What's the difference between cooly and wooly?

Cooly


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Coolie

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mathieu Flamini was too easily pulled away, and Diamé’s dinked finish was cooly executed.
  • (2) Ryan Giggs’ cooly slotted from 12 yards, before Gerrard was shown a straight red for a rash challenge on Carrick, ruining Kenny Dalglish’s return to management.
  • (3) In many ways, Comfort feels like a night-time counterpart to last year's dreamy Playin' Me by Cooly G, another debut album from a cutting-edge London producer overlooked by the Mercury panel: this year's shortlist may feature more dance albums than ever, but it's evident that those in charge simply don't know where to look beyond those whose commercial success makes them unignorable (Rudimental, Disclosure), or those that offer polite, 6music-friendly takes on dancefloor innovations of eight years ago (Jon Hopkins).
  • (4) Hillary was a New Zealand beekeeper and Norgay an illiterate "mountain coolie" (his own phrase) who was born in Tibet to a Nepali family and now lived in India – the Sherpa community, being high-altitude nomads, weren't easily caged by national boundaries.
  • (5) This formula allows 95 per cent of 3-4 month babies to produce controlled fall in body temperature at night, but most have to cooly by active thermoregulation, which relies heavily on the head as a route of heat loss.
  • (6) For six years, everything he recorded became a hit, and songs like Lost John, Bring A Little Water Sylvie, Cumberland Gap and Grand Coolie Dam followed each other into the charts as DIY skiffle bands across the country attempted to imitate his style.
  • (7) In his epoch-making collage of 1956, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, the living space is crowded with up-to‑the-minute objects of desire: the TV set, the vacuum cleaner, the tinned ham, the tape recorder, the body builder's muscles, the cone-shape coolie hat perched on the sexy naked housewife on the sofa.
  • (8) But Ramires, instantly making up for his earlier indiscretion, out did his compatriot with a cooly-taken strike just two minutes later, sweetly dinking the ball over Iker Casillas following a burst through the Madrid defence.The equaliser had galvanised the Premier League side who began to cause Madrid problems all over the pitch.
  • (9) It was a convenient fiction to treat the brown-skinned partner as merely his coolie.
  • (10) While early use was primarily restricted to Chinese coolies and Indian immigrant laborers, the 1970s saw drug use become the domain of the youth of Malaysia and achieve the proportions of a national crisis.
  • (11) When the Dutch colonised Indonesia in the early 19th century, one of their first tasks was to carve out vast mines on the island where locals and Chinese coolies worked side by side digging for dark specks of cassiterite – the main mineral in tin ore – to be used in alloys, conductors and tin plating.

Wooly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When the particle-negative cell lines are superinfected with heterologous mouse or wooly type C viruses or are producing typical rat type C virus particles, the endogenous sarcoma virus-specific RNA is secreted from these cells.
  • (2) Several ultrastructural changes were found to occur in the midpiece region of wooly opossum spermatozoa during epididymal maturation.
  • (3) Geoffrey Blackadder, 60, was pulled unconscious from the ocean at Wooli Beach on the NSW North Coast on Monday after he tried to help two young relatives who were struggling in the surf.
  • (4) Unlike the shoe polish, tea towels and cheap china plates it stocks, Woolies has outlived its usefulness and many of its products can be bought more cheaply elsewhere.
  • (5) Other than that, the definition of failure to pass can be wooly, Williams said, and has in the past been used in routine Senate procedures such as referring a bill to a committee or adjourning debate.
  • (6) Woolies fired him for moonlighting, a career change of which he remains inordinately proud; in his most recent Retail Week column he blamed the proto-Poundland's demise on being "badly run", and here he is on camera, reminiscing: "It was horrible, I hated it."
  • (7) The contaminated populations of C. dactylon, Panicum repen (panic grass), and Imperata cylindrica (wooly grass) were able to withstand higher concentrations of Cu, Ni, and Mn, especially C. dactylon, when compared with their uncontaminated counterparts.
  • (8) Somatostatin fibers associated with this pathway appeared as coarse heavily stained 'wooly fibers'.
  • (9) Although there is a lot of wooliness regarding these results, I would have known that something like three grade Cs would have secured me a university place, anything much lower; a polytechnic.
  • (10) However, while people proclaimed themselves incredibly sad to see Woolies stores disappear, it should be noted that, ultimately, the loyalty and affection failed to move online (Woolworth.co.uk closed in 2015, replaced by Shop Direct’s Very).
  • (11) He also had bilateral commissural lip pits, inferiorly attached frenulum, generalized hypoplastic nails, and wooly scalp hair.
  • (12) The kinky or wooly form of black hair, the weak intercellular cohesion between cortical cells and the specific hair grooming practices among black people account for these effects.
  • (13) A 60-year-old man, Geoffrey Blackadder, died trying to rescue young relatives from a rip at Wooli beach on the NSW north coast on Monday, while another man, aged 56, drowned at Merry beach at Kioloa on state’s south coast.
  • (14) A female pet wooly monkey with metabolic bone disease initially presented with a proliferating bony mass in the left humerus which had many features of osteosarcoma.
  • (15) This gross anatomical study of embalmed forelimb joints of the South American woolly monkey Lagothrix lagothricha focuses on the problem of determining in osteoligamentous preparations how the disposition of the capsular apparatus and the geometry of the articular surfaces govern the amount and types of movement permitted at a joint, and then correlates these findings with the use of the forelimb in the positional capabilities of captive wooly monkeys observed by this author.
  • (16) The following species were represented: Potto, Senegalgalago, wooly monkey, black spider monkey, common marmoset, cottonhead tamarin, pigtailed macaque and lesser whitenosed guenon.
  • (17) Also on Monday 60-year-old Geoffrey Blackadder died trying to rescue young relatives from a rip at Wooli beach on the NSW north coast.
  • (18) Primark makes understated US debut as Boston flagship opens Read more Warm autumn weather usually prompts retailers to warn about slow sales of woolies and coats, but Weston said: “The whole high street is benefiting from better weather.
  • (19) In 1997, the US Woolies, now owned by a rival American retailer, announced it was closing its remaining 400 FW Woolworth stores, but its British arm remained in rude health.
  • (20) The problem is also interesting in evolutional aspect: since suppression of melanogenesis in the process of creating wooly sheep illustrates possible mechanisms of inhibition of one function, because of hyperfunction of other, such negative correlations could play significant role in evolution of organisms.

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