What's the difference between lilt and lily?

Lilt


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.
  • (v. i.) To sing cheerfully.
  • (v. t.) To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
  • (n.) Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
  • (n.) A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All O157 serogroup isolates (n = 9) were hemolytic, and 89% (8 of 9) were LILT positive.
  • (2) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
  • (3) During this performance Gaga will perform the title track from her forthcoming album ARTPOP and utter a line that sums up everything her fans love about her and her critics detest: "My art-pop could mean anything," she coos over a lilting electronic throb.
  • (4) The culture secretary's tone was softer than usual, devoid of lilt.
  • (5) With less demand for big-screen expressions of either cathartic angst or romantic wish-fulfilment, we have instead witnessed a kind of gay cinematic present-mindedness in small-scale, naturalistic, bittersweet titles such as Weekend , Keep the Lights On and I Want Your Love ; and a willingness to explore grief, so often deferred through the years of struggle, in the likes of Last Address , Tom at the Farm and Lilting , a forthcoming feature starring Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning obliged to deal with his late partner's mother.
  • (6) With his black cowboy boots and a lilting accent that seems to hint at the South, he looks an unlikely visionary for urban Detroit as he describes vegetable plots, fields and greenhouses, all the while wielding a hefty stick to keep away stray dogs and looking at burnt-out houses sometimes used as crack dens.
  • (7) It was with the appearance of the retired merchant navy man Norman, however, with his lilting Scottish accent and homemade "skateboard" presentation platter (it must be seen to be believed) that an entire nation fell in love.
  • (8) The children and the quartet, as a small chamber orchestra, play a lilting performance of "Autumn", 13 Stations of the Cross as backdrop.
  • (9) The opening film will be the European premiere of Hong Khaou's Lilting , which stars Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning for the death of his lover Kai.
  • (10) Sitting in the bar beforehand, Kate is dressed in Adidas tracksuit and trainers, every word she says doused in her south London lilt.
  • (11) Our common enemies remain economy-trashing financiers and poverty-paying bosses, whether they speak in an Edinburgh lilt or with the Queen’s English.
  • (12) Howson briefly joins us, sinking into a chair in the corner and addressing my questions in an undemonstrative West Yorkshire lilt.
  • (13) As am I. I could spend the rest of this piece delighting you with the wonders of the People's Republic of Cork – our smiling, clever, children, gentle lilting voices, our rolling hills but I'm going to assume you already know all this.
  • (14) The voice is strong, with a vaguely mid-western lilt.
  • (15) It's a beautiful voice with its educated, New England lilt of a kind that barely exists anymore.
  • (16) Songs, such as Gil's anthem Domingo no Parque (Sunday in the Park), had a lilting nonchalance, lent by the bossa nova style (a mix of African-Brazilian samba and cool jazz) they had inherited - and superseded.
  • (17) • I Am Divine is out on 18 July, Lilting is out on 8 August, and Pride is out on 12 September.
  • (18) While the video is kind of dull, the song is another quietly arresting slither of emotional pop, De la Torre’s hushed vocal sighing its way through a chorus of: “All I wanted was a man to be true, but that isn’t you.” Subtler and more refined than a lot of pop music at the moment, it even ends with a lilting whistling solo – and there simply aren’t enough of those.
  • (19) Twenty-seven nonhemolytic isolates were tested for enterotoxigenicity; of these, 45% (12) were LILT positive.
  • (20) Of all hemolytic isolates tested, 59% (10 of 17) were LILT positive.

Lily


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.
  • (n.) A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc.
  • (n.) That end of a compass needle which should point to the north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between having Lily and promoting Fish Tank, Jarvis has done a lot of growing up in the past year.
  • (2) An area on top of a hill near to the spot where Sharon was laid to rest alongside his late wife, Lily, was penned off with crash barriers.
  • (3) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
  • (4) The launch of the streaming service Tidal has been met with criticism from artists such as Lily Allen, Mumford & Sons and producer Steve Albini.
  • (5) Lily Allen has been pictured vaping, as has Cara Delevingne .
  • (6) I learned quickly I was very vulnerable': Lily Allen with her husband Sam Cooper.
  • (7) Lily Caprani, deputy executive director at Unicef UK, called the result “hugely disappointing” and said the loss of legal schemes made children more vulnerable to traffickers.
  • (8) Politicians across all parties need to do more to engage the young voters of the future, because ensuring that their voices are heard and that their needs are central to manifestos is vital for a fair and progressive society.” Play Video 1:32 Jeremy Corbyn appears at music festival at Tranmere Rovers ground – video Numerous celebrities including Lily Allen, Stephen Hawking, Brian May, Steve Coogan, Danny DeVito, Liam Gallagher, Ricky Gervais, David Gilmour, Mark Ruffallo, and Rag’n’Bone Man endorsed Corbyn in the course of the election.
  • (9) It reminds us of what our relatives went through.” The schoolteacher: Lili Mastichiadou, 58 Like many in her country, Mastichiadou has been appalled by the tragedy lapping at Greece’s shores.
  • (10) Ironically, it was only after she died that he and Linda were granted the council flat Lily had fought for unsuccessfully for 17 years.
  • (11) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
  • (12) It's like what happened to Lily [Allen] when she got famous..." For three years Enfield lived with Allen's mother, Alison Owen, and became "common-law step dad" to her children.
  • (13) With the exception of the subgenera Korolkowi, a supposed link between lilies and fritillaries, and chromsome complements of all plants contained bands.
  • (14) Out of Little Mix, Amelia Lily and Marcus Collins, who does she think will win?
  • (15) Lily Cole and Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales at the launch of Web Index in London last year.
  • (16) This suggests an involvement of a calmodulin-dependent Ca2+ pump in generation of the Ca2+ gradient in lily pollen tubes.
  • (17) Underlying Echinococcus infection was suspected when repeat radiology of his chest showed a water lily sign, and this diagnosis was confirmed at thoracotomy.
  • (18) How different might Lily, might pop music be, today?
  • (19) But they were not tired-and-emotional, and for such mannerly foreigners to have been given a practical definition of that local idiom would have been gilding the lily.
  • (20) It is said that Bach’s lily-livered reluctance to push for a ban stems not only from his own close relationship with Vladimir Putin – those pictures of them clinking champagne glasses like newlyweds or whooping it up with other authoritarian leaders at opening ceremonies in Sochi and Baku threaten to define him – but from his own experiences as an athlete.