What's the difference between nancy and nanny?

Nancy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On December 14, 1990, the gastrostomy tube which had kept Nancy alive since the accident was removed and she died 11 days later.
  • (2) Earlier this month, a private funeral took place for Nancy Lanza, the gunman's mother and the first of his 27 victims.
  • (3) Nancy Davis was a middle-ranking film actor in her 20s when she received her initial introduction to Reagan, having already told a friend that he was top of her list of Hollywood’s eligible bachelors.
  • (4) The Democratic committee leader Diane Feinstein joined the House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, in defending the much-needed infrastructure project as a “good deal for taxpayers”.
  • (5) Nancy Curtin, the chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management said: "The US economy didn't just grind to a halt in the first quarter – it hit reverse as the polar vortex took its toll.
  • (6) Nancy Reagan was totally devoted to President Reagan, and we take comfort that they will be reunited once more,” said Barbara Bush, wife of Reagan’s vice-president and successor, in a statement.
  • (7) The result is worthy of comparison to the winsome Americana that Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra put out in the late 60s.
  • (8) This paper describes the food behavior of 495 adolescents (15-19 years old) sample living in Nancy (France).
  • (9) Fewer candidates are at present generally available for the role of NANCI transmitter(s), with VIP and ATP being leading contenders.
  • (10) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
  • (11) The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said a Tobin tax was "not a priority" but she did not rule it out, saying simply that the US could not act single-handedly: "We couldn't do it alone, we'd have to do it as an international initiative."
  • (12) There was no way I could have known things would play out like they did.” There was a time, Nancy admits, when living at Foxcatcher was: “wonderful, beautiful.
  • (13) Secretory ameloblasts synthesize the organic matrix of enamel and secrete it at two distinct "putative secretory sites" characterized by membrane infoldings (Nanci and Warshawsky, 1984a).
  • (14) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
  • (15) 5.38pm GMT Here's video of Nancy Pelosi taking down jejune Luke Russert on the question of her age earlier today.
  • (16) I go, I have no wish to make a scene, but disloyalty, much, Govey will never forgive you, you do know we have replaced your neon with one of Nancy's pastels?
  • (17) Twenty years on, such directness may have lost some of its shock value, but Nancy Carroll, who plays Anna in the new production, doesn’t see this as a bad thing: “[The internet scene and a strip club scene] at the time took people’s breath away.
  • (18) Nancy Whiskin has managed a hugely successful effort to engage local people in volunteering.
  • (19) On Wednesday, Republicans such as Mike Rogers and Michele Bachmann joined House Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Republican Speaker John Boehner in voting with President Obama that we should be governed by our fears, rather than our values.
  • (20) Nancy Curtin, chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management, said: “Our view that the US is recovering but not strong enough to trigger a reassessment of still benign monetary policy.

Nanny


Definition:

  • (n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I remember the blood pouring across the floor and the screaming of the nanny looking after our boys."
  • (2) David Cameron has made a strong defence of his decision to employ a Nepalese nanny, while at the same time refusing to say that his government will meet its target to cut the number of net migrants to the UK to fewer than 100,000 by next year.
  • (3) Wise, she says, did the bulk of the childcare during filming of Nanny McPhee, though Gaia did sometimes join her on set.
  • (4) A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam ( We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.
  • (5) Although the guidance is not a statutory code and leaves room for doctors' professional judgment, both the government and Labour are wary of "nanny state" approaches.
  • (6) Bermondsey asks: Could you explain to the British public why 14 year old children are thrown into prison for 3 years for writing nonsense on Facebook and why someone looses their home and goes to jail for doing a nanny job while receiving £70 week in social security while Fred Goodman lives in his holiday home in Barbados for 3 months a year?
  • (7) At the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, an experienced nanny will be on hand to accompany small children today, and at the Surrey Union a prize of £20 was offered for the "best turned out under 16 year old".
  • (8) They are dismissed as the work of liberal interferers and apostles of the nanny state.
  • (9) The Good Care Guide results reveal that children receive better quality of care than their elderly relatives, with 88% of nurseries and 91% of nanny agencies achieving top marks in terms of quality of care – in contrast to 78% of care homes.
  • (10) Thompson, best known for her acting roles in films such as Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually and Nanny McPhee, also wrote many of those screenplays.
  • (11) The couple's son Moshe, two, was rescued by his nanny.
  • (12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
  • (13) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
  • (14) As Labour called for complete transparency over the nanny, Downing Street issued a statement saying Gita Lima had been awarded British citizenship after David Cameron became prime minister in 2010.
  • (15) "The government has to be much more nanny state in terms of policing the food industry, taxing snack food, taxing fizzy drinks, banning fizzy drinks, banning sugary foods, and not just in school dinners but also in work canteens and hospital food.
  • (16) She had been looking for a job for nine months but had just landed a position as a nanny for a family on the Upper East Side, starting in January.
  • (17) Whitehall is bracing itself for a potentially damning report from Sir Alan Budd tomorrow into events surrounding the fast-tracking of a visa application for the nanny of David Blunkett's then lover, Kimberly Quinn.
  • (18) (I later hear that Mercy has been taken by a nanny to a secret location in the north, ready for the adoption.)
  • (19) Best pope Michel Piccoli, in Nanni Moretti's otherwise awful Habemus Papam .
  • (20) The basis of this change has not been published, and yet it will apparently enable considerable funds to be showered on couples with a combined income of up to £300,000 , and serious nannying bills.