What's the difference between winter and wintry?

Winter


Definition:

  • (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
  • (n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
  • (v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (2) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
  • (3) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
  • (4) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
  • (5) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
  • (6) The growth of the subantarctic King penguin chick is distinguished from that of other penguins by its long winter fasting period (from 2 weeks to 3 months).
  • (7) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
  • (8) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
  • (9) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
  • (10) Altogether 60% of the readmissions occurred during the two winter months (June and July).
  • (11) They were divided into three groups and fed the following forages during the winter of 1972-1973.
  • (12) Seasonal fluctuations in IOP were observed (P = 0.0007), with higher IOP occurring in the winter.
  • (13) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
  • (14) It may be winter but all of you together are generating some serious street heat," he said.
  • (15) It's not going to be all right, winter is upon us and people need to take action now."
  • (16) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
  • (17) However, in late fall, winter and early spring AC is not really necessary.
  • (18) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (19) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
  • (20) Bright artificial light has been found effective in reducing winter depressive symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, although conclusions about the true magnitude of treatment effect and importance of time of day of light exposure have been limited by methodologic problems.

Wintry


Definition:

  • (a.) Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That's a high price to pay for one day of cheers on a wintry Wednesday.
  • (2) On the banks of the Firth of Forth, the Longannet power station dominates the wintry horizon, a massive box in the shadow of its skyscraper chimney stack.
  • (3) The 30th Sundance film festival kicks off on Thursday in the mountain resort of Park City, Utah, against a backdrop of wintry conditions for the independent motion picture.
  • (4) Further wintry showers are expected to move south as the week progresses.
  • (5) Parts of northern England could see wintry showers on Saturday, while on Sunday many parts of the country will see both sunny spells and rain, she said.
  • (6) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
  • (7) A big chunk of the US is getting a blast of wintry weather under what Accuweather has called the worst ice storm of the year .
  • (8) Parts of Britain face continued freezing temperatures from wintry weather that has brought days of disruption to parts of the country.
  • (9) The north-west of England will be mainly wet with wintry showers through the day, especially on coasts.
  • (10) Since he became prime minister in 2013, Gunnlaugsson has overseen sensitive negotiations with the creditors of the three big Icelandic banks that collapsed during the 2008 crisis – while knowing, the leaked documents show, that his wife’s offshore company, Wintris Inc, which lost 515m kronur (£2.8m) in the crash, was owed a sizeable sum from their bankruptcies.
  • (11) The travel chaos ensuedon Sunday as the worst of the wintry showers came to an end across the country and forecasters predicted dry conditions and a partial thaw.
  • (12) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • (13) Power has been restored to about 9,000 homes cut off by the wintry weather in the Peak District, according to Western Power Distribution.
  • (14) He just made it to the door as we left, standing with difficulty in the wintry sun: no fuss, no self-pity, just an immense courtesy that endured to the end.
  • (15) A h, the many Proustian pleasures to be derived from a renewed acquaintance with Roy Ward Baker 's 1958 Titanic melodrama A Night To Remember ... Last seen by me on some wintry Sunday afternoon in the prepubescent early 1970s, probably in the same post-prandial time-slot where I first encountered The Cockleshell Heroes, Carve Her Name With Pride and The Colditz Story – the dull roar of British postwar self-congratulation on film.
  • (16) Across the road, High Water has a kind of wintry European cabin feel, with wooden ceiling beams and another great cocktail menu.
  • (17) The Met Office said people in north Wales, northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland could expect severe gales with gusts of about 70mph and frequent wintry showers.
  • (18) Wintry showers are expected to hit the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Wednesday and Thursday.
  • (19) Heavy wintry showers across southern Scotland will clear to leave a fine day with long spells of sunshine.
  • (20) Forecasting snow is always challenging and there’s often a fine line between whether it will rain or snow in a particular location depending on slight changes in air temperature.” The outlook for the UK over the weekend was for generally dry weather on Saturday, with sunny spells across most of England and Scotland and a few showers, locally wintry, in Northern Ireland and western and easternmost parts of Britain.