What's the difference between flabby and limp?

Flabby


Definition:

  • (a.) Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A soft flabby consistence of the cartilaginous skeleton of the larynx and trachea was thought to be the cause of attacks of respiratory failure which suddenly caused her death at the age of 9 months.
  • (2) As a result of detailed studies of the dog anatomy, the authors have concluded that besides generally accepted subdivision of these animals into flabby, rough, strong, lean and gentle types, it is reasonable to subdivide them according to the type of their habitus (brachy-, meso- and dolichomorphous types).
  • (3) The heart was dilated and flabby, with multiple microscopic foci of necrosis and mild fatty change.
  • (4) The flabby abdomen and incontinence are therefore the result of such nerve overextension injuries.
  • (5) In 39 denture-wearing patients in whom anterior maxillary flabby ridge tissue (prosthesis fibroma) was excised, 15.4% contained cartilaginous nodules within this tissue.
  • (6) Spent plaice (thin, flabby gonads, stage VII) had little or no staining in PRL cells.
  • (7) That is the attitude of the typical left-winger towards imperialism, and a thoroughly flabby, boneless attitude it is .
  • (8) Cables say Kim Jong-il is a "flabby old chap" losing his grip and drinking.
  • (9) Denture-induced changes of the oral mucosa comprise, besides denture stomatitis and inflammatory papillary hyperplasia, the so called folds and redundancies in sulci and flabby ridges.
  • (10) Good education should develop a finely tuned ability to discriminate between the flabby and precise, between the superficial and substantial, between a fake and the real thing.
  • (11) On its administration in toxic doses exceeding by 60 and more timesthe ones recommened for human beings the drug provokes flabbiness, bradycardia, a fall of arterial pressure and causes changes in the activity of nonspecific enzymatic systems of the liver.
  • (12) When they gathered in Brighton last week , too many of the party's most senior figures came across as flabby, too used to power and its comforts, delusional, kidding themselves that their leader might undergo a personality change between now and the election, or utterly resigned, all fight drained from them.
  • (13) At necropsy, the gross findings in the adult whales included pale, flabby right ventricles.
  • (14) Read Telegraph commentators these days, and you find ruder abuse of the Tory leaders than on these pages: "Cameron at half time is a political tragedy in the making"; "Cameron and Osborne have wimped out like flabby schoolboys dodging PE"; "When Cameron speaks I feel that he's talking to someone else"; or "No better than Mitt Romney".
  • (15) Clinico-electroneuromyographic examinations of 108 children with the "flabby child" syndrome of various genesis were carried out.
  • (16) Unlike the flabby, slimy stuff we have come to accept as farmed salmon, this halibut is lean and far better to eat – in terms of ethics and taste – than its wild brothers.
  • (17) Flabby nakedness happens, so does eating, so does looking like crap – it’s the human condition, whatever your gender.
  • (18) The present study was undertaken to demonstrate certain histological characteristics of biopsies from flabby ridges.
  • (19) At autopsy, the enlarged, soft, and flabby heart showed microscopic evidence of acute myocardial infarction, myocardial edema, myocardiocyte loss, replacement fibrosis in the interventricular septum, and right and left ventricular hypertrophic nucleomegaly.
  • (20) But how well will Civilisation play to today's flabby generation of microscopic attention spans?

Limp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.
  • (n.) A halt; the act of limping.
  • (n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
  • (a.) Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.
  • (a.) Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (2) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
  • (3) He limped around in the beginning but the injury worsened.
  • (4) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (5) Despite the 2 operations and extensive medical treatment with vasodilators, anticoagulants, and other medication, the pain and limp persisted and a cutaneous necrosis of the 1st and 5th left toes was observed.
  • (6) Armchair Paralympian (armchayer-parra-limp-iain) noun .
  • (7) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
  • (8) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
  • (9) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
  • (10) The girl's mother, who I learned later, had recently arrived in Danané with her daughter after escaping the fighting in Abidjan, lifted the limp body and carried it out of the house to where we were parked.
  • (11) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
  • (12) This team may have limped to the 50-point mark with their draw against the champions, but they have been pining for the end of this campaign for months.
  • (13) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
  • (14) If that happened, he could get up and limp across the street to the safety of the Indymedia centre, where he had spent the past three days filing reports on the G8 summit and on its violent policing.
  • (15) To determine whether limping is associated with decreased bone mineralization, the trabecular and integral bone densities (BDs) of 18 Caucasian children exhibiting computed tomographic evidence of tarsal coalition (14 boys, 4 girls, aged 9 years, 5 months to 16 years, 3 months) were compared with those of an age- and sex-matched control group.
  • (16) By then Wenger's frown lines had deepened in the wake of some heavy limping on Mikel Arteta's part.
  • (17) Today, he suffers from partial paralysis on the left side of his body, and has a limp and limited use his left arm.
  • (18) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
  • (19) In cultured cells, the general immunostaining patterns observed in vivo were maintained during the duration of the primary cultures for all five LIMPs.
  • (20) For Manchester City, Yaya Toure will return to their starting line-up, having been suspended for their match against Bayern Munich, but Micah Richards will miss today's game after limping off against Bayern with a hamstring injury.