What's the difference between funny and singular?

Funny


Definition:

  • (superl.) Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.
  • (n.) A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (2) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
  • (3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
  • (4) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
  • (5) Take feedback when it's offered In common with all the other judges on Show Me The Funny, I'm not entirely comfortable with judging other comedians.
  • (6) And then her drug use got harder, and more desperate, and then it wasn't funny any more; and then, when she was trying to clean up, she was dead, gone to join "the stupid club", as Kurt Cobain's mother described all the rock stars who end up dead at 27.
  • (7) Christine Langan of BBC Films told Screen Daily: "Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience."
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (10) So like I said, it’s funny to be a woman, in a world that judges you solely by what you do with your vagina: whether any babies have come out of it, and what you are doing with it.
  • (11) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
  • (12) The first time I heard about legislation banning " homosexual propaganda ", I thought it was funny.
  • (13) But it was funny and interesting also because it really showed that, maybe, I can still bring something to a team.” This will be Drogba’s second departure from Stamford Bridge having initially left for Shanghai Shenhua in 2012 in the immediate aftermath of his winning penalty in the shoot-out against Bayern Munich which saw Chelsea claim the European Cup .
  • (14) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
  • (15) "It was a funny afternoon," said Pardew whose side have won seven and drawn one of their last nine Premier League games.
  • (16) In his five-star review for Time Out New York , David Cote calls it "gobsmackingly funny".
  • (17) First in line was Conservative Richard Fuller, who he believed was looking at him in a funny way.
  • (18) Funny on its own, even funnier with funny music playing beneath it .
  • (19) The Gogglebox people are all nice(ish) and funny(ish), qualities vital to keep at bay total self-loathing that we are gathered as a family, watching on telly other people watching telly.
  • (20) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.

Singular


Definition:

  • (a.) Existing by itself; single; individual.
  • (a.) Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
  • (a.) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
  • (a.) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
  • (a.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.
  • (a.) Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
  • (a.) Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
  • (a.) Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.
  • (a.) Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
  • (n.) An individual instance; a particular.
  • (n.) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The combination of Azathioprine and Cyclosporin A brought with a 1-year function rate of 54% better results in comparison to the singular application of Azathioprine (22%) and Cyclosporin A (41%).
  • (2) But singular concern with the consequences of monopolistic control by the profession is no substitute for analysis of the dynamics among demand, production, and supply of surgery.
  • (3) The National Society to Prevent Blindness, formed in 1908, is the oldest voluntary agency with the singular mission to preserve sight and prevent blindness through a broad program of public and professional education, industrial and community services, and research.
  • (4) Nevertheless, studies on the occurrence of delayed neuronal death in the human brain have been singular and dealt with only small files of patients.
  • (5) Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton was advised once again by Beltway advisers who knew it all, had the models and the projections, but who called it wrong.” The USHCC was singularly invested in the outcome of Tuesday’s election, as it had endorsed Clinton for the presidency – the first time it has done so for any candidate in its 38-year history.
  • (6) Although singular neurectomy can be mastered, it will remain a procedure done by few surgeons.
  • (7) Thus, both tonB and fiu cir mutants showed a comparably reduced susceptibility to the probe compounds, whereas mutants singularly lacking any one of the six iron-regulated outer membrane proteins (Fiu, FepA, FecA, FhuA, FhuE, and Cir) or lacking any combination of any two of these proteins (except Fiu plus Cir) did not show this resistance.
  • (8) Each situation of terminal cases is absolutely singular and unique.
  • (9) A singular perturbation analysis of the 8-dimensional phase portrait of the model characterizes the role of calcium during the plateau phase of the ventricular action potential and demonstrates how the calcium refractory period prevents tetanization.
  • (10) Type 0 (strong) resetting occurred when respiratory drive was low, type 1 (weak) resetting when drive was high, and a phase singularity when drive was intermediate.
  • (11) We conclude that these equations could be used singularly or collectively to determine FFB, and a minimal weight could then be derived and assigned to a scholastic wrestler.
  • (12) Jim Gianopulos, the chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, went on a Singularity University course, and has since become evangelical about it.
  • (13) In contrast to neurons appearing in the pancreas of the sand rat, the neurons in the thyroid gland occur in most cases as singular neurons.
  • (14) In this paper we first review a modified form of the singularity decomposition of the FPP function accomplished within a prescribed error range.
  • (15) We could show that pathologic stress szintigrams were only found in patients with a singular stenosis in one branch of the left coronary artery.
  • (16) The advantages are: diminished risk of infections, local anesthesia instead of general anesthesia, applicability by the cardiologist in the catheterization-laboratory or under a simple fluoroscopy-unit, short stay of patients in the hospital without transfers to other departments, few personnel (1 scrubbed doctor, 1 non-scrubbed nurse), recognition of venous anomalies (singular left superior caval vein) without useless incisions for the patient.
  • (17) The resulting type, not to be identified by classical CFA, was shown to be singular and clear-cut with weakness in all 3 verbal tests.
  • (18) Udall barely mentioned government surveillance on the campaign trail, choosing instead to mount a singular focus on female voters, rarely straying from two topics : contraception and abortion.
  • (19) The presence of these microbacteria may provide a clue as to the late appearance, particular location, and singular clinical picture of pericoronitis.
  • (20) The results revealed that the conventional speaking tube was inferior to the electric hearing aid in terms of specificity to various frequencies, advantages and understanding of singular syllables, but almost equal to the latter in terms of understandings of three syllables.