What's the difference between hearty and quite?

Hearty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber.
  • (superl.) Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.
  • (superl.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
  • (n.) Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
  • (2) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
  • (3) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
  • (4) Apparently named after Nelson Mandela, everything else about this place is very Greek: hearty portions of local food are served with a smile.
  • (5) Nordestinos brought their hearty, meaty peasant cuisine with them, and one former factory worker, Jose Oliveira de Almeid, called simply Seu Ze, opened a small restaurant called Mocotó in the working-class suburb of Villa Medeiros.
  • (6) Cut into fat slices for a hearty pudding in the evening and a yet heartier breakfast the morning after.
  • (7) Also, hearty snacks should be eaten in limited amounts only because of their high fat and salt content.
  • (8) Tall, heavy-set, with an astonishing bouffant as solid, glossy and black as polished coal, he exudes the hearty bonhomie of the rugby player he once was.
  • (9) Photograph: Andy Pietrasik Start with a coffee and croissant at zinc bar Café Tupiña at the bottom end of rue Porte de la Monnaie, and then move on to a hearty lunch at La Tupiña next door, with its huge roaring hearth and spits roasting chickens and racks of lamb.
  • (10) Many pub landlords have seen the commercial benefits of hearty St Piran's Day celebrations and put on themed events.
  • (11) At the world premiere in Norwich, there was hearty applause for the scene where Alan flags down a car outside City Hall and asks to be driven to the nearest police station because "There's a guy with a gun!"
  • (12) The following factors turned out to be statistically significant: irregular meals (less than 3 times a day), living on cold food, the daily use of fried dishes, hurried meals, and hearty supper consisting of three courses.
  • (13) I don’t want to come off ‘clozo’ just because I put weight on, because the drug has changed my life.” The BHF has funded the Hearty Lives Bolsover project to learn how best to tackle these potentially conflicting priorities and to tailor its “healthy hearts” message to people with a mental illness.
  • (14) In voterland there are plenty of straightforward hearty men like Abbott and plenty of women who are married to men like him.
  • (15) Boyle is hearty about her snacks, she has the slightly masculine bearing of the long-term single lady and yet the Nation likes her - it may even love her (in the multimedia sense of that word) and Boyle not only seems quite content with herself, but actually has a remarkable talent of the sort few people associate with plump, cat-owning middle-aged ladies from West Lothian.
  • (16) 4.40pm BST There have been hearty rounds of applause for the substituted Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana, but Southampton are possibly lamenting their failure to make their first-half dominance count for more.
  • (17) A beautiful private garden links the two houses and there are hearty organic breakfasts, too.
  • (18) This is a strange notion: yes, after a nice walk and a hearty meal, why not tuck up with some light reading about Holocaust victims being killed in Banja Luka with hammers and knives?
  • (19) These simple but hearty scones are ideal for any time of day.
  • (20) The school-based program, Hearty Heart and Friends, involved 15 sessions over five weeks in the third grade classrooms.

Quite


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) See Quit.
  • (a.) Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken.
  • (a.) To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
  • (2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
  • (3) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (4) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (5) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (6) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
  • (7) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
  • (8) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
  • (9) Dialyzed crude enzyme extracts from yeast cells were found to destroy diacetyl in a manner quite similar to that of diacetyl reductase from Aerobacter aerogenes, and both the bacterial and the yeast extracts were stimulated significantly by the addition of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH).
  • (10) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
  • (11) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
  • (12) Our findings: (1) both forms, LC1 and LC3, migrate in the two species with rather similar electrophoretic constants (both in terms of pI and Mr); (2) the LC2 forms of rabbit and humans exhibit the same Mr but quite different pI values, the rabbit forms being more acidic; (3) the chain LC2Sb is resolved into two spots in both rabbit and humans.
  • (13) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (14) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (15) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
  • (16) Four patients developed an hypertensive crisis with quite elevated levels of aldosterone, cortisol and plasma renin activity.
  • (17) Stage REM frequently appeared within 10 min of stage 1 onset and the normal sequence of stages REM and 4 were altered, demonstrating that the organization of sleep within a nap is quite different from that in monophasic nocturnal sleep.
  • (18) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
  • (19) Asked whether the 2022 bid should be reopened in the wake of the allegations in the Sunday Times, Cameron said: "There is an inquiry under way, quite rightly, into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022.
  • (20) We believe that this unit is quite safe for clinical use and that it will become a new strong support for non-blood open heart surgery.