What's the difference between dilly and hilly?

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.

Hilly


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country.
  • (a.) Lofty; as, hilly empire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
  • (2) This kind of hilly stage early in the race is the trademark of Prudhomme, who likes to test the race favourites as soon as possible, rather than giving them a more structured few days' run-in to the first key time trial or mountain stage.
  • (3) The main loser in Orissa would have been the Dongria-Kondh tribe which inhabits the upper reaches of the hilly forest.
  • (4) A cross-sectional study on malaria was undertaken in May 1989 in the settlements of Kalta and Barsuan iron ore mines situated in a hilly area of Sundargarh district.
  • (5) Stored and cooked samples of pearl millet (Pennesetum typhoides), which is regularly consumed as food by the Paharia tribe in the hilly regions of Santhal Pargana, Bihar State, India, that were harvested in January 1989 were analyzed for mold flora, natural occurrence of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, and incidence and levels of aflatoxin B1.
  • (6) Five to look out for Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky, Age 34 Last year’s winner and the favourite for the short last-day time trial in London, so rivals need an advantage before then Leopold Konig, NetApp-Endura, 26 Seventh on debut in the Tour de France, the Czech won Caerphilly’s hilly stage in 2012 and may be the strongest climber Sylvain Chavanel, IAM Cycling, 35 The near-veteran Frenchman is in top form, winner in recent weeks of the GP Plouay one-day race and the Tour du Poitou Charentes Mark Cavendish, Omega Pharma-QS 29 On the comeback trail after separating a shoulder in his catastrophic crash in the opening stage of the Tour de France Marcel Kittel, Giant-Shimano, 26 Dominant on the flat at the Tour de France this year and last, the German is the strongest fastman in the race on paper with Cavendish recovering
  • (7) Intestinal type carcinomas tend to be represented more in the older age groups, in males and in subjects born in the Forlì province and resident in hilly and mountainous areas.
  • (8) On Sundays, some churchgoers practice an adapted version – Chrizonto – while enthusiasts can be spied in music-filled funeral processions winding their way down Jamestown's hilly roads.
  • (9) Making your way through forests, rivers and hilly terrain in those conditions is no easy task.
  • (10) The prevalence of chronic undernutrition was significantly higher in the hilly areas.
  • (11) Two orientation devices are described which are currently in use at the J. Hillis Miller Health Center Library.
  • (12) Bishrampur in Jharkhand is located in hilly terrain.
  • (13) With fewer farmers travelling, the cost of farm produce doubled in a matter of weeks, said Umaru Barry, a sharply dressed trader selling smartphones in the capital's hilly streets.
  • (14) Danish ones are dressed more fashionably, for example, with black cladding and steel balconies, and they have found it easier to build straight blocks rather than L-shaped ones on Norway's hilly terrain.
  • (15) Highlights: the Crow's Nest, up in the faraway hilly corner of the Park stage where they were serving only tea and cake and the most indie line-up of all time; stupidly wandering the entire site for several hours of Saturday morning hunting Aphex Twin; dancing until my toe went numb.
  • (16) The young doctor visited Matthews Barnes in London, famous for his theory on the mechanism of placental expulsion, Hegar and his sign of early pregnancy and his dilators, Olshansen and his theory of rotation of the fetal head, Peter Müller in Bern and his maneuver for evaluating the cephalopelvic relationship (known also in the U.S. as Müller-Hillis maneuver), Theodor Langhans, also in Bern, who described three years ago his famous placental cells, Frankenhaüser in Zurich, the man of the plexiform ganglion of the parametrium, discovered before in 1842 by Robert Lee of Scotland.
  • (17) It began with British detectives on all fours scouring a hilly stretch of scrubland on the Algarve coast.
  • (18) The transformation of cytoplasmic excrescences, manifested in their diminution, twisting and fusion resulted in the formation of fold-hilly LAM surface.
  • (19) His friend Hillis Miller moved from Yale to the University of Irvine, California, in 1986, and Derrida switched allegiance at the same time, beginning an annual spring visitthat continued until 2003.
  • (20) The route skirted the hilly interior, passing close to walled towns like Silves.

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