What's the difference between dizzying and heady?

Dizzying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dizzy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (2) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
  • (3) Implantation of a single-chamber pacemaker was planned in an 83-year-old woman with sick-sinus syndrome causing dizziness, bradycardia and tachycardia.
  • (4) After controlling for the effects of active and passive exposure to cigarette smoke, problems with the home heating system (odds ratio 9.6; p less than 0.03) and the presence of cohabitants with concurrent headache or dizziness (odds ratio 21.6; p less than 0.0001) were associated with an increased risk of a carboxyhemoglobin greater than 10 percent.
  • (5) Most of the animals had damage in the third and fourth turns (22) and a minority of these had dizziness and destruction nystagmus (3).
  • (6) A 46-year-old man with hepatoma was admitted with chief complaints of headache, fever and dizziness.
  • (7) Among the exposed still employed a trend towards a higher prevalence of dizziness was found.
  • (8) A subjective feeling of dizziness was observed by all volunteers, but it was not possible to make a correlation between this and the drug levels in this study.
  • (9) Vestibular symptoms were pronounced and, although compensation was not delayed, positional dizziness and instability usually persisted for several months and occasionally for a year or more.
  • (10) Diminished salivary flow was significantly greater with amitriptyline, as were complaints of dry mouth, somnolence, dizziness, and headache.
  • (11) 4 cases of drug-induced side effects were reported: dizziness and mild dyspepsia.
  • (12) During monotherapy, side-effects occurred in 12% of the patients (tachycardia, headache, weakness, dizziness).
  • (13) Consistent with these measures, derived from self-reported data, physician-diagnosed measures also indicate a greater vulnerability of unemployed individuals to serious physical ailments such as heart trouble, pain in heart and chest, high blood pressure, spells of faint-dizziness, bone-joint problems and hypertension.
  • (14) Dizziness in three with insomnia and vomiting in one patient complicated the treatment.
  • (15) Post-concussional symptoms, such as headache, dizziness and irritability, are thought to result from the emotional stress associated with decreased cognitive performance after a head injury.
  • (16) A standardised test of psychopathology (CCEI) was administered to tinnitus sufferers some of whom also complained of dizziness.
  • (17) Eight subjects reported subjective feelings of light-headedness or slight dizziness, which are not typical after slower absorption from nicotine gum or skin patches.
  • (18) He has broken four Guinness world records, most of them for speed–mad 100-metre dashes across dizzyingly high wires, and frequently appears on Chinese television.
  • (19) Several subjects reported light-headedness and dizziness during rest intervals.
  • (20) A 55-year old male patient, with dizzy spells during everyday activity and a complete right bundle branch block as the sole electrocardiographic abnormality, reproducibly demonstrated tachycardia-dependent Mobitz Type II- and 2:1 second degree atrioventricular block.

Heady


Definition:

  • (a.) Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
  • (a.) Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
  • (a.) Violent; impetuous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
  • (2) But the continued uncertainty over those two World Cups adds a heady new dynamic to the mix and makes that ever more unlikely even at this early stage.
  • (3) They included Lena Heady (Queen Cersei Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), 17-year-old Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and 18-year-old Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark).
  • (4) Primark’s heady pace of expansion has bolstered ABF, which is grappling with lower sugar prices that have reduced profits in its core business.
  • (5) The cash-strapped firm, which used to be owned by the US private equity group Blackstone, emerged with some 750 homes and 31,000 residents after a period of heady growth over the last decade.
  • (6) Involves a heady mix of patriotism, folksy childhood memories, at least four moving montage packages and tears.
  • (7) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
  • (8) Oxfam's Lucy Brinicombe is blogging for the Guardian from Cancún, and here's a bit of her first post : There's an air of uncertainty here, of controlled hope mixed with a hefty dose of pragmatism compared with the heady days before last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, where a deadline to secure a fair, safe and legally binding climate deal came – and went.
  • (9) Whatever the precise facts, a heady cocktail of gender, religion and alleged terrorism feeds into the story of the "white widow", making it likely to provide fodder for tabloid front pages for some time to come.
  • (10) The decision to shoot in monochrome, which is all too often linked to a photographic nostalgia for the heady days of reportage, is fully justified here.
  • (11) While white Washington experienced a heady construction and property boom, the population of the District fell from over 700,000 to half a million, while the metropolitan area, with its ring of white suburbs, became one of the wealthiest areas in the US.
  • (12) Even their characteristic aroma - a heady mix of singed rubber, day-old sweat, urine and Gauloise smoke - has a certain appeal.
  • (13) Cast your mind back to the heady days after the 1997 election.
  • (14) A mid an abundance of food and drink, flickering candles and a heady air of altered states,100 or so people in north London’s New Unity church watched John, a mop-haired Irishman in his late 20s, tell the story of how he learned to love through therapy, poetry and ayahuasca.
  • (15) "Add in ultra-low interest rates, together with the fact that not only is London outside the eurozone but the pound is weak, and you have the perfect ingredients for that heady cocktail – the safe haven investment."
  • (16) Those heady days may be over (if sentimentally recalled by every retailer in these communities) but cross-border shopping remains a vital source of investment for towns such as Strabane, in the west, where unemployment has historically been among the highest in the UK.
  • (17) In all the heady talk about changing the constitution to enshrine social rights and find a place for Catalonia, however, it is easy to lose sight of the everyday priorities of many Spaniards.
  • (18) With its heady media mix of graphic violence and utopian idylls, Isis has sought recruits and supporters who are further down the path toward ideological radicalisation or more inclined by personal disposition toward violence.
  • (19) The other reaction in South Africa has been one of apathy, partly because all attention is on Mandela, partly because excitement about Obama in Africa has waned since the heady days of 2008.
  • (20) In 2010 there was nothing much to lighten the hearts of those who had flocked to vote for us in the heady days of 13 years ago.

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