What's the difference between leafy and leavy?

Leafy


Definition:

  • (superl) Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.
  • (superl) Consisting of leaves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Just drink it straight away, rather than storing it in the fridge, and bear in mind "they're not as good at juicing leafy greens, so you'll need to juice more to get the same volume."
  • (2) Reproducibility of placing a dietary factor into a particular quintile of consumption was good for most foods, but it was lowest for cruciferous and leafy green vegetables.
  • (3) Meanwhile, what amounts to a centrally imposed freeze on council tax rises means owners of homes in the leafy suburbs are paying not a penny more.
  • (4) This week, nearly 200 people gathered around a backyard pool in Bedford, New Hampshire, a leafy and well-to-do suburb of Manchester.
  • (5) Growth rate, nitrogen balance, skeletal muscle nitrogen fractions and in vivo intestinal absorption of D-galactose (2 mM) and L-leucine (20 mM) have been measured in male growing rats (90-100 g initial body weight) fed 12% protein diets containing either casein (control) or the raw leafy legume Chamaecytisus proliferus L. (Western Canary Islands).
  • (6) From one, a patient can look out over a quiet valley in Somerset, from the other, leafy southern Birmingham and the Clee Hills beyond.
  • (7) Instead it runs through university faculties and the leafy suburbs of north Tehran where Iran's academic elite make their homes.
  • (8) SEM observations showed the lyophilised plug structure of rapidly frozen material consisted of a fine amorphous meshwork, while material frozen slowly consisted of a leafy amorphous material.
  • (9) Choices have consequences and austerity is not good at hiding them: be it the children in the communities where low pay and benefit cuts have pushed more than half into poverty , or food bank signs among leafy, red-brick mansions .
  • (10) There were Francis Ford Coppola and Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom and Steven Seagal, Sophia Loren and Dionne Warwick, all gathered in the leafy heights of southern Moscow for a charity gala like no other: this charity does not dispense its largesse.
  • (11) The main source of fluoride intake was from beer and green leafy vegetables.
  • (12) The average value of Tb obtained by the experiments at the dough and yellow ripe stages was about 200 d. This value is considerably larger than those for pasture grass and leafy vegetables.
  • (13) It's a glorious spring afternoon in south London's leafy Richmond and we are lounging in sunlight in an old-fashioned hotel bar.
  • (14) Dr Anurag Bishnoi runs a private clinic in the leafy back streets of Hisar.
  • (15) No need to seek some hard-pressed spot, just look at leafy, luxuriant Surrey.
  • (16) These included preference for consuming drinks or soups at high temperature (AR = 14%), infrequent consumption of green leafy vegetables (AR = 15%) and citrus fruits (AR = 26%), ingestion of pickled vegetables (AR = 29%), tobacco smoking (AR = 44%), and alcohol drinking (AR = 48%).
  • (17) We climb past a leafy clearing full of bee hives, then we’re into the woods, scrambling upwards to clifftop views over the shining sea.
  • (18) He was born in the leafy Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym to David Norfolk and Gill Garrett.
  • (19) The same charge could easily have been made against not only the socialism of the Webbs but also that of Marx and Engels – who lived near these leafy lanes – or more recently of the Hampstead salons for the fellow travellers of Eric Hobsbawm or Ralph Miliband or Michael Foot.
  • (20) Doubles from £56, B&B Hotel Solar das Águas Cantantes, Ubatuba, São Paulo Set in verdant grounds on a winding stretch of coast and backed by postcard-perfect peaks, this colonial affair offers 20 austere rooms wrapped around a leafy courtyard.

Leavy


Definition:

  • (a.) Leafy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A follower of FR Leavis by intellectual affiliation, he had little time for "theory".
  • (2) Influx and efflux of 45Ca++ ions in Xenopus leavis isolated full-grown oocytes were measured.
  • (3) Annan had little difficulty in pointing to the contradictions and inadequacies of Leavis's arguments and denouncing him as callous and dismissive.
  • (4) Perhaps Michael Winner should have made a film about the Goncourt Brothers casting FR Leavis, his fellow member of Downing College, Cambridge, as Flaubert.
  • (5) In 1948, the cantankerous but influential scholar FR Leavis crowned Austen mother of his great tradition of the English novel.
  • (6) 116, 269-272; Wang, C.-L. A., Aquaron, R. R., Leavis, P. C., and Gergely, J.
  • (7) One of his best known and most successful plays, The Common Pursuit (1984) - revived this year in London - took its title from Leavis's famous book.
  • (8) In an analogous study on the binary complex of TnC and TnI [Leszyk, J., Collins, J. H., Leavis, P. C., & Tao, T. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 7042-7047], we previously showed that Cys-98 of TnC was cross-linked mainly to CN4, the "inhibitory region", of TnI.
  • (9) Aeromonas hydrophila caused severe disease in a group of 50 Xenopus leavis three weeks after being transferred from their laboratory conditions.
  • (10) Outside his office was another of Leavis's hates, Jeremy Bentham, whose clothed skeleton occupies a box.
  • (11) The amino acid sequence showed marked homology with the reported partial sequence of Xenopus leavis ribosomal protein L32, but not significant homology with Escherichia coli ribosomal proteins that bind to tRNA.
  • (12) It was here (as well as over CP Snow's ideas of the two cultures, the scientist and the humanist) that he came into conflict with FR Leavis (and his wife, QD Leavis).
  • (13) Translation of the same RNA in Xenopus leavis oocytes revealed a lectin polypeptide which was about 2 kDa smaller than the in vitro synthesized precursor, suggesting that the oocyte system had removed a 2-kDa signal peptide.
  • (14) This became a classic antagonism, with Leavis denouncing Annan as a key member of the establishment and ridiculing him because he supposedly thought of a university as an industrial plant, for ever humming away in ceaseless training of the hapless young.
  • (15) He once wrote, "all public controversy is dispiriting; controversy with Dr Leavis is degrading".
  • (16) From the Convent of Our Lady of Sion school, Notting Hill, west London, Bernardine went to Newnham College, Cambridge, where her lecturers in English included CS Lewis , EM Forster and FR Leavis .
  • (17) Sir Walter Scott was another new passion, and the poem "Diehard" is about him, a kind of essay-poem, describing Scott himself in amusing and touching episodes and digressions, and also paying tribute to him as a novelist in a challenge to critics such as Leavis ("Who now reads Anne of Geierstein?
  • (18) Our earlier kinetic studies [Wang, C.-L. A., Leavis, P. C. & Gergely, J.
  • (19) In Cambridge, Leavis and others had attacked him for being at the centre of the supposed Bloomsbury-King's cult (King's had been described as Bloomsbury-on-Cam) and now Annan was within a few hundred yards of Bloomsbury Square and his new college occupied many houses where the Bloomsbury set used to live in Gordon Square, and where Maynard Keynes's widow was still to be seen walking her dog in the mornings.
  • (20) Previously, we showed that Cys-98 of TnC can be cross-linked via BP-Mal to TnI residues 103-110 (Leszyk, J., Collins, J.H., Leavis, P.C., and Tao, T. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 7042-7047).

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