What's the difference between silverware and silvery?

Silverware


Definition:

  • (n.) Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their only problem now is finding somewhere to keep the first major piece of silverware in their history: the DW Stadium does not even have a purpose‑built trophy cabinet.
  • (2) It was extremely important to me that this transfer was completed before the World Cup so that my mind will only be focused on hopefully helping my country try to retain the trophy.” With Barcelona, who failed to win any silverware last season, hiring Luis Enrique as head coach last month, they have embarked on what is expected to be a transitional phase.
  • (3) But the reality is he's a specialist because, eight years without a piece of silverware, that's failure.
  • (4) United are keeping an open mind in case the Champions League semi-finalists fall short in their attempt to win more silverware.
  • (5) But the estates he inherited from his father in 1979 when he became the 6th Duke of Westminster certainly furnished the equivalent of many canteens of silverware.
  • (6) The impression remains that the Spain captain is leaving under a cloud after he was whistled by some fans at the Bernabeu last season, when the club failed to win major silverware.
  • (7) Gerrard is determined to end on a high a Liverpool career that has brought every major honour with the glaring exception of the Premier League title, with more silverware – Rodgers’ team face Chelsea in the Capital One Cup semi-finals later this month – and a top-four finish his priorities before he departs.
  • (8) Woodstock Vintage has beautiful things, from amazing linen to silverware, and I love the galleries, like What If The World , celebrating young, contemporary South African artists, and Southern Guild, which showcases the best of local design.
  • (9) This quarter-final was billed as the last chance of silverware for two clubs who have had disappointing seasons, and that was what it looked like.
  • (10) Mancini's track record is impressive, that trio of Serie A titles at San Siro supplemented by silverware including Italian Cup triumphs with Inter, Fiorentina and Lazio.
  • (11) Aside from any effort to undermine Tottenham psychologically, Arsenal may be starting to think there would be no harm in landing any piece of silverware.
  • (12) Barcelona and Atlético Madrid's chances of silverware have been dealt potentially devastating blows after they lost key players to injury in Tuesday's Champions League match, with the home side's centre-back Gerard Piqué damaging a hip and the visitors' top scorer Diego Costa limping off with what appeared to be a hamstring strain.
  • (13) From the outside the 37-year-old's arrival appeared a luxury aimed at raising the club's profile, potentially with an ambassadorial brief with Qatar 2022, rather than a free transfer signing who might influence a three-pronged pursuit of silverware.
  • (14) José Mourinho had entered the January window anticipating no major business, having declared his satisfaction with a squad who have lost only twice in all competitions this season and remain in the hunt for silverware on four fronts.
  • (15) Players, coaches, and front office staff alike have all publicly committed to the Open Cup run and the desire to bring silverware to the club is strong.
  • (16) Roman Abramovich had come to Monte Carlo hoping to watch his team hoist silverware again and set the tone for the months ahead.
  • (17) Terry, who received an elbow in the head from Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Saturday’s penalty shootout win over Paris Saint-Germain , is now focused solely on the present with Chelsea and is intent on helping deliver more silverware in the coming season.
  • (18) Someone, one day, may have to own up to making a considerable dent in the silverware itself, just beneath the engraving "Chelsea Football Club 2012", though this was not the time to be talking of depressions of any kind.
  • (19) Life did not improve that much at Real Sociedad, either, but his quality was established at Preston North End and Everton, even if silverware was always elusive.
  • (20) The demands at this club are the utmost because Madrid always wants to win silverware.

Silvery


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
  • (a.) Besprinkled or covered with silver.
  • (a.) Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With fat silvery frames wrapping around groups of floors in a vain attempt to break up the sheer bulk, it looks like a stack of hard drives or the back of a computer server – an accidental nod to the nearby Silicon Roundabout.
  • (2) From the meeting room window, you could sense the corporation's heritage and scale: the immense old grey whale of Television Centre to the south, its 50-year-old curves barnacled with more recent additions; to the west, the long silvery blocks of the BBC's newer "Media Village", opened in 2004, at the peak of the corporation's modern expansion, by Jonathan Ross himself.
  • (3) They have arranged the new paving into a broad diamond pattern of pale granite on dark, put all the street lighting on to a row of tall, silvery masts.
  • (4) An odd-looking fellow, with a deep voice, a weather-beaten face and silvery hair, topped by a beret worn in military fashion.
  • (5) This layer contains a horseshoe-shaped gland, the choroid gland, the outer portion of which is surrounded by a layer of silvery guanin crystals generally termed the argentea.
  • (6) To examine the changes in secretion of growth hormone (GH) and prolactin (PRL) with reference to their osmoregulatory roles, changes in pituitary mRNA levels and plasma concentrations of these hormones were examined during seawater adaptation in silvery juveniles (smolts) and precociously mature males (dark parr) of amago salmon (Oncorhynchus rhodurus).
  • (7) Sir John may have hair that is more silvery than ever, and his sky-blue tie shines like the sun on a tropical sea at daybreak, but he still brings a powerful whiff of the past.
  • (8) It is Patrick Dempsey growing from spindly tween idol into a silvery heartthrob.
  • (9) In her biography, Dusty , Lucy O’Brien quotes Jerry Wexler, who produced Dusty in Memphis along with Arif Mardin, talking about the uniqueness of her sound: “There were no traces of black in her singing, she’s not mimetic… She has a pure silvery stream.” Silvery, I like that.
  • (10) Her long blond hair, tied back as usual, has turned silvery grey.
  • (11) Built on an artificial island, it looks beautiful from above, with all the complexity of an airport resolved into a single silvery object.
  • (12) Courtesy of Sir Peter Blake He started to do them in a thin, silvery watercolour, which he felt conveyed the essence of a dream, but later adopted a wider palette after realising that his own dreams were in colour.
  • (13) The managing director of the IMF may look like one of those statuesque silvery models who appear in Weekend's All Ages fashion pages, but she is one of the world's most powerful women, in the eye of the world's worst storm in living memory.
  • (14) Atlantic fronts barrel in, clouds tussle, shafts of sunbeams and great fat silvery pools of light chase over swelling seas to fields of infinite greens.
  • (15) A silvery thread snakes through paper made from white cotton.
  • (16) Clad with vertical solar fins designed to protect the interior offices from glare, these silvery slats are stretched open as the building swells upwards, giving it the look of a broad-shouldered banker bursting out of his pin-striped suit – now with deadly laser beam eyes.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diego Nazario, back, and Emanuel Dantas Borges, train in the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, surrounded by dead small silvery fish.
  • (18) In a recent study by Miceli, Silveri, Romani, and Caramazza (Brain and Language, 1989, 36, 447-492), free speech records for 20 unselected Italian-speaking agrammatic patients were analyzed along a variety of linguistic parameters, with particular emphasis on substitution and omission errors within traditional "part of speech" categories.
  • (19) Gaze out on to the silvery surf unrolling behind your cruise liner?
  • (20) An increase in seawater adaptability was observed in silvery juvenile amago salmon as underyearlings from autumn to winter, when some of the wild population migrate to the sea.

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