What's the difference between silva and silvan?

Silva


Definition:

  • (n.) The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.
  • (n.) A description or history of the forest trees of a country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, he became surplus to requirements under Steve Bruce and followed Paulo da Silva and David Healy out of the Stadium of Light.
  • (2) However, the Iowa Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had done so.
  • (3) A story breaks, we then go to their home, we ask them to pose up, if they say no we'll move on and go away," Silva said.
  • (4) Manchester City: Hart, Zabaleta, Nastasic, Toure, Clichy, Javi Garcia, Toure, Nasri, Aguero, Silva, Tevez.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) Detachment of the plasma membrane from glutaraldehyde-fixed cells exposed the cytoplasmic surface of the acrosome to the lectin markers; freeze-fractured halves of the acrosomal membrane were marked by "fracture-label" (Aguas, A. P., and P. Pinto da Silva, 1983, J.
  • (7) Costa got his second while David Silva and substitute Álvaro Morata also got braces and Vitolo opened his international account as the former world champions ran riot.
  • (8) Welbeck's goal drought came to an end when Rafael da Silva wriggled clear on the right and managed to dig out a deep cross that the unmarked Adnan Januzaj, whom Moyes felt came in for some rough treatment, headed against the far post.
  • (9) "People who come here don't want a common, tourist hotel that might be more comfortable, with air conditioning and TV," said Nadkarni's wife, Marluce da Silva.
  • (10) Rohan Silva is co-founder of Second Home, a social enterprise that creates new cultural venues and creative workplaces for entrepreneurs.
  • (11) Silva c Prior b Anderson 13 (Sri Lanka 37-1) Anderson continues for the eighth and presumably final over of his opening spell and again he beats the bat with successive deliveries, drawing a checked drive outside off then a cautious poke.
  • (12) Without Sergio Agüero and David Silva it was probably inevitable that City would not be at their most exhilarating.
  • (13) Maria Osmarina da Silva was born in 1958 in a community of rubber tappers called Seringal Bagaço, deep in the western state of Acre, not far from the border with Bolivia.
  • (14) City, and Silva in particular, continued to move the ball at a speed that troubled their opponents but they had a raw edge.
  • (15) That's likely to mean a tweak in set-up – most likely Vidal will play in more of an advanced role, with Silva adding extra ballast in behind him.
  • (16) "I cannot imagine that people can trust a party that – for 12 years – put in place a director to raid the coffers of Petrobras," Silva said at a speech in Rio last week that called for executives to be appointed by an independent search committee.
  • (17) Forget Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure and David Silva, if Manchester City want to win the league today, they should have signed Andy Cole.
  • (18) Brazil’s corruption crackdown is welcome The arrest of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could mark the beginning of the end of a political and financial crisis that has ensnared politicians and plunged the economy into recession.
  • (19) Many others told Bolivia – some of us want to use them… maybe not now but we want to keep options open,” added Silva-Chávez.
  • (20) If Silva is trying to make it back to the summit, Bisping is still trying find it.

Silvan


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.
  • (n.) See Sylvanium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Jerusalem, Silvan Shalom, the Israeli foreign minister, said Israel was disappointed with New Zealand's reaction.
  • (2) Silvan Shalom, speaking after meeting the Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat in the West Bank city of Jericho, told reporters: "We hope that the talks between Israel and the Palestinians in Washington will begin next week, hopefully Tuesday.
  • (3) Shortly after the exit polls were released, the Likud minister Silvan Shalom said that Netanyahu would invite Bennett – the leader of the far-right, pro-settler party Jewish Home – Lieberman, the ultra-Orthodox parties and Kahlon to join a rightwing coalition in the next two days.
  • (4) Swiss tradition meets contemporary design at this revamped four-star with spa run by the family of ski-racing stars Pirmin, Heidi and Silvan Zurbriggen.
  • (5) The Israeli energy minister, Silvan Shalom, raised the issue at a ministerial conference in Rome last week and held talks on the margins with the EU’s vice president for energy union, Maros Sefkovic, Israeli sources say.
  • (6) Hours after police set up checkpoints in Palestinian neighbourhoods of east Jerusalem, the interior minister, Silvan Shalom, said he was revoking the residency status of Palestinians from the city who had taken part in attacks on Jews.
  • (7) In the event, the Knesset never approved his pardon because of the vehement opposition of ministers such as Silvan Shalom, who said: "It is out of the question to free an assassin who has blood on his hands and was duly sentenced by a court."

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