What's the difference between tarry and terry?

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.

Terry


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (2) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (3) His decision to be filmed has echoes of the death of Guernsey-based hotelier Peter Smedley, whose assisted death in 2011 was screened in a documentary by the late Sir Terry Pratchett for the BBC .
  • (4) They survived Gary Cahill's injury, John Terry's red card and going behind, and still had time to see Lionel Messi, the greatest player in the world, miss a penalty.
  • (5) Ferdinand says the state of Louis van Gaal’s defence is such that Stones would immediately become its linchpin but that the former Barnsley player may not be ready to dislodge John Terry or Gary Cahill from Chelsea’s backline.
  • (6) His lawyers argued their ability to organise witnesses on Terry's behalf was seriously hampered by Chelsea's demanding season.
  • (7) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.
  • (8) While Terry said that he did not see anyone else while confined at Homan in 2011, he said he heard people yelling “no, no, no” and “stop”.
  • (9) That, however, tells only part of the story of a night in which Chelsea went 2-0 ahead, courtesy of headed goals from Didier Drogba and John Terry, only for Napoli to respond via a peach of shot from Gokhan Inler.
  • (10) And those of us who will go on watching men play are happy that it now offers a gallery of negative role models – Evans, Mackay, Whelan and Terry among them – from which those who follow them into the game can learn behaviours to avoid.
  • (11) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
  • (12) John Terry made the decisive contact, lashing in the loose ball, then quickly went back to making sure his own defence was not so generous.
  • (13) Given the intensely political nature of Eurovision voting – which contributed to Terry Wogan's decision to step down as British host – is it time to abandon the rule?
  • (14) He points to the whippet-like Andy Bond at Asda, the lean Sir Terry Leahy at Tesco and the "little bit chubby" Justin King at Sainsbury's as proof of his theory.
  • (15) Although Hodgson accepts the FA's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy – the issue which fractured Capello's relationship with his former employers – he intends to sit down with the Chelsea defender and Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand to gauge whether they can be in the same squad.
  • (16) The black Americans who were drafted from 1967 to 1970 called themselves Bloods, and many were influenced by the teachings and politics of Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. Terry explains: "They would wear black amulets, they would wear black beads, black gloves to show their identity and racial pride."
  • (17) Updated at 3.59am GMT 3.52am GMT DCL (@DCL9) " @NotCoachTito :"Brandon Doin' Work, Man" @LengelDavid "Tag this thing & bag it now.Let's get this one to make sure there's a game 6 in #Boston October 27, 2013 Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) Brandon Workman is coming to the plate batting for himself.
  • (18) Tugendhat also stated that "in the language of defamation, the information would be capable of lowering [Terry] in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally".
  • (19) Rooney, Terry, Giggs … Footballers are hardly the gentlemen of your day, are they, Ron?
  • (20) Burns' ability to ride out a storm earned him the nickname "Teflon Terry".