What's the difference between doily and dooly?

Doily


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of woolen stuff.
  • (n.) A small napkin, used at table with the fruit, etc.; -- commonly colored and fringed.

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  • (1) • nicholsonspubs.co.uk Little Nan’s, Deptford Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Rah Petherbridge Photography For something more hygge, pull up a doily at Little Nan’s on Deptford Market Yard and get snug in one of its deep armchairs.
  • (2) For captive female bowl and doily spiders (Frontinella pyramitela), data reported by Austad were analyzed in terms of food consumed.
  • (3) Longevity of free-living female adult bowl and doily spiders was compared with that of captive spiders fed at dietary regimes of one, three, and five Drosophila melanogaster per week.
  • (4) It's not Africa we are carving up now, but Mary Berry's lemon-drizzle cake , on a doily, in a pop-up marquee or at dinner in Downton.
  • (5) Two types of faster-growing partial revertants of the doily strain were isolated.
  • (6) A single-gene morphological mutant, doily (do), which grew at less than 4% the rate of the wild-type strain, had 3% of the wild-type UDPGalNAc content and 0.5% of the wild-type level of cell wall galactosamine but normal levels of UDPGlcNAc and cell wall glucosamine.
  • (7) Prices are appreciably higher than at the Richmond but the teapots are silver, teabags unknown and they do serve crumpets they way crumpets should be served, on stiffly starched doilies and Wedgwood china plates.
  • (8) Cell extracts of the doily cultures containing only 20% of the specific activity of UDPGlcNAc-4-epimerase found in the extracts of wild-type cultures.

Dooly


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin.

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