What's the difference between fluff and hype?

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.

Hype


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hype of thewhole week blew up in one overreaction from me.
  • (2) Hopefully a dramatic, seven games series that lives up to all of the advance hype.
  • (3) During his MIPCOM keynote, he also took a pop at Rising Star, a much-hyped format that saw a wall lowered to reveal contestants to the studio audience if enough people voted at home.
  • (4) Derbies generally struggle to live up to their billing and this one had no chance of matching the hype and hope that went before, yet until Scholes applied his splendid coup de grâce it bore an unexpected resemblance to a mere end-of-season game.
  • (5) We played to the hype and hated each other and for what?"
  • (6) Just as Hernández's hot start at Manchester United has regressed into a more modest level of production, McInerney's failed to fulfill the hype.
  • (7) Sunderland and Middlesbrough in Premier League peril Read more Karanka is not alone in observing that “when Gastón plays well, it makes a big difference to us” but acknowledges he has never quite fulfilled the hype which accompanied his £12m move from Bologna to Southampton four years ago.
  • (8) While many fans did not buy too much into the patriotic hype around their team’s chances in the tournament the ending just seemed sadistic.
  • (9) A senior MoD source said: “Despite the continuing conspiracy theories and associated hype in the media, the reality is that there are no US Remotely Piloted Air System support facilities operating anywhere in the UK.” But the human rights group Reprieve said that the job specifications indicated UK complicity in the US drone programme.
  • (10) These two cars will be followed in March 2011 by the heavily hyped Nissan Leaf , a five-seater mass market electric car capable of running 100 miles between charges.
  • (11) In my job as chief prosecutor, where my focus was on reviewing cases for potential criminal prosecution, it was obvious the label was mostly hype.
  • (12) A few months later he was a member of the US senate and by early 2006 he was firmly hyped as the man destined to save the Democratic party.
  • (13) Sky Sports always seems convinced it is world class in at least two disciplines – broadcasting and marketing – hyping what it has to the maximum.
  • (14) But if you look through all the hype it is clear they do not have a structured plan for how they would run the country, keeping the debt down and tackling unemployment."
  • (15) He was afraid his statement would end up in the press and was concerned about "media hype".
  • (16) Northern Ireland has moved on and I believe that all the talk about a ‘hard border’ is hyped up for party political purposes.” To help Elliott retain the seat for unionism, the Democratic Unionist party has stepped aside to give him a free run.
  • (17) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
  • (18) The company could once rely on growing sales for its hit products even after their hype-fueled launches.
  • (19) But the gags mask a nervousness: 'People are worried to death before he even throws it,' says Pulis; 'Probably because it's been hyped up so much,' Delap responds.
  • (20) Fact is they are fooling the fans fighting all these bums on the back of my name to hype his fights and profile saying I’m running scared.” Eddie Hearn (@EddieHearn) made but enough of the insults.