What's the difference between furling and furlong?
Furling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Furl
Example Sentences:
(1) The last protesters in central Hong Kong this week rolled up their banners and furled the umbrellas which they had famously used as protection against tear gas and pepper spray.
(2) A hollow introducer tube was inserted into the right common femoral vein, and the furled IVOX was passed into the inferior vena cava and advanced until the tip was in the lower portion of the superior vena cava.
(3) Netanyahu stands on a podium in front of a display of furled Israeli flags drawn to resemble missiles, some launched.
(4) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.
(5) Although it looks like a giant seaside souvenir shop ornament, it is a remarkably faithful model of Victory with 31 sails set and six furled as on the day of Trafalgar, built from traditional shipwright's materials.
(6) Within the LGBTQ community itself, which operates according to a sort of federalism, it is not so unusual that if one is not homosexual, or heterosexual, or asexual, then a half-furled question mark of curiosity hangs in the air.
(7) The figures are from the Bible, including Rachel, Noah holding a model ark, Adam and Eve, and Jacob with his ladder – the latter possibly by Morris himself – painted as if on a tapestry furled across the wall.
(8) The father and son relationship between Favreau and Anthony's characters furls out.
(9) Saltire flags stand furled in its magnificent, liner-like hallway and saltire badges are pinned in the lapels of its doorkeepers and attendants.
(10) Rather than a pattern based on the manner in which light and dark regions are disposed in their matrix, these granules contain packets--some furled, some flat--of membranes that exhibit a pronounced axial periodicity of approximately 5 nm.
Furlong
Definition:
(a.) A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ward ignored a weak challenge from young Darnell Furlong as two more experienced Rangers’ players loitered in the vicinity with little intent, then Ward made his way into the box and struck a shot that deflected off Sandro into the net.
(2) The course is a right-handed undulating track one mile and four furlongs long.
(3) The effects of lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC) on human erythrocyte (RBC) ghost morphology, transmembrane protein and lipid lateral mobilities, and membrane lipid composition were studied in order to elucidate mechanisms by which lysoPC immobilizes ghost membrane components [Golan, D. E., Brown, C. S., Cianci, C. M. L., Furlong, S. T., & Caulfield, J. P. (1986) J.
(4) And the final furlongs, Miliband's ideas were subjected to the searching gaze of the chancellor.
(5) Other changes to next year's race which have already been announced include a new position for the start, about half a furlong closer to the first fence.
(6) For this match he tried another, making four changes to the side that flopped so meekly at Crystal Palace last week , omitting Darnell Furlong, dropping Adel Taarabt to the bench and sending Shaun Wright-Phillips back to cold storage.
(7) Amino-terminal sequences derived from purified rabbit and human paraoxonase proteins suggested that the signal sequence is retained, with the exception of the initiator methionine residue [Furlong et al.
(8) Ross Furlong, an online public relations expert, said Brown's tweets could help Labour despite the fact that she does not use them for campaigning purposes.
(9) Furlong suspects that the idea of using Twitter did not come to her from public relations: "The PR world is still trying to work out what to do with Twitter.
(10) Jacob led over the last on Ulis De Vassy but was headed by Quaddick Lake inside the final half-furlong.
(11) Nevertheless, the deal is good news for investors, for chemical engineers and crucially, for our low-carbon future,” said Andrew Furlong, director of policy at the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
(12) The second approach took advantage of the fact that ISVPs grow in cells treated with NH4Cl, whereas intact virus does not grow under these conditions (L. J. Sturzenbecker, M. Nibert, D. Furlong, and B. N. Fields, J. Virol.
(13) 8.09pm BST 23 min: Brian Furlong wasn't exaggerating a great deal when he said the pitch was water-logged.
(14) Updated at 10.07pm BST 8.03pm BST 18 min: "We've 2 "You're the ref" scenarios so far tonight," writes Brian Furlong.
(15) The heights of 89 horses were measured at the withers before and after half a furlong of trotting exercise.
(16) These genes encode components of the high affinity ribose transport system in Escherichia coli, and together with the sequences of rbsB (Groarke, J.M., Mahoney, W.C., Hope, J.N., Furlong, C.E., Robb, F.T., Zalkin, H., and Hermodson, M.A.
(17) A Ticking Off Jamie Furlong Street photography project - A Ticking Off by Jamie Furlong Photograph: Jamie Furlong You can't tell what the father and son are doing, but their shadows tell you a lot more.
(18) "There's a lot of thought going into the restriction of publicity around her," says Furlong.
(19) "Although the content is deliberately not party political, she is effectively pressing voter flesh online, as she did in person at the Glenrothes byelection to great effect," Furlong said .
(20) Research carried out by Alasdair Forsyth and Andy Furlong at the University of Glasgow in the last 10 years has shown that students from lower socio-economic groups are more likely than their more advantaged peers to change courses, drop out because of debt or repeat a year, and less likely to achieve a degree or progress to post-degree study.