What's the difference between starred and starry?

Starred


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Star
  • (a.) Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.
  • (a.) Influenced in fortune by the stars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
  • (2) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
  • (3) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
  • (4) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
  • (5) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
  • (6) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
  • (7) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
  • (8) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
  • (9) It also has one of the highest female university rates anywhere in the world.” The UAE-based Rotana hotels is planning to open a number of hotels in Iran, and France’s leading hotelier, Accor, is involved in at least two four-star hotels in the country.
  • (10) The EFDD role is a lucrative one and involves representing rightwing MEPs from across the EU, including populist parties such as the Swedish Democrats and Italy’s Five Star Movement.
  • (11) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
  • (12) HTC needs to move from being star struck fan to star of its own ads.
  • (13) I called it following the Star Trek Non-Interference Directive.
  • (14) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
  • (15) Where Jim Broadbent stands as an inherently warm screen presence, his co-star's image is rather more flinty.
  • (16) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
  • (17) Mimics are stars and the country’s finest impersonators have their own television shows.
  • (18) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
  • (19) 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.
  • (20) Likewise, Blanchett's co-star Alec Baldwin appeared to call for an end to the public nature of the row, terming Dylan's allegations "this family's personal struggle".

Starry


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
  • (a.) Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.
  • (a.) Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.
  • (a.) Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the Warthin-Starry stain, we anticipate a redefinition of this disease.
  • (2) The "garland" subtype had significantly more proteinuria than both the "starry sky" (p = 0.04) and "mesangial" (p = 0.003) subtypes.
  • (3) A "starry sky" pattern closely resembling the human tumor material was preserved in every tumor through serial animal passage.
  • (4) Kidneys were cultured for leptospires, examined histologically after Warthin-Starry silver staining and after immunogold silver staining (IGSS), and tested for leptospiral DNA by DNA hybridization.
  • (5) Only in lymph nodes of normal rats, in which tumor metastasis regressed, was the characteristic "starry sky" appearance observed.
  • (6) Metabolism of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) in vivo and in vitro was studied using two benthic fish species, English sole (Parophrys vetulus) and starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus), and Sprague-Dawley rats.
  • (7) All 32 patients with active chronic gastritis at 234 out of 320 sites were positive for C pylori: 227 showed colonisation with C pylori by the Warthin-Starry stain; and 222 were positive by culture.
  • (8) The "English-Wear bacillus" was demonstrated by the Warthin-Starry stain in 10 of 14 skin or lymph node specimens.
  • (9) By Warthin-Starry silver strain borrelia-like structures were detected in 9 out of 28 ECM, in 3 out of 12 ACA and in 1 out of 5 LCB skin specimens.
  • (10) The 'starry-sky' macrophages were weakly positive with antimuramidase antiserum and strongly positive with the antisera against immunoglobulins, thus demonstrating their phagocytic and histiocytic nature.
  • (11) In the differentiation of liver tumours, sharp & smooth boundary, presence of marginal hypoechoic zone, mosaic pattern, starry anechoic area, posterior echo enhancement and lateral shadows were important for HCC.
  • (12) The high prevalence of liver neoplasms in English sole (Parophrys vetulus) and substantially lower prevalence of neoplasms in a closely related species, starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus) captured from industrialized waterways, provide a unique opportunity to compare biochemical processes involved in chemical carcinogenesis in feral fish species.
  • (13) It was a starry event that lured some of the biggest names in Hollywood along with a sprinkling of the Muscovite elite.
  • (14) I would sit on the balcony in the evening, under the starry sky in a city without lights, without noise, and I would listen to Chinese music During a siege, candles and batteries are essential.
  • (15) Hoarfrost formed like starry ferns on the cavern ceiling of their outpost.
  • (16) Between bursts of machine-gun fire and the crump of explosions – unmuffled in crisp mountain air – the starry sky above the Syrian frontier offers ethereal distraction.
  • (17) Still from the Dardennes brothers Two Days, One Night Two Days, One Night, by the double Palme-winning Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, features a very starry lead actor: Marion Cotillard as Sandra, a woman who has the weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so she can keep her job.
  • (18) The biopsy specimens were stained by the Warthin-Starry method for Campylobacter like organisms and were also graded "blind," as described in the preceding paper, for the five features that we believe may constitute the histological picture of reflux gastritis.
  • (19) The aims of this study were to: a) evaluate the prevalence of Campylobacter pylori (CP) in patients referred to a gastroenterology unit for upper digestive tract endoscopy, b) compare the results of histologic (Warthin-Starry method) and bacteriologic (direct and culture) examinations, c) correlate the presence and abundance of CP with the "activity" of chronic gastritis as assessed by antral and fundic specimens, and d) report the preliminary results of an epidemiological survey in the area of Nantes, France.
  • (20) Performing arts students are particularly vulnerable because teachers of music, drama, etc are revered as “gurus” whom their starry-eyed charges believe to be godlike and all-powerful.

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