What's the difference between saltier and saltire?
Saltier
Definition:
(n.) See Saltire.
Example Sentences:
(1) While subjects with a high salt intake liked saltier broths (p less than 0.05), a similar relationship was not found for sugar intake and sweetness preferences.
(2) In the area around the town of Ba Tri, near one mouth of the delta, the salination of the water has reached a point where many locals have been forced to abandon centuries of rice cultivation and risk their livelihoods on other ventures, mostly farming shrimp, which thrives in saltier water.
(3) The changes in pleasantness of the 29 foods revealed that saltier foods were substantially more attractive during the depletion period than during the pre- and postdepletion periods.
(4) Meanwhile, further south towards the tropics, Atlantic waters have been getting saltier – about 0.5% more since the 1960s.
(5) Photographic evidence suggests that Barack Obama's salt-and-pepper hair has grown significantly saltier after just 45 days in office, turning rapidly greyer as the president tackles the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
(6) But wrapped in mint leaves and aged, it becomes both drier, saltier and stronger.
Saltire
Definition:
(v.) A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) The winner of the Saltire prize will have to generate 100 gigawatt hours over a two-year period, not 100GW
(2) Milne and his wife Moira live in a former coastguard’s station on the highest point overlooking Trump’s course, which now has the Mexican flag fluttering alongside his Scottish saltire flag.
(3) "A few saltires," as Salmond said after waving one around at Wimbledon, so as to own the Murray victory, "doesn't really harm at all."
(4) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said the £10m Saltire prize was the world's most valuable government-funded prize for technology innovation, but critics complained that it was a wasteful "vanity project".
(5) It confirms that the saltire will continue to serve as the national flag of Scotland and that the choice of national anthem will be made by the Scottish parliament.
(6) And protected behind a privacy screen, four Lib Dem workers stoically continued working away on their campaign, as scores of raucous SNP supporters, their saltires, SNP placards and balloons above their heads, greeted Sturgeon’s arrival.
(7) In the ballroom, couples at a lunchtime tea dance swirl around an interior decked with miniature saltires – and on 30 November, St Andrew's Day will be celebrated with the help of the association's pipe band, a "Scottish disco", and one Gerry Trew, "with his tribute to Rod Stewart".
(8) The first minister claims that he was the first to recognise that the Pentland Firth could be the Saudi Arabia of tidal energy, but it is increasingly clear that his Saltire prize is becoming the Millennium Dome of marine energy."
(9) This picture shows a discoloured, ragged Ineos flag flying behind the Scottish Saltire: Photograph: Sean Farrell A second look at a sign for the Grangemouth Business Centre shows that "BP" has been covered up with white tape.
(10) But hold on to your hats and your seat-backs, your Union Jacks and Saltires.
(11) As the journalist Iain Macwhirter writes in an alarm-bell-ringing essay published this week by the Saltire Society , "Scotland has a national political system, but is in danger of losing a national media."
(12) We heard from Catalans seeking a secession vote on what they think about Scotland’s own independence vote , and plenty of Saltires found their way to the streets of Barcelona.
(13) The saltired, heather-dusted frock coat has already been tailored, and awaits your beloved, skeletal frame.
(14) No doubt a thistle or a Saltire will be on the shortlist.
(15) The announcement of the Saltire prize has brought huge international publicity," he said.
(16) Writing for the Guardian , as the independence movement prepares to mark a year to go before the referendum, on 18 September 2014, Bell said: "The campaigns to date have been a tedious parade of union jacks versus saltires, of pop identity about caring Scots versus heartless Tories."
(17) In fact it looks like more of the same – but under the saltire.
(18) It is striking that the referendum has turned out not to be about certain things: Braveheart , kilts, the saltire , hating Sassenachs , Rabbie Burns, Renton’s rant in Trainspotting about the Scots allowing themselves to be “ colonised by wankers ”.
(19) The saltire, perhaps with a wee silhouette of Holyrood behind it, could be a kitemark to denote the highest band of democratic excellence.
(20) The Saltire prize has been endorsed by National Geographic, but opposition parties today dismissed it as a publicity-stunt, a view privately shared by some senior renewables industry figures.