What's the difference between duds and outfit?

Duds


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
  • (n. pl.) Effects, in general.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
  • (2) We evaluated the ability of the screening tests to detect drug use disorder (DUD) according to the research diagnostic criteria.
  • (3) A dud mutant, strain FA660, lacked DNA-binding activity at the 11-kDa protein in BI.
  • (4) With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre?
  • (5) Sam Tree, 68, of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, claimed the dud devices, which he made in his shed, could track down explosives, drugs and people.
  • (6) We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of Pete and Dud.
  • (7) And he will touch on private training colleges, suggesting “too many institutions have been allowed to chase profits and dud students – at taxpayer expense” in a reference to the VET fee rorts – though the fees system was expanded by the former Labor government and allowed to flourish in the first years of the Abbott government.
  • (8) It hardly needs saying how rare this is in an industry where interviewees, generally, come wobbling  at you like carnival floats, the girls with a small army of wardrobe support staff and the boys trembling from the effort of looking nonchalant in their duds.
  • (9) Normal copulators (Studs) exhibited significantly less WDS than did noncopulators (Duds).
  • (10) It should be a good series, at least I hope so after yesterday's playoff game duds .
  • (11) I even got the requisite clench of nostalgia at the new trailer , seeing Harrison Ford in his old duds and the Millenium Falcon jumping to hyper space with new clunky special effects mimicking the old clunky special effects.
  • (12) That was a great night's football, rounded off by a penalty shoot-out of epically comical proportions, with Sergio Ramos's horrendous effort being the pick of the many duds.
  • (13) The pilin mRNA sequence changes that accompanied pilus transitions in these nontransformable dud and P- gonococci represent insertion of pilS stretches into their respective pilE, apparently via intragenomic recombination.
  • (14) The best thing about the age of the DVR and the internet is on Sunday afternoon you could fast forward through the duds (and the seemingly endless commercial breaks) to get to the good stuff or, better yet, wait for the one or two good sketches of the night to be posted on Hulu and let various blogs curate them for you.
  • (15) Almost as quickly as the lens cap is removed and the cameras roll, everything can change, making a film look like a square dud to it's target teen audience.
  • (16) Both sides are kitted out in the duds with which they are most readily associated.
  • (17) IDU was degraded to 2'-deoxyuridine (dUd) in control experiments, but during corneal penetration experiments IDU was degraded to a mixture of dUd and iodouracil (IU).
  • (18) There’s also a free box of Milk Duds (chocolate caramels) at your table and Route 66 memorabilia on the wall.
  • (19) A decision to flood the EU’s carbon market with dud credits “was partly because of hurt feelings from having had no proper compensation,” the UN source said.
  • (20) (1965), an interesting comedy that never lived up to all its starry contributors; How to Steal a Million (1966), a dud with Audrey Hepburn – viewers asked which star was thinner and more wide-eyed; The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) – as several angels – for John Huston; The Night of the Generals (1967); Great Catherine (1968); Murphy's War (1971); Under Milk Wood (1972) – with Burton and Taylor; Man of La Mancha (1972); Rosebud (1975); Man Friday (1975).

Outfit


Definition:

  • (n.) A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; things required for equipment; the expense of, or allowance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sabogal was one of a group of four Colombians who took over the reins of the country's biggest drug-trafficking outfit after the arrest and deportation to the United States of drug baron Luis Hernando Gómez Bustamante in 2004.
  • (2) That left Google, which has outfitted 23 Lexus SUVs with driverless technology.
  • (3) The structural block diagram of the appropriate outfit for exposition automation in endoscopy is under discussion.
  • (4) Even before she gets to the Timeless premiere, the Mail Online has run two news stories on her that day: the first detailing what she was wearing in the morning, the second furnishing a grateful world with the news that she'd subsequently changed her outfit and taken her sunglasses off.
  • (5) Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an outfit that previously operated under the banner of iEngage until controversy forced a rebrand , has decided that the worst it can say about Tell MAMA, the best means it can find of turning it into a satanic organisation, is to say that it associates with gays and Jews.
  • (6) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
  • (7) "I think Guetta is a special case, I haven't got a bad word to say about him," says David Dewaele of the outfit 2ManyDJs.
  • (8) The hemodynamics and heart contractility were estimated by means of echocardiography on an "Aloka D-280" outfit (Japan).
  • (9) There are few drag nights operating on this scale (and scales would make a rather appropriate outfit one feels) – think catwalks and dance shows galore, every third Saturday of the month.
  • (10) His would undoubtedly be squandered on Paul Smith outfits and holidays in Mykonos.
  • (11) He went on to found audio and video research and development outfit Best Before , a small team based in south London and one of the UK's few successful technology start-ups to launch during the depth of the recession, where he created Audioboo.
  • (12) Although I’m curious as to how her hair, makeup and crypto-Burning-Man outfits stayed perfect through three battles, a kidnapping and a spell in hyperdrive.
  • (13) The method of the combined use of the 2 series-produced outfits, an echocardiograph and an rheoplethysmograph, has been devised and tried on a clinical basis.
  • (14) The woman across the street from me bought an entire Burberry outfit for her dog, from coat to booties to hat.
  • (15) I have a clear view that if this is a part of international action against [Isis], that appalling terrorist death cult outfit, then that is all to the good,” said the British prime minister.
  • (16) Dressed in a cream outfit, Campbell said she was reluctant to appear before the court because of the "inconvenience" and safety concerns.
  • (17) Recently another group emerged when members of the National Front and the regional nationalist organisation the Northern Patriotic Front formed a new outfit called the Northern Nationalists.
  • (18) Other performers on the night included award winners Goulding, Mars, Bastille and Rudimental, as well as Katy Perry, whose set resembled an Aztec scene with fluorescent dance outfits and laser beams.
  • (19) Even at school, some people were always like: 'Oh, you can't wear the same outfit twice in a week", or whatever, and I was like: 'What?
  • (20) The design and technique of using such outfits are under consideration.

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