What's the difference between embossed and rubbing?

Embossed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Emboss
  • (a.) Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.
  • (a.) Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield.
  • (a.) Swollen; protuberant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
  • (3) In the passive task, subjects sat with their arms and hands immobilized while a rotating drum stimulator pressed the embossed letters onto the right index finger.
  • (4) A rare but distressing complication of frontal embossment was managed after osteoplastic flap surgery.
  • (5) This Registry, while accelerating and embossing confirmation of the suspected relationship, served an even more useful purpose by collecting under one roof and in front of one cluster of observers all the necessary and relevant data on a sufficiently large number of cases to enable rapid (1973-1974) wide dissemination of knowledge about the occurrence and behavior of the disease and its response to treatment.
  • (6) She was left at Nizhny Novgorod's railway station with her passport but no money, still wearing her prison overalls embossed with her name and prisoner number.
  • (7) Experiment 2 showed that tilt lowered performance for tangible, large embossed letters, as well as for braille.
  • (8) Heading towards the narrowest capillary spaces, groups of bacilli form, immediately after seeding, protrusions that emboss the outer contour of the droplet ("protuberances" Fig.
  • (9) I pull out my business card with the red embossed logo of Time magazine.
  • (10) This is where Irving is happiest, rolling around in swastika-embossed paper.
  • (11) An ostentatious leather-bound album with Kniga Dlya Dam embossed in gold on the cover opens to reveal a Chinese silk drawing of an entwined couple.
  • (12) Plastic surfaces embossed with patterns of dots designed to produce predictable alterations in temporal and spatial firing rate variation were used as stimuli in psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments.
  • (13) Shrunken cells with intracellular yolk granules embossed on the surface are produced by the strongly hypertonic Karnovsky's fixer (Final: 2010 mOsm).
  • (14) In the normal arachnoid membrane, two basic surface patterns were observed; one fenestrated and the other embossed with parallel fibers.
  • (15) These are inspired by the label's legendary tuxedo, le smoking , while the embossed rectangles on the packaging are modelled on art deco panelling in Yves's rue de Babylone home.
  • (16) Embossed letters, used previously in pattern recognition experiments in humans, were used to study the spatial patterns of neural activity evoked in peripheral fibers and cortical neurons in areas 3b and 1 of the primary somatosensory cortex of alert rhesus (Macaca mulatta) monkeys.
  • (17) Embossed in gold with the letters LXB, they stayed there for the remainder of the hour-long ceremony.
  • (18) In addition, when fusion was completed, occasional double lines of large particles transiently embossed the P face of the plasma membrane (postacrosomal) side of the fusion zone.
  • (19) Embossed upon it in oh-so-subtle slightly darker grey was an advert for Facebook.
  • (20) None of the past methods of marking call numbers on the spines or covers of books-direct hand lettering by pen, brush, or stylus; affixing cold release characters; embossing by hot type; or gluing labels which are handlettered, typed, or printed-nor even present automatic data processing systems have offered all the advantages of the relatively new Se-Lin labeling system: legibility, reasonable speed of application, automatic protective covering, permanent bonding, and no need for a skilled letterer.

Rubbing


Definition:

  • () a. & n. from Rub, v.
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rub

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither acetylcholine nor leukotriene D4 altered tone of arterial rings after the endothelium had been intentionally disrupted by rubbing with a cotton-tipped applicator.
  • (2) Rubbed rings, but not intact ones, contracted when Ca2+ was added to a previously Ca2+-free medium containing angiotensin II or adrenaline.
  • (3) Immediately after eye rubbing the conjunctival epithelium was histologically disrupted and 50% of the mast cells showed evidence of degranulation.
  • (4) But this morning's right-of-centre national papers were determined to rub his nose in the dirt.
  • (5) Long-term rubbing of a pressure stocking and splint was believed to be responsible for breakdown in the graft of the patient who had a hypertrophic scar.
  • (6) I think we all pine for the good old days when politicians actually wrote bills, and bills actually became laws and can I rub your arms a little?
  • (7) The specific endonuclease Bam HI from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (RUB 500) has been purified to apparent homogeneity.
  • (8) Ultz, who is also a well-known stage designer, is the only white person in the company - something the play rubs his nose in.
  • (9) Who was the asshole who threw the bottle?” Matt asked, rubbing his sore spot.
  • (10) The fibromas were transmitted by intradermal and subcutaneous inoculation and by rubbing the virus preparation into tattoo sites.
  • (11) With advancing age, the ATP-induced relaxation in the rubbed rings decreased and was abolished.
  • (12) In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association describes “frotteurism” as “recurrent, intense, or arousing sexual urges or fantasies, that involve touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person”.
  • (13) Rubbed (endothelium-denuded) ring preparations at the age of 4-6 weeks showed a dose-dependent relaxation similar to that of the unrubbed rings.
  • (14) We found positive reactions in the prick test and rubbing test to the scales of the lizard Egernia cunninghami and others, which the patient kept as house-pets at this time or earlier.
  • (15) On the contrary, not all country dwellers are Tories; and fat cats, often Tory, will be rubbing their hands at the thought of asset-stripping another national resource.
  • (16) Ten rubs occurred in patients with pericardial effusion, five of whom had tamponade.
  • (17) But this will only rub more salt into the wounds at home.
  • (18) During each scratch cycle, the monoarticular knee extensor muscle is active when the limb rubs against the stimulated site, and there is rhythmic alternation between hip protractor and hip retractor muscle activity (Robertson et al., 1985).
  • (19) Oscar Pistorius rubs his face as he sits in the dock during his ongoing murder trial at a packed high court in Pretoria on May 5.
  • (20) Did it actually happen, that run of singles so strange and yet so strong that they rose to the higher reaches of the hit parade, rubbing shoulders with Showaddywaddy and the Nolans on Top of the Pops?

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