(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.
Lint
Definition:
(n.) Flax.
(n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modifications of the O'Brien, Atkinson and Lint block techniques were applied in twelve, ten, and ten patients, respectively.
(2) The potential for production of fine particulate from botanical trash materials plus lint and linters was determined in the laboratory by an abrasive milling test.
(3) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
(4) He says it the same way that someone brushes lint off their jacket shoulder: "Nah.
(5) The dust passing 38 micron stationary or rotary screens contained particles of 15 micron maximum diameter whereas dust from the 710-gmm rotary screen and tandem cyclone exhibited particles of 10 micron maximum diameter and lint fragments.
(6) This was not a sudden urge, a lightning reflex to pick lint off a loved one's coat.
(7) Critical properties and experimental methods used to measure these properties are: (a) ease of steam penetration determined by time-temperature measurements in large, double-wrapped packs subjected to steam sterilization, (b) bacterial barrierness measured by microbiological assay of initially sterile double- and single-wrapped packs contents after pack storage in hospitals, (c) compatibility with ethylene oxide sterilization measured by inactivation of spore strips and by quantities of ethylene oxide residuals after aeration of packs and (d) generation of lint by counting particles generated by flexing wrap materials.
(8) Fragments of lint from a disposable paper head drape were implanted into the anterior chamber of 9 rabbit eyes.
(9) That’s why I now work with people who know you don’t have to remove lint from the extras’ attire before we shoot.
(10) Dust fractions with particles less than 10 micron diameter and free of lint were obtained with a 38-micron rotary screen and tandem cyclone.
(11) The area of this peak increases with increasing amounts of endotoxin and may serve as a measure of endotoxin concentration in cotton lint and dust, at least when fairly high levels of endotoxin (0.50 micrograms or greater) are present.
(12) Significantly more GNB and endotoxin were found in botanical trash components as well as lint of raw cotton derived from the southwest and southeast growing regions as compared to similar botanical components from far west cottons.
(13) It seems probable that lint from contaminated fabric was the vehicle of transmission of the organism during extended surgery.
(14) The number of viable cells was determined at various time intervals, after inoculation onto cotton lint and a glass plate.
(15) Average stored gin residues in the lint and non-lint components were 13 and 60, 11 and 58, and 5 and 10 ppm for toxaphene, DEF, and paraquat, respectively, during the open storage period.
(16) For representative raw cottons from the 1980 USA crop we determined that 67% of the GNB and 89% of the endotoxin resided on white lint itself, from which all particulate larger than 50 micron in size had been removed manually.
(17) The name of Auguste Van Lint is linked with the development of facial nerve akinesia for ophthalmic surgery.
(18) Care should be taken in handling implants to avoid scratches, notches, and exposure to lint from towels or drapes.
(19) Whereas the modified O'Brien block nearly abolished voluntary muscle activity, force of lid closure and lid movement, there was only a minor decrease in the area under the EMG curve and in the force of lid closure after the modified van Lint and Atkinson blocks (about 20%).
(20) Whole seed passage averaged .74% in all cows fed whole linted seed during the standardization period and .45% in 6 cows fed whole linted seed during a comparison period, contrasted to 11.3% in 6 cows fed acid-delinted seed.