What's the difference between earring and stud?

Earring


Definition:

  • (n.) An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper describes a new method of reconstructing acquired complete and incomplete cleft earlobes which are elongated and have lost their normal bulk due to the wearing of heavy, dangling earrings.
  • (2) "Learning from school is useful for everybody, but making earrings is not that useful for everything."
  • (3) Patients' failure to use the recommended pressure earring and alteration in endocrine balance were noted in three of the four patients with recurrent keloids.
  • (4) Meyers said: “That’s the face you make when your wife snatches away your newspaper and screams: ‘Whose earrings are these?’” Trump’s presidency is still in its early days: extremely early for a special prosecutor to be involved.
  • (5) Only one patient (who underwent earlobe keloid excision) has greatly improved keloids after only 9 months follow-up, but this patient needs to wear pressure earrings continuously.
  • (6) We report an unusual cause of localized cutaneous argyria, due to the cutaneous implantation of a silver earring back.
  • (7) The patient is instructed to wear the earring for 4 to 6 months.
  • (8) A simple method of repairing a complete or incomplete cleft of the earlobe with preservation of a hole for an earring is described.
  • (9) (An early profile described his secretary as "a busty hippy in a skintight, purple mini-dress, with filigreed white stockings, lace-up boots and funkily mismatched earrings".
  • (10) Chandelier earrings Sparkly, gobstopper styles worn by celebrities ranging from Kim Kardashian to Keira Knightley.
  • (11) Films financed by Ingenious include Avatar, Die Hard 4 and Die Hard 5 and Girl with the Pearl Earring.
  • (12) So I started wearing big hoop earrings and scraping my hair back and dressing like they did.
  • (13) Several roentgenologic examinations revealed a small, closed earring in the stomach.
  • (14) "They compliment your earrings," cooed the reporter, who also noticed a "thin, shaggy-haired employee … skipping as he worked".
  • (15) At the same time, 62% of 735 young schoolgirls were found to have dermatitis of their earlobes and all regularly wore cheap earrings.
  • (16) He wears only a little ochre-coloured cloth and small hooped earrings, and smears his body in ashes.
  • (17) The three Alexander McQueen outfits that made the most front pages from the Duchess of Cambridge's recent tour wardrobe were: a sky blue belted knee-length coat, accessorised with navy round-toe suede shoes and a matching clutch bag; a demure dove grey coat with a jaunty grey hat; and a ballet-shoe pink peplum top and skirt, which the duchess wore with LK Bennett courts and pearl drop earrings.
  • (18) Gold hoop earrings, a black and white colour palette, cropped tops and red lipstick are becoming signatures .
  • (19) Earrings from the ACHICA Downton Abbey jewellery collection.
  • (20) We report here an 9-month-old boy who swallowed an earring.

Stud


Definition:

  • (n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.
  • (n.) A stem; a trunk.
  • (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
  • (n.) A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.
  • (n.) An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.
  • (n.) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
  • (n.) A stud bolt.
  • (n.) An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.
  • (v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
  • (2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (3) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
  • (4) In some places the shit was knee deep, and studded with dead pigs.
  • (5) Ear-piercing techniques include needles, safety pins, sharpened studs, and self-piercing kits.
  • (6) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
  • (7) Conversely inhibition of protein kinase C, a second messenger system activated by excitatory amino acids (mitral to granule cell synapse), in the accessory bulb during a 4-h period after mating permits all male pheromones including the stud's to activate pregnancy block.
  • (8) Glen Johnson eased his way through for a 50th cap and to Hodgson's intense relief, that initial sense of panic when Daniel Agger's studs connected with the top of Jack Wilshere's boot eventually dispersed.
  • (9) The concentrations of 1-NP and airborne particulates changed significantly in all examined areas in parallel with the rise and fall of the frequencies of studded tire use.
  • (10) Females paired with stud males exhibited a doubling of uterine weight within 12 h, and vaginal sperm were present after 48 h. This indicates that although behavioral responses to males--including mating--require prolonged contact, physiological responses to males occur rapidly.
  • (11) The name change made little difference to star-studded Toulon, who ran out 24-18 winners to ensure they remain European club rugby’s top dogs for the third successive season.
  • (12) Yet Ferguson ignored him and the dispute over stud fees for Rock Of Gibraltar, the retired racehorse, started to have damaging ramifications at Old Trafford, with Magnier and McManus using their position as major shareholders to submit their infamous 99 Questions document, predominantly looking at 13 transfers from the Ferguson era.
  • (13) When fixed at low CO2 tension, the apical membrane area of the alpha cell was reduced; its surface displayed microplicae as well as microvilli, and the apical cytoplasm contained many vesicles with rod-shaped particles and studs.
  • (14) An already grim night for United might have been even more harrowing if the referee, Martin Atkinson, had taken action against Marouane Fellaini for embedding his studs in the back of James McCarthy's leg.
  • (15) The Irish band played at a hotel in Beverly Hills, appearing as part of a star-studded benefit concert for Haiti relief.
  • (16) 60 min: Marchisio is astounded to see the ref flourish the red card ... for a studs-up challenge on Gimenez.
  • (17) Most of the labelled axons were studded with large en passant varicosities (Type 1), whereas the others (Type 2) had smaller boutons often of the drumstick type.
  • (18) There was little variation in the susceptibility of teneral male and female flies, young fed flies, and fed stud males with all the compounds tested (dieldrin, resmethrin, tetrachlorvinphos, bromophos, and propoxur) and increased tolerance in old fed pregnant flies occurred only with dieldrin and resmethrin.
  • (19) Two trotter stud farms were visited on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during 1972 and 1973.
  • (20) Ferguson sued Magnier , a former friend, claiming he had been cheated out of stud fees when the prizewinning horse retired.