What's the difference between furry and scalie?

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 .

Scalie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors present a case of scaly carcinoma, located in a vesical diverticulum.
  • (2) Intraepidermal epithelioma of Jadassohn is a rare cutaneous neoplasm characterized by a solitary scaly verrucous plaque.
  • (3) A four and a half-year old Nigerian girl, living at home, who presented with protracted fever, multifocal lymph node enlargement, extensive scaly rash, injected conjunctivae, fissuring of the lip and other features consistent with a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease is reported.
  • (4) Neu-Laxova syndrome is a rare form of congenital malformation characterized by intrauterine growth retardation, microcephaly with bizarre facial features, short neck, apparent edema, scaly skin, and perinatal death.
  • (5) In warmer water (18 degrees C), the parasites reproduced intensively only on the scaly form of fish, whereas no parasites were found on the scaleless form some days after infection.
  • (6) Alopecia and dry scaly skin were prominent in the diabetic mice but less extensive in the diabetic mice supplemented with EFA.
  • (7) After receiving either an 18.5% egg white diet for 25 weeks, or a 32% egg white diet for 12 weeks, they exhibited dermal lesions characterized by alopecia, scaly dermatitis and achromotrichia, which increased in severity with the deficiency.
  • (8) Macular, papulonodular and scaly, annular, or arciform lesions are represented, histopathologically by lymphocytic, predominantly neutrophilic, and mixed infiltrates with a prominent histiocytic component.
  • (9) Madrid artist Deno is oblivious to the grimacing, concentrating on needling a giant scaly fish into his chest.
  • (10) Subsequently, scaly erythema of the nose and of the auricles appeared.
  • (11) SPP was clinically characterized by scaly oval plaques on the trunk and proximal aspect of extremities.
  • (12) The surface of the spine is covered by a scaly keratin of possibly sloughing cells, and the cornified layer on the spine is very thick (more than 100 mu), reaching 3 to 7 times the depth of the corresponding layer in other parts.
  • (13) Among patients with scaly scalp lessons of varying severity the isolation rate was 64%, but dermatophytic fungi were also isolated from 16% of 50 asymptomatic children.
  • (14) Topical application of the major lipoxygenase product to paws of essential fatty acid-deficient rats resulted in nearly as complete resolution of the scaly dermatitis as did the application of columbinic acid itself; the cyclooxygenase product was not at all effective.
  • (15) Affected males are of small stature and exhibit scaliness and crusting of the eyelids, ears, tail, and feet, marked splenomegaly, moderate hepatomegaly, enlarged lymph nodes, and atrophy of the thymus.
  • (16) On the trunk, the abdomen was more severely involved than the back in 63% of the cases with the XLI, whereas the back was more scaly than the abdomen in 44% of those with IV.
  • (17) A scaly rash suggestive of ichthyosis and eye irritation were present in some heavy kava drinkers.
  • (18) We investigated lipoprotein metabolism in 14 patients with recessive X-linked ichthyosis (RXLI), a metabolic disease characterized by scaly skin, corneal opacity and steroid sulfatase deficiency.
  • (19) Microtrauma from small particles can aggravate the dry scaly dermatosis.
  • (20) These alterations in the process of keratinocyte differentiation may explain the clinically observed scaliness associated with hypothyroidism in humans.

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