What's the difference between flap and winnow?

Flap


Definition:

  • (n.) To beat with a flap; to strike.
  • (v.) Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
  • (v.) A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
  • (v.) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
  • (v.) A disease in the lips of horses.
  • (n.) To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
  • (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
  • (v. i.) To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
  • (2) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
  • (3) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
  • (4) The haemodynamics and affecting factors of the acute random skin flap and the methods for monitoring its viability were studied.
  • (5) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
  • (6) This report adds another modification of the standard gastrocnemius muscle flap: transtibial transposition of the muscle through the posterior cortex.
  • (7) The immediate reconstruction either by local flaps or by free grafts.
  • (8) Linton flap operation was performed in 202 patients with postphlebitic syndrome complicated by evident ulceration 64% of patients were followed up for 1-14 years.
  • (9) It was treated by the method of free autogenous gingival graft on the labial side and gingivectomy by flap on the palatal side.
  • (10) Osteocutaneous flaps from the foot are being utilized more for thumb and digit reconstruction.
  • (11) The difference from the Hughes flap is that the blood supply is maintained through two tubed pedicles of conjunctiva and Muller's muscle, rather than an apron of conjunctiva.
  • (12) These observations lead to the hypothesis that acidosis quenches fluorescence in distal skin flaps.
  • (13) The most common complications in breast augmentation surgery with homologous fat grafts obtained from fresh cadavers are presented, showing subsequent surgical procedures to reconstruct the breasts of such patients through use of silicone prostheses and muscle flaps from the latissimus dorsi.
  • (14) Both acquired defects were covered by two different cross-finger flap techniques, despite extensive scarring of the adjacent finger.
  • (15) Based on a limited experience we have found that triangular flap ureteroplasty is a worthwhile means of repeat reimplantation of the obstructed ureter and perhaps provides a better alternative than transureteroureterostomy.
  • (16) Is there not enough material available, can neck-, breast-or forehead flaps cover the defect, although they do not fulfill the demands for a satisfactory restoration of specific function.
  • (17) We present our initial experience with a new method of increasing the survival of acute skin flaps through stress conditioning using heat shock and recovery.
  • (18) We conclude that although the tissue expansion technique yields acceptable results, the TRAM flap yields superior aesthetic results in terms of both appearance and consistency.
  • (19) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
  • (20) Exteriorization is accomplished by mobilizing 2 lateral skin flaps from the perineum and joining them with the inverted U flap to reach the vagina.

Winnow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Winnowing by embiotocids is characterized by premaxillary protrusions repeated cyclically with reduced oral gape.
  • (2) It’s a remorseless process of winnowing down, from which only one worthy champion can emerge* and the Guardian is here the whole way through, with spoiler alerts roughly every minute, having read the book (Klinsi turns out to have been a wolf all along...) One of tonight’s teams is playing roughly a game a minute at the moment — Confederations Cup and Gold Cup scheduling saw Jamaica’s game against Mexico moved to earlier this week — and that 1-0 loss was the first of three games the Jamaicans will play in eight days (Mexico are doing the same thing).
  • (3) Winnowed down by sector , the figures narrow further.
  • (4) evangelical votes chart In 2016, religious activists and political operatives insist, the support of Christian voters will be critical in the early-voting states of Iowa and South Carolina, where evangelical leaders believe they can best winnow a deep Republican field to take on Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic frontrunner.
  • (5) Or, before the study began, early deaths may have winnowed susceptibles from the two older cohorts.
  • (6) It’s all about how much of a horrible, fascist, racist, misogynist Trump is.” On her own feed, Constantin found herself winnowing down her friends in order to avoid arguments.
  • (7) Several surfperches (Embiotocidae), including the black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, exhibit a specialized prey handling behavior known as winnowing, in which ingested food and non-nutritive debris are separated within the oropharyngeal cavity.
  • (8) A process that was intended to winnow out the unusually crowded Republican field before primary voting begins in February looks likely to keep pundits guessing to the last: chewing up and spitting out new winners and losers almost every time they take to the stage.
  • (9) Scott Walker shocks Republicans with dropout call to gang up on Donald Trump Read more Afterwards, on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele kindly speculated that Walker might also have been throwing a bone to his fellow Wisconsinite and current Chairman Reince Priebus, who wants to winnow the primary field.
  • (10) Under these circumstances low fitness genotypes are winnowed from the population by natural selection.
  • (11) The neglect of the national game has been deep and persistent and the winnowing of our skills base complete and utter.
  • (12) The respondent and co-respondent do not appear, and we have to winnow the matter as best we may.
  • (13) But the straw poll’s winnowing effect also has advantages – especially for those on the social conservative wing of the party.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arctic warming hits new record in 2015, says ocean watchdog Noaa – video Not only is the ice winnowing away, it is becoming younger – Noaa’s analysis of satellite data shows that 70% of the ice pack in March was composed of first-year ice, with just 3% of the ice older than four years.
  • (15) 102 species and 2 species varieties belonging to 36 genera were collected from combine harvester wheat and sorghum dusts and from the atmosphere of hay or winnow sites.
  • (16) Winnowing is believed to play an important role in the partitioning of food resources among sympatric embiotocids.
  • (17) We have come to the end of privacy; our private lives, as our grandparents would have recognised them, have been winnowed away to the realm of the shameful and secret.
  • (18) Hand it over to private companies and they will swoop in with their efficiency, their economies of scale, their incentives and their competitiveness, winnowing it down into a dart of perfectly targeted public spending.
  • (19) That private sense of: "You're someone I would like to spend time with", with as opposed to I winnowed you out in a group of a lot of other people.
  • (20) A post-mortem by party officials after Romney lost the 2012 presidential election to Barack Obama blamed a protracted primary campaign among Republicans for weakening their eventual candidate and recommended a shorter winnowing period.