What's the difference between peaky and spiky?

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.

Spiky


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a spike; spikelike.
  • (a.) Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
  • (2) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
  • (3) He described his players as “half-hearted,” lacking spikiness in the duels and quality in general.
  • (4) Calcium oxalate dihydrate stones have a striated, spiky and non-homogeneous appearance on plain X-rays.
  • (5) Bula was spiky when asked why he had made the change.
  • (6) As the euchromatin space of affected nuclei is "sanded" by numerous core particles with concomitant dissolution of the chromatin network, spiky, finely granular, and eosinophilic inclusions without a limiting membrane become visible in hematoxylin and eosin-stained paraffin sections.
  • (7) A new model for clot contraction is proposed, based on the rigidity of the long spiky pseudopodia and on the motile properties of platelets.
  • (8) The challenge for Defour is to make his mark in the Premier League having also made the transition from attacking midfielder to spiky holding player.
  • (9) If the geometry of City’s short passing exuded class, key performers were tiring fast as the game became slightly spiky.
  • (10) Trimingham complained about repeated references to her as "bisexual" and "lesbian" and insults about her appearance - including comments that she wore doc martens and had spiky hair.
  • (11) And Hitchcock was a doddle compared to Capote, with his helium voice, the birdlike mincing, the urbane spikiness.
  • (12) It started with a week's safari in the Masai Mara, where they saw zebras, wildebeest and a cheetah with her spiky-haired cub.
  • (13) Goodness knows how spiky things might have turned had Cheick Tioté, Pardew’s feisty Ivorian midfield enforcer, not been injured.
  • (14) "I love that a country capable of extraordinary pomp and ceremony can still retain a spiky irreverence towards its establishment.
  • (15) There was a spikiness about Wilshere in Saturday's FA Cup tie.
  • (16) Camilla, meanwhile, went for a spiky number that looked a little like a napkin folded into a swan.
  • (17) A close-packed array of hexons forms a planar facet of the icosahedral capsid, with the tops presenting a spiky appearance that is consistent with electron micrographs of the adenovirus capsid.
  • (18) The manometer-recorded right atrial pressure pulse of tricuspid stenosis differed from the normal, with (1) elevation of right atrial pressure, (2) different morphologic features (tall, spiky A wave complete before C; small V wave with an interruption, the tricuspid opening snap notch at termination of the gradual Y descent; a diastolic plateau, the relatively flat diastolic segment of the right atrial pressure pulse following the tricuspid opening snap notch prior to the next A wave), and (3) the relative lack of right atrial pressure and right atrial pressure pulse response with normal respiration.
  • (19) Marks & Spencer’s chief has warned of a “spiky” runup to Christmas, as Black Friday puts shoppers in the mood for discounts after a slowdown in clothing sales last summer.
  • (20) ***** With her combination of spikiness and compassion, Dawn may well turn out to be an interesting addition to the mix of Mad Men.

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