What's the difference between ditty and utterance?

Ditty


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme.
  • (v. t.) A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.
  • (v. i.) To sing; to warble a little tune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "They were mildly offensive," says Shapiro of their ditties.
  • (2) 12.22am BST The other politics ditty being shared rather widely at the present time is this one.
  • (3) There's a scene in Friday Night Dinner when Adam, a jingle writer by trade, gathers the family around a radio to hear his ditty for a car-insurance company.
  • (4) 'Marx had a soft spot for entrepreneurs,' Jeremy told me Once these sessions started Jeremy would also usually insist on at least one round of that rather repetitive ditty – One Man Went to Mow about farming a meadow.
  • (5) National anthem report: The Brazilian ditty skips along at pleasing pace, and all the players sing along.
  • (6) What you got a big booty,” is how the chorus to Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea’s derriere-themed ditty goes – over and over.
  • (7) The conceit – that he needs another rider so he can drive in the HOV lane in LA’s notoriously awful traffic – puts him in the car with pop superstars, singing along to both their own songs and classic pop ditties.
  • (8) But allow me to leave with one final recollection: at the Isle of Wight Festival, John Sebastian performed the song Darling Be Home Soon, a sentimental little ditty about friendship, self-understanding and hope.
  • (9) But of course, like most football harangues, this well-worn little ditty is as one-eyed as it gets.
  • (10) This silenced the home support and had the City fans singing their favourite ditty.
  • (11) LL Cool J is hosting the ceremony for the third consecutive time – two years after his respectful hosting job in the wake of Whitney Houston’s unexpected death and less than a year after the April 2013 release of his remarkably questionable song Accidental Racist, the country ditty he made with Brad Paisely.
  • (12) Of course, like most football harangues, this well-worn little ditty is as one-eyed as it gets.
  • (13) It’s basically a remake of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s relatively harmless early 90s ditty, Baby Got Back , a musical romp celebrating women who carry what Mix-a-lot referred to as “healthy butts”.
  • (14) So it’s no great surprise that he’s hooked up with UK pop producer MNEK, who, along with creating his own forward-­thinking, R&B-­infused pop ditties, has produced and written for the cutting edge of UK pop (and the Saturdays).
  • (15) He might not be better than Zinedine Zidane, as the terrace ditty has it, but he has just upstaged a few of his contemporaries.
  • (16) Berlusconi, meanwhile, owner of Italy's three biggest private television channels, sought solace in the arms of Francesca Pascale , a former television showgirl famed for co-singing a ditty with the memorable catchphrase: "If you show a bit of thigh, the ratings go up."
  • (17) He is also known for his musical talents, performing musical theatre numbers at the Proms in 2012 and of course hosting the Oscars in 2013, attracting controversy for such ditties as We Saw Your Boobs.
  • (18) Or allergic to winsome ditties sung-spoken to primitive ukulele accompaniment.
  • (19) The Norwegians, singing 13th, scored no marks at all, for a very gentle ditty that sounded like, "By gum, jah no high dog", but apparently meant, "Never in my life will I think of leaving until I join the wind."
  • (20) He shoulder dances as he sings a little ditty: "The government sucks."

Utterance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of uttering.
  • (n.) Sale by offering to the public.
  • (n.) Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes.
  • (n.) Vocal expression; articulation; speech.
  • (n.) Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance.
  • (n.) The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (2) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
  • (3) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
  • (4) Theresa May has shown a complete and utter lack of interest in Northern Ireland since taking office.
  • (5) The results of the present study focused on differences in types of self-touching by patients and physicians, semantic content of utterances when self-touching was displayed, and temporal location of self-touching within the speech stream.
  • (6) A single-subject design was applied to study increase in functional use of language by a 14-yr.-old Down Syndrome girl from a mean length of utterance of 1.3 words to 4.4 in a classroom, 5.1 in the restaurant, and 4.7 during transportation.
  • (7) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
  • (8) Instead, because of other people, it all too often becomes something else: a complete and utter hell.
  • (9) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
  • (10) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
  • (11) "How these union bosses get elected, how they raise money, how they disperse money is a complete and utter mystery.
  • (12) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
  • (13) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
  • (14) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
  • (15) The changes in Parkinsonian subjects of the cross-sectional area during the utterance of sustained sounds are attributed to both Parkinsonian tremor and rigidity.
  • (16) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
  • (17) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
  • (18) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
  • (19) The IFS says similar declines emerge if you set the figure as low as 40% of median income – utterly refuting Nick Clegg's toxic line dismissing the threshold as just "poverty plus a pound" .
  • (20) "Public sector workers and their families are utterly shocked by Jeremy Clarkson's revolting comments.