(superl.) Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The narrow spaces were filled with a fluffy material.
(2) Con A-treated whole cells and cell walls contain an irregular, fluffy layer 25 to 60 nm thick which is absent in untreated or alpha-methyl glucoside-treated preparations.
(3) Makes around 20 75g butter, melted 75g granulated sugar 1 tbsp vanilla sugar 160g oats 2 tbsp cocoa powder 3 tbsp strong coffee, cooled to room temp Desiccated coconut, to finish 1 Whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then stir in the vanilla sugar, oats, cocoa and coffee.
(4) Results indicate that the micelles have a dense core with a fluffy outer layer.
(5) And if this all seems a bit fluffy at a time when NHS mental health budgets are so hard pressed, the number of mental health bed days fell by 52% between 2009 and 2011, with fewer people using secondary mental health services but more often.
(6) By electron microscopy, mitochondria in numerous hepatocytes appeared abnormal with occasional cristae in a fluffy matrix, some containing dense inclusions.
(7) Clinically, cytomegalovirus retinitis is characterized by lesions, usually in the posterior pole, that take the form of fluffy white infiltrates with irregular, translucent, granular appearing margins.
(8) Inevitably women are the fluffy part of a newspaper, on the whole.
(9) Small, fluffy feathers are thought to have arisen for warmth, with more elaborate feather structures emerging for displays, and ultimately flight.
(10) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.
(11) 2 Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add eggs one at a time, beating until incorporated.
(12) When high molecular weight DNA is incubated with interphase extracts, fluffy chromatin-like structures are assembled.
(13) He lies buried in dirty, fluffy blankets inside the family’s three-room house and barely leaves it.
(14) Of all mutagens tested, only 5-AC induced the fluffy phenotype with a significant frequency.
(15) There must be something to marry with the richness of the stew, and nothing beats the fluffy inside of a camp-baked potato.
(16) It comes, as it should, in a bag of liquid, and is firm to the touch but with a good level of gentle fluffiness inside and a delicate, creamy aftertaste.
(17) Photograph: Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd He didn't even have a skin to help with the dingo, and produced an adorably fluffy and very un-wild looking dog.
(19) Legally Blonde Beneath its fluffy and frivolous exterior, Legally Blonde has feminism coming out the proverbial.
(20) Con A treatment binds adjacent teichoic acid molecules in their native configuration producing the irregular, fluffy layer visualized.
Fuzzy
Definition:
(n.) Not firmly woven; that ravels.
(n.) Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(2) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
(3) In order to incorporate concordant patents, fuzzy subsets are employed, with the number of attempts required to achieve transitive closure being the values for comparison.
(4) A fuzzy coat was observed on EB located in the HPMN vacuoles only in the presence of specific antibody.
(5) The DNA from the two largest C. albicans chromosomes, which was estimated to be at least 5-10Mbp in size, ran somewhat anomalously, giving fuzzy bands which did not migrate in the direction of the average electric field.
(6) In this paper a fuzzy model of inexact reasoning in medicine is developed.
(7) The concept of fuzzy sets was chosen for its ability to represent classes of objects that are vaguely described from the measured data.
(8) This expert system, by using the fuzzy and certainty factor concepts, is able to handle imprecise and incomplete medical knowledge which has become informative.
(9) The Bretton Woods Project, which monitors the work of the bank, said: "While it is welcome to have the World Bank talking about 'inequality' instead of fuzzy language on 'shared prosperity', the bank is putting more of its money into the financial sector than any other sector.
(10) It was only by the merest chance that a visiting medic had been up on a balcony that day and recorded a fuzzy minute of the action on his mobile phone.
(11) Data of case-control study of 241 cases of stomach cancer were analyzed by method of risk analysis of fuzzy states.
(12) CADIAG-2 employs fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic to formalize medical entities and relationships.
(13) Perivascular cuffings of inflammatory cells and large cytoplasmic inclusions of fuzzy nucleocapsids were found in the brain and spinal cord.
(14) To improve the definitions, eliminate overlapping diagnostic categories, and sharpen the fuzzy boundaries that contribute substantially to limited reproducibility, we suggest: (1) the categories of astrocytoma nos, fibrillary astrocytoma, and protoplasmic astrocytoma be collapsed into a single category of astrocytoma; (2) the diagnostic category of desmoplastic medulloblastoma be combined with medulloblastoma; and (3) the criteria for anaplasia should be further refined to include quantification of critical histologic features, e.g., agreed upon operational definitions for amount of cell density, number of mitoses and pleomorphism for anaplastic astrocytoma and anaplastic ependymoma.
(15) These crossbridges were revealed in thin sections as fuzzy filamentous structures between MT and NF.
(16) Uncertainty management for the evaluation of evidence based on linguistic and conceptual data is taking advantage of developments in the Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory of evidence, possibility theory and fuzzy logic.
(17) Though he conceded that Arab leaders saw his creation, Israel’s secret Dimona plant in the Negev Desert, as “a worrisome fuzzy deterrent”, Peres the politician enjoyed creating such deliberate ambiguities.
(18) The presence of periodic acid-Schiff's positive material in this region suggests that the fuzzy coat also contains carbohydrate.
(19) Investigations of nine chemicals in 'fuzzy' rats, rhesus monkeys, and man provide data which are consistent with a general theory of outward transcutaneous chemical migration.
(20) ECs possess endothelial projections and caveolae as well as a fuzzy coat, or glycocalyx.