What's the difference between serge and tweed?

Serge


Definition:

  • (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.
  • (n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
  • (2) City’s equaliser came from the failure of Serge Aurier and Thiago Silva to clear a Bacary Sagna cross as Fernandinho drove the ball home after 72 minutes.
  • (3) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
  • (4) The tribunal's prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, will give a statement on Wednesday, and Mladic is expected to appear before judges by Friday to hear his indictment for the worst crimes committed in Europe since the Nazi era.
  • (5) Villa had already lost Nathan Baker by that point, having been knocked out after taking a shot from Serge Gnabry flush in the face, and Wenger finished the night with his own injury worries.
  • (6) "I don't have to tell you how important it is that finally this trial can start, 17 years after the first indictment was issued [against Mladic]," said the court's chief prosecutor, Serge Brammertz.
  • (7) Serge Durand, director of the protection of unaccompanied children with Terre d’Asile, said the organisation had been working with minors in Calais since 2012 and had seen a sharp rise in the number of children, the youngest of whom was a 12-year-old from Afghanistan.
  • (8) Real Madrid cruise past Malmo and Cristiano Ronaldo moves level with Raúl Read more Serge Aurier had a dream Champions League debut on Wednesday, scoring one goal and setting up another to help PSG win 3-0 at Shakhtar Donetsk .
  • (9) A Belgian journalist – Maurice Sarfatti, who uses the byline Serge Dumont – was reportedly beaten, arrested and accused of spying.
  • (10) Serge Ibaka added 20 points and Westbrook had 13 assists for the Thunder in a game that neither team ever led by double digits.
  • (11) But in the game he gets two opportunities and puts them in the back of the net and that’s why everybody wants him.” West Brom have confirmed Serge Gnabry’s loan has been terminated and the midfielder has returned to Arsenal.
  • (12) Bovine neurophysin-I (bNP-I) is the first neurophysin protein which contains histidine and possesses an acidic COOH-terminal segment for which the complete amino acid sequence is presented: NH2-Ala-Val-Leu-Asp-Leu-Asp-Val-Arg-Thr-Cys-Leu-Pro-Cys-Gly-Pro-Gly-Gly-Lys-Gly-Arg-Cys-Phe-Gly-Pro-Ser-Ile-Cys-Cys-Gly-Asp-Glu-Leu-Gly-Cys-Phe-Val-Gly-Thr-Ala-Glu-Ala-Leu-Arg- Cys-Gln-Glu-Glu-Asn-Tyr-Leu-Pro-Ser-Pro-Cys-Gln-SerGly-Gln-Lys-Pro-Cys-Gly-Ser- Gly-Gly-Arg-Cys-Ala-Ala-Ala-Gly-Ile-Cys-Cys-Ser-Pro-Asp-Gly-Cys-His-Glu-Asp-Pro-Ala-Cys-Asp-Pro-Glu-Ala-Ala-Phe-Ser-Leu-COOH.
  • (13) Throughout, the chief prosecutor of the court who has arranged the case against Mladic, Belgian lawyer Serge Brammertz, looked on impassively.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last year, Moroder noted that Je T'Aime , Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's heavy-breathing 1969 smash, was selling again in England, and Summer jokingly suggested that they do their own "love song".
  • (15) Interview with Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of the Institute of Physics on the 2012 Nobel prize in physics winners Serge Haroche and David Wineland (mp3) Some highlights from Prof Knight's interview are below.
  • (16) We have to play somebody with almost no experience [in central defence] or somebody who is not used to playing in the position.” Wenger is also without Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, Mesut Özil, Mikel Arteta, Abou Diaby, Tomas Rosicky, David Ospina and Serge Gnabry.
  • (17) Serge Aurier went across to take the Ivory Coast corner but it was a dismal effort, truth be told, hit low to the first man.
  • (18) These distinct areas or foci of SER and presumptive glycogen (SERGE) were most numerous during initial periods of glycogen synthesis.
  • (19) In particular Cameroon’s decision not to place Touré in the top five has been criticised, although the presence of his Ivory Coast team-mate Serge Aurier as coach Alexandre Belinga’s first choice makes it difficult to stand up that theory.
  • (20) In the film, former textile workers Jocelyne and Serge Klur not only take on Arnault after he “ruined their lives” by delocalising their jobs to Poland – they also make him pay.

Tweed


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May says election results are about fighting for ‘best Brexit deal’ – video Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a Conservative MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, praised the result in Northumberland as the north-east of England had not had a Conservative-run council for decades.
  • (3) Maybe poor old David Cameron might have fared a lot better had he dropped the “call me Dave” stuff and turned up to Downing Street in tweed plus-fours and a dead grouse under his arm.
  • (4) Perhaps old money has just taken to wearing Paul Smith jeans rather than Harris tweed .
  • (5) He was wearing a beautiful tweed jacket, which had a slightly high waistband and he looked so beautiful.
  • (6) After 12 years of Churchill, Eden and Macmillan, most people in the media were tired of aristocratic old men in tweed jackets.
  • (7) One side is all heavy-set coppers bursting out of their dark suits; the other home counties sorts in scarves and tweed, and David Davis.
  • (8) For example, coats fastened at the hip with bracelet's length of heavy chain, but engineered so that they moved fluidly; a black and red tweed coat was based on a 1968 vintage coat, but the tweed remade in a rubberised, modern version; tunic-and-trousers offered as a cool cocktail hour look, a highlight being one all black look with a matt crepe top edged with silky black ruffles at the hip, over slouchy trousers.
  • (9) He is wearing a pair of old tweed trousers, a yellow and blue T-shirt that says "Dada" and blue sandals.
  • (10) The protocol involves five steps: extraction of third molars because not useful in the orthodontic treatment, placement of a edgewise appliance following the Tweed technique, use of a neuromuscular deprogramming appliance, an orthopedic appliance associated with physiotherapy.
  • (11) For that, we analyse statistically the cephalometrics variations comparing the differents angles and measurements of the RICKETTS, TWEED and STEINER analyses before and after treatment.
  • (12) In a letter sent to Wallace, Tweed wrote that the politician made “an extremely serious, false and defamatory allegation” in a tweet.
  • (13) You might say Stephen Fry was a fogey (tweed jackets, always banging on about opera) but he is also an expert on smartphones , as he is on everything else.
  • (14) She's trimly turned out in a tweed jacket and silver loafers.
  • (15) Dissatisified with relapsing Class II cases, recurrence and aggravation of crowding, and what he felt were bimaxillary full faces, Tweed and others, circa 1935, redirected the profession back to extractions with a more disciplined approach to treatment by the removal of four first premolars.
  • (16) Mary, by email Well, plush tweeds and thick knits are absolutely essential.
  • (17) "What she seems to be is a bridge between 1950s nationalism, which might be regarded as old-fashioned tweed and tartan SNP, and the modern social democratic SNP that is being forged in Holyrood."
  • (18) Ilves was dressed in his trademark tweeds and bow tie, a counterpoint to his mission to make Estonia the most digitally progressive country in Europe .
  • (19) There was also a tendency to grey flannels and tweed jackets, and a "deplorable old raincoat".
  • (20) The male doctor wearing a tweed jacket and informal shirt and tie scored fewer low marks and this was therefore the least disliked of the outfits.