What's the difference between grainy and gritty?

Grainy


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling grains; granular.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These are difficult to segment using conventional thresholding or edge enhancement techniques due to their 'grainy' appearance, which makes it difficult to isolate key features from the other components found in the slice.
  • (2) In hydrated, vitrified cryo-sections, chromosomes exhibit a characteristic homogeneous, grainy texture, which, on optical diffraction, gives rise to a broad reflection corresponding to 11 nm.
  • (3) It turns out that the modulation transfer function is correlated to the visual sharpness and the Wiener spectrum is correlated to the visual impression of graininess.
  • (4) Though acclaimed for his black-and-white imagery – from the "falling soldier" photograph taken during the Spanish civil war, showing a Republican militiaman being hit by a fascist bullet, to the series of grainy D-Day shots of US soldiers on Omaha Beach – Capa worked in colour for most of his career.
  • (5) Early in 1999 a government-controlled TV channel aired a grainy video which purported to show Skuratov cavorting in bed with a couple of prostitutes.
  • (6) Rutherford is also puzzled that his record has been questioned on the basis of grainy YouTube footage.
  • (7) The conditions are little more favourable than 2007 – the crowd is just as monumental and the big screens largely inadequate, showing either grainy, monochrome boxes on each of the band or nothing at all – but the band is fired up and bolstered with intent.
  • (8) The DNA synthesis rate also correlates with the graininess of chromatin.
  • (9) It included grainy videos in which the blogger enters European embassies and the US interests section in Havana, and said she has collected $500,000 [£306,000] in international prizes for her work.
  • (10) The Wiener spectrum of film graininess and the MTF of geometric unsharpness were measured.
  • (11) Fluorescent antinuclear antibodies (FANA) with a diffusely grainy pattern, those with a nucleolar pattern and the anti-Scl-70 antibody were present in all 6 groups, but were significantly more frequent in the last 4 groups than in Groups 1 and 2.
  • (12) After the FBI released grainy footage of his death , critics of the militia said it seemed clear he was a threat.
  • (13) Twitter users circulated grainy footage of the former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser warning of any violations of the Tiran waters, which he said were Egyptian.
  • (14) The increasing graininess of low mAs sections did not induce errors of interpretation, despite a less pleasant appearance to the eyes.
  • (15) None of the other passersby show signs of being shocked, although it is hard to say given the footage is grainy.
  • (16) The camera attached to it did not survive, but the moving images within did – grainy grey and white shapes ending in the curve we now know so well; and beyond the curve, total black.
  • (17) Knowledge of that aftermath is what gives the grainy Wall Street images their peculiar power.
  • (18) If, as is likely, those grainy pictures of what happened at Stockwell tube still haunt her, as they surely haunt everyone who sees them, then it is possible that she will be a better leader in general, and a better commissioner of the Met than someone else with no blemish on their career.
  • (19) There’s something very raw about it: it’s straight-on flash, 35mm, black and white, grainy... They’re wearing Vivienne Westwood gear they’ve customised by sewing on silk Haile Selassie patches.
  • (20) Some factors affecting the capacity and serviceability of the compounds such as the nature and graininess of the abrasive, the quantity of the compound added to the container at a time are investigated.

Gritty


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
  • (a.) Spirited; resolute; unyielding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (2) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
  • (3) Concluding that he didn't really want a career as a gritty Northern Irish realist, Harvey decided to train as a teacher.
  • (4) Sitting in the bar at the Lowry theatre in Salford’s Media City, Shindler is talking about the word “gritty”.
  • (5) Click here to view video This year has been all about exciting gritty modern TV dramas.
  • (6) A gritty town battered by the decline of its lumber industry, it is mocked as hicksville by its rival, snootier neighbour, the university city Eugene, which Groening renamed Shelbyville.
  • (7) It manages to be both hard-hitting and emotional, gritty and warm."
  • (8) The chief executive is pinning early hopes on Breaking Bad, a gritty US drama in which a chemistry teacher with terminal cancer sets up a crystal meth lab, which was barely noticed when it aired on 5USA, although for all its merits it might not exactly be classified as family entertainment.
  • (9) Yet there is a tendency to switch off from this conversation as it moves from ambitious words and statements on to the nitty gritty of implementation.
  • (10) Bellows is known for his powerful paintings representing the hardship and desperation and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged in to the 20th century.
  • (11) "There is plenty of gritty contemporary life on the wrong side of the tracks, but there is also a ridiculous story of revenge.
  • (12) The chondroblastoma was located in a small gritty mass at one pole of the cyst, which could have easily been overlooked.
  • (13) That’s a difficult exercise, particularly with all the lawyers involved in the process and looking at the nitty-gritty of every word that is written down,” Zarif told journalists during a visit to Madrid.
  • (14) Fifteen years ago, the flag was the subject of a gritty partisan struggle in the state house and an economic boycott by the NAACP.
  • (15) Symptoms of grittiness and morning stickiness were more frequent among patients without enhanced responses.
  • (16) Prey is a gritty, concretey number, and while Reinhardt may be the least-kempt of the cast, every character drinks too much, looks constantly knackered and is therefore entirely believable.
  • (17) Of 440 amputations for vascular disease, 193 were above-knee, 193 below-knee, 15 Gritti-Stokes, 15 through-knee and 24 bilateral.
  • (18) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
  • (19) "That kind of geographic splitting can certainly create opportunities for speciation, so it's a plausible mechanism, but I'd like to see a more extensive and fine-grained review of the evidence than Mark and his coauthors could cram into their paper – one that gets into the nitty-gritty of where the basins were, when the marine barriers between them would have appeared and disappeared, and what lived in them."
  • (20) Fishwick's layer upon layer of northern grittiness versus southern sniffiness will be grating for some.

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