What's the difference between fluff and hairy?

Fluff


Definition:

  • (n.) Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Hairy


Definition:

  • (a.) Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
  • (2) Single postganglionic neurones to hairy skin and hairless skin of the hindleg were investigated on spinal cord heating and spinal cord cooling in chloralose anesthetized cats.
  • (3) The high levels of circulating progenitor cells in ALL and CLL patients clearly distinguish them from other cytopenic hematological malignancies, in which decreased progenitor cell levels have been demonstrated previously (acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia).
  • (4) We present the histological criteria essential for the diagnosis of early Kaposi's sarcoma, its differential diagnosis including epithelioid angiomatosis, as well as the diagnosis of oral hairy leucoplakia.
  • (5) We report a patient with a hyperpigmented, non-hairy plaque on the forearm.
  • (6) Furthermore, sensitized C polymodal nociceptors can contribute to hyperalgesia after a mild heat injury to hairy skin.
  • (7) The activities of acid phosphatases (AP) were measured in leukocytes from patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML), macrophages, granulocytes, in the fractionated mononuclear cells of patients with CML and with hairy-cell-leukemia (HCL) and in the cells from patients with acute leukemia (AL).
  • (8) Many of the rosetting cells were shown to be typical morphologic hairy cells by light and electron microscopy.
  • (9) The therapy of choice for oral hairy leucoplakia in HIV-infected patients is treatment with acyclovir.
  • (10) In this study we provide evidence that the sera of patients with hairy cell leukemia (HCL) contain a factor that can prevent the binding of a monoclonal antibody specific for interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) to its target.
  • (11) However, no bile duct reactivity was observed in sera from carcinoid or hairy-cell leukaemia in patients given recombinant IFN-alpha.
  • (12) We have investigated two cases of oral hairy leukoplakia with the goal of detecting EBV and HPV by using both in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry.
  • (13) The skin taking extends over the insertion of the muscle up to the beginning of the hairy part.
  • (14) Teased-fiber techniques were used to record from 28 CMHs that innervated the hairy skin of upper or lower limb in anesthetized monkeys.
  • (15) dCF is the most effective single agent in the treatment of hairy cell leukemia, inducing a high percentage of CRs in all subgroups.
  • (16) We suggest that in hairy cell leukaemia both monocytopenia and defective functions of monocytes underlie the increased susceptibility to intracellular infections including Legionnaires' disease.
  • (17) In cats anaesthetized with Nembutal, the cutaneous receptive fields of individual cerebellar climbing fibres were assessed by recording the climbing fibre responses of single Purkyne cells following controlled mechanical stimulation (air jets, vibration, taps, pressure) of the foot pads of all four limbs and of the hairy skin of the limbs and the body.2.
  • (18) These somatotopically organized hairy receptive fields are unique, registering response patterns from tactile, thermal and behavioural stimuli.
  • (19) Histological examination of the splenic tissue in both cases showed changes characteristic of hairy cell leukemia.
  • (20) Furthermore, leukemic macrocheilitis has not been reported in hairy-cell leukemia.