What's the difference between nancy and pansy?

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.

Pansy


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study was made of the effects of pH and protic and aprotic solvents on the spectral properties of Renilla (sea pansy) luciferin and a number of its analogs.
  • (2) The system of a related anthozoan coelenterate, the sea pansy Renilla reniformis, however, is oxygen dependent, requiring two organic components, luciferin and luciferase.
  • (3) The oxidation of luciferin catalyzed by sea pansy luciferase results in the emission of light.
  • (4) Antho-RFamide (pGlu-Gly-Arg-Phe-amide), a neuropeptide recently isolated from the sea pansy Renilla köllikeri induced sustained (tonic) contractions in the rachis and peduncle of the colony, and in the individual autozooid polyps.
  • (5) Special kinds of bioluminescent reactions are also of considerable interest, as for instance the relationship between "active sulphate" and PAP, which participate in the formation of light in the sea pansy (Renilla reniformis).
  • (6) This peptide is a neuropeptide and constitutes a peptide family together with less than Glu-Leu-Leu-Gly-Gly-Arg-Phe-NH2 (Pol-RFamide I), the first neuropeptide isolated from Polyorchis, and less than Glu-Gly-Arg-Phe-NH2 (Antho-RFamide), a neuropeptide isolated from sea anemones and sea pansies.
  • (7) Initially, Warren lived with his mother and her new partner, but his stepfather never hid his hatred, calling him "a pansy" because he wore glasses and played the piano, and his mother didn't intervene to protect her son.
  • (8) This product is structurally identical among the different classes of coelenterates: Hydrozoa (the jellyfish, Aequorea), Anthozoa (the sea cactus, Cavernularia; sea pansy, Renilla; and sea pen, Leioptilus), and very likely also the Scyphozoa (the jellyfish, Pelagia).
  • (9) But someone who lives or works here has put a couple of drooping geraniums on a first-floor windowsill, a touchingly modest, personal attempt at home-making, more human in scale than all the tulips, hyacinths and pansies planted in vast quantities in the gardens along the road, which have been landscaped into luxury-hotel-style anonymity.
  • (10) George Eighmey, of Compassion and Choice, the body that originally fought for the law and now helps people towards decisions in dying, told me of a woman who had had a double mastectomy and made a display of her three or four dozen bras on a clothesline, and of a man who had had bladder trouble who filled a row of potties with petunias and pansies - all part of trying to make illness and even death more homely, more bearable.
  • (11) The pansies were in their beds, the roses on their trellis.
  • (12) Rachel Lauberts, one of the Boston Greenscapers, said they had just reworked the riverside and planted their winter pansies for the Britain in Bloom competition.
  • (13) A fine structure study of the anthocodium of the sea pansy, Renilla mülleri, was undertaken.
  • (14) On a dull March afternoon, a riot of municipal planting is in flower: forsythia, fuchsia, daffodils, croci, and pansies.
  • (15) I have never known anyone,” Crankshaw declared, “who flaunted his homosexuality so openly,” and he noted that Burgess’s live-in boyfriend, “a young factory mechanic who plays the concertina beautifully”, was “intelligent, unsqualid, and pleasant in a pansy sort of way”.