What's the difference between fez and tassel?

Fez


Definition:

  • (n.) A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sue: Troughton's taste in hats make that fez look positively understated.
  • (2) In 2014, Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood is a “proper game” as much as the latest Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty or Mario Kart; or The Last of Us, Journey or Fez; or Monument Valley, Super Hexagon or Hearthstone, or… Well, you get the picture.
  • (3) Jones, we learn, liked wearing a fez and talking to his dog, Rocket.
  • (4) There will be a fez, an episode in a Turkish baths, lots of drilling – and I’m willing to bet the first scene involves a graveyard and plenty of diamonds.
  • (5) If your target is Anita Sarkeesian, you will direct your outrage toward her supporters, including game designer and all-around luminary Tim Schafer, film director Joss Whedon or Phil Fish, designer of the beautiful platform game Fez.
  • (6) One friend said he was “eccentric to the extreme” and “bit of a Walter Mitty”, obsessed by palm-reading and known to sleep in his mum’s dressing gown and a fez.
  • (7) "I can't remember your name, but the fez is familiar."
  • (8) Yousseff Zaghba Zaghba was born in Fez in January 1995 and studied computer science at the city’s university.
  • (9) The Spider's House, set in the medieval city of Fez, is the most overtly political of Bowles's novels.
  • (10) By the time the fez had appeared three times and we had already been to the War to End All Wars and 1562 and had the Ventolin gag several times, I was exhausted.

Tassel


Definition:

  • (n.) A male hawk. See Tercel.
  • (n.) A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
  • (n.) A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.
  • (n.) The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.
  • (n.) A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.
  • (n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.
  • (v. i.) To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with tassels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In order to elucidate the impact of these factors, we have undertaken the analysis of these gene families in the tassel-eared squirrel (Sciurus aberti) which has been separated into discrete subspecies by geographic barriers and whose food resources can be quantitated for estimating environmental quality.
  • (2) Black-and-white tasselled patent-leather pumps, Madras-print sandals and neon-pink stilettos all featured.
  • (3) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
  • (4) Spray-painted monk-strap shoes, desert boots and tasselled loafers paraded on a catwalk raised to audience eye-level in order to give a an ant's-eye view of the main event.
  • (5) Each packaging unit consists of a thick fasicle, formed by the alignment of smooth chromatin fibers, which frays out into tassels of looped fibers.
  • (6) Indeed, it has come some distance since the Fifa President, Sepp Blatter, suggested the women should play in skimpies and tassels to make the sport more popular (mind you, that was all of eight years ago).
  • (7) One thousand five hundred and seven tasselled maize plants in Lusaka and 96 in a rural village where mosquitoes were plentiful, have been surveyed.
  • (8) 'Is it proper to wear tasselled loafers with a business suit or not?'"
  • (9) The conservation ethos is neatly summarised in the forester Ritchie Tassell’s sarcastic question, “how did nature cope before we came along?” Through rewilding – the mass restoration of ecosystems – I see an opportunity to reverse the destruction of the natural world.
  • (10) The rules say shoes "must be sturdy and plain black, no trainers, heels, patent leather, open toes or slipper type shoes … Kickers must be plain black with no tassel".
  • (11) Using somatic excision as an assay of Mutator activity, we found that activity can change in small sectors of the tassel; however, there are no overall activity changes in the tassel during the period of pollen shedding.
  • (12) His mother says that when she sent Noah back wearing Kickers with the branded label cut off, he was searched while queuing for assembly and given detention because she had failed to spot a tassel on the inside of his shoe.
  • (13) Taken from this set, 3RDEYEGIRL and Prince - who is wearing a small pair of flares and a tasselled waistcoat - tear through an electric version of the 1984 hit.
  • (14) The medical attendance of the congenital imperforation of the tear-nasal tassel continues to be an actual problem because of the great number of cases met in practice.
  • (15) Wearing her gold tasselled collarette over a bright summer dress, she explained: "We're Christian, we embrace Scotland as a nation but we embrace the UK; we're part of the UK.
  • (16) Surrounded by golden mantlepieces, tasselled curtains and a coterie of suits, Mohamed Morsi did not have the air of a man about to be ousted as president.
  • (17) Heterozygosity estimates of Tcrb-C and Tcra-V1 sequences were determined for annually collected samples and compared with the yearly estimates of availability of hypogeous fungi, one of the major diet items of tassel-eared squirrels.
  • (18) At the higher temperature of 45 degrees C these vegetative tissues were blocked in removal of an intron from the HSP70 mRNA precursor, which accumulated to a high level in tassel tissue.
  • (19) S14 transcript levels are highest in mitotically active tissues, such as seedling shoot, developing endosperm, and tassel primordia, and lowest in tissues with little cell division, such as mature leaf and root.
  • (20) The retinula cells 1 and 4 (group I according to Gribakin, 1967) end as svf type 1 with three tassel-like branches in stratum B of the first synaptic region.

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