or willingly; preferably.
(a.) On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead.
(a.) Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or as more likely than, the other; somewhat.
(a.) More properly; more correctly speaking.
(a.) In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(3) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
(4) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(5) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(6) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
(7) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(8) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(9) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
(10) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(11) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(12) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(13) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(14) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(15) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(16) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(17) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(18) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
(19) Rather, academics need to involve themselves in managerial roles.
(20) Decreased synthesis rather than increased utilization accounted for the nucleoside effect.