(1) Absolutely, I think it’s quite fascinating, since I’ve been looking at it, to see that amongst the fluff there are serious things.
(2) Distribution of membrane in mature milks was: fat globules, 80%; skim milk, 20% (including fluff, 5%); and cells, less than 1%.
(3) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
(4) What they proved, in unambiguous data, was that the photo-op image of Team GB as a changing nation of many hues was not PR fluff but demographic reality.
(5) Awaiting his razor-sharp skills are four Cambridge lads sporting varying degrees of bum fluff.
(6) They could afford to fluff their lines with Bournemouth’s own glimpses of goal sporadic, and invariably limited to chaotic ricochets in the penalty area, but those are the chances that may need to be taken in the matches against Liverpool, Manchester United and Stoke City after the international break.
(7) When he did not sing the national anthem during a Battle of Britain commemoration service – prompting the outrage of the rightwing press – they saw it as the same diversionary fluff that surrounded whether he might, as a privy councillor, bow before the Queen.
(8) Many mammals fluff up their fur when threatened, to look bigger and so more dangerous.
(9) No, what really thwarts ambition is when a promising child fluffs up exams because her family can’t afford anything more than a cramped flat where there is nowhere quiet to study.
(10) The story goes that when Freeman took the garment to be dry-cleaned, it came back looking like a shapeless ball of fluff, but he continued to wear it regardless.
(11) He set up a website, Cats To Go , which includes an image of a kitten with devil's horns under the heading: "That little ball of fluff you own is a natural born killer".
(12) What Wired UK aims to do "is not fluff or bullshit: it's data".
(13) In injury-time, the Argentinian ran unchallenged from halfway with no defenders in sight only to fluff his chip.
(14) There's no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails.
(15) Obama fluffs around the topic but does own up: "I am ultimately responsible for what’s taking place there."
(16) It ran a Small Charity Week in June where three small charities – Down's Heart Group, Haworth Cat Rescue and Fat Fluffs Rabbit Rescue won £1,000 grants each.
(17) It’s not just fluff.” At the other end of the country, a few days later, in the original and first BrewDog bar, on Gallowgate in Aberdeen, barman Dave Bruce, 32, said he had spent 18 months trying to get a job there.
(18) With a decent covering of fur, this would fluff up the coat, getting more air into it, making it a better insulator.
(19) The results clearly showed that the diapers with absorbent polymer provide a better skin environment than those with fluff only with respect to lower skin wetness and pH control (instrumental measurements).
(20) Of course, in politics as in sport, there is no goal so open that someone can’t fluff it and miss.
Fur
Definition:
(n.) The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
(n.) The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
(n.) Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
(n.) Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).
(n.) Any coating considered as resembling fur
(n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
(n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
(n.) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
(n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
(a.) Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
(v. t.) To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
(v. t.) To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
(v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(2) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(3) The capacity (Bmax) for [3H]ketanserin binding was significantly lower (-21%; p less than 0.05) in sparse fur animals than in control animals; there was no change in affinity (KD).
(4) The fusion was prepared in multicopy (pVLN102 plasmid) and low-copy-number states, the latter constructed as a lambda phage lysogen carrying a fur'-'lacZ insert.
(5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(6) The responsible allergens are contained in the urine, saliva, and secretions of furred animals.
(7) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
(8) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(9) He was fined £800 and ordered to pay £3,500 costs by the Furness and District Magistrate court after being prosecuted by the CAA.
(10) The Fur protein was isolated in a single step by immobilized metal-ion-affinity chromatography over zinc iminodiacetate agarose.
(11) If that effect existed in small animals, they would lose less heat if nude than if fur or feathers were present.
(12) Regulation by iron occurs at the transcriptional level and is mediated by a ferrous iron binding protein designated Fur (ferric uptake regulation).
(13) Instrumental neutron activation analysis has been used for an initial evaluation of trace element content in samples of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) from the Pribilof Islands.
(14) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(15) The results show that transcription of the fur gene is initiated from at least two different sites separated by 6 bp, which appear to originate from two overlapping promoters sensitive to catabolic activation.
(16) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(17) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
(18) 5-Fluorouridine (100 microM, 26 micrograms ml-1) inhibited contraction of human fibroblasts by more than 80%, whereas only 10 microM (2.6 micrograms ml-1) 5-FUR was required for 90% inhibition of rabbit fibroblast contraction.
(19) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
(20) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.