What's the difference between earth and floss?

Earth


Definition:

  • (n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits.
  • (n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land.
  • (n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth.
  • (n.) A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.
  • (n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.
  • (n.) The people on the globe.
  • (n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.
  • (n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.
  • (n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox.
  • (v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
  • (v. t.) To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.
  • (v. i.) To burrow.
  • (n.) A plowing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
  • (2) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
  • (3) calcium tung-state, rare-earths compounds, double halogenides.
  • (4) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
  • (5) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
  • (6) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
  • (7) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
  • (8) Its first two features, Earth and Oceans , together took nearly $200m worldwide.
  • (9) How on earth do you follow a 5-1 victory over Spain ?
  • (10) The Rio+ 20 Earth summit could collapse after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest UN summit ever organised, WWF warned on Wednesday.
  • (11) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
  • (12) Alternatively, they were provided with a small foveal target, either fixed with respect to earth (earth-fixed target: EFT condition), or moving with them (chair-fixed-target: CFT condition).
  • (13) For a start, why on earth was Platini being paid in February 2011 for work he did at Fifa, as Blatter’s special advisor, which finished nine years earlier?
  • (14) Dr Michael P. Taylor is a computer programmer with Index Data and a research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol
  • (15) "Astronauts have said that you step off the Earth and look back and you see things differently.
  • (16) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
  • (17) Yasuni is among the most biodiverse regions on Earth, with each hectare containing more tree species than the US and Canada combined.
  • (18) In front of his family, friends and close colleagues stood the man who founded Apple, was fired from Apple and came back to lead Apple to a greatness, reach and influence that no one on earth imagined.
  • (19) It's not Greenpeace , it's not Friends of the Earth , it's not, for the most part, the Sierra Club .
  • (20) Two dogs, Dezik and Tsygan, survived a sub-orbital flight after their capsule parachuted them back to earth.

Floss


Definition:

  • (n.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
  • (n.) Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
  • (n.) A small stream of water.
  • (n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

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) On buccal tooth surfaces, the cleaning effect of a multitufted nylon brush was superior to that of a wooden toothpick or unwaxed dental floss.
  • (3) For their oral hygiene, the patients had to use, in the right side toothbrush and dental floss (Control 1), in the left side the oral irrigator alone (Test 1).
  • (4) The terminology "flossing cleft" is suggested by the authors to describe linear or V-shaped interdental marginal tissue deformities that result from dental floss-induced injury.
  • (5) Brushing and flossing ability increased dramatically 3 weeks following 2 sessions of oral hygiene instructions.
  • (6) Questions were also fielded on dental behaviours such as preventive visits to the dentist, toothbrushing and flossing.
  • (7) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
  • (8) The control group did not receive any gel treatment or flossing.
  • (9) The relative effectiveness of waxed dental floss, dental tape and Superfloss as proximal plaque removal aids were compared in 20 subjects.
  • (10) The aim was to study the effect of flossing on proximal caries in children grouped according to different combinations of dietary and oral hygiene habits.
  • (11) A control group of 32 individuals was instructed to use dental floss and a sulcular toothbrushing method as a regular oral hygiene regimen.
  • (12) The results indicate that the interdental brush used in combination with a toothbrush is more effective in the removal of plaque from proximal tooth surfaces than a toothbrush used alone or in combination with dental floss.
  • (13) After 2 weeks of flossing contralateral quadrants, the 1st floss was withdrawn and replaced with the alternative floss for another similar 2-week trial period.
  • (14) Teeth were brushed ad lib throughout; four of the five groups used either an interdental cleaner, dental floss, an essential oil mouthwash or a cetypyridinium mouthwash.
  • (15) A number of factors are apparent when investigating compliance to oral hygiene habits, viz only approximately 50% of the population brushes twice a day or more, brushing time is probably much too short and use of dental floss is not very prevalent.
  • (16) Small minorities thought about using floss and then for removal of food, not plaque.
  • (17) In addition, there was a significant increase in the frequency with which the girls in the experimental group reportedly used the toothbrush (P = 0.01) and dental floss (P = 0.01).
  • (18) The students use dental floss (87%) and rinse their mouth with Cepacol (37%), and females brush their tongue at higher frequency (70%).
  • (19) The regular floss-holder users reported flossing slightly more often than the hand-flossers.
  • (20) Though far from a scholarship boy and privately educated, my life was changed by The Uses of Literacy in 1959. Who can forget some of its chapter mottoes, from Wordsworth, de Tocqueville, Arnold and "Schnozzle" Durante, and the chapter titles Unbending the Springs of Action and Invitations to a Candy-Floss World?