What's the difference between frizzy and nappy?

Frizzy


Definition:

  • (a.) Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results prove that a major gene does exist, that it is very closely linked with frizzy, fr, in chromosome 7, which in turn is linked with ce, that it is fully dominant in females at 4 months of age, and that its partial dominance in males is under the control of modifiers.
  • (2) Frizzy (frz) mutants are unable to aggregate normally, instead forming frizzy filamentous aggregates.
  • (3) Linkage backcrosses show the gene to be situated on chromosome 7 with about 25% recombination with the closely linked warfarin-resistance genes War, and frizzy, fr.
  • (4) The frizzy (frz) genes are required to control directed motility.
  • (5) Faced with a patient presenting with 'frizzy' hair it is helpful to have a systematic approach rather than simply 'thumb through the books'.
  • (6) The frizzy mutations (frz) were found to be genetically linked.
  • (7) Condom frizziness and color were less important attributes.
  • (8) The main clinical features in our three patients were the fine, soft and frizzy woolly hair (fig.2) and generalized hypothrichosis.
  • (9) The "frizzy" (frz) mutants are unable to complete the developmental pathway.
  • (10) The map position of fz in the rat corresponds to that of fr (frizzy) in the mouse, suggesting homology between these loci in the 2 species.
  • (11) Humidity can make it rough in the back (the kitchen) and frizzy around the face.
  • (12) It's said he has a wardrobe full of wigs, ranging from the frizzy mop he wore on the London stage in the 80s to the more fashionable, wet-look model he sports today.
  • (13) The gene replacement strains allowed us to define the limits of the frz region, since Tn5 insertions in the frz genes resulted in the frizzy phenotype.
  • (14) These mutants cannot aggregate normally and give rise to frizzy filamentous colonies on fruiting agar or motility agar.
  • (15) It’s about, apparently, flat out deception.” The television personality Montel Williams joked about Dolezal’s frizzy-haired attempt to pass as black.
  • (16) Igl mutants, which may be similar to the previously described frizzy mutants, are cohesive strains that are unable to form fruiting bodies.
  • (17) The frizzy (frz) mutants aggregate aberrantly and therefore fail to form fruiting bodies.
  • (18) The frizzy (frz) genes are required to control directed motility for these interactions.
  • (19) The frizzy (frz) mutants of Myxococcus xanthus are unable to form fruiting bodies.
  • (20) When a reporter with the TV channel KXLY asked the activist, who now has frizzy hair and apparently browner skin, if she was African American she fled, abandoning her keys and purse.

Nappy


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy.
  • (a.) Tending to cause sleepiness; serving to make sleepy; strong; heady; as, nappy ale.
  • (a.) Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.
  • (n.) A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obama was still in a nappy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when his predecessor John F Kennedy faced down the Soviet Union’s efforts to site atomic weapons on the island that is just a few dozen miles from Florida.
  • (2) Some were wearing nappies despite being of school age, and appeared to crawl upstairs using their hands rather than walking.
  • (3) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
  • (4) Sales of Mamia nappies have risen 1,000% in the past four years as the company deliberately targeted new parents.
  • (5) There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - go unchanged... ...and where their cries of pain go unheard.
  • (6) Wet nappies at night could cause infants at risk to die.
  • (7) As friends start preparing for baby number two, I remember the sleepless nights, the toxic nappies and the projectile vomiting phase, and I'm fairly sure we've made the right decision.
  • (8) "We use the money for things like nappies and milk.
  • (9) • Wipes, nappies, sanitary towels, rags and condoms do not break down easily and can snag on pipes, drains and the walls of sewers, leading to blockages.
  • (10) An unselected, mycologically-controlled trial was conducted at the University Children's Hospital of Graz on the treatment of nappy rash by the topical application of Canesten (clotrimazole), a broad-spectrum mycotic in the form of a 1% cream.
  • (11) Bushy” is the word used most; “nappy” and “kinky” are harsher, coarser words.
  • (12) A rangy former quarterback with a big, toothy grin, he was raised in the low-income housing projects in Brooklyn – "a tough place" – with his father, a proud but poorly educated man, floating from job to job; one of the worst was delivering and picking up used nappies.
  • (13) Red and white cell numbers were reduced on light microscopy of specimens obtained from nappies, but bacterial counts were unchanged.
  • (14) On Tuesday Asda said it would plough £300m into lowering the price of 2,500 essentials including fruit and vegetables, cereal, nappies, milk, meat, eggs and fish in the first three months of 2015.
  • (15) You're doing all the right things: not telling him off if he wets the bed, putting him in a night nappy etc.
  • (16) Yes, I admit that in those first few weeks it was a struggle to remember to pick up the nappies and cotton wool I'd paid for, let alone the receipt.
  • (17) Adult incontinence pads outsold baby nappies for the first time in 2012.
  • (18) Families spoke out about needing the extra room for medical equipment; box rooms lined with adult nappies and oxygen cylinders that rich men in power called a luxury.
  • (19) And I've taken pleasure in consulting women half my age about whether I should opt for an Ergo carrier or a Baby Bjorn , whether my feet will ever shrink back to their pre-pregnancy size and whether we really need a nappy bin?
  • (20) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.

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