What's the difference between wooden and woody?

Wooden


Definition:

  • (a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
  • (a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
  • (2) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (3) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
  • (4) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
  • (5) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
  • (6) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
  • (7) On buccal tooth surfaces, the cleaning effect of a multitufted nylon brush was superior to that of a wooden toothpick or unwaxed dental floss.
  • (8) Wooden construction results in low cost and minimizes radiation scatter problems associated with higher density materials.
  • (9) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
  • (10) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
  • (11) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
  • (12) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
  • (13) The patient acquired this fungus by cutting his chin on a wooden floor.
  • (14) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
  • (15) However, this method was much less efficient (31% survival of micro-organisms) on site 3 (wooden surface) than methods 2 (7% survival) and 3 (1% survival).
  • (16) A wooden block is glued to the sound claw and parenteral antibiotics are administered for four to six days.
  • (17) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
  • (18) Corrective measures: Chagas: Since brick houses have replaced the wooden ones for several years, new infections are unlikely.
  • (19) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
  • (20) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.

Woody


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
  • (a.) Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
  • (2) In the 1990s Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie, began a labour of love, gathering up all her father's papers and creating the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City.
  • (3) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
  • (4) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
  • (5) Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, based on his 1994 film, gets six nominations.
  • (6) He raised $3.1m , and then explained the Kickstarter crowdfunding concept to Woody Allen, who apparently "won't stop talking" about it .
  • (7) Here, fruit and vegetables left unsold each day in Budgens are mulched, along with woody branches and soil, by the 20 local people who volunteer in the garden.
  • (8) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
  • (9) In what was a golden night for the veterans, Martin Scorsese won best director for his 3D fantasy Hugo and Woody Allen took the screenplay prize for Midnight in Paris.
  • (10) In the autumn large amounts of a major storage protein accumulate in the woody stem of poplar trees.
  • (11) During the interview, I will see a flash of another mode from Keaton, on the subject of Woody Allen .
  • (12) The disorder appeared after an acute episode of tonsillitis, followed by non-pitting, woody hardness of the skin of the face, neck, shoulders and upper part of the trunk.
  • (13) To investigate an apparent decline of the onchocerciasis vector Simulium woodi, in the Simulium neavei group, weekly 12-hour biting catches on man were carried out for 13 months near Amani and compared with those obtained 22 years earlier.
  • (14) Alas, as I don’t have a copy of The Alchemist to hand – and with it a pencil to write, in the words of Woody Allen , “Yes, very true!” in every margin – I’ll just have to get on with it.
  • (15) Woody Allen's nakedly auto­biographical film is the Oscar-winning sensation which put him on the map – and it's probably his best film, too.
  • (16) The second technique is an adaptive filter method of averaged cross-correlations, developed by Woody (1967), which deals with the variable latency problem.
  • (17) In May, more than 120 prominent international writers and artists, including Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patti Smith, Woody Allen and Stephen Sondheim, called on Sisi to release Naji in a letter sent by free speech organisation PEN America.
  • (18) For Beale – known as “Woody” to his friends – the barbershop trip is not just a quick in-and-out appointment.
  • (19) The restoration of This Land Is Your Land demonstrates the dichotomies of Woody Guthrie and the American patriotic left, which loves the land (the dream, even) but fights the system – only to be embraced by that system.
  • (20) A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish , plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.