What's the difference between finny and tinny?

Finny


Definition:

  • (a.) Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.
  • (a.) Abounding in fishes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The referee, Stephen Finnie, was unimpressed and the game limped on.
  • (2) The England and Everton Ladies goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis has told the BBC that Scudamore's emails were an "insult to all women" and said she would like to see him sanctioned.
  • (3) "Lambeth parks and green spaces are vital to people's health and wellbeing," says one resident, Stefan Finnis.
  • (4) The Celtic midfielder Nir Bitton was sent off by the referee, Stephen Finnie, in the 67th minute for picking up two yellow cards and while that seemed to spur on Ronny Deila’s side, it looked like the Jags would take a point amid growing frustration from the home support.
  • (5) The recent isolation and identification of alpha-N-acetyl forms of the C-Fragment of lipotropin (beta-endorphin, residues 61-91) and the C'-Fragment (residues 61-87) [Smyth, D.G., Massey, D.E., Zakarian, S. & Finnie, M. (1979) Nature (London) 279, 252-254] has led to a study of their distribution in the pituitary and brain of the rat.
  • (6) John Finnie said: “Expansion of hugely polluting aviation can only be a disaster for the climate, not to mention the impact on local communities.
  • (7) (Bradbury, A. F., Finnie, M. D. A., and Smyth, D. G. (1982) Nature 298, 686-688).
  • (8) The Everton women's goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis said the emails were an "insult to all women" and that Scudamore should be sanctioned, while the former England captain Casey Stoney said his position was now "difficult".

Tinny


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Everything he sang about is still true today," said Oluwole, a taxi driver waiting for petrol as a tape played Fela on a tinny loop.
  • (2) ‘W e voted for you to go home.” Those were the words flung at 34-year-old Tinni Guha Roy, a former member of the GB rowing team, on a London train in the aftermath of Britain’s EU referendum.
  • (3) Then he broke down, his voice audibly cracking across the tinniness of the loudspeaker.
  • (4) Tinny iPhone powered, accompanied renditions of Flower of Scotland and the Proclaimers on a loop (my request for the Krankies' Fandabidozi for some themed relief went ignored).
  • (5) No more does British public transport throb to the strains of LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It , played on the tinny mobiles of hooded young men.
  • (6) Mick Jones from the Clash was Grant's cousin, and we'd blast his tapes from the tinny stereo, singing along to the words while debating the sentiment.
  • (7) But it simply underlined how incredibly tinny they were as candidates.
  • (8) In my opinion, it has a dry, tinny, bitter aftertaste.
  • (9) Labor always rejected concerns by the fishing industry that it was "locking up oceans", saying less than 2% of commercial fisheries' catches would be affected by the new protected areas and recreational fishers would not be affected at all because the parks were hundreds of kilometres offshore and therefore well out of reach of a fisherman in a tinnie.
  • (10) On the shore you’ll see a few people drinking tinnies and fishing with their mates, and you think ‘who’s happier here?’” Perhaps because of this, relations between crew and guests are unusual, if not unheard of.
  • (11) From time to time, Syrova's words were punctuated by tinny clinks from the women's handcuffs as they crossed and uncrossed their arms.
  • (12) The famously good Congolese music is everywhere, from the throbbing clubs of the Matonge district to the tinny transistor radios of people in the street.
  • (13) The bullets sounded tinny and distant, like in an old arcade game.
  • (14) "The thrill," said one, whose first download was by Smashing Pumpkins, "even when I listened to the music through my mum's tinny computer speakers."
  • (15) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
  • (16) The first, very serious score was replaced by tinny, faux-heroic music, which made the film funny again.
  • (17) Under the tinny roof of Songkhla’s commercial port, on Thailand’s south-east coast, the imperial-blue cargo boat that brought Myint Thein back to shore is unloading its catch, barrel by barrel.
  • (18) John Grant (Gary Bond), a cultured schoolteacher travelling from his isolated bush schoolhouse to Sydney, gets trapped on a stopover that turns into a never-ending alcoholic bender in a wild outback mining town populated entirely by drunken ockers who gamble, guzzle tinnies, fist-fight and hunt kangaroos for sport.
  • (19) The execution of the film, too, is a world away from the DayGlo tinniness of most 1980s family films.
  • (20) The novel is also a vehicle for much insiderish fun: drive-by shootings at the editor of the New Statesman Jason Cowley (who becomes a type of car, “slick, tinny, and noisy”); Private Eye editor Ian Hislop (who, given that he went to court to reveal a super-injunction Marr had used to hide his affair with another political journalist, gets nicer treatment than one might expect), is “earnestly and very solemnly working his way through a huge cream cake”.

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