What's the difference between spirited and spitfire?
Spirited
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Spirit
(a.) Animated or possessed by a spirit.
(a.) Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(2) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(3) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(6) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(7) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(8) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
(9) Meeting the families shows how well-adjusted they are, their spirit and determination and the way they have acted is an absolute credit to themselves."
(10) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(11) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(12) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(13) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
(14) The country goes to the polls on Thursday in what observers see as its most spirited presidential race.
(15) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(16) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
(17) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
(18) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(19) In our time of rapidly changing life styles it is useful to understand that voices also mirror the spirit of an era.
(20) An increasing incidence of methylated spirit burns in barbecue users is documented in a three year retrospective survey.
Spitfire
Definition:
(n.) A violent, irascible, or passionate person.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Spitfire represents the British fighting spirit against Continental totalitarianism.
(2) Spitfires and Hurricanes dive across our screens in the Indian summer of 1940, and while the Few have acquired a golden aura burnished by Churchill's spine-tingling rhetoric, there is another narrative.
(3) Spitfires and Hurricanes flew over Buckingham Palace on Friday as the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Cambridge looked on.
(4) Tilly Shilling was an engineer who located and fixed a carburettor problem which caused Spitfire engines to stall in mid-air combat, and in so doing quite possibly turned the tide of the second world war.
(5) Squadron Leader Duncan Mason, from RAF Coningsby, who led the flypast in a Spitfire, said: “For us, taking part today was an incredible honour.
(6) Friends and family call him Joe, and he also seems fond of Joseph, which goes nicely with the retro-Brilliantine look currently enjoying a minor vogue among Premier League footballers – you can imagine Barton and Scott Parker, for example, kissing their sweethearts goodbye before jumping into their Spitfires and Hurricanes, though the quiffed hairdo might owe just as much to Barton's love of Morrissey.
(7) When you're actually fighting a war the quality that is really admirable is courage, and both she and her fighter pilot brother would have laughed at the idea that she did more to ensure victory in her cold cramped hut than he did in the cockpit of his Spitfire.
(8) And in one wartime picture, Cottage To Let (1941), he even characterised a Nazi fifth columnist, albeit in the guise of a dashing Spitfire pilot.
(9) Once the show finally began, Jay and Bey charged through their repertoire at a spitfire pace.
(10) In the minds of Europhobes and Spitfire reactionaries everywhere, we are still fighting the long great war.
(11) Spitfire Scramble Run the night shift of this 24-hour relay.
(12) He was commissioned as a pilot in 1944, and flew Spitfires with No 5 Squadron in India in 1946 before transferring to Germany with No 26 Squadron in 1947.
(13) A statement on the BNP website accused the former army chiefs of "breaking all military protocol" by voicing anger at the BNP's use of images of Churchill and Spitfires.
(14) The 200-year story of Sheffield Forgemasters is the story of British manufacturing: the place where they invented stainless steel, a half-mile long hall where crankshafts were made for Spitfire fighters, before the usual postwar mess of nationalisation, privatisation, strife, foreign sale and bankruptcy.
(15) The Airbourne International Airshow in Eastbourne ( eastbourneairshow.com, 15–18 Aug, free) will feature four displays from the Red Arrows, plus parachute teams, wing-walkers and the chance to see classic fighter planes, such as the Spitfire, being put through their paces.
(16) In fact he did, sort of, only on a smaller scale in his Bermondsey studio, heating up a model Spitfire on the end of a rod and plunging it at speed through an industrial vat of margarine, before casting its greasy flight path in plaster.
(17) Labour MP challenges Corbyn with unofficial Trident review Read more Pro-Trident Labour MPs were particularly exercised by her suggestion that the technology of Trident’s replacement deterrent would be as out of date as having Spitfire planes patrolling the skies within a few decades.
(18) He crashed a Hurricane in north Africa, receiving burns to his face and losing his eye, but returned to action in a Spitfire with 237 (Rhodesia) Squadron.
(19) Griffin reacted after former army chiefs, including General Sir Mike Jackson and General Sir Richard Dannatt, attacked the far-right's use of images such as Spitfire planes and Winston Churchill in campaign material for the European elections.
(20) But the war was won as much by the endurance and courage of everyone who was not a genius, and it's a great deal harder to emulate that than to imagine ourselves making breakthroughs of astonishing brilliance or dazzling at the controls of a Spitfire.