What's the difference between attic and noodle?

Attic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.
  • (a.) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:
  • (a.) A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.
  • (a.) An Athenian; an Athenian author.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A clinico-pathological study of 10 cases (including histopathology) indicates that occult cholesteatoma is neither a congenital cholesteatoma nor an epidermoid cyst, originating in the attic through a melaplastic process of middle ear mucosa behind an intact tympanic membrane.
  • (2) The first group represents cases treated with the conventional conservative technique for attic and middle ear surgery.
  • (3) I’ve lived in rooms in attics, and I worked till I was 70.
  • (4) This technique is very convenient for adult cholesteatomas developed in a sclerotic mastoid with an extension limited to mesotympanum and attic, to the children cholesteatomas developed in the mesotympanum with a sclerotic mastoid, for the correction of retraction pockets after a closed technique, rehabilitation of radical mastoidectomies, fibroadhesive otitis and some idiopathic glue tympanic membrane with a large cholesterol granuloma.
  • (5) Depending on the clinical background and on the aggressivity of the pathology, the posterior tympanotomy can be closed, and the attic and aditus cavities of the middle ear separated by a bony fragment leaving the protympanum open upwards to enable normal ventilation towards the attic, the aditus and the antrum, or much more rarely, these cavities can be completely closed.
  • (6) The mastoidectomy cavity in all the cases of simple suppurative otitis is totally aerated and that in over 60% of the cases of adhesive otitis, attic type cholesteatoma and adhesive type cholesteatoma is obliterated by a soft tissue density mass.
  • (7) Serous effusion occurred in the attic space within 2 days after surgery, whether or not the middle ear cavity (MEC) was artificially ventilated.
  • (8) It also helps if you have a house that neatly divides – a top floor or attic room with its own bathroom, for example.
  • (9) Procedures that use the posterosuperior chain approach the apex from the sinodural angle, the base of the zygomatic arch, the attic, or through the arch of the superior semicircular canal.
  • (10) He cooked it in his attic flat for a friend, an editor for the gourmands' bible Cuisine et Vins de France .
  • (11) Considerable attention should be paid to the configuration of the attic-antrum area, and in particular the presence or absence of Körner's septum (the petrosquamous suture).
  • (12) The second group represents cases on which the concept of 'radical attic and middle ear surgery' has been applied and an en bloc homograft has been used for reconstruction.
  • (13) Labelled the Caravaggio in the attic, France has put an export ban on the painting to stop it leaving the country while investigations are carried out.
  • (14) The only part of my house that can be easily rented out is the attic conversion, which comprises a separate bathroom and my bedroom.
  • (15) These results indicate that blockage of the ventilatory passages is not essential for formation of an attic cholesteatoma.
  • (16) Collections of this tick were associated with bat roosting sites in attics of houses.
  • (17) From rodent nesting materials found in the walls and attics of cabins where cases had occurred, infective Ornithodoros hermsi ticks were recovered.
  • (18) The epitympanum coincides with the attic (epitympanic recess).
  • (19) We're going to fob you off with some old jumble from the attic."
  • (20) No improvement in attic retraction was achieved by insertion of a ventilation tube.

Noodle


Definition:

  • (n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.
  • (n.) A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
  • (2) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
  • (3) There's a temptation to supplement that with Pot Noodles.
  • (4) The buyer, Monde Nissin – best known for its instant noodles – tabled its winning bid after Quorn Foods had enjoyed its best-ever six months, with sales rising by 7% across the 23 countries where its products are sold.
  • (5) In the middle of the afternoon its few occupants – a noodle joint, a coffee shop, a Japanese restaurant advertising “suisi”– are padlocked.
  • (6) The owner hauled out said blender and then, from the back of the cupboard, a beaten up old colander with a stray piece of noodle still stuck to the rim.
  • (7) Our office bearer has a hi-fi in that studio office and is as likely to be playing the new 45 from the hardcore band Leather or electro drone by Tim Hecker as he is to be playing a deep cut of Cincinnati soul or handbag disco or improv guitar noodlings, whether newly released from Oren Ambarchi or 30 years old from the Takoma label.
  • (8) Five were prepared with a potato and wheat base (noodle) and the sixth with a quinua-oats base.
  • (9) Quorn was recently bought for £550m by a Philippines noodle firm and has plans for global expansion.
  • (10) But now they do and they want rice, noodles, candies, Coke, they want everything!"
  • (11) Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what she terms "Pot Noodle love" – easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons.
  • (12) 3 Rehydrate the noodles by soaking in boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
  • (13) All the deceased ate the noodles from one supplier.
  • (14) The Red Cross warns that the city faces a "potential humanitarian crisis" of water and mosquito-borne illnesses, and many shops have run out of essentials like bottled water, eggs and instant noodles.
  • (15) In a nearby shopping district, protesters broke windows at about 10 Japanese-style noodle shops and bars - many of them Chinese-owned.
  • (16) West Africa’s new convenience food is Chinese instant noodles , not fish and chips, and the supermarkets that sell them are South African-owned.
  • (17) Toss the noodles through the sauce, scatter with sesame and spring onions.
  • (18) An increase in EC risk was seen for consumption of millet soup with noodles, and also with certain sociopsychological factors, in both areas.
  • (19) A minute ago, there was only a fruit salad, a watermelon, and some pre-cooked rice noodles, only modestly reduced from £1.20 to 71p.
  • (20) We head off to the Wagamama noodle bar, which is so loud we can hardly hear each other.