What's the difference between furry and hairy?

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 .

Hairy


Definition:

  • (a.) Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
  • (2) Single postganglionic neurones to hairy skin and hairless skin of the hindleg were investigated on spinal cord heating and spinal cord cooling in chloralose anesthetized cats.
  • (3) The high levels of circulating progenitor cells in ALL and CLL patients clearly distinguish them from other cytopenic hematological malignancies, in which decreased progenitor cell levels have been demonstrated previously (acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia).
  • (4) We present the histological criteria essential for the diagnosis of early Kaposi's sarcoma, its differential diagnosis including epithelioid angiomatosis, as well as the diagnosis of oral hairy leucoplakia.
  • (5) We report a patient with a hyperpigmented, non-hairy plaque on the forearm.
  • (6) Furthermore, sensitized C polymodal nociceptors can contribute to hyperalgesia after a mild heat injury to hairy skin.
  • (7) The activities of acid phosphatases (AP) were measured in leukocytes from patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML), macrophages, granulocytes, in the fractionated mononuclear cells of patients with CML and with hairy-cell-leukemia (HCL) and in the cells from patients with acute leukemia (AL).
  • (8) Many of the rosetting cells were shown to be typical morphologic hairy cells by light and electron microscopy.
  • (9) The therapy of choice for oral hairy leucoplakia in HIV-infected patients is treatment with acyclovir.
  • (10) In this study we provide evidence that the sera of patients with hairy cell leukemia (HCL) contain a factor that can prevent the binding of a monoclonal antibody specific for interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) to its target.
  • (11) However, no bile duct reactivity was observed in sera from carcinoid or hairy-cell leukaemia in patients given recombinant IFN-alpha.
  • (12) We have investigated two cases of oral hairy leukoplakia with the goal of detecting EBV and HPV by using both in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry.
  • (13) The skin taking extends over the insertion of the muscle up to the beginning of the hairy part.
  • (14) Teased-fiber techniques were used to record from 28 CMHs that innervated the hairy skin of upper or lower limb in anesthetized monkeys.
  • (15) dCF is the most effective single agent in the treatment of hairy cell leukemia, inducing a high percentage of CRs in all subgroups.
  • (16) We suggest that in hairy cell leukaemia both monocytopenia and defective functions of monocytes underlie the increased susceptibility to intracellular infections including Legionnaires' disease.
  • (17) In cats anaesthetized with Nembutal, the cutaneous receptive fields of individual cerebellar climbing fibres were assessed by recording the climbing fibre responses of single Purkyne cells following controlled mechanical stimulation (air jets, vibration, taps, pressure) of the foot pads of all four limbs and of the hairy skin of the limbs and the body.2.
  • (18) These somatotopically organized hairy receptive fields are unique, registering response patterns from tactile, thermal and behavioural stimuli.
  • (19) Histological examination of the splenic tissue in both cases showed changes characteristic of hairy cell leukemia.
  • (20) Furthermore, leukemic macrocheilitis has not been reported in hairy-cell leukemia.