What's the difference between phono and phony?

Phono


Definition:

  • (n.) A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearly transparent wings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The CT-findings agree with the well known localization of the lesion in the phono-mesencephalic region in these patients.
  • (2) The main phono-hemodynamic and phono-anatomical correlations have been emphasized: 1.
  • (3) It is thus stressed the opportunity of echocardiography approach for the identification of the incoordinate ventricular contraction and for the determination of IRP duration which may be exposed to serious mistakes using the traditional phono-apexcardiographic method.
  • (4) Phono- and electromechanical delays were also measured.
  • (5) Using this rig we have investigated the design techniques applied to the new phono-sensors and we have also analysed the sensors themselves.
  • (6) Besides, background registrations, reactive shifts in the EEG in photo and phono-stimulation was studied along with a study of introduced substances of a central adreno- and cholinolytical action.
  • (7) Combination of different methods: echo-, phono- and mechanocardiography, have led to completely new insights in the genesis of low frequency and high frequency vibrations of the heart.
  • (8) It proposes a new insight into the relation of in vivo electromagnetic fields and gravitational fields and discusses such manifestations as solitons, the quantum hall effect, gravity waves, biological strings, biologically closed electric circuits, phonos and the piezoelectric nature of living tissue.
  • (9) The compliance of this transducer, the INductive PHOno-sensor (INPHO), can be matched to that of the maternal abdomen to provide an optimal transfer of displacement between maternal abdomen and transducer.
  • (10) The phonetic apparatus used are the sound spectrograph, oscillograph, phono-laryngograph, flow-nasalitygraph, etc.
  • (11) Digital signal processing methods have been developed for the analysis of combined echo-phono-mechanocardiograms.
  • (12) 20 subjects with parietal ventricular block, detected by Frank vectoracardiogram, were submitted to phono-mechanographic examination.
  • (13) In 198 valvular heart disease patients, the use of dynamic tests significantly improved the rate of diagnostic success, thus confirming the usefulness of dynamic phono-mechanocardiography.
  • (14) In this chronic phase the same phono-echocardiographic parameters and isovolumetric relaxation time were measured at 6 and 12 weeks.
  • (15) In this review, linear modeling methods for the analysis of electroencephalograms, electro- and phono-cardiograms, electromyograms, and gastrointestinal signals are surveyed.
  • (16) All patients underwent clinical investigation, including electro-, phono- and echocardiography, and tetrapolar chest rheoplethysmography.
  • (17) Phono and echo measurements were done sequentially.
  • (18) Fifteen selected hypothyroid patients without symptoms or signs of cardiovascular disease and an equal number of matched control subjects underwent simultaneous recording of electrocardiogram and phono-, apex-, and echocardiography to assess dynamic systolic and diastolic left ventricular function.
  • (19) Similarly, ICP by echo was shorter than ICP by phono in every patient.
  • (20) Besides undergoing routine methods of examination all patients were tested for the function of external respiration and subjected to X-ray examination of the lungs and heart and electro-, phono-, vector- and kinetocardiography.

Phony


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said that it was the "poor looking for work" who had paid the price for the "phony 50p rate" because it had made the country "uncompetitive".
  • (2) "It opens the door for teaching a phony controversy," he said.
  • (3) In March, he called Trump a “phony” and dissed Trump’s business acumen.
  • (4) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
  • (5) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
  • (6) Over the past eight months, Italian investigators have peeled away layers of false leads, attempted cover-ups, and phony evidence, to build a clearer picture of what happened to Giulio Regeni than at first seemed possible.
  • (7) Nowhere is this transition better documented than with the phony but ubiquitous rule on when to use "which" and when to use "that".
  • (8) And I look forward to him being a good president.” The video sought to remind the public of just how big an advocate Bush once was before he took to doling out what Rubio’s campaign dubbed as “phony attacks”.
  • (9) Romney said “it’s not easy to win,” adding that Trump offered a vision that “connected with the American people in a very powerful way.” His comments are a departure from his stance during the campaign, when Romney was sharply critical of Trump, calling him a “phony” and a fraud whose promises were worthless.
  • (10) But its activists are as likely to be denounced by Islamists at Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) for being “phony” Muslims as they are to be denounced by the Telegraph .
  • (11) Trump had previously made this argument in a series of tweets on Sunday night, alleging “the people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians.
  • (12) His story starts at Pencey Prep, a prestigious boarding school filled with "phonies", as Holden likes to call them.
  • (13) Though he has presented a plan that would cut taxes for the richest Americans, in May he said: “ For the wealthy, I think, frankly, it’s going to go up .” Hillary Clinton “She’s a world-class liar; just look at her pathetic email server statements, or her phony landing ... in Bosnia where she said she was under attack and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers.” – 22 June, New York City Clinton has answered questions about the private email server she used as secretary of state with careful, legalistic language.
  • (14) Despite his phony credentials as a cleric, Guinness felt strongly that the reality of this trust was important.
  • (15) It was a system in which phony invoices and receipts thrived next to phantom committees and working groups that never met.
  • (16) "As fewer and fewer readers are able to find their way, amid all the noise and disappointing books and phony reviews, to the work produced by the new generation of this kind of writer, Amazon is well on its way to making writers into the kind of prospectless workers whom its contractors employ in its warehouses, labouring harder for less and less, with no job security, because the warehouses are situated in places where they're the only business hiring," Franzen writes.
  • (17) During the campaign, Romney delivered searing criticism of Trump’s business acumen, temperament and personal conduct, calling him at turns a “fraud” and a “phony” who would usher in an era of “trickle-down racism”.
  • (18) She pointed to the fact that both characters love to use the words "goddam", "phony", "crumby", "lousy", "hell", "bastard", and the phrase "kills me".
  • (19) In November, MEND’s chief executive, Sufyan Gulam Ismail, announced to a Manchester mosque: “We don’t want the government to fob us off with some phony thing called Tell MAMA, which has got a pro-Zionist pretty much heading it, or in a very senior capacity, and is making all sorts of comments we might not agree with when it comes to homosexuality, to be recording Islamophobia.” Tell MAMA’s offence is to try to be consistently anti-racist.
  • (20) Asked if the letter was phony, Araud replied: "It's not a false letter, it's a false president."

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