What's the difference between natty and spruce?

Natty


Definition:

  • (a.) Neat; tidy; spruce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They come in a range of shapes and sizes, with natty little galvanised versions for the smaller home.
  • (2) The most visible sign of this is the arrival each day, when parliament is in session in its lavish, marble-decked halls in the new capital of Naypyidaw , of scores of officers, natty in their freshly pressed olive drab.
  • (3) Celtic are in their traditional green and white hoops – a friend, she shall remain nameless, once tried to argue that Celtic's jersey was in fact stripes and not hoops – and Shakhter are clocking and rocking a natty orange number.
  • (4) Given his reputation as a tough talking Latin American caudillo, it is rather strange at first to see the Ecuadorean president, Rafael Correa , donning a natty lime green helmet and getting on a bicycle to campaign for re-election.
  • (5) In lieu of these outer garments, here's Bob Stokoe in a natty red number at the 1973 FA Cup final, Sunderland's last successful visit to Wembley.
  • (6) It doesn't help that the natty little waistcoat she is wearing makes her look a bit like the Artful Dodger and that she has tucked her size-three feet under her bottom in the chair, halving her 5ft frame.
  • (7) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
  • (8) • Me t ro: nice pic of the gold iPhone 5S and a natty headline about known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.
  • (9) Zheng and her friends have natty red sashes and a large banner that says: "Honoured to take part in the election for the people's congress".
  • (10) Luther starts in the UK on Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1 LUTHER: THE SERIES THREE LINEUP John Luther Gruff of voice, red of eye, natty of coat, the maverick DCI is good at solving crime, bad at life.
  • (11) DEPC is known to inhibit the ventilatory response to hypercapnia (E. Nattie.
  • (12) While space in the department may be free of explicit labels, the ebullient and youthful staff are clearly demarcated: female workers wear natty pink T-shirts with the slogan Team Toy on their backs, while men, inevitably, are in blue.
  • (13) With three minutes to go, they equalized through Tevez, playing in natty golfing shoes and cap.
  • (14) Craig doing normcore on the red carpet is a natty move because it gives away very little about the film.
  • (15) In this case, they have mistaken committed performances and some natty dialogue for pure motives on the part of its makers and, by extension, its audience.
  • (16) 64: 161-176, 1986) by a direct effect at the ventrolateral medulla (E. Nattie.
  • (17) Holden was compared to Billy Budd, Natty Bumppo, and Melville's Ishmael.
  • (18) The lyrics are cool – "My hips are ready to glow", "The groovy light will shine all night", etc – and there's a natty stab of Balkan horns at the end of each chorus (even the Spanish have thrown some Eastern influences into their song this year, in the hope of impressing the regional bloc vote).
  • (19) Dressed in natty black outfits with her dark hair pinned back, she cuts a handsome but stern figure.
  • (20) Grab a main at the laid-back Natti’s Thai Kitchen , with Thai goddess Natti cooking up authentic delights, the spicy tom yum is, well yum, just don’t order it hot, or you will cry.

Spruce


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
  • (a.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.
  • (a.) The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
  • (a.) Prussia leather; pruce.
  • (n.) Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
  • (n.) Sprightly; dashing.
  • (v. t.) To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Permethrin (0.5%) was applied to individual Lutz spruce, Picea x lutzii Little, to protect them from attack by spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby).
  • (2) The results show that 70% of the total activity of radiocesium and 60% of radioruthenium deposited in the spruce stand were retained initially in the canopy.
  • (3) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
  • (4) A method is described for the isolation of DNA from spruce and fir, starting with 3 to 5 apices (5 mg material).
  • (5) Bratwurst grilled by use of pine-cones, spruce-cones and hard wood contained on average 28 ppb BaP.
  • (6) But spruce could also be a big loser from climate change because it cannot handle drought and its shallow roots are easily damaged in storms.
  • (7) With regard to an early diagnosis of defects within the photosynthetic system of conifers by air pollutants, we measured the chlorophyll fluorescence from microscopic parts of individual pine and spruce needles.
  • (8) Depth profiles of radiocesium were measured in a podsolic parabrown earth of a spruce stand and in a podsol of a pine stand up to 3 years after the Chernobyl accident.
  • (9) The time dependence of the specific activity of Chernobyl-derived 134Cs, 137Cs and 106Ru was determined in vegetation and soil samples from an old spruce stand within a period of 600 days after the beginning of the radioactive fallout.
  • (10) Mouse hepatoma cell line, Hepa-1, was exposed to acetone extracts of hardwoods (alder and aspen), softwoods (pine and a mixture of pine and spruce) and cellulose materials.
  • (11) Pure black spruce was found on Mount Washington from 1356 m to 1582 m. No pure black or red spruce was found on Camels Hump although the proportion of red spruce alleles was significantly greater on Camels Hump.
  • (12) A high relative intensity of the long-lived component was found in damaged spruces as well as in trees showing first symptoms of yellowing, needle loss or parasite infection, although all measurements were carried out with green needles which appeared visually intact.
  • (13) Yet it is understood that they are sprucing up their offer, slimming down their austerity demands, and relaxing debt repayments.
  • (14) Since 1952, the province of New Brunswick, Canada, has been heavily involved in attempting to control an epidemic of the eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana.
  • (15) Nor will £5m pledged to keep train stations spruce, or another £1m earmarked for Sheffield’s tram-train.
  • (16) mATPase activities were similar in both species, but spruce grouse contained 15 times more myoglobin in the pectoralis muscle and the heart was three times heavier than that of the ruffed grouse.
  • (17) Red and black spruce and their hybrids can be determined by morphological indices; however, the criteria are somewhat subjective and increasingly difficult to use at higher elevations.
  • (18) The dictatorships of Bahrain and Belarus, the Syrian dictator's wife, Pinochet himself – all have had their reputations spruced up by the firm.
  • (19) These results on the gymnosperm spruce leaves, in which greening proceeds in complete darkness, being independent of the development of the water-splitting system in light, were discussed in relation to previous observations on angiosperm leaves, in which both greening and the activity generation proceed in the light.
  • (20) Some rooms need sprucing up, but a smart new carpet on the staircase and genuine parquet floors in the kitchen must have impressed the half dozen potential buyers who have trooped round since it went to on the market in February.