What's the difference between merry and serry?

Merry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
  • (superl.) Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
  • (superl.) Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.
  • (n.) A kind of wild red cherry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I did a quick survey of friends' and neighbours' families and found 11 young people and three men in their 40s and 50s on this merry-go-round.
  • (2) The grotesque merry-go-round of more people selling fewer overpriced homes is in full swing.
  • (3) On hearing the Rolf Harris verdicts, I felt vengeful, like many, I expect – condemning this man who led the public a merry dance and enjoyed enormous success while perpetrating abuse.
  • (4) Steph Merry, head of marine renewables at the Renewable Energy Association, said last year that only the giant barrage made sense.
  • (5) Interesting that there should be so many applications who are, according to the Merry Hill store, of an “incredibly high” standard, and so soon after graduation.
  • (6) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
  • (7) Banks stopped lending almost overnight, and the Wilsons' property merry-go-round suddently started looking increasingly shaky.
  • (8) Merry Go 'Round was praised by Katy Perry and a song that Musgraves co-wrote, Undermine , was played on the TV series Nashville , shown in the UK on Channel 4.
  • (9) With the private sector now calling the tune on affordable housing, while hiding the score in a locked room, it’s not hard to see why the chief executive of the National Housing Federation, David Orr, recently told his members that developers are “leading local authorities on a merry dance”.
  • (10) Amid all the schadenfreude, it’s worth remembering that two years ago, Arsène Wenger and his merry men were similarly derided after suffering a comical opening day home defeat at the hands of Aston Villa, before going on to win eight and draw one of their next nine league matches.
  • (11) Allowing for the odd lapse – such as his terrible musical version of The Merry Wives of Windsor in 2006 – he has done much fine work.
  • (12) Interviewed about the cuts and the economic outlook on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 on Sunday , Osborne looked grim and statesmanlike in repose – he has grown fleshier in office – but every time he began to speak his dimpled mouth formed a half-smile and his quick eyes were almost merry.
  • (13) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
  • (14) We decided we wanted to offer it to a young asylum seeker.” At the Paris parish of Saint Merry to which and her husband, Philippe, belong, Pépin had heard of the Welcome to France project run by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS).
  • (15) "And going on that IVF merry-go-round with all the drugs and the stress, given the limited return ..." We also need to confront our illusions about having a genetic child if we are going to put so much faith in medical solutions, he adds.
  • (16) The last time he quit, two years ago as general election coordinator, he told Miliband: “After nearly 30 years of this, I feel like I’ve seen the merry-go-round turn too many times.” Unite had hijacked the selection process for the candidate for West Falkirk in favour of Watson’s office manager, Karie Murphy.
  • (17) At 14 she was high jumping 1.80m, she'd broken Katharine Merry's schools record, there was no hiding after that.
  • (18) Outside, a more than faintly surreal urban beach scene in a June downpour: battered garden chairs and tables, dripping merry-go-round horse, Cinderella's pumpkin.
  • (19) Given the attackers have only released a slice of the 100 terabytes of information they claim to have, Sony and its workers are set for a not-so-merry Christmas.
  • (20) Smoke, drink and make merry On the other hand, the British war veteran Henry Allingham had wildly differing advice (though he agrees on the smoking, at least), putting his longevity down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women. "

Serry


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To crowd; to press together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serry was the Netherlands’ first ambassador to Ukraine.
  • (2) Kastelli said he saw no weapons, although a journalist for Britain’s ITN television said Serry told him at least one of the men was armed.
  • (3) He refused but his car couldn’t move, and he decided he would depart (on foot).” Eliasson said Serry felt “seriously threatened,” though he dismissed as false earlier reports that Serry had been kidnapped.
  • (4) The details of the agreement – leaked to the Guardian – and agreed between UN envoy Robert Serry, the Palestinian Authority and Israel, have so far been briefed to only a few senior UN officials.
  • (5) 5.16pm GMT Mates reports that Serry has escaped, after the path of his “car was [temporarily] blocked by protesters chanting Putin Putin.” James Mates (@jamesmatesitv) Robert Serry finally on his way to the airport, police having forced a way through an angry crowd.
  • (6) Hair cells bear an apical bundle of stereocilia arranged in serried rows.
  • (7) Fans who had paid handsomely for their seats – especially those in serried ranks in the colours of their team lined up on either side of the court – showed a curious reluctance to sit in them.
  • (8) Russia can now make the right choice... To find the road to de-escalation, the United States is ready to work with all parties.” Kerry asks Russia to talk directly with Ukraine, to withdraw troops to barracks in Crimea and to respect and welcome international monitors: We see today with what happened to ambassador Serry, just how important it is to ensure the safety of those monitors and of those observers.
  • (9) Robert Serry said v happy to leave # crimea if it helped de escalate the situation.” Updated at 5.31pm GMT 5.14pm GMT UN envoy blockaded inside Crimea shop The UN special envoy to Ukraine, Robert Serry, was blockaded inside a coffee shop in Crimea by a militia, according to ITV Europe editor James Mates, who is in the shop with Serry.
  • (10) He’s asked us to stay with him and keep filming # Ukriane UN special advisor Robert Serry had been visiting navy commander when his car was blocked.
  • (11) 9.30pm GMT Robert Serry, the UN envoy threatened earlier today by a pro-Russia crowd in Crimea, is in Istanbul temporarily but plans to head soon for Kiev, the UN said.
  • (12) Russia!” The envoy, the Dutch diplomat Robert Serry, agreed to leave Crimea to end the standoff.
  • (13) We need a common infrastructure and to utilise cloud memory rather than serried ranks of hard drives.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Unidentified men in military fatigues outside a cafe in Simferopol, Ukraine who appear to be stopping UN envoy Robert Serry from leaving.
  • (15) Let's see whether GPs, a stroppy lot at the best of times, are prepared to take up this burden, and whether funds are found for new serried ranks of GPs to be hired to do the job.
  • (16) Robert Serry, the United Nation's most senior official for the Middle East, told the UN security council on Monday that "the volume of reconstruction will be about three times" what it was after the 2008‑09 Gaza conflict.
  • (17) James Mates (@jamesmatesitv) UN special envoy Robert Serry with me in coffee shop.
  • (18) Bournemouth hounded them with gusto, but found that, even with 10 men, Blackpool are a smart and serried unit.
  • (19) The envoy, the Dutch diplomat Robert Serry, agreed to leave Crimea to end the standoff.
  • (20) Kastelli said the men insisted they should take Serry straight to the airport and out of the country, but Serry refused and eventually left his surrounded vehicle on foot.

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