What's the difference between dilly and dimly?

Dilly


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of stagecoach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
  • (2) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
  • (3) [Ranieri] could see that mentally we were still in bed, so he shouted: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!
  • (4) Inevitably, it has provoked distrust in the rest of the continent: in which the chancellor's costly dilly-dallying during the debt crisis, led to remarks about a third world war in the British press.
  • (5) INA Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dilli Haat market stall.
  • (6) He picks out Liam Lawrence, who dilly-dallies then passes when he probably should have had a shot from distance.
  • (7) All it took was to listen out for the “dilly‑ding, dilly-dong” of Ranieri’s alarm bell.
  • (8) Really, no one knows what happened in that room.” Players get away with the same or worse all the time, Dilly adds.
  • (9) He wouldn't necessarily have chosen that path, but Glamorgan have dilly-dallied over the negotiations.
  • (10) For weeks now, Hollande has led the European response to the Syrian crisis, pursuing a hawkish approach to Damascus in stark contrast to the dilly-dallying of France's continental allies and neighbours.
  • (11) One year it was the “dilly‑ding, dilly-dong” bell, and another it was a golden toy Ferrari – a riff on the fact that one newspaper had described Cagliari as a sports car racing through the lower divisions.
  • (12) After Danny Drinkwater told of the manager’s habit since the start of the season of ringing an imaginary bell to stress how important it is for players to stay alert – with his regular cry of “dilly-ding, dilly-dong” becoming a catchphrase the squad now use cheerfully themselves – Ranieri revealed the gifts he gave his players at Christmas.
  • (13) That’s why we organised these events.” Under a canopy of glittering red hearts hung to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the flashmob handed out leaflets and danced to a song specially written for One Billion Rising, called Jago Dilli Jago or Awaken Delhi, asking people to end the silence around sexual violence.
  • (14) He changed tack, led the party, resigned, dilly-dallied between Westminster and Holyrood, then came back to fill a talent and charisma gap.
  • (15) At Christmas, he gave us each a bell with ‘Cagliari Calcio, dilly-ding, dilly-dong’ and his name on it.
  • (16) But be warned, Claudio, I nominated Garry Monk for this award last year … Amy Lawrence Dilly ding, dilly dong all the way.
  • (17) She's actually rather nice, Dasha, somewhere underneath her careful circumspection, her desire not to betray her boyfriend, her politely masked impatience with those who think she's dilly-dallying at projects she really cares about.
  • (18) Danny Drinkwater provoked much amusement among the British press corps last month, when he revealed the manager’s technique of saying “dilly-ding, dilly-dong” to restore focus whenever energy levels start to dip during training .
  • (19) 9.37pm GMT 90+3 min: Giaccherini finds himself in space down the left on the edge of the Chelsea penalty area, but dilly-dallies too long, fails to put in a corss and tries to stab the ball forward towards towards Altidore instead.
  • (20) Dilli Haat , a two-minute walk from the station, is a collection of more than 150 stalls selling artisan goods from across India.

Dimly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
  • (2) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
  • (3) The frequencies of the various anaphase patterns of bright and dim centromere regions were binomially distributed, indicating random distribution of chromatids with respect to the age of their DNA templates.
  • (4) It will be of particular importance to determine the amount and proportions of lymphokines secreted by T lymphocytes within the mucosal microenvironment, since properties of cells in the peripheral blood or even bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid are likely to reflect only dimly those of cells at this site.
  • (5) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (6) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
  • (7) In this study, the problem of masking was minimized by measuring the timing of melatonin production under dim light conditions.
  • (8) 1,4-Dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-mannitol (DIM) was synthesized chemically from benzyl-alpha-D-mannopyranoside [Fleet et al (1984) J. Chem.
  • (9) A circadian rhythm of nociception was displayed by hamsters maintained for 30 days in constant dim light.
  • (10) The superior fascicle is whitish, dimmed and frequently thinner than the others and was classified under 4 patterns, according to its insertion.
  • (11) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
  • (12) Yet its outrage dims when the models – the same models who appear in the usual shows, mind – are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture.
  • (13) In Moscow, the Russian foreign ministry took a dim view of this Guardian report on the Balkan events.
  • (14) A method for determining the spectral sensitivity of the different color mechanisms of the human eye uses the pattern of color names applied to small, brief, dim, monochromatic flashes.
  • (15) Individuals complaining of disturbed sleep that was verified by polysomnographic indices (objective DIMS) and a group with complaints of disturbed sleep in the absence of objective findings (subjective DIMS) were compared with normal sleepers.
  • (16) The pupillary response to 50 microliter of pilocarpine 0.0625% in darkness, dim light, and bright light was measured photographically in 15 healthy adults.
  • (17) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (18) Women generally reported a significantly higher prevalence of both disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep (DIMS) and nightmares (NM)(p less than .001).
  • (19) Experimental conditions were as similar as possible to those used in a separate study in which psychophysical absolute thresholds were measured: large, dim, monochromatic spots 1 sec in duration were projected close to the right eye of alert, self-respiring goldfish.
  • (20) An extended source gives a dim erect image in the tract region that may come from the pattern of illumination radiating from the cut ends of the tracts.

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