What's the difference between fluff and inconsequential?

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.

Inconsequential


Definition:

  • (a.) Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a declaration of exclusion: West is not a member in good standing of DC's Foreign Policy Community, and therefore his views can and should be ignored as Unserious and inconsequential.
  • (2) It is possible, however, that neither drug can alter the natural course of this disease and may just hasten its expected inconsequential resolution.
  • (3) The structural underpinnings of these internal problems are assumed inconsequential and not addressed, and so is the international dimension.
  • (4) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
  • (5) To cap all this, it appears that Tesco may have massaged its bottom line by a not inconsequential quarter of a billion pounds.
  • (6) Recognizing that states may soon prove inconsequential to the discussion, the Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, last week shifted her stance and came out in support of gay marriage as a constitutional right.
  • (7) If the British government wants the best of its teachers to stick around and deliver this on home soil, it needs to provide good reasons for them to do so – and they need to be better reasons than flimsy, inconsequential pre-election workload surveys and 1% pay increases .
  • (8) There are pages where, unexpectedly, amid the horror, a reader feels he has stumbled on a near-inconsequential diary entry.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uruguay captain, Diego Lugano, describes Luis Suárez's alleged bite during their final World Cup group match against Italy as inconsequential After considering footage of the incident, including angles not shown on television, and other material including witness statements and the referee’s report, Sulser’s committee will decide on a sanction and whether it should apply to all matches or just international fixtures.
  • (10) A seven-year total population survey from south-east Queensland has revealed that, in practice, the rate of clinical poisoning due to oleander is inconsequential, and mortality is negligible.
  • (11) Halothane (0.5 mM) did not inhibit phorbol ester- or ionomycin-induced PRL secretion, indicating that halothane has inconsequential effects on the secretory apparatus.
  • (12) 1 intubation failure, 5 failures in coelioscopy, 5 uterine perforations, and 5 inconsequential vascular wounds were noted, bringing the overall rare of morbidity to 1.2%.
  • (13) On the other hand, costs of screening are not inconsequential, and costs involved in follow-up procedures are high.
  • (14) Using a grading scale for complications, 24 percent of patients had inconsequential complications, 16 percent had moderate complications, and 19 percent had severe complications.
  • (15) However, the incidence of breast cancer is shown in a number of case-controlled retrospective studies to be unaffected by OC use, except for certain subsets of statistically inconsequential numbers.
  • (16) If others share these findings, the implications for control of this disease are frightening, as the risk of transmission to patients' sexual partners is not inconsequential.
  • (17) But Harding's solution to the inconsequentiality of What's My Line?
  • (18) Liposomes prepared from octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside-extracted YAC-1 and NK-enriched effector cell membranes interfered with conjugate formation, whereas liposomes prepared from NK-insensitive P815 cells were inconsequential.
  • (19) The observed elevations in skin temperatures were physiologically inconsequential.
  • (20) Adverse effects were inconsequential and comparable in both groups.