What's the difference between swart and swarthy?

Swart


Definition:

  • (n.) Sward.
  • (a.) Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
  • (a.) Gloomy; malignant.
  • (v. t.) To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "No serious international lawyer has applauded the US's failure to act in Rwanda," Mia Swart, a professor of international law at the University of Johannesburg, wrote in South Africa's Business Day newspaper "Syria should not be another Rwanda.
  • (2) Sonia Swart, the chief executive of Northampton general hospital NHS trust, said she had asked for her name to be removed.
  • (3) Translocation of outer membrane precursor proteins across the Escherichia coli inner membrane is severely hampered in lipid biosynthetic mutants with strongly reduced phosphatidylglycerol (PG) levels (De Vrije, T., De Swart, R. L., Dowhan, W., Tommassen, J., and De Kruijff, B.
  • (4) The guanine-nucleotide-binding domain (G domain) of elongation factor Tu(EF-Tu) consisting of 203 amino acid residues, corresponding to the N-terminal half of the molecule, has been recently engineered by deleting part of the tufA gene and partially characterized [Parmeggiani, A., Swart, G. W. M., Mortensen, K. K., Jensen, M., Clark, B. F. C., Dente, L. and Cortese, R. (1987) Proc.
  • (5) Meanwhile Dr Jeroen Swart, the world renowned South African physiologist who conducted a range of tests on Chris Froome last year, told the Guardian that, while the renewed attention on the use – and potential misuse – of TUEs was welcome, there were other performance enhancement issues in sport that needed addressing.
  • (6) We obtained an 80% overall agreement between the tests, confirming the levels of agreement reported by Rolak (87%) and Swart and Millac (92%).
  • (7) Swart specifically highlighted the use of cortisone out of competition, especially in cycling to lose weight without losing power, as well as thyroid medication use by runners to control appetite – both of which remain legal despite their apparent benefits.
  • (8) It is closely related to the sequence of protein SCMKB-IIIB3 (Haylett, Swart & Parris, 1971) differing in only four positions.
  • (9) It is homologous with protein SCMKB-IIIB2 (Haylett & Swart, 1969).

Swarthy


Definition:

  • (a.) Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces.
  • (v. t.) To make swarthy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "And you are the swarthy ever-ready cock of a horny-handed son of the soil who is a little bit middle-class and can quote Latin.
  • (2) Over the course of 500 pages he wrestles a swarthy rage he names "the Fury", battens down his cravings, sprays spit and snot and blood and urine, recounts his misdemeanours, finds friendship, and falls in love.
  • (3) It's difficult to get one's Review Show bloomers in a twist over, say, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue , a Spanish "eco-zombie" boggler in which swarthy extras lumber, plank–armed, through the Peak District while dressed like Jethro Tull after an industrial farming tragedy (sample line: "I'm mad about apples!").
  • (4) With his rotund figure, swarthy complexion, harrumphing manner, horn-rimmed spectacles, transatlantic tones and tendency to lurk loquaciously about the aisles at the interval, he was a familiar figure at West End openings.
  • (5) The role of Sherif Ali was pivotal in the film’s dramatic scheme, and Sharif’s swarthy, romantic aura was played off to great effect against the blue-eyed blondness of O’Toole’s Lawrence.