What's the difference between firelock and forelock?
Firelock
Definition:
(n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.
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Forelock
Definition:
(n.) The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
(n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(2) He rubs his nose, strokes his chin, considering his answers; if he had a forelock, I suspect he'd tug it.
(3) Waardenburg syndrome type 1 (WS1) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by deafness, dystopia canthorum, heterochromia iridis, white forelock, and premature greying.
(4) A family had the following manifestations of Waardenburg's syndrome (WS): prominent nasal root, white forelock, premature graying of the hair, freckled pigmentation of pale skin, hypoplastic heterochromia irides, heterochromia of the ocular fundi, congenital sensorineural hearing loss, and autosomal dominant heredity.
(5) We examined a middle-aged man with a prominent yellow forelock who complained of loss of vision in both eyes.
(6) Piebaldism is a disorder in which the major clinical features are patchy hypopigmentation of the skin and a white forelock.
(7) By contrast, poor old downtrodden, forelock-tugging Paddy has only reached the last eight of the World Cup once in three appearances at the finals ... and even then only by the skin of his oppressed-for-900-years teeth.
(8) Waardenburg's Syndrome (WS), a rare disorder inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with variable penetrance, is characterized by white forelock, eye-ear symptoms and signs, and dysmorphic features.
(9) A yellow forelock when associated with isolated painless visual loss suggests tobacco amblyopia.
(10) White forelock and hypomelanotic macules of piebaldism have been revealed to have almost regularly distributed, dopa-positive melanocytes, though with lower density than normal, on separated epidermis despite previous reports describing few or no melanocytes in piebald spots.
(11) A four and a half year old boy had displacement of the canthi, a white forelock, perceptive deafness, and a congenital heart defect.
(12) This was a week to choose British values | Marina Hyde Read more It’s the perfect strategy; there is nothing that Trump hates more than not being taken seriously, and there is nothing more British than not only resolutely refusing to tug our forelocks before any bully who insults us, but resorting to satire, wit and sarcasm as a mark of our lack of respect.
(13) There’s still a lot of this around here,” he said, tugging on an imaginary forelock when I asked him about HS2 (though he declined to give his name).
(14) Excepting a coterie of fogeyish misfits, dreamers, forelock-tugging courtiers, DIY specialists, greasy pole-climbers, short-sighted antiquarians and people who would not recognise a titanium lock-nut if one were pushed up their dado, Prince Charles attaches to architects the sort of revulsion properly due to paedophiles.
(15) The heterozygous mouse phenotype is very similar to human piebald trait, which is characterized by a congenital white hair forelock and ventral and extremity depigmentation.
(16) As far as the social agenda is concerned, here too we are being rapidly taken back to a forelock tugging age of gratitude for the little crumbs of work and wealth which fall from the rich man's table.
(17) A case of human piebaldism with white forelock is presented, with emphasis on the unusual aspect of expansion and diminution of the hypomelanotic areas.
(18) He’s been suggesting economic sabotage, he’s been tugging the forelock of a bunch of union thugs from the CFMEU – the most discredited union in Australia – and now he’s saying he wants to talk.
(19) Jar Jar Binks is famous for the tang of racism in his conception – his accent is plainly Jamaican, or Jafaican, if you prefer – and there’s a forelock-tugging slave-subtext that is crass because it’s unaddressed.
(20) The white forelock is a feature in 30% of cases and should suggest the diagnosis.