What's the difference between flannel and plaid?

Flannel


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Likewise, it doesn't come over as flannel when Moore eulogises the hyper-networked LA scene.
  • (2) On Tuesday, the bunkhouse breakfast room felt like a hunting lodge, with wives and girlfriends serving meals while working-class men with beards, flannel shirts and dour expressions milled about.
  • (3) Flannel flags (100 X 200 mm) were tested for fleas collection directly at the entrances of rodents' holes in the steppe region.
  • (4) She’s had a long career in local government, in national government and she doesn’t like flannel.
  • (5) There was also a tendency to grey flannels and tweed jackets, and a "deplorable old raincoat".
  • (6) ", before being whipped off air and sent home with a cold flannel pressed to his forehead.
  • (7) An ice blanket constructed of flannel cloth and cold gel packs was applied to the limb for 45 minutes preoperatively.
  • (8) Patch testing with cotton flannel and methanol extracts were positive, but after estraction with methanol, the residual flannel did not react.
  • (9) Three forms of flannel are offered in justification.
  • (10) Both were in style and substance extensions of the magazine; early hardbacks included Barbara Skelton's Born Losers, J Maclaren-Ross's Memoirs Of The Forties, TC Worsley's Flannelled Fool and Keith Vaughan's Journals And Drawings, while the paperback series concentrated on younger writers and anthologies.
  • (11) Flannels was attacked, but he said this was unrelated.
  • (12) But conversations with PR professionals – including Britain's best-known former spinmeister – suggest she needed to give a concrete answer to this opening question, even if it came wrapped in some flannel.
  • (13) ", "Anyone wants anything from Flannels [department store]" and "Kill one black youth, we'll kill a million feds [police]".
  • (14) Sean Connery's blue flannel playsuit in Goldfinger, tied with Roger Moore's banana yellow ski suit with flared trousers in The Spy Who Loved Me.
  • (15) But where it would have been perfectly possible to answer a detailed question with a non-committal pledge – that a future review of flooding resilience, say, could also look at EA resources – Cameron instead reached for his flannel.
  • (16) Flannel flags assured the highest number of insects collected during quantitative assessment of fleas' populations.
  • (17) Capital spending pledges to 2020, zero-based budget reviews, flood defence spending in 2015, 2016, 2017 … The residents of Somerset could have told him a flannel is not much use in a flood.
  • (18) As rivals have fallen, Sports Direct, which now sells more than one in every four pairs of trainers in the UK, has also snapped up failing brands including JJB Sports and fashion chains Republic, USC, Flannels and Cruise.
  • (19) Flannel and felt mammy dolls at a booth nearby were priced $900.
  • (20) The task was the free placement of figures cut from felt on a flannel board.

Plaid


Definition:

  • (n.) A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.
  • (n.) Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.
  • (a.) Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
  • (2) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
  • (3) He asked for details of farm subsidies paid to opposition politicians including the Welsh Tory leader, Andrew RT Davies, the Welsh Liberal Democrat chief, Kirsty Williams, and Plaid Cymru's Llyr Huws Gruffydd.
  • (4) A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “On 5 May, Wales chose not to elect one single party to govern Wales with a majority.
  • (5) In Scotland and Wales respectively, the major parties are joined by the Scottish National party and Plaid Cyrmu.
  • (6) We find that as the stereo depth separation of the two component gratings increases, the probability of seeing a plaid declines.
  • (7) She added that Plaid Cymru wanted the SDC to be retained in Wales.
  • (8) Her answer was prompted by a question last week from Plaid Cymru's sustainability spokesperson Leanne Wood AM.
  • (9) Her first major initiative was to set up an economic commission headed by the former Plaid MP Adam Price, one of the party's brightest sparks.
  • (10) The Welsh Liberal Democrats also called last night on the coalition Plaid Cymru-Labour Welsh government to join the growing campaign.
  • (11) He had always subscribed to the pacifist principles at the heart of Plaid Cymru's philosophy.
  • (12) Compared with Scotland, Plaid and Welsh independence seem beached.
  • (13) Only in Wales does something resembling political orthodoxy seem to be holding; but then again, it is not that long since Plaid Cymru was temporarily booting Labour out of some of its post-industrial heartlands.
  • (14) With the aid of a series of demonstrations (plus two formal experiments) we (1) propose a new explanation for the fact that edge line terminators in a "barber pole" display are perceived as intrinsic; (2) show that inner line terminators in a plaid pattern (i.e.
  • (15) This is why decisive action is needed to protect our social housing to make sure it is available for those who need it most.” Dyfed Edwards, the Welsh Local Government Association spokesperson for housing and a Plaid Cymru councillor in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, said: “With many thousands of people currently on housing waiting lists, and at a time of acute shortages of affordable homes, the proposal from Welsh government to abolish right to buy is a welcome step in tackling a growing problem in Wales.” Mark Isherwood, the Welsh Conservative shadow minister for housing, was unimpressed.
  • (16) Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood tackled him on the subject during the seven-way discussion, saying it was scaremongering and that he should be ashamed of himself.
  • (17) Follow the right people At the time of writing, Murdoch follows only four people: @jack (Twitter's executive chairman, Jack Dorsey); @markpinc (co-founder of Zynga, which makes social games such as FarmVille); @plaid_page (an account apparently run for Google's Larry Page); and @Lord_Sugar (the artist formerly known as S'ralan).
  • (18) Plaid Cymru has socialism in our aims, to create a decent socialist world.
  • (19) She anticipated that Plaid Cymru activists and members of the Welsh assembly would travel to Scotland to help the yes campaign during the referendum campaign, using up their summer holidays.
  • (20) Labour left reeling in Wales as Plaid Cymru takes Rhondda Read more Ukip made a breakthrough , winning seven seats , including one for the disgraced former Tory minister Neil Hamilton.