What's the difference between bristly and gristly?
Bristly
Definition:
(a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stimulation of the male bristly spines excited the medium-sized flexor excitors f3 and f4.
(2) The single-shelled virion, in contrast, exhibits a bristly surface.
(3) Monofilament sutures should be used with caution for bronchial anastomosis, as their bristly knots can perforate adjacent blood vessels.
(4) Stimulation of feathered hair (both sexes) and smooth hair (female only) sensilla produced responses characteristic of extension whereas bristly spines on the male accessory lobe excited only two flexor excitors without affecting any of the other postural motor neurons.
(5) Political activist @bristly_pioneer asked George Galloway's office how he'd be voting: "George Galloway – although saying he was going to vote against #debill – didn't even bother to turn up.
(6) Bristly spines may contribute to postural adjustments that assist mating.
(7) The tannins, delphinidin and procyanidin were isolated from flowers of white clover (Trifolium repens) and the leaves of Arnot Bristly Locust (Robina fertilis) respectively, and tested for mutagenic properties in a range of systems.
(8) The endopodite of the male swimmeret has an accessory lobe covered with short "bristly spines" (serrate setae).
(9) In addition, high energy intakes induced earlier juvenile moulting, this effect making the 56-day old carcasses rather bristly.
Gristly
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the policy succeeds then he's a success; if it fails, if schools are shut down for treating girls like second-class citizens , if schools don't open in time for the start of term , if buildings aren't appropriate and kids spend two years without a playground , then this is yet more grist to his failure mill.
(2) Nathanael Johnson, a journalist who has carefully researched GMOs, dug into this issue last year for Grist , so it’s no secret that the 2009 complaint cited by Hansen is out of date.
(3) He was part of a wider media landscape that regarded human nature as base, people as corruptible, public figures as grist to the scandal mill.
(4) You wondered what happened to the passengers.” The Mazraa attack was blamed on Jabhat al-Nusra, the rebel group that has just announced its affiliation to al-Qaida – grist to the mill of the government, which sought from the start to portray the anti-Assad uprising as an exclusively Islamist, extremist and terrorist conspiracy fomented by Arab and western enemies.
(5) For West Ham Matt Jarvis returned on the left of midfield and Joey O’Brien stepped in at right back in a 4-5-1 formation designed with gristly defence in mind at a ground where, despite his reputation for Wenger-baiting, Sam Allardyce has never won a game in 12 attempts.
(6) Gunther agrees this is true ("his statement may be factually defensible") but quotes an article in Grist as providing evidence to the contrary.
(7) His grimace, that it was “all gristly”, is an image I’m finding hard to shake off.
(8) Pressed on the levels of violence at the demonstrations, he replies: "These people are not middle-class female teachers … if they continue to be suppressed it will turn nasty in one way or another … We have put bodies on the street, writing letters to the Times does not work … if we are going to have a mess that is so much grist to the mill."
(9) The tragedy was grist to Health Concern's mill; a deeply emotive case that appeared to encapsulate the human cost of Kidderminster hospital's demise.
(10) Elsewhere, I saw someone crocheting a bra, which should really be new grist to the mill of bra-based feminist disparagement.
(11) • Grist is part of the Guardian Environment Network
(12) Last year's second nuclear test, Pyongyang's aggressive development of ballistic missiles, and its absurdly bellicose tirades, are grist to this well-tried technique of negotiation by force.
(13) Every marathon death or Marr story is grist to the mill of the sedentary and idle.
(14) In a note released today, Greece’s Centre for Planning and Economic research, KEPE, predicted that joblessness would rise from 27.6% at the end of 2013 to 29.3 % next year blaming the “dramatically high levels on the contraction of the country’s productive base.” All of which is grist to the mill for opponents of the gruelling terms of Greece’s rescue program.
(15) There may be no easy solution to this problem, and it will provide the grist for many bioethicists.
(16) But statements such as this add grist to the view that – though no worse on gender equality than the Mubarak regime – it is in fact the harbinger of a second Iran .
(17) Grist recently reported: “Americans drive a lot – about 8.9m miles each day during the summer driving season last year, an increase of about 3.7% over the year before.
(18) Disarray and acrimony over the EU arms embargo was grist to Assad's mill.
(19) Eastwood's rambling, freestyle address prompted a storm on Twitter and provided grist for US chatshow hosts in the weeks that followed.
(20) A bad break-up proved grist to his epigrammatic mill ("This person that I thought was the love of my life ended up being the love of my youth," he says) and gave him his abiding lyrical theme: the conflicted nature of desire.