What's the difference between effigy and guy?

Effigy


Definition:

  • (n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
  • (2) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
  • (3) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
  • (4) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
  • (5) There has been little media interest in the campaign, with some of the most recent reports about the US president concerning the burning of effigies of him to protest against a blasphemous anti-Islam film posted on YouTube.
  • (6) A crowned effigy of the justice secretary, Chris Grayling , as King John clamped in the stocks was carried past parliamenton Monday as the government-backed Global Law summit celebrated the approaching 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
  • (7) There’s was lots of stuff going on there – arrests, burning effigies – and not a peep in the press.
  • (8) Some women carried an effigy of a female version of the Philippine president, Benigno Aquino III, which will later be burnt in opposition to his policies, especially regarding issues such as aid distribution in the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan and privatisation of hospitals in the city.
  • (9) They brandished an effigy of the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
  • (10) The statement also rebuffed the proposal of dialogue with the South again, saying it would refuse talks unless Seoul apologised for its "monstrous criminal act" – a protest by 250 people in the capital on Monday during which effigies of the North's former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, were burned.
  • (11) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
  • (12) They really don’t have the kinds of problems that they are protesting about that deserve the burning of effigies.
  • (13) In his Sunday Telegraph article, Paterson said Greenpeace burned an effigy of him and that he received death threats.
  • (14) Sussex police said they had been withdrawn following complaints on social media, but pictures emerged of one of the effigies at the centre of a fireworks display.
  • (15) Was this an ordinary car wreck, or were the two women, who had previously been threatened, shot at and burned in effigy because of their efforts to register black voters, targetted on that road?
  • (16) Here are some photos from the scenes: A group of demonstrators hold a mock coffin with an effigy of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy during a protest against Spanish government austerity measures, on 15 September 2012.
  • (17) At one point, angry locals even burned an effigy of him.
  • (18) Is it an effigy of a sad girl looking defeated made out of pistachio sponge and marzipan?
  • (19) But it seems that the Salmond effigies were spared the flames after complaints were made.
  • (20) They threw rotten eggs and stones at the embassy compound, and the effigy was set on fire before being thrown over the high walls.

Guy


Definition:

  • (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
  • (v. t.) To steady or guide with a guy.
  • (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.
  • (n.) A person of queer looks or dress.
  • (v. t.) To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
  • (2) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
  • (3) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
  • (4) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (5) If you’ve been to a red brick university in the past 10 years then chances are you know the guy.
  • (6) As for Scotland Soccer Club, Altidore's deputy at franchise level, Steven Fletcher, is gonna be the guy that the hosts will look to kick the soccer ball in to the soccer goal interior.
  • (7) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
  • (8) Opposition spokesman Matthew Guy said it was unclear how the government intended to fund the project given the federal government was yet to come to the table.
  • (9) How many other countries celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
  • (10) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
  • (11) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
  • (12) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
  • (13) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
  • (14) There are three kinds of motivation: the intrinsic motivation which means the guy is naturally demanding of himself that he wants to be the best, and he has always that inner dissatisfaction with what he has achieved.
  • (15) He's the sort of guy who takes form every experience something good and uses it in the future.
  • (16) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
  • (17) If I’m the bad guy because I’m not the guy they want me to be, then so be it.” Over the last year he resolved his promotional woes in court and has since signed with Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports – along with Miguel Cotto the nascent sports agency’s highest-profile signing in boxing.
  • (18) Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys [Official Music Video] Oh boy!
  • (19) Still, he reiterates that he'd never heard of "this guy," Mayor Sokolich, until yesterday.
  • (20) Romney contends the president is a nice guy who has failed to make things better.