What's the difference between chaffing and serious?
Chaffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaff
(n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
Example Sentences:
(1) In CG, Total hepatic flow (THF) and Portal vein flow (PVF) gradually decreased in a few hours and kept low levels, but Common hepatic arterial flow (CHAF) did not decrease.
(2) Fluid flow to the omasum, however, was increased by increasing dry matter intake (DMI), and was further enhanced by feeding chaffed hay rather than the same materials ground and pelleted; the DL-methionine supplement had no effect.
(3) Tall and gaunt, like his paintings, Rauch exudes a kind of chaffing and intimidating, rather unfriendly wit.
(4) The ewes were fed on either chaffed oaten hay (OH), chaffed lucerne hay (L), or a mixture of chaffed oaten and lucerne hays (OHL).
(5) The diet of chaffed hay and crushed oats provided 400-600 m-moles K and 50-60 m-moles Na daily.
(6) All studies were done with the animals fed on a chaffed lucerne (Medicago sativa) hay diet.
(7) The increased CHAF compensated for the decreased PVF, which may play an important role in protecting the liver.
(8) When the family returned to Kabul, she made up for lost time at the University art department, but chaffed at the traditional bias, and started exploring contemporary art.
Serious
Definition:
(a.) Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
(a.) Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.
(a.) Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
(a.) Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.
Example Sentences:
(1) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(2) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(3) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(4) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(5) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(6) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(7) Vancomycin is the antibiotic of choice for serious MRSA infections; PRPs and cephalosporins generally are not effective.
(8) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(9) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
(10) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(11) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(12) Autopsy revealed serious somatic diseases (stenosis of the ileum in two cases and brain tumor in one); their symptoms had been largely overlapped by those of anorexia nervosa.
(13) The above treatment is tolerated well and no serious side effects have been observed.
(14) This observation seriously challenges the hypothesis that SCE cancellation results as a consequence of persistence of the lesions induced by these agents.
(15) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(16) Left ventricular rupture is a serious complication of mitral valve replacement.
(17) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(18) For application to mammalian cells, however, two serious problems require resolution: (1), correction of TPP+ binding to intracellular constituents and (2), estimation of the considerable TPP+ accumulation in mitochondria.
(19) At least 1 episode of serious infection occurred in 34 of the 60 adult patients and 25 of the 30 children.
(20) These high Danish rates seem to reflect the true prevalence and incidence in the less serious types of progressive muscular dystrophy, probably because the Danish health system with free medical care and easy access to specialized hospital departments makes it possible to identify all cases of progressive muscular dystrophy.