What's the difference between lightly and wightly?

Lightly


Definition:

  • (adv.) With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.
  • (adv.) Swiftly; nimbly; with agility.
  • (adv.) Without deep impression.
  • (adv.) In a small degree; slightly; not severely.
  • (adv.) With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily.
  • (adv.) Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.
  • (adv.) Commonly; usually.
  • (adv.) Without dejection; cheerfully.
  • (adv.) Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily.
  • (adv.) Not chastely; wantonly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (3) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
  • (4) Light microscopic studies of pancreata from mice sacrificed at this time demonstrated insulitis and beta cell necrosis.
  • (5) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
  • (6) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (7) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
  • (8) This study examined both the effect of variations in optical fiber tip and in light wavelength on laser-induced hyperthermia in rat brain.
  • (9) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (10) A new type of Escherichia coli mutant which shows increased sensitivity to methyl methane sulfonate but not to UV light or to gamma rays was isolated after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine.
  • (11) Approximately 90% of the patients have a lambda light chain myeloma protein and almost all patients excrete Bence-Jones protein.
  • (12) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (13) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
  • (14) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (15) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
  • (16) Photoreactions induced in that proper sensitizer molecules absorb UV-light or visible light.
  • (17) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
  • (18) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
  • (19) These results are discussed in the light of the mode of action of the substances used.
  • (20) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.

Wightly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That was incorrect: for example, the Isle of Wight has never had a female MP.
  • (2) The owners of a wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight won a repossession order today in their attempt to end an occupation of the plant by workers protesting at planned job losses.
  • (3) Total maternal wight gain during gestation was lower for smoke-exposed animals than for non-smoke-exposed animals.
  • (4) Vestas has confirmed the closure of two sites on the Isle of Wight and Southampton with the loss of 425 jobs.
  • (5) Areas topping the league for quality beaches were the Isle of Wight, with two blue flags and 12 QCAs, Torbay, with five blue flags and nine QCAs, and Thanet, which has seven blue flags and four QCAs.
  • (6) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
  • (7) James Armstrong Dorchester • Here on the Isle of Wight, more than 3,000 planning applications have been approved by the council, to reach the island target of 520 houses a year, yet there is little activity on those sites.
  • (8) Domiciliary nebulizer use is evaluated in a well-defined population on the Isle of Wight covering all ages.
  • (9) According to tourist authorities on the Isle of Wight, there has been a “very significant leap” in its website traffic, while Visit East Anglia said its enquiries had risen by a quarter.
  • (10) But in a comparison to a fourth isle of Wight squirrel found dead last year, Simpson and other colleagues report in a letter to the journal that three had the same type of staph A, ST49, which has previously found in human isolates, according to a national database based at Imperial College, London.
  • (11) Sheridan told the court Wight had been one of the NoW's heaviest users of Whittamore, with Wight's name appearing about 70 times in Whittamore's records.
  • (12) Mr Quigley, who lives on the Isle of Wight, says: "I interpreted that as saying, 'Look for another bank account'.
  • (13) It was Wight who later provided a link to Astor, Davie's second and principal mentor.
  • (14) However, Britain currently has no commercial-scale wind turbine manufacturing plants, following the closure of the Vestas plant on the Isle of Wight last year.
  • (15) The company said that 40 employees had been found new roles within the Vestas research and development facility on the Isle of Wight.
  • (16) The setback follows the decision by the leading turbine maker Vestas to shut its Isle of Wight turbine factory this summer, just days after the government promised a clean-tech job revolution.
  • (17) David Wolfe QC, for the trust, claimed the two culls would involve killing an estimated 3,400 badgers in each area – each approximately the size of the Isle of Wight – and the long-term intention was to issue licences for up to 10 culls each year.
  • (18) I think she is the oldest person in the world to have a hip operation, and the surgeon, Jason Millington, and the anaesthetist were both courageous to take the decision to operate on someone of that age, but the operation went splendidly.” Hermiston said his mother, from Ryde, Isle of Wight, was recovering well after the operation last Friday.
  • (19) Since 1982, in the Isle of Wight hospitals, 13 cases of splenic injury following trauma have been treated applying various salvage procedures and are reported here.
  • (20) Julian Critchley: ‘Michael Gove radicalised me’ A civil servant in the Department for Education before training to be a teacher 12 years ago, Critchley last year left his job as head of history at a south London comprehensive to move to the Isle of Wight.

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