What's the difference between nutty and putty?

Nutty


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in nuts.
  • (a.) Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increase the heat under the syrup and cook, without stirring, until it turns a rich, nutty brown.
  • (2) Despite its rich, earthy, nutty flavour, the taste is very delicate, and thus pairs really well with a sharp citrus reduction.
  • (3) Lee Thompson, on sax, had the concept of The Nutty Boys.
  • (4) His colleagues tease him, telling him they're for thinktanks, not politicians, and that "people will think you're a sort of nutty professor".
  • (5) The texture of a good baguette should be moist, very slightly chewy and with a hint of a nutty flavour.
  • (6) Worse was the nutty suggestion that the press call Fox News’s rabidly rightwing host, Sean Hannity, a Trump supporter, for confirmation.
  • (7) The dish tasted fine – the mealworms had a slightly nutty, toasted flavour and gave the quiche an extra crunch – but it still made my stomach turn.
  • (8) About Chile: Having finished second in South American qualifying under the stewardship of the pigstick nutty Marcelo Bielso, Chile favour a 3-3-1-3 formation, with one of two playmakers (usually Matias Fernandez) positioned behind three strikers ( un enganche y tres punta ) on an all-out attacking side.
  • (9) 8.06pm BST Christine is making a nutty, locally sourced loaf to go with a locally sourced cheese.
  • (10) Amaranth stuffed mushrooms with za’atar and pine nuts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yotam Ottolenghi’s amaranth stuffed mushrooms: the za’atar in the nutty topping brings a tart note to proceedings.
  • (11) ‘Oh my God, look at Lee now, isn’t she hysterical, she’s so nutty.
  • (12) "It forced a break and sent you a bit nutty for a year."
  • (13) Rahim, the son of Algerian-born parents, grew up in the eastern town of Belfort, famous for the nutty Comté cheese.
  • (14) Similarly, the Daily Mail splashed with "Murder police quiz 'nutty professor' with a blue rinse" and the Daily Mirror told its 1.2 million readers: "Jo suspect is Peeping Tom".
  • (15) Haldane replies that: "One man's nuttiness is another man's animal spirits."
  • (16) In this absolutely nutty system, in which tax can only be explained as a punishment for failing to get rich enough to avoid it, insult is heaped upon injury as judges then characterise the “UK taxpayer” as a special class of person, all themselves in full-time, well-paid employment.
  • (17) When two young women, hardly able to speak for coy giggles, approach our table for autographs and a photo, my reflex is to wonder whether some nutty rule about image rights will get in the way; Joey just puts down his fish-finger sandwich, smiles sweetly and asks: "Is it Jemma with a J?"
  • (18) But despite it all, the match that directly followed Maradona’s downfall was a stone-cold World Cup classic: Romania versus Argentina, a nutty end-to-end speed-rush of top-drawer footballing brilliance.
  • (19) Even Ford would have struggled to make such a line trip off the tongue, and it’s around this time that one is reminded Rogue One has been penned by the screenwriters of After Earth and Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps.
  • (20) The Egremont russet [with its characteristic matt brown skin] has a quirky nutty flavour and is great with cheese, but young consumers wouldn’t pick them up.

Putty


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
  • (v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors discuss 34 cases of pseudarthrosis of the neck of the femur that were subjected to two different types of osteotomy, namely the support osteotomy of Putti and the valgising osteotomy of Pauwels.
  • (2) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
  • (3) Often times light-body wash (LB) cannot be added to the heavy-body putty (HB) within 30 minutes when utilizing the two-step reline impression technique.
  • (4) On anatomic specimens in which the classic Putti-Platt technique was used, lateral rotation could not reach neutral without disruption of the lateral stump from the labrum.
  • (5) This study was concerned with the adhesion of a light-bodied silicone to a putty silicone in a putty-wash impression technique when the preliminary putty impression was contaminated with human saliva or residues from acrylic resins used in the fabrication of provisional restorations by direct technique.
  • (6) Its colour reminds one of lightly tanned Caucasian flesh, or putty.
  • (7) Washing the latex gloves decreased the effect of inhibition of setting on the putty but did not eliminate it.
  • (8) This patient was later on stabilized with a Putti-Platt procedure.
  • (9) This technique is a controlled process in which the thickness of the obturator can be easily modified by adding to or shaving off the dimensionally stable silicone putty.
  • (10) The impression material was a putty-wash polyvinyl siloxane material.
  • (11) In ten patients (eleven shoulders), disabling pain in the shoulder began an average of 13.2 years after a Putti-Platt repair that had been done for recurrent anterior unidirectional instability.
  • (12) A stable occlusal record was made using an addition curing silicone rubber putty and was placed on a light source onto which a video camera was focused.
  • (13) A routine Bankart procedure was performed in 20 shoulders (in two of which a Connolly procedure was added), a Putti-Platt procedure in four, and capsulorrhaphies in four shoulders.
  • (14) Thus, latex gloves should not be worn while mixing or handling vinyl polysiloxane putties.
  • (15) With the material tested, this study indicates that the laminated and putty wash plus spacer techniques both give accurate impressions and that only two accurate models can be poured.
  • (16) The working models, which differed in the size of cervical spillway (2mm and 9mm) and the impression techniques applied (the two-phase technique and the wash technique), were produced by using putty-type impression materials with three different strain levels (Reprosil, Express and Exaflex) following the metal master model of mandibular denture in an abutment form.
  • (17) If the glenoidal labrum is detached from the rim, the Bankart technique must be combined with the Putti-Platt.
  • (18) Nadya's evolution over the three months after our visit to the penal colony, when she claimed to wish only for monotony, went something like this: she tried to reconcile herself to the life of the inmate as putty, to dream only of living to see the end of her term.
  • (19) The polyvinylsiloxane putty did not adhere to its impression adhesive.
  • (20) Some brands of latex gloves as received from the distributor caused severe retardation or complete inhibition of setting in most vinyl polysiloxane putties; other brands of latex gloves affected the setting in the vinyl polysiloxane putties to varying degrees.

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