What's the difference between fur and fury?

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.

Fury


Definition:

  • (n.) A thief.
  • (n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
  • (n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
  • (n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
  • (n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
  • (n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
  • (2) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
  • (3) With Fury, I’m not going to have no remorse, I’m not going to have no sympathy.
  • (4) My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.
  • (5) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (6) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
  • (7) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
  • (8) Jeremy Hunt has been forced into a partial climbdown in his dispute with NHS junior doctors in an attempt to stop their fury at a threatened punitive new contract spilling over into strike action.
  • (9) But, as the latest Atlantic fury advances on these islands, it looks too little too late.
  • (10) That cannot be right.” Fury, who was stripped of his IBF title on Tuesday night after signing up for a rematch with Klitschko, tweeted last week: “Hopefully I don’t win @BBCSPOTY as I’m not the best roll model [sic] in the world for the kids, give it to someone who would appreciate it”, but the BBC has no plans to remove him from the shortlist or make any special arrangements to avoid potential controversy in Belfast on 20 December.
  • (11) Like a ghost from the past, Haye, who pulled out of two fights with Fury, eased himself back into the limelight before his own comeback and told the Evening Standard that the new champion would lose respect if he did not give him a title shot one day.
  • (12) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
  • (13) Tyson Fury: what next for Britain's new heavyweight boxing champion?
  • (14) The power of Murdoch himself can best be seen by the speed and fury of Tory MPs ready to criticise the Google tax deal even after George Osborne described it as a “major success”.
  • (15) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
  • (16) But what I will say is that if you are young and you are experiencing feelings of fury and heartbreak about the result, you are justified in doing so.
  • (17) I recently discovered that I'm in The Filth and the Fury DVD eating cake and talking to Sid - my brother bought it me for Christmas.
  • (18) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
  • (19) The IBF has stripped Tyson Fury of his world heavyweight title on account of his failure to defend the belt against the mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov, instead choosing a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko , whom the Briton beat on 28 November.
  • (20) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.