What's the difference between encircling and skirting?

Encircling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encircle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After 1 day in vitro the explants were partly encircled by epithelium which had proliferated from the cut edges of the explant and from rete ridges near the cut edge (epiboly).
  • (2) More distally the nerve fibres consist only of one axon encircled by a Schwann cell.
  • (3) Foveal involvement included coarse foveal granularity, thinning of the foveal retinal pigment epithelium, increasing encirclement of the fovea with focal areas of atrophy, and minimal macular drusen.
  • (4) The roentgenographic appearance of most lesions consisted of a radiolucent central nidus encircled by sclerotic bone.
  • (5) At the ultrastructural level, kynurenine aminotransferase immunoreactive astrocytic processes were apparent throughout the neuropil where they often encircled capillaries and surrounded axospinous synapses.
  • (6) The bands encircle the muscle fiber perpendicular to the long axis of the fiber and they matched the sites of attachment of the sarcomeres to the plasma membrane.
  • (7) These and other results indicate that the junctional complex encircling the apical surface of a sheet of MDCK cells can provide an effective permeability barrier constituting a true occluding junction with the same properties in hemicyst and nonhemicyst areas.
  • (8) Encircling endocardial resection, with complete removal of endocardial scar unguided by intraoperative mapping, was employed in 10 patients with drug-resistant sustained ventricular tachycardia.
  • (9) The nerve bundles, encircled by basal lamina, were enclosed by a thin connective tissue layer and by flattened fibroblast-like cells.
  • (10) Within these fields, the development of perineuronal baskets followed a similar medial to lateral sequence: DA axons first surrounded a few neuronal cell bodies at P3 in the medial part of the intermediate LSN; at P6, Met-IR axons encircled more laterally located perikarya, and only at P9, some neurons located along the ventricle in the lateral DA field became surrounded.
  • (11) Ventricular tachycardias occurring after myocardial infarction (MI) and resistant to medical treatment were successfully treated in 5 patients by encircling endocardial ventriculotomy.
  • (12) At the end of the third reperfusion day, an atypical form of bouton degeneration was found, consisting of massive occurrence of enlarged (greater than 4 microns) boutons encircled by a clear halo.
  • (13) The preservation of the His bundle connection is explained by the failure of the sulcus to completely encircle the heart.
  • (14) Examinations of stages of fibril development in muscle fibers of seven Rhesus monkey and six human fetuses reveal SR tubules encircling the Z lines at all stages of fibril development.
  • (15) All patients had undergone pars plana vitrectomy with silicone oil injection for proliferative vitreoretinopathy; five patients had encircling solid silicone scleral buckles.
  • (16) Vibrassae show up as hair follicles plunged in a blood sinus encircled by a thick connective capsule.
  • (17) From these primary processes, secondary ones arise and often encircle the vessel almost completely.
  • (18) The "dangerous zones" are situated at the base of the right-side surface of the interatrial septum above the fibrous ring of the septal cusp of the tricuspid valve, along the base of the membranous segment of the interventricular septum, in front of the posterior fibrous triangle, and at the fibrous ring encircling the bases of the posterior and right aortic semilunar valves.
  • (19) Thus, under these circumstances, the message from the neuron to the oligodendrocyte to make myelin is apparently intact, yet there is interference with the ability of the oligodendroglial cell process to find, attach to and encircle CNS axons with a normal myelin sheath.
  • (20) Intraocular pressure was recorded continuously during intravitreal infusion of saline solution before and after the application of encircling silicone elements.

Skirting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skirt
  • (n.) A skirting board.
  • (n.) Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) All skirted lots of wool evaluated in this study had improved processing characteristics for all processing traits evaluated.
  • (4) She loves the work of Adjanass ( adjanass-creations.com ), a striking young woman from Togo who takes cloth from her native country (a variation on batik learned by African soldiers fighting France's Indochina wars) and makes dresses, skirts and tops that look Indonesian, but use Africa's vibrant colours.
  • (5) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
  • (6) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
  • (7) Kate Waters, the chief strategy officer at Now and a member of the Women in Advertising and Communications London group, said: “I’ve had comments about what I wear, that it might be appropriate to wear a shorter skirt to a meeting, for instance.” A 55-year-old account director, who used to work for Saatchi & Saatchi, said while it was mostly a good company to work for, “it was taken for granted that female execs were there to look pretty and distract clients”.
  • (8) And in the process, the food industry is skirting food additive regulations.
  • (9) "I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long.
  • (10) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
  • (11) Banwari Lal Singhal said private schools allowing students to wear skirts explained increased sexual harassment locally.
  • (12) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (13) I found myself skirting the wood’s perimeter, a no-go zone of the past for us, and came next to a gravel-pocked face mined by rabbits with one of the burrows crowned with the skull of an ancestor.
  • (14) We’re back to those flappers, with their jobs and their knee-length skirts and their dangerous opinions about politics, or the girls of the 1960s destroying the traditional family by wantonly taking the pill.
  • (15) In that respect, … skirt size as a proxy for waist circumference is easily remembered over time.” The researchers estimate that the five-year absolute risk of postmenopausal breast cancer rises from one in 61 to one in 51 with each increase in skirt size every 10 years.
  • (16) These days the modern older woman may go for the half-gomas, she explains - a short jacket and matching full-length skirt which is lighter to wear.
  • (17) Movies spanning the quality spectrum from Risky Business to Annie Hall to Roman Holiday all famously affected people’s actual wardrobes (respectively, Ray-Bans, men’s tailoring on women and full skirts and head scarves.)
  • (18) Of these 200 patients, 65% believed physicians should wear a white coat, 27% believed physicians should not wear tennis shoes, 52% believed physicians should not wear blue jeans, 37% believed male physicians should wear neckties, and 34% believed female physicians should wear dresses or skirts.
  • (19) He believed that policy and principle without power were simply not enough to deliver the better life that he fought for on behalf of his constituents for almost 50 years.” Corbyn skirted over their differences and said he would miss Kaufman’s “constant friendship”.
  • (20) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.

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