What's the difference between technical and techy?
Technical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(3) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(4) The present status of percutaneous coronary angioplasty is presented, with a brief outline of current technique, the technical and clinical indications for the method, and the results being obtained.
(5) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(6) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(7) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(8) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(9) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(10) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(11) No impurities in the technical grade ether influenced the responses.
(12) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(13) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(14) Two hundred fifty-one cervical and 209 male urethral specimens from three Richmond health clinics were read by direct immunofluorescence staining and compared with cell culture technics using iodine staining.
(15) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
(16) It is shown that the membrane potential level, ionic current and membrane conductance depend on the cell cycle stage both in Misgurnus fossilis L. embryos and in Xenopus laevis Daudin embryos by the microelectrode technics.
(17) In 36 patients plastic reconstruction of the urinary bladder, sphincter and urethra was performed with local tissues after the Young technic in the G. A. Bairov modification.
(18) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
(19) However, little has been published regarding technical advances in optimal coverage of the peritoneal surface in whole abdominal radiation.
(20) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
Techy
Definition:
(a.) Peevish; fretful; irritable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sometimes men launch these attacks on each other, hack each other in displays of techie braggadocio, but it is essentially yet another unwanted cost of being female.
(2) I don’t mind that.” He bore no hostility to techies.
(3) Yet RBN was founded and is run by techies, not career criminals.
(4) Hell hath no fury like a mad techie scorned and, once the bill had passed, attention shifted to listing MPs who had vote no, or not voted at all – particularly those in marginal seats such as Glenda Jackson and Frank Dobson.
(5) But smartwatches have also suffered because of their techie appearance, failing to appeal to consumers who prefer watches as jewellery.
(6) I have been told in the past that it works better using a Chrome browser than Firefox, if you want to be all techy about it.
(7) This is an issue that falls uneasily between his band of greenies, whose main job is to look after the countryside, and the techies at the business department whose job, under Lord Mandelson, is to drive forward British business.
(8) "For a lot of the Russian techies [crime] became very lucrative," says Dr Mark Galeotti, director of the Organised Russian and Eurasian Crime Research Unit at Keele University.
(9) A few years ago Thiel told associates that he saw promise in young entrepreneur Cody Wilson, a self-described antiestablishment techie working on a project to make bitcoin untraceable for authorities.
(10) Their second disadvantage was even more critical: the Winklevii weren't techies, and so had no real insight into the technology and its possibilities.
(11) The campaign does not necessarily need thousands of techies to call its new initiative a success – just one or two great ideas could turbo charge the Obama campaign's already well-fueled machine, as was the case with the 2008 election.
(12) I want the techies to see that.” For Seymour, and many others here, that is an urgent mission.
(13) This is all the more remarkable given a huge increase in red tape: in 2014 Ed Techie estimated a 58% increase in legislation affecting universities over the past 20 years.
(14) Iron Man was always the most rock’n’roll of the Marvel superhero crew, but after almost destroying the world with his techy meddling in Avengers: Age of Ultron , it’s clear he’s lost his taste for unilateral action.
(15) OpenStreetMaps is itself at a turning point as it tries to progress from a techie-driven project to one that the ordinary consumer can not only understand but contribute to as well.
(16) Certainly, Bitcoin's future as a serious currency was of more interest to the techies at last Tuesday's conference, albeit as part of a series of presentations that made the whole scheme feel like it is still an academic debating point.
(17) Wearable technology = people continuing to look like idiots in public A continuation of the Google Glasshole trend of 2013, in which men put strange techy things on their faces and nearby women just try to pretend it's all not happening.
(18) She is West Yorkshire police cybercrime lead and when the job was created in 2015 she set out to round up top techies from across academia, specialist government departments and private industry.
(19) The problem of white supremacy in America can’t be fixed with more cops or a techie band-aid like body cams on cops; it is, at its root, a problem with spiritual and societal causes.
(20) Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer Klein and Raz-Fridman, 30, an ex-intelligence officer for the Israel defence forces, thought they could use the Raspberry Pi's cheapness and open source software's flexibility to make computer coding easier for non-techy people: "for fun, and purpose".