What's the difference between fringe and pink?

Fringe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
  • (n.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.
  • (n.) An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.
  • (n.) Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.
  • (n.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
  • (2) The fringe of the seizure ("borderland of epilepsy") is briefly delineated.
  • (3) This means the work of the giant but highly disciplined RSS, as well as smaller fringe groups such as the Bajrang Dal, can be critical.
  • (4) We show that over a limited range of high spatial frequencies this noise takes on a striated appearance, with the striations running perpendicular to the true fringe orientation.
  • (5) One or two young fringe players may go out on loan but that will almost certainly be that.
  • (6) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (7) They live in the shadows, on the fringes of Australian society.
  • (8) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
  • (9) A further parametric investigation of the conductivity effect revealed that conductivity boundaries may significantly modify the MEF due to neuronal currents located within 1 mm of a conductivity boundary, as would be the case for active neurons near an edema, an anoxic fringe such as might occur during stroke, or a ventricle in the human head.
  • (10) When the highly crystalline core contents are suitably oriented to transmit their Bragg reflections through the objective aperture, regular fringes separated by 2-9.5 A have been visualized.
  • (11) But when they show up in Manchester at lunchtime on Tuesday to take part in a Conservative conference fringe meeting entitled Challenges for the EU in 2010, they may find themselves under the kind of scrutiny they rarely face at home.
  • (12) "They're just asymmetric – one goes up more than the other," and she pulls back her fringe to show me.
  • (13) Then again, any show attracting reviews as bad as Celtic have had in the last week would be lucky to survive any longer at the Festival and this performance has left them on the fringes of European football.
  • (14) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
  • (15) The retinal visual acuity of 198 cataractous eyes was tested with interference-fringes and compared with the post-operative visual acuity.
  • (16) "We have done it very cheaply anyway and are not performing for long, but I do know people who have been put off by the intensely commercial atmosphere of the fringe."
  • (17) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
  • (18) I had more fun with Matt Winning , delivering a silly set on the Free Fringe imagining himself the son of Robert Mugabe.
  • (19) The two games on this trip will not have helped a great deal, other than made it harder for some fringe players to force their way into contention.
  • (20) In the context of a deficit recovered against a team on the fringe of the Champions League places, and grasping for positives, it did at least offer flashes of the character the home support deemed to have been so absent of late.

Pink


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.
  • (v. i.) To wink; to blink.
  • (a.) Half-shut; winking.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
  • (v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
  • (v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out.
  • (n.) A stab.
  • (v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
  • (v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.
  • (v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
  • (v. t.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.
  • (a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
  • (2) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (3) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (4) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
  • (5) The animals were exposed for 120 h to continuous pink noise at the intensities 80, 90 and 100 dB SPL.
  • (6) In this paper, previous literature on the subject is surveyed, and an experimental approach under standardized conditions to allow analysis of possible causes and biological mechanisms of the pink-teeth phenomenon in rats is described.
  • (7) Pink Monday said it was precisely the reaction it had hoped for.
  • (8) Positive specimens produce a faint pink deposit which is better visualised by silver enhancement which gives an intense black colour.
  • (9) The reason fashion magazines have been excited over the M&S coat is because various high-end designers all made pink coats this season.
  • (10) On other days, she dresses head to toe in bright pink.
  • (11) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (12) Results obtained with a high pass filtered pink noise at a 106, 109 and 113 dB SPL on 37-40 week foetuses are given to illustrate this dependency.
  • (13) Approximately 30% of the C. neoformans strains produced large amounts of the pink (purple after 6 days) pigment in the absence of light whereas 70% of the Cryptococcus neoformans strains, as well as C. laurentii, C. albidus, C. diffluens, and C. albicans also produced the pink pigment with light being required for significant early production (2--6 days).
  • (14) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
  • (15) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
  • (16) On the opposite side there are obviously a few people who are full of a lot of hatred.” Jake Johnstone, who was was wearing the pink triangle of the 1980s Act Up movement, said: “Obviously we had the Paris attacks and everyone was shocked by it, but because Orlando was an attack on the LGBT community it feels very personal and a lot of people feel deeply affected by it.
  • (17) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
  • (18) They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman’s “pink bus” but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates’ returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, “used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies – at a cost of £35,000”.
  • (19) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
  • (20) A group of young men and women calling themselves the Salopards (Bastards) and wearing pink dungarees "to show you can be against gay marriage without being homophobic", was also there to "defend the family".