What's the difference between fleck and plashy?

Fleck


Definition:

  • (n.) A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
  • (n.) A spot; a streak; a speckle.
  • (n.) To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The number of nuclear flecks and the amount of bound radioactivity of 125I-antibody almost doubled during G1 phase.
  • (2) On histologic examination, the flecks were found to be due to intracellular accumulation of calcium oxalate in the RPE cells.
  • (3) 1) small elevation, 2) spotty barium fleck, 3) ill defined barium fleck and 4) barium fleck with halo were suggested the possibility of inflammatory bowel diseases.
  • (4) Six neonates are described in whom plain films of the abdomen demonstrated scattered flecks of calcification.
  • (5) Control photographs, with the Baird Atomic B4 and B5 filters in place prior to fluorescein injection, show exposure of the film corresponding to (1) the small yellow vitelliform lesions at the edge of a disrupted disc, (2) the pseudohpopyon in a vitelliform cyst, (3) orange lipofuscin overlying a malignant melanoma, and (4) some of the flecks in a case of funds flavimaculatus.
  • (6) In 1909, Dr. Stargardt described seven patients who developed a juvenile onset macular degeneration with a striking presentation of yellowish flecks surrounding the macula.
  • (7) The assays of G6PDH and RNA were performed after Glock's and Fleck's methods, respectively.
  • (8) Only the son had the typical lenticonus and perimacular flecks.
  • (9) As late as 2012, the gracious address contained flecks of modernising reform – the (largely delivered) move to abolish male primogeniture in the monarchy and the (entirely aborted) effort at electing the Lords.
  • (10) The symptoms include unique, sharply-defined, irregular, yellow, large flecks of the retina combined with bilateral macula degeneration.
  • (11) However, fundus appearance, adaptometric findings, and rhodopsin determinations serve to distinguish fundus albipunctatus from other flecked retina diseases.
  • (12) Apart from a small bruise beneath the right eye and some flecks of blood surrounding the iris (which he attributed to Foreman’s thumb), he was unmarked.
  • (13) Fluorescein angiography showed that most white flecks were largely or totally nonfluorescent.
  • (14) As the degenerative and atrophic changes in the maculae became more pronounced in early adulthood, the flavimacular retinal flecks had all but disappeared.
  • (15) (He was also responsible for Sex Pistol, flecked with Viagra.)
  • (16) They chased every ball, never shirked a tackle and, when they needed a centre-forward to show composure and experience, they had a 32-year-old from Stoke City, with silver flecks in his hair, who passed the test with distinction.
  • (17) Two families showed a retinal pigment epithelial dystrophy characterized by an X-shaped yellowish macular lesion and numerous flavimaculatus retinal flecks.
  • (18) Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian Olive choux buns These big, olive-flecked choux buns are perfect torn open, as you might with a floury bap, and spread with a slick of tapenade or, simpler still, a knifeful of soft, salty butter.
  • (19) Small metal flecks were seen grossly at the second level, but not on plain roentgenograms.
  • (20) It appears that the prognosis of group I is better than the other groups, where surrounding flecks are seen in addition to the macular lesion.

Plashy


Definition:

  • (a.) Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.
  • (a.) Specked, as if plashed with color.

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