What's the difference between reedy and weedy?

Reedy


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.
  • (a.) Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The case against Reedy was dropped when her rapist – Wilbur Brown – was caught by another force and confessed.
  • (2) He said Mutko replied quickly saying the Russian authorities would co-operate but, as Reedie put it, “it won’t be easy”.
  • (3) And Wada is now looking into the latest claims, which Reedie described as “a real cause for concern”.
  • (4) More than a year after attacking Reedy, the man struck again, but this time he was caught and confessed to the earlier crime.
  • (5) Reedie said the official was able to test the athlete but only after being told by security officials that 30 days’ notice would be required in future, which “makes a mockery of the idea of no-notice testing”.
  • (6) When the charges against her were dropped, Reedy sued the police and has now won a marathon legal battle and a $1.5m (£1m) settlement against the detective who turned her from victim into accused.
  • (7) As Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis is excellent: he has the president's famous height, and his reedy, hushed manner of speaking.
  • (8) Reedy was swabbed for forensic evidence, but the material was never tested.
  • (9) Reedy's flared X of four bridges, which appears rotated 60 degrees at successive levels on the thick filament, depends on the orientation of the actin filaments in the whole lattice as well as on the range of movement in each cross-bridge.
  • (10) Reedy was 19 when the man entered the petrol station near Pittsburgh where she was working to pay her way through college and pulled a gun.
  • (11) Many seasoned anti-doping veterans worry that Wada has been “captured” by the IOC, a shift they claim is embodied by Sir Craig Reedie’s appointment as president.
  • (12) Reedie argued that Wada has been doing its bit to increase funding – establishing a new $12m fund to research new testing methods and receiving an encouraging response to a recent plea to fund more investigations in the mould of Pound’s – but that other stakeholders must now do the same.
  • (13) The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Sir Craig Reedie, has called for sponsorship revenue from cheating athletes to be diverted to the fight against doping and for a levy on TV rights deals as part of a huge increase in the organisation’s resources.
  • (14) Craig Reedie, the president of Wada [the World Anti-Doping Agency] came out the other day and said there would never be sanctions against countries which systematically dope .
  • (15) Reedie, an International Olympic Committee vice-president, also endorsed another idea that has been intermittently proposed by Wada executives but has gained traction in recent months as the scale of the global challenge has again become clear.
  • (16) Mutko told Russian news agencies that he has asked the Wada president, Craig Reedie, to provide a “road map” that the country could follow.
  • (17) Doping revelations of top athletes will be greeted with dismay but no surprise Read more Responding to a documentary highlighting the claims broadcast by ARD , the president of Wada, Sir Craig Reedie, said: “Wada is very disturbed by these new allegations that have been raised by ARD, which will, once again, shake the foundation of clean athletes worldwide.” He said that given the nature of the allegations, they would be handed over immediately to the organisation’s independent commission for further investigation.
  • (18) Reedy was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • (19) In an article for theguardian.com , Reedie said that, while Wada could be proud of how far it had come since its formation in 1999, it was time for a step change.
  • (20) That is reckless beyond description.” Pound, who is in London to speak at the Tackling Doping in Sport conference alongside the current Wada president, Sir Craig Reedie, said drugs such as meldonium were not supposed to be taken for long periods.

Weedy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
  • (superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
  • (superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
  • (a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I set off down the still familiar regular path between the regularly spaced trees, finding weedy elder bushes bearing leaves.
  • (2) This locus is, however, highly polymorphic in weedy C. berlandieri populations of western North America.
  • (3) It's so easy, what with advergames , weedy regulation, ferocious lobbyists, monopolies, "regulatory capture", and with sugar and chips being so delicious, comforting, cheap, and all for sale seconds from a school gate near you.
  • (4) It's full of energy but perhaps could have done without the addition of a weedy brass section.
  • (5) Ed Miliband claimed that he and David were simply too weedy to fight.
  • (6) The government claims that tolls will only be charged by roads' new owners for new capacity, but that sounds distinctly like one of those weedy assurances given by politicians that, once yesterday's lunacy has become today's accepted practice, is swiftly forgotten (to these ears, it has a similar ring to all those early New Labour claims about strict limits on private involvement in the NHS, or what the likes of Nick Clegg have said about profit-making schools).
  • (7) You wait for the punchline on Nizlopi's JCB Song before realising, to your horror, that the weedy singing and naive lyric is not a Hoxton parody of outsider art but is meant to signify sincerity.
  • (8) Estate agents suggest sellers should try to: • Keep up external appearances: "To be greeted by a weedy drive and a facade covered in peeling paint is a death knell.
  • (9) There are no nasty oil-marks on the beach, nor weedy sewage outfalls.
  • (10) As a child he was weedy and introspective, a condition he cured by taking up boxing and rowing at Westminster School.
  • (11) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
  • (12) Facing a swaggering Conservative leadership that increasingly reveals a nasty bullying streak, Labour is tending to give off the anxious vibes of the weedy kid in the playground, eyes down, hands in its pockets, too ready for flight instead of fight.
  • (13) Livers from 4,501 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) collected from a weedy habitat in northeastern California during 48 consecutive monthly samplings were examined microscopically for Taenia taeniaeformis larva.
  • (14) I'm not sure you'd want me to fight a pack of Daily Mail journalists to defend your honour, because I'm weedy and no good at sport, but I do a good line in creative swearing at sexist scumbags.
  • (15) I see Labour MPs and shadow ministers hold their heads in their hands, asking why strong popular policies emerge watered down, weedy and weak.
  • (16) The relatively weedy intellectual decided to attend the local gym.
  • (17) Its followup dramatises a school reunion, which gives weedy Brian and childhood sweetheart Jessica one last chance to get together.
  • (18) They stay home with their colonic irrigationists, and their weedy macrobiotic diets and their personal trainers and their status anxiety.
  • (19) Isozymes of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) in leaf tissue of the cultivated chenopods (Chenopodium quinoa and C. nuttalliae) and their sympatric weedy relatives (C. hircinum and C. berlandieri) can be electrophoretically resolved into a sum total of five anodally migrating bands.