What's the difference between mot and witty?

Mot


Definition:

  • (Sing. pres. ind.) of Mot
  • (pl.) of Mot
  • (v.) May; must; might.
  • (n.) A word; hence, a motto; a device.
  • (n.) A pithy or witty saying; a witticism.
  • (n.) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After administration of 1 mu g of choleragen, lymphocytopenia was mot marked at 24 hr; recovery occurred 6 to 10 days later.
  • (2) The findings of the present investigation suggest that measurement of PRL serum levels in MOT-test could be of value in early diagnosis of Sheehan syndrome.
  • (3) With current immunosuppressive protocols MOTS projects 1-year patient survival rates of 95% after kidney transplantation, 88% after heart transplantation and 81% after liver transplantation.
  • (4) Rats receiving an isogeneic multiorgan transplant (MOT) survived more than 150 days.
  • (5) It is also of interest to note that the tumour was mot able to penetrate those areas where the cellulose acetate filter was present.
  • (6) This was mot marked in the older age groups and the patients with malignant disease.
  • (7) The proteins essential for energizing the motor, the Mot and switch proteins, are thought to exist as multisubunit complexes peripheral to the basal body.
  • (8) The Tn10 insertions in strain LT-2 were mapped to loci in regions II (flh and mot) and III (fli) of the flagellar genes, and the mutations were transduced into the mouse-virulent S. typhimurium strains SR-11 and SL1344.
  • (9) The distribution of Fla, Mot, and Che mutational sites within each gene was examined.
  • (10) Genetic analysis by phiCr30-mediated transduction revealed 27 linkage groups for the fla and stub-forming mutations, and three linkage groups for the mot mutations.
  • (11) Sweden is almost unique in that its government through its foreign office gave financial support to a carefully thought out proposal from Svenska Läkare Mot Kärnvapen (Swedish Physicians against Nuclear Weapons) for a youth education project on the nuclear issue.
  • (12) The nonmotile (mot::Tn10) mutants reacted with H-specific antisera and expressed paralyzed flagella that were indistinguishable from wild-type flagella.
  • (13) He’s seemingly supportive of every Gove policy, and comes up with bone-headed initiatives of his own – teacher MOTs and Hippocratic oaths being the most worrying.
  • (14) Updated at 8.32am BST 7.58am BST Kicking the MOT's tires Mario Draghi's bond-buying scheme is rumoured to be called the “monetary outright transactions” * plan.
  • (15) Fla sites were fairly broadly distributed, whereas Mot and Che sites were more narrowly defined.
  • (16) Some recovery specialists offer membership benefits and special vouchers, such as half price MOTs for new and existing members.
  • (17) An exception to this general pattern is assembly of the Mot proteins into the motor, which appears to be possible at any time during flagellar assembly.
  • (18) If the mot juste was always a priority – "I suppose we all have our foibles.
  • (19) The mucous secretion is not affected, whereas, in correlation with changes in salt secretion, the change in ATPase activity is mot conspicuous.
  • (20) On every page, someone, somehow has replaced every queasy showbiz bon mot with those two common nouns.

Witty


Definition:

  • (n.) Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning.
  • (n.) Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
  • (2) That merriment is not just tankards and quaintness and mimsy Morris dancing, but a witty, angry and tender fire at the centre of Englishness.
  • (3) Witty's comments came as GSK unveiled lower first half sales and profits, and a further £500m of cost cuts by the end of 2015.
  • (4) We encourage people to speak up if they have concerns" #gsk July 24, 2013 12.29pm BST Witty says this investigation is "quite different" to the whistleblower claims the company recently investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
  • (5) Pauline Kael, when reviewing the film, said, "Jane Fonda has been a charming, witty, nudie cutie in recent years, and now gets a chance at an archetypal character.
  • (6) His works are witty rather than wise, pacey not profound.
  • (7) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
  • (8) While researching his forthcoming book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps , Brotton sometimes brought up the "one-to-one map" idea, from Borges and Carroll, with people at Google, but they didn't find it particularly witty or intriguing.
  • (9) But I do try to find the good in everybody," Parton says perkily, and later proves it by describing Sylvester Stallone – her co-star in the deservedly little-seen 1984 film Rhinestone – as "just a nut, but so witty!".
  • (10) Best known in this country as the author of a large number of witty and provocative books - and as the Reith lecturer in 1966 - Galbraith was professor of economics at Harvard University from 1949 until his retirement in 1975, but was equally well known in the US as a distinguished civil servant and longtime, tireless adviser and campaigner for liberal Democrats and their causes.
  • (11) Critics who saw Budapest at the Berlin film festival, where it premiered this month, have called it "vibrant and imaginative" , "nimblefooted, witty" , and as a sucker for Anderson's stuff since his early days, I'd agree.
  • (12) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.
  • (13) Witty backed the prime minister’s efforts to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership.
  • (14) In an interview with the Observer , Witty said: "While the chief executive of the company could move, maybe the top 20 directors could move, what about the 16,000 people who work for us?
  • (15) And, in any case, Preston is obviously bright and witty and engaging.
  • (16) There is something very Avaazian about the crisistunity, I come to think, in that it's borrowed something slick and witty from popular culture and re-purposed it for something which used to be called the Greater Good.
  • (17) Sometimes, when stood by the bar, caught in the witty back-and-forth between two strange men, it feels like you're out in bad weather without a hat.
  • (18) Scottish Ballet: The Nutcracker In recent years, Christmas at Scottish Ballet has been defined by Ashley Page’s witty, acerbic re-writes of the 19th century classics.
  • (19) Seen as a warm and witty liberal, he founded the parliamentary bicycle pool and has earned the moniker the "bicycling baronet" (the Youngs featured on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bicycles by rail in 1982).
  • (20) Witty was optimistic that “ultimately there are going to be some pragmatic decisions made” that would ensure companies were able to attract global talent.

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