What's the difference between diaphane and stuff?

Diaphane


Definition:

  • (n.) A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The inherent weakness of the diaphanous portion of the posterior lens capsule contributed to disruption of the normal lamellar arrangement of the lens fibers resulting in cataractous changes.
  • (2) After clearing and removal of the cuticle, the bracts are bleached, washed, dehydrated, and if studied by light microscopy, stained in 2% chlorazol black E and mounted in Diaphane; or, if studied by scanning electron microscopy, dried by the critical-point method and either left uncoated or coated with a film of various conductive metals.
  • (3) Diaphanoscopic postmortal examination of blunt impact injuries to the head sometimes revealed non-diaphanous regions deriving from intraossary haematomata.
  • (4) The rod appears as a diaphanous transparent object, slightly tinted to the same colour as the dots.
  • (5) Those photographs from Greece last week sent me straight round to the chief site of that abuse, the Duveen Gallery at the British Museum , where the Parthenon marbles are displayed and there are as many diaphanously clothed virgins as you would wish to clap eyes on.
  • (6) There were no reproductions, prints were precious few and could scarcely convey his mysterious and diaphanous style, so that the only way a Velázquez could be kept in mind was through the fantastic vagaries of memory.
  • (7) The Diaphane-program instituted under the authority of the French Society of Nephrology has been steadily expanding since 1972.
  • (8) The Authors describe a new technique of endodontic obturation using thermoplasticized guttapercha; the first results, studied with a diaphanic method, suggest that this technique gives a full obturation of endodontic system.
  • (9) In another 12 flaps vascularization was studied by means of diaphanization.
  • (10) The authors studied 52 organs, among 15 were taken from human beings and 37 from dogs, with the aim of knowing theirs weight and volume modifications after diaphanization.
  • (11) The sixth report of the "Diaphane Dialyse Informatique" Program concerns 2,518 adult patients (age 15 and over) treated by chronic hemodialysis or hemofiltration in 33 French dialysis centres between June 1972 and December 1978.
  • (12) In another 16 flaps, vascularization was studied by means of "diaphanization" (ie, making the tissue transparent or diaphenous in nature).
  • (13) His muscles ripple beneath the diaphanous folds of the toga.
  • (14) The authors, use histology and diaphanization after the injection of Micropaque 25% with gelatin 10% in 35 rabbits, 25 female and 10 male, with race, weight and age variable, to show some aspects of the thyroid follicles microvascularization.
  • (15) Data of the DIAPHANE Dialyse-Informatique system of the Society of Nephrology have been collected by patients just on a home dialysis program after training in the hemodialysis Unit of the Hospital of Montreuil.
  • (16) Two studies using diaphanization have displayed the diaphragmatic anastomoses.
  • (17) That is, flirty, feminine shapes, diaphanous textures (silk and organza) and hero swimwear.
  • (18) The muscle originates from the medial border of the levator palpebrae superioris and has a diaphanous insertion on the fascia in the region of the trochlea and other nearby structures.
  • (19) This may include the presence of diaphanous serous-filled vascular channels, a connective tissue stroma with lymphorrhages, features of old hemorrhage, dysplastic vessels, and random smooth muscle bundles.
  • (20) Using the "Diaphane" computed medical record system enables multicentric statistical studies to be conducted.

Stuff


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
  • (v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
  • (v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
  • (v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
  • (v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
  • (v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
  • (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
  • (v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
  • (n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
  • (n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
  • (n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
  • (n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
  • (n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
  • (n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
  • (n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
  • (n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
  • (n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
  • (v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
  • (2) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
  • (3) It’s good stuff.” Opening markets to US-made products overseas is one of the better things that could happen for US small business and their employees, said Obama.
  • (4) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
  • (5) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
  • (6) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
  • (7) I don’t buy any of the horse race stuff,” Bush said Tuesday.
  • (8) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
  • (9) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
  • (10) He must have had PR training – didn’t it stretch to not saying stupid stuff?
  • (11) "A lot of this stuff we inherited and had to continue," a Downing Street source said.
  • (12) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
  • (13) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
  • (14) He says he did write grown-up stuff – Joking Apart in the 90s and Coupling in the 00s, sitcoms that riffed on his own sexual history.
  • (15) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
  • (16) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
  • (17) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
  • (18) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
  • (19) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
  • (20) If you pushed them on Hitler you got the most extraordinary stuff: "He was mah-vellous.

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