What's the difference between jagged and tattered?

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.

Tattered


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Tatter

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But over-promising has left him in a worse position with all three than he was in before, and with his credibility in tatters.
  • (2) The Guardian witnessed one desperate vignette in Gevgeliya on Saturday: a Syrian woman in her 40s asking a fellow traveller for money to buy shoes as hers were in tatters.
  • (3) Barack Obama's policy of engagement with North Korea lies "in tatters" after it was effectively shot down by Pynongyang's defiant but failed attempt to launch a long-range rocket.
  • (4) George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, said: "This is hugely significant, as it completely vindicates the big decision taken by David Cameron and myself on the economy, and it leaves Gordon Brown's political plans for the G20 and the budget in tatters."
  • (5) An attempt by George Osborne to besmirch the reputation of Ed Balls by linking him directly to the Libor-fixing scandal lay in tatters on Monday night after the Bank of England cleared the shadow chancellor .
  • (6) The violence has left in tatters a 2013 ceasefire aimed at allowing a final peace deal to end the PKK’s three-decade insurgency, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
  • (7) Matthew Pennycook is MP for Greenwich and Woolwich Louise Haigh: ‘Bringing down Corbyn would be an act of betrayal’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Louise Haigh New Labour was a response to a Tory party in tatters, besieged by scandal, its fiscal credibility in ruins, tired and out of ideas.
  • (8) Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.
  • (9) The US has warned it could level “serious sanctions” on Russia within days over breaches of Ukraine’s truce, which is in tatters despite pro-Moscow rebels and government forces exchanging scores of prisoners.
  • (10) Even if you don't get the gag on the way in – the doormen wear tattered clothes – then the penny drops when you enter the L-shaped, 200-capacity basement and see the satirical murals spoofing Manhattan's high-society swells.
  • (11) Even her own colleagues are saying her net migration target is in tatters.
  • (12) He had taken from YuzuÞ the tattered evidence of my walk across South Asia and was examining it: the clipping from the newspaper in western Nepal, 'Mr Stewart is a pilgrim for peace'; the letter from the Conservator, Second Circle, Forestry Department, Himachal Pradesh, India: 'Mr Stewart, a Scot, is interested in the environment'; from a District OfÞcer in the Punjab and a Secretary of the Interior in a Himalayan state and a Chief Engineer of the Pakistan Department of Irrigation requesting 'All Executive Engineers (XENs) on the Lower Bari Doab to assist Mr Stewart, who will be undertaking a journey on foot to research the history of the canal system'.
  • (13) He accomplished a few, mainly social reforms – but he leaves a country on edge, and a left in tatters.
  • (14) He’s also received a legal notice telling him a court judgment had been entered against him, and his credit file was left in tatters, leaving his plans to build an extension hanging in the balance.
  • (15) As Scotland Yard surveys the tatters of the Morgan case the picture has become not clearer but more opaque.
  • (16) The sudden switch by Yanukovych following weeks of brinkmanship left European policy towards the post-Soviet states to its east in tatters.
  • (17) The opposition is in tatters and divided on how to confront this implacable force.
  • (18) Awet clutches a tattered Norwegian identity card as he talks.
  • (19) She arrived, shoved her pager at me and a tattered piece of paper with about 12 names on it.
  • (20) The chancellor's forecasts of £43bn of borrowing this year are in tatters and some experts have warned that debt could balloon to £120bn in three years.