What's the difference between ivory and ivy?

Ivory


Definition:

  • (n.) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
  • (n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
  • (n.) Any carving executed in ivory.
  • (n.) Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
  • (2) Public opposition to the ivory trade has grown, and cooperation between conservationists and local communities has had a dramatic impact.
  • (3) It also hydrolyzes (Man)2-GlcNAc from the urine of an alpha-mannosidosis patient, 1,4-D-mannobiose and mannotriose isolated from ivory nut mannan, 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-L-rhamnose, 6-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-galactose and 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-N-acetylglucosamine.
  • (4) In the present study, serum samples were obtained from 4248 individuals from six West African countries, including Senegal, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast.
  • (5) With all attempts at mediation failing - Gbagbo has repeatedly rejected offers of a "safe and dignified" exit - the African Union reaffirmed its recognition of Ouattara as the rightful leader of Ivory Coast in March.
  • (6) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
  • (7) The Ivory Coast international Sagbo had won the penalty from which Hull scored through Robbie Brady – a decision labelled "incredibly soft" by the Norwich manager, Chris Hughton – but minutes later was sent off after he clashed with Russell Martin.
  • (8) He is with the Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, meaning he may be unavailable until the middle of next month.
  • (9) For example, the DRC reported only six ivory seizures in the past two decades, yet was implicated in 396 seizures made outside of the country.
  • (10) Ivory epiphyses ovvurred more often in children in the lower socio-economic class and children with hemoglobin AA.
  • (11) He'll miss Ivory Coast's final group game against Greece.
  • (12) The report contains damning evidence of the potentially toxic nature of the waste Trafigura dumped in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast .
  • (13) In health car facilities, systems studies are commonly conducted as ivory-tower operations with minimal impact and little practical result.
  • (14) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
  • (15) We’ve seen a mind-boggling 49 goals , compared with 25 at the same stage in 2010 – that's almost double, by my calculations There have been only two draws (six in 2010) A remarkable six teams have come from behind to win (Brazil, Holland, Ivory Coast, Switzerland, Costa Rica and Belgium).
  • (16) Their report includes the results of a survey about the sanitary protection of the children and about the respect of the ideal immunization schedule and recommended in Ivory Coast (39,9% in town and 6,2% in rural area).
  • (17) Consecutive man-of-the-match performances against Greece and Ivory Coast helped Colombia brush aside the lassitude that swamped the country’s World Cup preparations after injury to their talismanic striker Falcao .
  • (18) The analysis of these cases of elliptocytosis allow to draw the following conclusions: the frequency of the hereditary elliptocytosis varies between 0.6 to 1 per cent in Ivory Coast, the functional and structural analysis of spectrin show a high global frequency of the elliptocytosis of Model I in relation with an abnormally of alpha I domain of spectrin, all the cases detected don't give any clinical trouble.
  • (19) And if you want to talk about messages, what kind of message does it send to stockpile ivory like any other valuable commodity?
  • (20) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.

Ivy


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Poison oak, ivy, and sumac dermatitis is a T-cell-mediated reaction against urushiol, the oil found in the leaf of the plants.
  • (2) The results indicated that the induction phase as well as the maintenance phase did not induce a statistically significant hyposensitivity to urushiol, and we were thus unable to decrease sensitivity to poison ivy and poison oak in humans using orally ingested PDC-HDC diacetate.
  • (3) Ivy bleeding time showed a significant prolongation, the median increasing from 240 to 270 seconds.
  • (4) Previous studies in young normal rats have shown that intracerebral administration of the proteinase inhibitor, leupeptin, caused a rapid accumulation of lipofuscin-like pigment in lysosomes of brain cells (Ivy et al., 1984a).
  • (5) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
  • (6) Oxbridge and the Ivy League universities remain the educations of choice for the Indian elite, but the political class now reflects a much more Indian reality.
  • (7) Moreover, compound 9 exhibited tolerogenic properties to sensitization by poison ivy allergens, i.e.
  • (8) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
  • (9) The methods developed were applied to the analysis of the urushiol fractions obtained from different plant parts of poison ivy.
  • (10) After a two-hour show featuring performances from artists including Taylor Swift, Usher and Nicky Minaj, Beyoncé was joined onstage by her beaming husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy.
  • (11) He just wasn’t acting right, he wasn’t being himself and Javier noticed it,” Ivy said.
  • (12) The incorporation of radioactivity from l-[U-(14)C]tyrosine, dl-[beta-(14)C]tyrosine and dl-[U-(14)C]phenylalanine into bean shoots (Phaseolus vulgaris) and dl-[beta-(14)C]tyrosine and l-[Me-(14)C]methionine into ivy leaves (Hedera helix) was also investigated.
  • (13) There were no differences in side effects, postoperative blood loss, plasma activated partial thromboplastin time, or Ivy bleeding time between the groups.
  • (14) The left ventricular function was before evaluated with invasive method and then the IVI% was allowed in every patient.
  • (15) We are sitting in his office on Dartmouth college campus, an Ivy League private university in rural New Hampshire.
  • (16) Further evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis (Ivy et al.
  • (17) The induction of allergic contact dermatitis to urushiols from poison ivy and related plants is generally believed to involve an initial oxidation event by which a protein-reactive quinone is formed.
  • (18) Eruptions caused by poison ivy and related plants are almost always a form of allergic contact dermatitis.
  • (19) Two months later, I am woken up by a nurse called Stefan in the recovery room at IVI Valencia.
  • (20) Bleeding time (modified Ivy's test) and reported side effects did not differ between the two groups.