What's the difference between decorate and tuft?

Decorate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (3) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (4) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
  • (5) A small clinic consisting of 1 room decorated with pamphlets against AIDS, malaria, and other diseases was managed by the chief primary health care (PHC) assistant named Joseph.
  • (6) I also earned meals by decorating a wall in a local restaurant.
  • (7) CI evenly decorated the negatively charged surface of endothelial cells in the control brains, in contrast to markedly diminished iron binding capacity of endothelial cells in low pH-treated hemispheres.
  • (8) As expected, antibodies to actin decorated the microfilaments of the microvilli, giving rise to a very intense fluorescence.
  • (9) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
  • (10) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
  • (11) Richard Master is CEO and founder of MCS Industries, Inc, the leading US supplier of picture frames and decorative mirrors, with $170m in sales, 160 US employees and factories in Mexico and China.
  • (12) Microtubule depolymerization is associated with the binding of vinblastine in approximately molar stoichiometry to tubulin in microtubules with apparent low affinity, as determined by binding experiments with radiolabeled vinblastine and by the ability of vinblastine to inhibit DEAE-dextran decoration of microtubule surfaces.
  • (13) In fact, in keeping with its usual practice, the White House hasn't released any details about the menu, the decor, where dinner will be served or what Michelle Obama will wear and doesn't plan to until a few hours before Wednesday's event begins.
  • (14) He has decorated the former shop unit with a nautical theme.
  • (15) Ultra thin, even, and grainless tantalum films have been found effective in eliminating the charging artifacts caused by external fields, and the decoration artifacts caused by crystal growth as seen in gold films.
  • (16) Combined with gold-streptavidin, BHPP decorated the actin filament system at the light and electron microscopic level faithfully and with satisfactory density.
  • (17) The EPR data from [15N,2H]MTSL-S1 decorating fibers are combined with the fluorescence polarization data from the 1,5-IAEDANS-labeled fibers to map the global angular transition of the labeled cross-bridges due to nucleotide binding by an analytical method described in the accompanying paper [Burghardt, T. P., & Ajtai, K. (1992) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)].
  • (18) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
  • (19) Upon examination of the immunoreaction at the ultrastructural level, the ubiquitin antiserum decorated the cytokeratin filaments as well as MB filaments.
  • (20) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.

Tuft


Definition:

  • (n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
  • (n.) A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
  • (n.) A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.
  • (v. t.) To separate into tufts.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
  • (v. i.) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.
  • (2) The observed damage was similar: a decrease of the total length of the dendritic segments of the apical tuft and the basal arborization.
  • (3) The cell density in the tufts was 120 and 70 per cent greater than controls in AGN and RPGN, respectively.
  • (4) Approximately one-fourth of the cells contained cytoplasmic fibrillar bodies and amorphous fibrous tufts around the nuclear envelope.
  • (5) Stereociliary tufts in the tectorial region differ from those in the free-standing region in several ways.
  • (6) Severe mesangial insudation of material containing fibrinogen derivatives resulted in segmental tuft necrosis with almost complete replacement and destruction of the mesangial matrix.
  • (7) The anaxonic granule cell of the olfactory bulb is believed to inhibit mitral and tufted cells through reciprocal dendrodendritic synapses.
  • (8) Detached ciliary tufts (DCTs) have been observed in sputum, in cervicovaginal smears and, rarely, in fluid from the pouch of Douglas.
  • (9) Among the 58 Helicobacter-negative cases, similar changes were not observed in the ulcer edges, except for two cases which exhibited some cellular tufts.
  • (10) Monocytes were the predominant cell type among stained cells in glomerular tufts and crescents.
  • (11) At least six different cell types are recognizable: (1) nondifferentiated duct cells; (2) cells containing apical secretory granules; (3) goblet cells; the mucosubstances of type 2 and 3 are PAS- and Alcian-blue-positive, also reacting wih methenamine silver; (4) ciliated cells, containing a single cilium with the microtubular pattern 9+2; (5) tuft cells with extremely long and wide microvilli and a pear-shaped cell body; (6) migrating cells, mainly lymphocytes and some assumed eosinophils, showing reaction to Mg++-activated ATPase.
  • (12) The Tufts Assessment of Motor Performance (TAMP) was administered to 69 children (ages 6-18 years, X = 12.1, SD = 3.9) and 137 adults (ages 19-83 years, X = 46.7, SD = 20.0) with neurological and musculoskeletal impairments.
  • (13) The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had The time I tried to give myself a touch-up with clippers and shaved out a whole tuft of hair.
  • (14) Surface areas of tufts and crescents were separately determined by photographing glomeruli, projecting and tracing outlines of tufts and crescents, and cutting out and weighing the tracings.
  • (15) S. sanguis I strains adhered better than S. sanguis II strains and peritrichously fibrillar strains generally adhered better than tufted strains.
  • (16) An adhesion is considered as a nidus for segmental sclerosis; as the adhesion progresses, the related tuft regions turn into sclerosis.
  • (17) The terminal tuft of the distal phalanx is destroyed by pressure erosion.
  • (18) That's probably why Tufts has reneged on its agreement with the government on how it plans to deal with sexual assault on campus – administrators know it's unlikely that they'll have their funding pulled as a result of their non-compliance.
  • (19) They found, in the articulation of the upper limbs, in addition to generic signs of arthrosis, zones of bone reabsorption (vacuoles), especially as regard the wrist and hands, and irregularities of the tufts.
  • (20) Several stages of collagen assemblies were observed: intracellular packing of SLS-like aggregates surrounded by membrane containing areas with a clathrin coat; fine non cross-striated filaments connecting the cell membrane at 1 pole of the cells and collagen fibrils; tufts of filaments directly linked to collagen fibrils.