What's the difference between tatty and torn?

Tatty


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of it has become a bit tatty over the years, but that's all part of the eccentricity and charm of the place.
  • (2) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
  • (3) Adopted as a political prisoner by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, he received thousands of cards and letters of support – a tiny sample jammed into a tatty brown envelope bearing the address of Russia's federal prisons service.
  • (4) He turned out instead in the same tatty old jackets and pale yellow shirts without a tie that he had had in his wardrobe for decades.
  • (5) Carlisle's fiancé, Trevor Harris, pulls out a tatty fiver from his pocket to draw his own comparisons.
  • (6) Burns is, according to the poet Edwin Muir, "to the respectable, a decent man; to the Rabelaisian, bawdy; to the sentimentalist, sentimental; to the socialist, a revolutionary; to the nationalist, a patriot; to the religious, pious …" So no doubt, this January at the start of referendum year , even diehard unionists will be searching around for words of his that seem to support their position and, where they can extrapolate them, sprinkling them around with abandon to salt their haggis, neeps and tatties at Burns suppers the length and breadth of the land.
  • (7) "Cataclysmic money" was spent razing extant if tatty inner city zones, with their diverse uses, their self-generated social and economic energy vibrating on crowded sidewalks.
  • (8) It is 10am and the tatty apartment blocks of southern Moscow are still shrouded in winter darkness as a slender young woman hurries towards the metro.
  • (9) The 12 panel members, all undecided voters, flagged up a wide range of issues, from affordable housing to cycling safety, from the tattiness of some parts of Taunton to the lack of a decent music venue that might tempt big bands further west than Bristol.
  • (10) Discussions at the central bank over whether to replace the tatty paper fiver with a tougher polymer version started in 2010.
  • (11) Travel talismans in the shape of little monsters are a collaboration with jewellers Tatty Devine.
  • (12) the more tatty the present licence-fee system looks.
  • (13) Nothing beats a whisky hangover like the uber-Scottish Tattie Stack – a pile of double potato scone and smoked bacon topped with Stornoway black pudding and a fried egg.
  • (14) You can see what Man City has done for the programme and the staff and the participants,” said Kelly, who had gone from taking sessions for six kids on tatty, ripped astroturf eight years ago to having use of City’s money-no-object Etihad Campus.
  • (15) Rosie Wolfenden, co-founder and managing director of jewellery brand Tatty Devine Rosie Wolfenden started the East London-based business alongside Harriet Vine in 1999.
  • (16) "My leg was fractured by a bullet," he said, lifting a tatty sheet to reveal a thick white plaster cast.
  • (17) In the tatty corridors of the school, Abdullah's bodyguard was showing off his hand to journalists – just half an hour earlier his right index finger had been dipped in supposedly indelible ink after he cast his vote.
  • (18) That it took two years for the first Observer Magazine to appear says much about the debate that went on in the paper's cramped and tatty offices in Tudor Street, just off Fleet Street.
  • (19) A recent front-page report in the Sun pictured tatty furniture and dodgy light fittings.
  • (20) But sometimes they are small, dark, have no cupboards, tatty sheets, and an unpleasant shared bathroom.

Torn


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Tear
  • () p. p. of Tear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The logistics of maintaining and supplying underground clinics located in war-torn rural Afghanistan are presented.
  • (2) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (3) The shredded fibres were trimmed in most cases and this allowed better definition of the amount of ligament considered to be torn.
  • (4) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
  • (5) Plibersek on Thursday ruled out supporting sending ground troops into Syria, after the government announced on Wednesday that it would extend airstrikes into the war-torn country .
  • (6) We hurtled into Barcelona at speeds that should have torn Eglantine's juddering Peugeot 205 apart.
  • (7) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
  • (8) The capsule is reattached to the boney rim of the anterioinferior glenoid deep to and lateral to the torn cartilagenous labrum, thus excluding the labrum from the joint anteriorly.
  • (9) Nine pedunculated benign synoviomata causing mechanical symptoms similar to those of a torn meniscus are described.
  • (10) The UNHCR estimates there are more than 60 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, with over 4 million Syrians alone leaving their war-torn country to seek safety in neighbouring countries and Europe.
  • (11) David Cameron has attacked Labour's "rank hypocrisy" in calling for him to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as he claimed his visit to the country's war-torn north will help give a voice to the dispossessed.
  • (12) 'I am all the African chiefs who have sold their continent to the white men' … Samuel Fosso's self-portrait as an African chief The life work of one of Africa's most important living photographers and contemporary artists, Samuel Fosso , has been rescued from destruction after his studio and home were attacked by looters in war-torn Central African Republic .
  • (13) Arthroscopic operative procedures include the inspection of a torn glenoid labrum and certain lesions of the biceps tendon, viewing a torn rotator cuff, locating loose bodies in the shoulder, surgery for recurrent dislocations, and division of the coracoacromial ligament.
  • (14) Although not within the scope of this article, acute arthroscopic repair of a torn meniscus, evaluation of the degree of tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, and arthroscopic repair of osteochondral fractures are all benefited by acute arthroscopic examination.
  • (15) Jelacic's plans are to impact the tribunal's work in a country more torn than at any time during the war: "They involve entrenching the current outreach offices and moving the operation and the defence lines from The Hague to the Balkans: not just to Sarajevo, Zagreb, Belgrade and Pristina - but to the municipalities, the villages themselves.
  • (16) The quality of ultrasound image obtained from the patients in vivo proved similar to that obtained during the in vitro studies, and in addition six ulcerative lesions including two with torn intima were detected with transesophageal echocardiography.
  • (17) Those that do exist bear Saudi Arabia's logo, but they are torn and thin – leftovers from a huge aid donation during cyclone Nargis.
  • (18) In the marginal area, bone can be found lying open with torn remnants, which are lying free in the coagulum.
  • (19) The torn segment was mobile, the remainder of the meniscus stable.
  • (20) They also plan to disrupt the work of the crews by calling the Libyan coastguard and asking them to take migrants and refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean back to war-torn Libya.

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