What's the difference between peaky and peaty?

Peaky


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a peak or peaks.
  • (a.) Sickly; peaked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At atrioventricular transition level, the P wave was peaky or diphasic.
  • (2) Despite the promise of a layered saga involving communism, the IRA and betting syndicates, not a great deal happens in Peaky Blinders .
  • (3) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
  • (4) Nothing too serious, maybe just a bit of a bad back or one of those newly invented illnesses which make you a bit peaky for decades – fibromyalgia, or ME … I think we should all pretend to be disabled for a month or so, claim benefits and hope this persuades the authorities to sort out the mess."
  • (5) Historical gangster epic Peaky Blinders was a double winner at the Bafta TV Craft Awards ceremony on Sunday night, where the BBC also took home awards for its Doctor Who specials commemorating the show's 50th anniversary and the special award for Strictly Come Dancing.
  • (6) In addition to Peaky Blinders' 1920s gangland epic, the BBC also has Quirke, an Andrew Davies adaptation of the John Banville novels.
  • (7) The players were more interested in keeping up to date with Peaky Blinders, Keane reckoned, but with reports of Hull City being interested in O’Neill, they really should be.
  • (8) Peaky Blinders Sam Neil either shoots Grace or himself.
  • (9) Peaky Blinders Its producers will be wary of any "British Boardwalk Empire" comparisons, since calling The Hour the "British Mad Men" weighted expectations unflatteringly.
  • (10) Peaky Blinders Steven Knight is a writer with an unusual knack for coming up with quirky ideas that go improbably big: he created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
  • (11) Were there space I’d detail the show’s many other flaws – Andy Nyman’s Stella Street caricature of Winston Churchill, the phrase “we are family” uttered more times than at a Sister Sledge convention – but there isn’t, so let’s leave it at this: the show’s a right Peaky Blunder.
  • (12) In the past year BBC2 has produced excellent new British drama with series such as Peaky Blinders and The Fall (both re-commissioned for 2014).
  • (13) Peaky Blinders takes place in Birmingham, 1919, and Cillian Murphy stars as Tommy Shelby, leader of the eponymous gang, so-called because they carry blades in their caps.
  • (14) BLINDING LANRE BAKARE Being a Peaky Blinders fan isn’t easy.
  • (15) Knight again exceeded expectations in 2013 with Peaky Blinders, an idiosyncratic gangster drama set in Birmingham in 1919, which, through its title, introduced to common knowledge the legend of a gang who secreted razor blades in the peaks of their caps.
  • (16) The resulting activity densities along the small bowel were peaky and the overlap between the two labels in the border zone was minute, indicating that the intestinal contents were transported in isolated portions with only minor exchange of luminal contents between adjacent regions.
  • (17) The gang, known as the Peaky Blinders, were the inspiration behind the BBC2 drama of the same name.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest PEAKY GWILYM MUMFORD I’ll give Peaky Blinders this: it has style.
  • (19) Peaky Blinders, a hit with audiences when it aired last year, won an award for its director, Otto Bathurst, and photography and lighting craftsman George Steel.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fun, brutal, stylish … from left, Paul Anderson, Cillian Murphy and Finn Shelby in Peaky Blinders.

Peaty


Definition:

  • (a.) Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adam Peaty wins Great Britain’s first gold of Rio 2016 Andy Murray skipped through his opening round with a straight-sets (6-3, 6-2) win over Serbia’s Viktor Troicki .
  • (2) It concluded a busy first day in the pool for British swimmers, with Adam Peaty breaking his own world record in the heats of the 100m breaststroke.
  • (3) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
  • (4) When I close my eyes and think of home, it’s the peaty smell of the monsoon, the harsh light of the equatorial sun, the clashing sounds of the capital city, Dhaka, that come to mind.
  • (5) The world record is nothing without Olympic gold.” Peaty and Murdoch were the only swimmers to get automatic qualification times for the World Championships.
  • (6) No one is saying Peaty is anything other than a magnificent advert for British swimming as he blitzes the rest of the breaststroking world.
  • (7) Together that’s made a pretty exciting team.” It has certainly started well and looks set to get even better, just as Peaty’s barber suggested it would: “I was pretty nervous about Olympic qualification until I was chatting to my barber one day and he said: ‘You’re a world record holder.
  • (8) Adam Peaty took a sledgehammer to the 100m breaststroke world record at the British championships on Friday night as he became the first man to break 58 seconds .
  • (9) But Adam Peaty is a different story – here, making his Olympic bow, he broke his own 100m breaststroke world record in the heats and must now be considered the overwhelming favourite to win gold in Sunday’s final.
  • (10) It did feel faster than the first 50 and I soon tied up but that is where more training is going to help me go faster.” Peaty, however, is nothing if not grounded and looked ahead to the World Championships, and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next year.
  • (11) And environmentalists are worried that the expansion of cornfields will dry out peaty soils, leading to greenhouse gas emissions, and be harmful for biological diversity.
  • (12) Guy freely admits Saturday’s final did not go as planned but is still hoping to channel his inner Peaty.
  • (13) Peaty is already a world, Commonwealth and European champion and could be on course to leave all kinds of former greats – Moorhouse, Duncan Goodhew, David Wilkie – in his wake.
  • (14) As Spice concedes the most fancied swimmers do not always win gold, even if Peaty does now look odds on to do so.
  • (15) The peaty material is mostly matted with decomposed plant fibres.
  • (16) On Friday, his mother and grandmother were among supporters in the stands to see Peaty claim his second title of the week.
  • (17) Life time of Listeria monocytogenes (strain PS 10401, serovar 4b) was studied in three sorts of soil: a chalky soil, poor in organic matters (pH 8.3) a peaty soil rich in organic matters (pH 5.5) a mixture of a chalky and peaty soil (pH 7.9).
  • (18) It is Marshall who helps quieten the voices of self-doubt that sometimes loom and it is her faith in Peaty that helps the swimmer believe in himself.
  • (19) Joseph Peaty, who was diagnosed with HIV after being among those given contaminated transfusions, said the review could lead to higher payments for people with hepatitis C. The 44-year-old said he was "disappointed, but not surprised" that the full compensation demand had been rejected.
  • (20) So speedy was Peaty that Ross Murdoch, who trailed in his wake, set a new Scottish record of 59.13sec to become the second fastest man in the world this year and book his place in the team.

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