What's the difference between jagged and jaggy?

Jagged


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Jag
  • (a.) Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Jags are doing a nice job of showing a 'worst case scenario'.
  • (2) Truth told, I simply hadn't the time to do anything more than snap a bar of expensive chocolate into jagged shards and put it in the middle of the table.
  • (3) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.
  • (4) The turbine housings, which are half-complete, resemble the jagged ramparts of a fort.
  • (5) She told the Jags their actions to improve the military sexual abuse crisis was "not enough" Gillibrand asked Harding which he believed had done their duty in the Aviano case – the jury or the convening authority.
  • (6) Is it a waste of money to spend this fantastic sum on one painting, a canvas depicting a mess of jagged female limbs?
  • (7) Biopsy specimen from deltoid muscle consisted of untypable fibers of varying diameters with jagged Z-lines and increased variability of myofibrillar diameters.
  • (8) The Jags' owner, Shahid Khan, is investing substantial sums of his own money into upgrading Jacksonville's existing stadium , and successful businessmen rarely spend their own cash for no reason.
  • (9) A breakthrough was already looking inevitable and, sure enough, in the seventh minute Bale embarked on another jagged dash down the left.
  • (10) Surfaces with poor cleanability before and after abrasion were characterized by pitting, crevices or jags.
  • (11) On the day of the accident, Simon Lowe, Jagged Globe’s managing director, flew to Kathmandu, on to Lukla, and then made the full day’s trek to her home.
  • (12) When it rains in Bogotá the clouds swallow up the jagged Andean peaks that surround the city.
  • (13) The reduced-quintinomial distribution provides theoretical results that describe the characteristics of the PND's quite well, accounting for the smooth or scalloped behavior of short-counting-time data, the jagged nature of long-counting-time data, and the Poisson-like character of very-short-counting-time data.
  • (14) He lifts his trouser leg to reveal a long, jagged scar on his left ankle.
  • (15) The cells of the stratum corneum are rough, jagged, and contain myriad niches in which bacteria dwell.
  • (16) Jaguars 20-7 Titans The boos are ringing out in Tennessee, where Jordan Todman just took the ball in on a five-yard run to restore the Jags’ two-score advantage.
  • (17) When they lifted them they saw through the tears the smiles of the doubters, their jagged teeth shining through oily jaws.
  • (18) The scenic drive along Bear Lake Road skirts broad meadows full of elk grazing beneath jagged peaks.
  • (19) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
  • (20) Photograph: Alamy While the Westfjords’ main roads (Route 60 and Route 61) provide views along the jagged routes that rise, fall, twist and turn along each fjord, there are also activities to try: kayaking, hiking, cycling.

Jaggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jaggi and Obrist, using an intravenous injection of 133Xe, suggested that the counts detected by an external lung probe could provide an alternative estimate for arterial blood concentration once the noise produced by 133Xe in superficial tissues is removed from the signal.
  • (2) The Glaswegian theologian and part-time comedian Billy Connolly described this as a “jaggy bunnet” .
  • (3) The conditional expression of the v-mos and Ha-ras(EJ) oncogenes in NIH 3T3 cells leads to the accumulation of a 23-kDa protein (p23) (R. Klemenz, S. Hoffmann, R. Jaggi, and A.-K. Werenskiold, Oncogene 4:799-803, 1989).
  • (4) He's kind of scruffily dressed in apres-skate attire, including an uncomfortably jaggy-looking pair of trousers that seem to be made from flour sacks.
  • (5) Survival in both dose regions was assessed by clonogenic assays; the low-dose studies were facilitated by a Cell Analyser (B. Palcic and B. Jaggi, Int.

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