What's the difference between tardy and tarry?

Tardy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.
  • (superl.) Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
  • (superl.) Unwary; unready.
  • (superl.) Criminal; guilty.
  • (v. t.) To make tardy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But even if he had a real-life Tardis it is unlikely that he would travel beyond the here and now, such is his ubiquity across screen and stage.
  • (2) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
  • (3) Laughing out loud, laugh out loud (used chiefly in electronic communication to draw attention to a joke of amusing statement, or to express amusement.” Despite criticism at the time, the OED had in fact been tardy in deciding to include it.
  • (4) I've known for a very long time how to work the Tardis.
  • (5) I guess you have to do what you can when you don't have a Tardis.
  • (6) Although Twitter has been criticised for its tardy response to the threats directed at Creasy and Criado-Perez, Whittingdale said he did not know enough about the case to be able to comment on it.
  • (7) He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who , complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock.
  • (8) Anterior subcutaneous transposition is a good method for treating tardy ulnar palsy.
  • (9) The results show that: elders have substantial levels of forgetting; nonadherence decreases with higher cognitive test scores; portable bar code scanners are useful for monitoring adherence; and voice mail reduces tardiness and complete forgetting.
  • (10) The pirouette mutation was tested for possible genetic linkage with naked neck, tardy feathering, the MN t(Z;1) chromosome rearrangement, all assigned to distinctly different regions of Chromosome 1, and the OH inv(2) chromosome rearrangement and shankless (associated with the OH inv(2) rearrangement).
  • (11) Gay rights campaigners point to the Reagan administration’s reluctance to accept the seriousness of Aids as a health issue and tardiness in tackling the resulting crisis in the 1980s.
  • (12) Even on Saturday, Emmanuel Steward, commentating for HBO, complained repeatedly about the champion's mindset - his insistence on watching the Celtics vs Heat Game 7 , his tardiness to the ring - while praising the collected nature and focus of his younger opponent.
  • (13) Cubitus varus cases with tardy ulnar nerve palsy, compared to cases without it, were older at the first visit to the clinic for cubitus varus deformity.
  • (14) Tardy ulnar nerve palsy in the child is an infrequent occurrence.
  • (15) Thewlis described his conversations with Reynolds in the eccentric Clerkenwell watering hole The Tardis, "about Jesse James and James Joyce".
  • (16) But he made amends in the 52nd minute when the Jets expertly exploited Adelaide's tardiness.
  • (17) Nigel Farage , who was so late to a Ukip pre-conference event in Port Talbot that it ended before he arrived, says his tardiness is nothing to do with his professionalism, but is in fact because of immigrants.
  • (18) Tardy or incompletely dissected circular plaster bandage turned out to be a factor of complication.
  • (19) Smith said: "He took quite a lot of interest in the Tardis's controls and asked a lot of questions about it.
  • (20) An unpleasant feature of these glaucomas is that, somehow or other, treatment comes too late: complete cupping of the optic disk when the ophthalmologist is first consulted, increased intraocular pressure in exfoliation syndrome detected too late, or a tardy decision to perform an iridotomy or a fistulizing operation.

Tarry


Definition:

  • (n.) Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
  • (v. i.) To stay or remain behind; to wait.
  • (v. i.) To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.
  • (v. i.) To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
  • (v. t.) To delay; to defer; to put off.
  • (v. t.) To wait for; to stay or stop for.
  • (n.) Stay; stop; delay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the next 8 months, she repeated abdominal pain, tarry stool and subcutaneous hemorrhage for three times and after an angiography large hematoma at puncture site appeared.
  • (2) Initially, the steer passed tarry feces for 2 days, but no feces were passed for 4 days before examination.
  • (3) Endoscopic examination of a 35-year-old patient complaining of tarry stool, palpitation and lumbago led to a diagnosis of gastric cancer of Borrmann type 4.
  • (4) Uncommon also is the tarrying behaviour of nephropathy.
  • (5) They waited, swaying like new calves, still wet from their tarry sacs, swinging umbrella-sized cranes.
  • (6) Many authors have reported that urological anomalies associate commonly with this syndrome, but recently a new concept of this syndrome was proposed by Tarry and associates.
  • (7) Postoperatively, tarry stool was passed, for which she received an examination at the department of internal medicine.
  • (8) With single (35 patients) and five-consecutive-day (36 patients) administration, the dose-limiting factor was found to be tarry stool, remarkable decrease in hemoglobin content, and strong nipple and breast pain.
  • (9) Tarry a minute on Prince, before we get on to the commissioning splice that led to two different organisations being paid for this stewarding, while some stewards themselves got paid with a bag of wet carbohydrate.
  • (10) A 45 day old boy presented with progressive abdominal distension, tarry stools and anemia.
  • (11) Its chief executive, Stewart Wingate, said: “A low-cost carrier flying to the Big Apple for a small price shows how fast aviation is changing and highlights one of a series of future trends that will have a huge bearing on the UK’s runways debate.” The airport unveiled a new report by independent aviation consultant Chris Tarry, which set out how the latest generation of aircraft could affect London airport expansion, with a fuel economy, size and range that lowers the need for connecting passengers and opens up the development of low-cost long-haul services.
  • (12) A 61-year-old man with weight loss, malaise, and tarry stool demonstrated diffuse lymphoma, large-cell type, and two early gastric carcinomas.
  • (13) The second case is a 40-year-old man who developed tarry stools 5 days after renal transplantation.
  • (14) The cohort was studied because employment in some of the plants had been linked to malignant and nonmalignant skin lesions attributed to exposure to tarry by-products.
  • (15) At one point in this first volume, Twain observes that man is loving and loveable to his own, but "otherwise the buzzing, busy, trivial enemy of his race – who tarries his little day, does his little dirt, commends himself to God, and then goes out into the darkness, to return no more, and send no messages back – selfish even in death".
  • (16) In December, 1986, repeated tarry stool was noted, and he was readmitted to hospital on January, 28, 1987, because of severe anemia.
  • (17) Sometimes, when I've missed the football by choosing to tarry in the pub, I discover that I don't need the English subtitles at all and can understand perfectly what lovely Birgitte is saying in her native Danish.
  • (18) Reported is the case of a 57-year-old male patient, who manifested tarry stool and who had undergone a subtotal gastrectomy at our hospital in 1983 for an early carcinoma, type IIc, which proved to be a well differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma.
  • (19) On twenty-one months after discharge, the patient noticed left leg pain and tarry stool, and was referred to our hospital.
  • (20) A 65-year-old male was admitted complaining of tarry stool and angina.