What's the difference between fur and furry?

Fur


Definition:

  • (n.) The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
  • (n.) The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
  • (n.) Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
  • (n.) Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).
  • (n.) Any coating considered as resembling fur
  • (n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
  • (n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
  • (n.) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
  • (n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
  • (v. t.) To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
  • (v. t.) To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
  • (v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
  • (2) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (3) The capacity (Bmax) for [3H]ketanserin binding was significantly lower (-21%; p less than 0.05) in sparse fur animals than in control animals; there was no change in affinity (KD).
  • (4) The fusion was prepared in multicopy (pVLN102 plasmid) and low-copy-number states, the latter constructed as a lambda phage lysogen carrying a fur'-'lacZ insert.
  • (5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
  • (6) The responsible allergens are contained in the urine, saliva, and secretions of furred animals.
  • (7) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
  • (8) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
  • (9) He was fined £800 and ordered to pay £3,500 costs by the Furness and District Magistrate court after being prosecuted by the CAA.
  • (10) The Fur protein was isolated in a single step by immobilized metal-ion-affinity chromatography over zinc iminodiacetate agarose.
  • (11) If that effect existed in small animals, they would lose less heat if nude than if fur or feathers were present.
  • (12) Regulation by iron occurs at the transcriptional level and is mediated by a ferrous iron binding protein designated Fur (ferric uptake regulation).
  • (13) Instrumental neutron activation analysis has been used for an initial evaluation of trace element content in samples of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) from the Pribilof Islands.
  • (14) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
  • (15) The results show that transcription of the fur gene is initiated from at least two different sites separated by 6 bp, which appear to originate from two overlapping promoters sensitive to catabolic activation.
  • (16) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
  • (17) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
  • (18) 5-Fluorouridine (100 microM, 26 micrograms ml-1) inhibited contraction of human fibroblasts by more than 80%, whereas only 10 microM (2.6 micrograms ml-1) 5-FUR was required for 90% inhibition of rabbit fibroblast contraction.
  • (19) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
  • (20) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.

Furry


Definition:

  • (a.) Covered with fur; dressed in fur.
  • (a.) Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.
  • (a.) Resembling fur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mayhew, 69, signalled his intention to play Han Solo's furry wookie sidekick once again in September.
  • (2) What the historians may omit to mention is the crucial role played in her rise by those furry wide-mouthed friends, the Muppets .
  • (3) But mice are small and furry – how much can we extrapolate these findings to humans?
  • (4) The practice reached its peak in the early 1970s, when Mao Zedong sent the furry black-and-white ambassadors across the globe on a diplomatic charm offensive.
  • (5) The book's brutal last line – "Outside the owls hunted maternal rodents and their furry brood" – has been seen by some to prefigure war.
  • (6) The main host of the hedgehog flea is the European hedgehog, but the flea was also found in different furry mammals, such as polecats, brown rats and foxes.
  • (7) All of these films had something fascinating, apart from The Beaver , which was not very good, particularly if you find Mel Gibson talking to himself in a mockney accent via a furry glove puppet hard to bear.
  • (8) In the conference halls and the streets around them, the summits tend to be sheer pandemonium: activists arrive smeared in green paint or sweating behind furry polar bear suits; peasant women from the Andes in traditional bowler hats sing songs to Mother Earth when their leaders are on camera; celebrities bring their own circus – Robert Redford is expected to come to Paris and Thom Yorke is a conference regular.
  • (9) However, it is the marmoset – furry, curious and humanlike – that triggers the most intense emotional responses, a point acknowledged by Mary (who asked not to be fully identified), the senior research technician in charge of the animals at King's, who devotes her time to the animals' welfare, right down to knitting hammocks for them to sleep in.
  • (10) Every hard man has a softer side and for Putin, according to the Putinspiration feed, it’s his furry friends.
  • (11) When a furry green puppet eventually emerges, they squeal with delight – although Twiddle the Turtle's message seems to baffle them slightly.
  • (12) Hundreds of furry little bodies ambled among us, looking curiously at the human interlopers.
  • (13) An essential aspect of the corresponding double barrier quantal model is its nonstationarity, resulting from combined application of binomial and Yule-Furry statistics.
  • (14) "We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor."
  • (15) She was clearly unable to resist the explanation this week from environment secretary Owen Paterson that the cull in Somerset needed to go into extra time, having failed to produce enough furry black and white scores because "the badgers moved the goalposts".
  • (16) She arrives at her sister’s Disneyland-themed wedding in an Ambien haze, determined to seduce Tigger; instead, she ends up grinding into the fake-furry chipmunk belly of Dale.
  • (17) Photograph: Clare Kendall We head for Renmin Park, in the centre of Chengdu, a great destination for people watching when you've had enough of all things furry.
  • (18) All those girls in the furry boots, they look like Clydesdale horses!"
  • (19) Should anyone question why Tom Ford, the best dressed man in London and the fashion visionary of his generation, should choose to include crystal micro-mini dresses, white furry sleeves and lace-up thigh-high boots in his catwalk collection, this is what you must say.
  • (20) Solo's perennial sidekick, Chewbacca, is heavily tipped to return with original actor, Peter Mayhew, in the furry wookie suit , and Disney has confirmed the new film will feature the diminutive droid R2-D2 .