What's the difference between linger and tarry?

Linger


Definition:

  • (a.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
  • (v. t.) To protract; to draw out.
  • (v. t.) To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Play Video 6:52 Prime minister Theresa May calls general election for 8 June – full video statement If May wins a large Commons majority, the lingering hope that Britain will change its mind will be dashed.
  • (2) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
  • (3) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
  • (4) But in the minds of many Israelis, they continue to linger.
  • (5) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.
  • (6) So our lingering affection for the cross is entirely symbolic.
  • (7) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
  • (8) And that has more lingering, long-term consequences for the public finances.
  • (9) The exception actually lies with those who have had Ebola and recovered: studies suggest the virus can linger in semen for up to three months after recovery – so you may wish to think twice before having sex.
  • (10) Despite a lingering belief that they could have "gone in" with Labour if they had wanted to, the Lib Dems decided to abide responsibly by the logic of FPTP, and form a government that nobody had voted for at all.
  • (11) Olivier Blanchard, IMF director of research, said: “New factors supporting growth – lower oil prices, but also depreciation of euro and yen – are more than offset by persistent negative forces, including the lingering legacies of the crisis and lower potential growth in many countries”.
  • (12) But he will surely need help from elsewhere if Argentina are to linger deep into this competition.
  • (13) Our method of testing detects no lingering or permanent change after a single concussion.
  • (14) The study, aimed at examining lingering problems of veterans returning from both conflicts, also called into question a Defense Department policy which bans restricting access to private weapons "even if a service member is at risk from suicide".
  • (15) Between the 10-year projection of a half million FTE nursing shortage, astronomical medical care costs and a lingering recession, nursing administrators have no option but to make difficult choices in resource allocation.
  • (16) There may be lingering doubts over whether Meryl Streep , Viola Davis or outside bet Rooney Mara will claim the Academy Award for best actress later this month, and no-one is absolutely certain if Jean Dujardin , George Clooney or Gary Oldman will be picking up the equivalent male gong at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
  • (17) Her wonderful shop will remain open, and her presence will linger there as long as it does.
  • (18) Photograph: Courtesy of the family It’s been over a month since Fátima Avelica watched Ice agents, wearing uniforms stamped “POLICE”, handcuff and arrest her father, and the pain of that moment still lingers.
  • (19) Numbers showing weak wage growth as inflation edges up will provide traction for Labour's election campaign around lingering cost-of-living crisis.
  • (20) Writing in the Guardian , Mikhail Prokhorov, 46, said Russia was "undergoing a true awakening" – while warning of a lingering threat of violence as opposition leaders plan a new mass demonstration against the rule of Putin, the prime minister, on 4 February.

Tarry


Definition:

  • (n.) Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
  • (v. i.) To stay or remain behind; to wait.
  • (v. i.) To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.
  • (v. i.) To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
  • (v. t.) To delay; to defer; to put off.
  • (v. t.) To wait for; to stay or stop for.
  • (n.) Stay; stop; delay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the next 8 months, she repeated abdominal pain, tarry stool and subcutaneous hemorrhage for three times and after an angiography large hematoma at puncture site appeared.
  • (2) Initially, the steer passed tarry feces for 2 days, but no feces were passed for 4 days before examination.
  • (3) Endoscopic examination of a 35-year-old patient complaining of tarry stool, palpitation and lumbago led to a diagnosis of gastric cancer of Borrmann type 4.
  • (4) Uncommon also is the tarrying behaviour of nephropathy.
  • (5) They waited, swaying like new calves, still wet from their tarry sacs, swinging umbrella-sized cranes.
  • (6) Many authors have reported that urological anomalies associate commonly with this syndrome, but recently a new concept of this syndrome was proposed by Tarry and associates.
  • (7) Postoperatively, tarry stool was passed, for which she received an examination at the department of internal medicine.
  • (8) With single (35 patients) and five-consecutive-day (36 patients) administration, the dose-limiting factor was found to be tarry stool, remarkable decrease in hemoglobin content, and strong nipple and breast pain.
  • (9) Tarry a minute on Prince, before we get on to the commissioning splice that led to two different organisations being paid for this stewarding, while some stewards themselves got paid with a bag of wet carbohydrate.
  • (10) A 45 day old boy presented with progressive abdominal distension, tarry stools and anemia.
  • (11) Its chief executive, Stewart Wingate, said: “A low-cost carrier flying to the Big Apple for a small price shows how fast aviation is changing and highlights one of a series of future trends that will have a huge bearing on the UK’s runways debate.” The airport unveiled a new report by independent aviation consultant Chris Tarry, which set out how the latest generation of aircraft could affect London airport expansion, with a fuel economy, size and range that lowers the need for connecting passengers and opens up the development of low-cost long-haul services.
  • (12) A 61-year-old man with weight loss, malaise, and tarry stool demonstrated diffuse lymphoma, large-cell type, and two early gastric carcinomas.
  • (13) The second case is a 40-year-old man who developed tarry stools 5 days after renal transplantation.
  • (14) The cohort was studied because employment in some of the plants had been linked to malignant and nonmalignant skin lesions attributed to exposure to tarry by-products.
  • (15) At one point in this first volume, Twain observes that man is loving and loveable to his own, but "otherwise the buzzing, busy, trivial enemy of his race – who tarries his little day, does his little dirt, commends himself to God, and then goes out into the darkness, to return no more, and send no messages back – selfish even in death".
  • (16) In December, 1986, repeated tarry stool was noted, and he was readmitted to hospital on January, 28, 1987, because of severe anemia.
  • (17) Sometimes, when I've missed the football by choosing to tarry in the pub, I discover that I don't need the English subtitles at all and can understand perfectly what lovely Birgitte is saying in her native Danish.
  • (18) Reported is the case of a 57-year-old male patient, who manifested tarry stool and who had undergone a subtotal gastrectomy at our hospital in 1983 for an early carcinoma, type IIc, which proved to be a well differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma.
  • (19) On twenty-one months after discharge, the patient noticed left leg pain and tarry stool, and was referred to our hospital.
  • (20) A 65-year-old male was admitted complaining of tarry stool and angina.