What's the difference between jersey and shirt?

Jersey


Definition:

  • (n.) The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.
  • (n.) A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).
  • (n.) One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (2) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (3) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
  • (4) Monoclonal antibodies to two epitopes reversed the inhibitory effect of M protein on in vitro transcription of VSV-New Jersey ribonucleoprotein.
  • (5) "I live in New Jersey and haven't been back to Egypt for 20 years, but I came today because we had promises from the military council and those promises were broken.
  • (6) The findings suggest a genetic kinship among the Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, and Jersey, on the one hand, and between the Holstein and Guernsey, on the other.
  • (7) A letter released on Friday by a lawyer for Wildstein, who ordered the closures on the busy George Washington bridge linking New Jersey to Manhattan, said evidence existed suggesting the governor knew about last year's closures as they happened.
  • (8) The woman said it took her until the mid-1990s to pluck up the courage to report the abuse to Jersey's children's services department – and that her allegations were not taken seriously enough.
  • (9) Ventilatory function was measured twice daily on 46 healthy children aged 8-14 years on at least 7 days for each child during a 4-week period at a northwestern New Jersey residential summer camp in 1988.
  • (10) The structural lesion in the temperature-sensitive mutant E1 of the New Jersey serotype of vesicular stomatitis virus has been assigned to the NS protein.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Device explodes in New Jersey as robot attempts to disarm He said the chicken store had faced complaints and problems in 2012, when the city council and police ruled that it should close at 10pm.
  • (12) Sixteen focus groups were conducted with a total of 134 women recruited from drug treatment centers and community agencies in three Northern New Jersey cities.
  • (13) The overall New Jersey cancer mortality significantly (P less than 0.0005) exceeded national rates for ovarian cancer among whites and nonwhites and for breast cancer among whites.
  • (14) They will begin next week at Liberty airport in Newark, New Jersey; Dulles, outside Washington DC; Chicago O’Hare, and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.
  • (15) The burned epidermis was removed and each burn wound was assigned to one of the following treatment groups: (1) air-exposed, (2) DuoDERM (hydrocolloid dressing; Squibb Co., New Jersey), (3) Opsite (polyurethane dressing; Smith & Nephew, New Jersey), or (4) experimental cream.
  • (16) To assess the role of alcohol and alcoholism in motor vehicle and other accidental deaths, New Jersey State Medical Examiner cases from Essex County aged 16 or older during a 4-year period, October 1981 to September 1985, were analyzed.
  • (17) New Jersey environmentalists credit Jackson with prodding Governor Jon Corzine to adopt environmentally friendly policies.
  • (18) Jersey City police department corporal Phil Ferraino, 46, was leaving the ceremony in his dress uniform.
  • (19) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
  • (20) There is an anticipation he will come to the US but we don’t know what jersey will he will be wearing, “ said the former French international.

Shirt


Definition:

  • (n.) A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by men and boys.
  • (v. t. & i.) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (2) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (3) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (4) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
  • (5) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
  • (6) Congolese civilians are being beaten, threatened and arrested for wearing the T-shirts of opposition candidates, raising the prospect of bloodshed during this month's elections, the UN has warned.
  • (7) André de Magalhães Gomes said he had always previously backed the Seleção (Brazilian team) but today he joined the demonstration wearing an Argentina shirt.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
  • (9) The best scenario used in the new YATR strip each Sunday wins a shirt to the value of £50 from Kitbag .
  • (10) Local men taking a stand against sexual violence – the "V-men" (after Ensler's feminist V-Day movement) – make themselves visible with special T-shirts.
  • (11) The 27-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Emirates – he will wear the No23 shirt at the club – though confirmation that the deal had been ratified by the Premier League did not come until just before 5pm tonight.
  • (12) The promise of exclusive photos and an "official chatroom" doesn't exactly set our world alight – but White is also promising subscribers four 7" records, four 12" records and four new T-shirts a year.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An activist sprays T-shirts during a training protest organised by NoG20 Rhein-Main.
  • (14) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
  • (15) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (16) Some women attended the protest wearing jeans and T-shirts, while others took the mission of reclaiming the word "slut" – one of the stated objectives of the movement – more literally and turned out in overtly provocative fishnets and stilettos.
  • (17) Or the checked shirt of the “hipster Labor lawyer”, as the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, described him.
  • (18) "We're trying to get Sting to wear a Pussy Riot T-shirt at his concert tonight," he'd told me the day before.
  • (19) Sadly, there was probably no other way to get rid of Tantawi as minister without Morsi losing his shirt (or his head.
  • (20) He would shower his fans with red roses at his concerts, he told the court, and give them jackets, T-shirts and other gifts.