What's the difference between heady and testy?

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.

Testy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
  • (2) The expression of the mRNA for mouse testicular lactate dehydrogenase (LDH-X) was examined by RNA:cDNA hybridization in situ in the testis and by Northern analyses of meiotic and postmeiotic spermatogenic cell populations.
  • (3) In contrast, Leydig cells from rat testis contain monooxygenase systems which catalyze the metabolism of PAH, such as DMBA.
  • (4) Testis MAPs promoted microtubule assembly, but to a lesser degree than brain MAPs.
  • (5) Comparison of the native and derivatized wheat germ CaMs with native bovine testis CaM indicates that the concentrations of these proteins required for half-maximal stimulation of either erythrocyte membrane Ca2+-ATPase activity or cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum phosphorylation are very similar.
  • (6) In an effort to understand the regulation of the onset of testosterone formation in the human fetal testis we measured adenylate cyclase activity in response to hCG stimulation in homogenates of fetal testes obtained from first and second trimester human abortuses.
  • (7) Gonadoblastoma is an unusual tumor that typically arises in a streak gonad or an abnormal testis of an individual having a Y chromosome.
  • (8) Immune response in a patient with an in-situ seminoma of the testis was studied.
  • (9) We conclude that there are high levels of a GHRH-like substance in mature rat testis which is present both at the level of protein product and gene transcript.
  • (10) Due to low numbers of animals in Replica 1, the reduced Leydig cell volume was not significant after TCDD treatment; however, in Replica 2 there was a dose-dependent reduction (P < 0.01) in volume per testis of Leydig cell cytoplasm, nuclei, or total Leydig cell volume.
  • (11) The findings also raise the possibility that Prl may play a role in the regulation of testosterone synthesis by the prepubertal testis.
  • (12) Likewise, [3H]estradiol-receptor complexes from rabbit uterus, Squalus oviduct, or mouse testis bound minimally to Squalus testicular chromatin.
  • (13) The cells transferred were of three types, normal spleen cells, T cell-enriched spleen and lymph node cells from mice immunized with testis homogenate (TH) in complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) and given an extract of Bordetella pertussis (BP) and the latter cells activated by in vitro culture with TH antigen for 48 h. Controls were given buffer alone.
  • (14) Testis weight was decreased to approximately 50% of control after eight weeks of treatment.
  • (15) There was a testy set of exchanges between the editor and Michael Ellis.
  • (16) A rare case of a seminoma developing in an atrophic testis is described and the role of testicular atrophy in tumorigenesis is discussed.
  • (17) The efficacy of combined cytostatic-surgical treatment was evaluated in a prospective study involving 70 patients with germinal tumors of the testis metastasizing into the lungs.
  • (18) Micrococcal nuclease-digested testis and erythrocyte chromatin was separated into soluble and insoluble fractions.
  • (19) Specific high affinity saturable binding proteins for oestradiol-17beta have been demonstrated in the cytoplasm of liver, adrenal, pituitary, prostate, epididymis and testis interstitial tissue of the rat.
  • (20) As for possible causes of reduced Leydig cell activity it was investigated whether the testis was (1) hypoplastic; (2) abnormally fused with the epididymis; (3) located in the abdomen; (4) or UT was associated with hypospadias.